Firstly, thank you SFR10 for your reply and for taking the time to check out our website .. we truly appreciate your feedback.
Slakia.com uses processes that do not use any central authority, therefore decentralized.
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We can
support almost any possible payment method that you may think of.
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Slakia.com
supports all types of payment methods from all over the world. I believe the highlighted parts in red are contradicting [unless I'm missing something]...
We meant to say that almost all payment methods can be used to exchange with bitcoins. We are also open to adding payment methods that are suggested by users of the site after all, this is to provide convenience to the community. But I do agree I should amend the fact that we do not support "all" types, it should be almost all types of payment methods...
have been buying and selling bitcoin in localbitcoins and also remitano and other sites. I always felt that I wanted to do something for the Bitcoin community that is to have an alternative trading site that has some functions that will help current traders as how I was before.
Care to explain your advantages over the other two that you mentioned?
I felt that when I traded in localbitcoins, the trades tend to be longer then usual with the longer time that a trade would take compared to remitano. So I took that in mind and made sure that the wait time in slakia does not be as long as localbitcoins and defaulted to 20mins which is somewhat similar to remitano.
Also if a trade is opened in slakia and payment is not made in 20 mins, the trade will automatically close and not left hanging and needing the option to dispute as per localbitcoins but somewhat similar to remitano.
Remitano had a good option where chat is not possible unless a dispute is made whereas localbitcoins depends on chat from the very beginning till the end of the trade which seems to prolong the window of a completion of a trade. We took that good part of chat is not possible into slakia unless a dispute is initiated.
Both localbitcoins and remitano requires the advertiser to click a few buttons before able to edit the ad and I always felt that it took too long especially when the market is moving fast. In Slakia, we made it possible for an advertiser to see their ads in the main page and also able to edit it with one button in the main page without needing to click a few buttons just to amend the price or etc. Also, as a trader I felt that I had to always have multiple windows on different screens so that I know what price I have to place in order for me to be the lowest or highest price. With this function on slakia, it is quick and not needing too many clicks to make my amendment. This function also does assist a trader whenever they may have multiple ads on one page, eg. if they have one ad with higher price but with lower minimum bitcoin amount and one ad with lower price but with higher maximum bitcoin amount as in one glance it is easy to know where their ads stand out especially when there is a crowded marketplace with so many ads.
As for the posting of the advertisements, I felt that localbitcoins has a lot of functionality but it was just too complicated for me to understand or to use, even for a geek like myself yet alone for a new user. Remitano kinda simplified it a bit more but just not as simple as I wanted it to be and therefore I made slakia more simple and cleaner interface. I wanted slakia to be user friendly and didn't want the user to end up taking too much time in making an advertisement.
When it comes to disputes, my experience with localbitcoins was that it take quite a long time like many hours before a human person would intervene and most of the time when this happens, the price would have dropped dramatically until I would lose money. Remitano on the other hand was better in managing disputes comparing with localbitcoins but still it was not as fast and efficient as I wanted it to be. This is why I made slakia with taking the better customer service from remitano and improving it in slakia to be faster to close disputed trades.
Rating of the buyers and sellers was relatively more complicated to understand and somewhat secretly calculated in localbitcoins as you just didn't know what algorithm was used by the system to rate whereas in Remitano, they simplified the rating with the smily faces and came out with the stars rating, but in Slakia, we decided to take the number of successful trades to be shown with the 3 simple smily face options for the users to decide on who to use for their trades, in this scenario, further simplifying it for the users to see.
One feature we have in Slakia is what we show the completed trades on the site but we do mask the username to show that we are transparent on the trades that are happening on the site but at the same time also respect the privacy of the users.
Slakia also has the RIP list - rest in peace (the traders that you wished you never traded with) and also the VIP - very important person (the traders that are a joy to trade with). This is somewhat a feature from localbitcoins that I felt is great and something that is useful therefore we implemented it.
In Slakia, you will also get deposit notifications via email which I don't experience in localbitcoins and remitano (but other exchanges do have this feature therefore I took this and made it a feature) and also trade updates both on email and sms.
My apologies on the detail as I have quite a lot to say as being a trader, all this little things do make a difference as we are literally looking at the same screen for long hours in a day.
You really need to work on its speed.
Was it the loading speed of the site? If yes, We can adjust this in our server settings and we can consider speeding this up.
Could you kindly share with us what would be the best methods to advertise to get users to use our site? We have done some research and have shortlisted some options but have yet to execute them. If we are able to find out first hand from experienced Bitcoiners like yourself or anyone who have gone through launching a brand new site, we would be most appreciative. Thank you so much.
