[ANNOUNCE] BitcoinNordic: Buy Bitcoins with Scandinavian credit cards

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Credit cards no longer supported. Buy with bank transfer, cash or cashU on www.bitcoinnordic.com



Credit cards no longer supported. Buy with bank transfer, cash or cashU on www.bitcoinnordic.com

BitcoinNordic works towards making buying Bitcoins quick and pleasant for everyone. At the moment we offer:

• Pay using your VISA, VISA Electron, MasterCard, Maestro, or DanKort issued in Denmark, Sweden, or Norway and receive your Bitcoins within one minute.
• Domestic, SEPA, or international wire transfers to our Danish bank account.
• Make a cash deposit at our location in Copenhagen.

Get your Bitcoins now at www.bitcoinnordic.com! Feedback here and ratings of my OTC user is appreciated. Subscribe to our Twitter account and newsletter to get notified of discounts and new payment methods.

Sincerely
Lasse Birk Olesen
Head of Operations

PS. We are fully aware of the chargeback issue associated with selling Bitcoins for card payments. However, we believe that we have developed a model that will mitigate the risks and will now be testing this model on the Scandinavian market. If successful there we will work to expand to accept credit cards from more countries.

[D.H.]

Ser mycket lovande ut, lycka till! Det verkar vara ungefär 10% avgift vid kreditkortsköp, stämmer det?

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Det stemmer. Hvis mængden af forsøg på svindel viser sig ikke at være stor, så kan vi muligvis sænke gebyret i fremtiden.

Vores første kunde var i øvrigt så glad, at han blev nødt til at købe igen. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75075

[Herodes]

Lykke til med tjenesten, håper dere slipper unna mye svindel.

[defxor]

SEPA transfer: €5.40

Jag har använt bitmarket.eu under en längre tid just för att jag hittills inte stött på SEPA-avgifter där. Trist att er bank väljer att ta ut dem - är det möjligen något ni tittar på?

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SEPA transfer: €5.40

Jag har använt bitmarket.eu under en längre tid just för att jag hittills inte stött på SEPA-avgifter där. Trist att er bank väljer att ta ut dem - är det möjligen något ni tittar på?

Gebyret var blevet sat for højt, det er faktisk kun €1.40. Tak fordi du bemærkede det!

Hvis du har en Nordea-konto burde du i øvrigt kunne overføre til os gratis. Kontonummeret som du modtager fra os er til en Nordea-konto.

Vi forventer i øvrigt at kunne aktivere vores tyske bankkonto denne måned. Når det sker bør vi kunne modtage SEPA-overførsler gratis.

[Dansker]

Hvad er jeres CVR-nummer?

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Hvad er jeres CVR-nummer?

Vi benytter 32222749.

[yesbtc]

Held og lykke herfra!
Måske en ide med nedsat gebyr for kunder med en eller flere handler bag sig?

[elux]

Yesterday' news:

From tomorrow card purchases will be discontinued indefinitely. We hope to reenable the service soon. Until tomorrow, limit per card is 5000.

Reddit discussion: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/uaicw/bitcoinnordic_discontinues_credit_card_purchases/

In an email, they write:

The discontinuation of credit card payments is due to pressure from the VISA and MasterCard organizations. They deem that dealing in a digital means of exchange such as Bitcoin is too risky.
While VISA and MasterCard are some of the most widely used cards, we will be working to accept other cards on Bitcoin Nordic. This newsletter will keep you updated.

We don't have a quote from VISA / MasterCard themselves as we did not deal with them directly.
We accepted their cards through eWire who sent the following message to us this morning:

"We have been contacted by our payment provider regarding Bitcoin Nordic.
We have been required by VISA and Mastercard to shut down your payment solution because of a large risk of chargebacks in this business.
I am therefore forced to shut down your cooperation with Ewire.
It is very unfortunate that this duopoly can force their requirements in this manner but we need to consider our entire business
when we get a message like this because we can lose our payment service if we do not comply."

