Quote from: fluffypony on April 29, 2014, 02:57:06 PM

Quote from: MrWDunne on April 29, 2014, 12:44:49 PM

http://i.imgur.com/iHuoRSr.png
Incognito mode, same result.

@pascal257 - he's right, just tried it from Google South Africa. I've also never visited their site.

To the point, though, BitcoinBourse is endemic of a long string of failures and garbage "businesses".

Nearly a year ago I tried Markus' Bitcoin "debit card". Here is my review: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=213832.msg2705402#msg2705402

It basically consists of a TransCash debit card with massive limits on it, and then you "buy coupons" on the site and they load the EUR into the card for you. It's not automated, it's not seamless, and they aren't even issuing the cards. You can confirm it is the same outfit by checking the whois data on thebitcoincard.co.uk and bitcointocard.com.

Fast forward to now. The website (thebitcoincard.co.uk) has been suspended for non-payment and is about to expire, so anyone who actually bought a debit card from them is now stuck with no way to reload it. He's probably in very deep water for issuing cards to non-Europeans (I'm in South Africa, after all). And yet for this complete non-entity that works poorly (if at all) and may be contravening the agreements they have with TransCash, they're asking for 675 Bitcoin in "investment".

OP: nobody is "working with the forum moderators" or anything quite so conspiratorial. Rather, I would say that if it has a provably unsettling history a principle applies - "if it looks like a ~~scam~~duck, swims like a ~~scam~~duck, and quacks like a ~~scam~~duck, then it's a ~~scam~~duck."

I agree with your points, and I'm not pushing the company at all. All funds are being withdrawn as soon as they come into the service. However if people want to use it that is fine, I would prefer it if they use XCP. I'm just making it easy for investors.

Had I only issued with them, I would agree there is a serious issue.

On a positive note, the hard drives have arrived today, and (I believe) the raid card.

Also have the funds to purchase some more necessities from a small number of sales there.