Quote from: Bitcoinista on April 12, 2013, 04:09:26 PM

I know how you feel - this is the second time I've used them, the first time there were no delays at all. Bitstamp went offline for a time yesterday, which nearly gave me a heart attack, and then when the money didn't show up this morning I thought the worst.

Keep us updated - I think you'll be ok. Was the transfer reference correct?
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Heh, yes indeed yesterday I was hitting the old refresh button a lot during the hours they were down.

The reference number was correct, I checked the darn thing about 100 times after I sent it.

I have been trading stocks for years so I am not used to this Wild West atmosphere. Most brokerages are pretty careful not to upset their clients too much, they have fast customer service and offer free trades, etc. whenever there is a problem. I just want to get some bitcoins as a long-term hold and also an investment in the possibility of an alternative currency.

I did as much research on Bitstamp as I could before sending the money, read a lot of accounts of people trading with them without any problems and didn't find anything negative until today.

As I said there does seem to be a problem with the Unicredit currency conversion page in Slovenia so perhaps it's just that issue combined with backlog and worker and site overload. Still I can't understand why some deposits made it in to people's accounts and others from the same day did not.

I don't imagine we with hanging deposits shall hear anything more until Monday morning, though of course Bitcoin will continue it's mysterious ways 24 hours a day over the weekend.

I will post updates in this forum.