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Re: Coinbase ID Verification Problems
by
Prevan
on 07/03/2014, 05:52:09 UTC
As near as I can figure your best bet is to do whatever 'normal' people do to get their personal infomation into the mainstream financial networks databases.  Buy shit with plastic, stay at hotels, try to take out loans, sign up for a credit report, etc.  I'll probably take a few years Sad

Yeah, I imagine this will probably be the only way. It's just annoying because they won't even explain what the problems with my identity are. Like, why are there error codes if they are not used?

If you are not legit you might have your work cut out for you since it seems like these guys do run a fairly tight ship.

I am completely legit though. I've offered to send official documents, and I have all of the other verifications passed. They just do not currently offer any other way to get your account verified besides this quiz. I've even gotten a credit report showing the same information I enter.

I don't mean to be nosy, and I don't even want an answer, but it strikes me as a funny use-case to have a need for immediate BTC.  Mostly because I don't have that need myself I suppose.  If you do have that need for some sort of business purpose, I guess you'd be best off to build your business and BTC reserves up over time then essentially be your own supplier for short-term needs.

I always have friends who want to buy bitcoins, and the price is considerably higher everywhere else. For instant bitcoins, the limits are $100/week, and for level 2 $1000/week. It's not that I'd be using the complete limit, but $100 isn't very much for a week period.

I do kind of have plans to start selling bitcoins locally, so it'd be nice to be able to get them instantly if someone wanted more than I had. But yeah, I've already started buying bitcoin for purposes like this.

As an aside, it is worth note that in Coinbase's verification process there is no need to have instant-buy.  It is NOT the same track as having a level-1 limit.  I specifically did NOT want to have instant anything in my use case since it puts me at risk but I did want a decent sized transaction limit.   It was not clear to me that instant-buy is easily avoided.

The 2 factor authorization with phone calls is to help avoid problems like this.

Thanks for the response though, I will try to follow your advice.