Care to elaborate on the scammer claim? I feel like claims those should be backed up pretty heavily.  As far as I'm concerned coinbase is a great company/website.

I'm always hesitant to use online wallets because currently there are no insurance policies like with a bank, even if a really great company/site gets hacked there is no GUARANTEE you will get your money back.  The largest loss I ever took with bitcoin was from an online wallet getting hacked (the site's wallet got hacked, not mine)

I agree with others though that the two best sites currently are coinbase or blockchain.info (not in any order).