In the past two months since we started accepting card payments we have processed approximately $50,000 in credit card payments.
To my knowledge there has only been one case of chargeback for about $200 and we covered this case out of our own pockets.
Actually, this case didn't even involve a VISA or MasterCard but a DanKort.

[Herodes]

Unfortunately there's a big problem with reversible payment methods and exchanging through said mediums to bitcoin. Whenever there's a loophole, you can be sure someone will figure it out and exploit it eventually, after all you might as well be lucky here that you're not suffering more and bigger losses already.

It's a pitty though that VISA and Mastercard is declining bitcoin related businesses to use their systems, as it's a very convenient method for legit users to get bitcoins.

Perhaps if you made a very good risk assesment and required registration by users + verification before they're allowed to use their cards and presented this to VISA and Mastercard, perhaps they would change their mind about you using their systems. Again that would not be as convenient as the current solution was, but would probably reduce the risks.

And as you see, a lot of the exchanges have had problems with bank accounts being frozen, and usually I think this is because of reversed transactions. If an account get enough transactions reversed, then the bank may as well freeze that account.

Good luck with your business going forward!

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Herodes, did you read the quote from me above?

We didn't get any losses whatsoever on VISA or MasterCard payments. And the reason they gave us for cutting us off was not actual chargebacks, but "risk of chargebacks".

[Herodes]

Herodes, did you read the quote from me above?

We didn't get any losses whatsoever on VISA or MasterCard payments. And the reason they gave us for cutting us off was not actual chargebacks, but "risk of chargebacks".

Yes, I read it. I still stand by my comments.

[Greedi]

Er der chance for at FEEs bliver nedsat?

10% er pænt meget..

Bruger denne services selv da der ingen andre muligheder for mig er, men synes 10% er lidt overkanten

[Greedi]

min sidste overførelse gik rigtig godt, overførte 72.9 BTC, og der gik 3,511.11 kr ind på min konto.

Sidder dog og venter og venter på at jeg modtager min "Weekly exchange receipt", den er meget forsinket idag, håber ikke der er gået noget galt, support svare mig heller ikke.

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min sidste overførelse gik rigtig godt, overførte 72.9 BTC, og der gik 3,511.11 kr ind på min konto.

Sidder dog og venter og venter på at jeg modtager min "Weekly exchange receipt", den er meget forsinket idag, håber ikke der er gået noget galt, support svare mig heller ikke.

Den bliver behandlet senere i dag. Dette bliver gjort hver mandag, men ikke nødvendigvis et bestemt tidspunkt på dagen, så der er ikke noget forsinket.

Mvh Lasse

[Greedi]

min sidste overførelse gik rigtig godt, overførte 72.9 BTC, og der gik 3,511.11 kr ind på min konto.

Sidder dog og venter og venter på at jeg modtager min "Weekly exchange receipt", den er meget forsinket idag, håber ikke der er gået noget galt, support svare mig heller ikke.

Den bliver behandlet senere i dag. Dette bliver gjort hver mandag, men ikke nødvendigvis et bestemt tidspunkt på dagen, så der er ikke noget forsinket.

Mvh Lasse

jeps, fik lige mailen fra dig mange tak

Kunne du svare på min post oven over også evt?

og igen, rigtig mange tak for en super feed service!

håber dog også det bliver muligt at udbetaling bliver mere en engang om ugen

[Greedi]

Er der chance for at FEEs bliver nedsat?

10% er pænt meget..

Bruger denne services selv da der ingen andre muligheder for mig er, men synes 10% er lidt overkanten

intet svar?

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intet svar?

Prisen er nu 9% under MtGox. Der er ikke umiddelbart planer om at sætte den længere ned før volumen vokser.

Betalinger håndteres nu dagligt istedet for ugentligt.

[Greedi]

intet svar?

Prisen er nu 9% under MtGox. Der er ikke umiddelbart planer om at sætte den længere ned før volumen vokser.

Betalinger håndteres nu dagligt istedet for ugentligt.

så det vil sige det ikke kun er mandag der er udbetalling?

håber din % af intjeningen vil falde, siden man mister alt sin profit ved at veksle om til danskr kroner