A bit of sleep, two coffee sips, and I feel like yeah, I was just paranoid.
Not so much about the BATM and the whole ID thing but what pissed me off was the attitude of those guys, it was like they were laughing knowing what I was trying to do and found it funny or whatever...don't care anymore!
If you live in Europe, I wouldn't worry about having your face engraved at a BATM in Punta Cana. Regardless of whether they follow what they say about deleting images, there are a lot of people every day using BATMs and I don't recall anyone on this or other forums mentioning that they have had any problems because of it. Bear in mind that people usually use them in the country they are fiscally resident, trying to avoid the taxman. I would be even less worried if you are 8,000 kilometers away from your usual residence.
Yeah, that's how a normal guy would have thought and should have reacted also, probably because I'm on vacation and I want to enjoy myself I'm acting like a 10yo.
Yeah man that sounds sketch AF... I wouldn't go back there.
Yeah, no chance, I'm soon off to packing bags and moving to the next destination, and anyhow I don't want to see their faces anymore.
Thanks for the offer but I'm sitting on a pile of cash wanting coins and not having access to mine, so I'll take the advices above, offer a kidney to Shasan or a piece of liver and just deal with it the easy way with nothing complicated that can again go wrong and give me a headacke again!
Wearing sunglasses and/or caps and/or masks, will very often lead to KYC being demanded, and is a general practice it seems in the industry. It may still work once in a while without triggering the KYC, but more often than not I believe it will trigger the request (speaking in general terms, not with regards to those local specific bitcoin ATMs).
Yeah, but what puzzled me is why it hasn't done it the first time, maybe they have some ratio and they let x times with no check-up and only 5 ot 10th time and I just got unlucky? Maybe if I went back inside it wouldn't have asked again? God knows! Can't test it anymore anyhow
My only take away from this tory is the 7% fee.
For an ATM I think that's quite fair.
Even when I see 5% I think is a rip-off, we're talking deposits here not withdrawals, one of my acquaintances runs a coffee shop that accepts Bitcoin has one of and he customized the fees so you pay only 2% to encourage people to buy coins. Total fuckery that's why I hate BATMS, got charged on forex fees to get cash, pay 2 euros for each ATM withdrawal, 7% tax on bitcoin, 1% lost in bitcoin price since yesterday, 20$ on the taxi...
Was it asking for any other way of contacting you?
As others have said, different limits for different places and even different machines in the same network.
It gave a warning that I needed to accept that in order to go on with the purchase I had to agree with something, that's when I tapped cancel and bye-bye, I knew what was coming!
And yeah, I just got paid $200 I nearly forgot of so it's not even $400 anymore, I'm not going to run around like a headless chicken for that much.
But a lesson learned, if you deal with crypto, keep more accessible in some form around you especially if you go away for that long.
I wouldn't worry too much about everything that happened, because what happens on vacation usually stays on vacation - for a few hundred dollars, no one in the world will ever ask you anything (probably).
Yeah, I should have panicked that much, trying to be cool I acted more suspicious, probably these two were laughing cause they recognized me from the day before? And it wasn't a smirk more like being happy they get foreign customers?
I'm not used to staying in the sun for so long, need to chill by a pool with 1001 SPF sunblock and a beer and stop overthinking everything!
So locking this as obvious the answer is number 1.