Normally it's the merchant/bank who's being charged a chargeback fee, not the consumer - to be honest I personally never heard about this before starting with AdvCash. For example with Payoneer there is no chargeback fee and my two banks doesn't charge any chargeback fee as well, so I really find this $35 fee quite high, specially when it's per transaction like in the above case. I do understand the frustration of this guy for sure. Maybe it will be possible for AdvCash to speak with WaveCrest and have it reduced, at least in cases like this with 29 transactions.

It works nicely on gaming sites - I used my card a few times on PokerStars and in one of the local Casinos.

How can that ever be a scam? The deposit service to your wallet and their withdrawal service from your wallet are provided, which they charge a fee for. Even if their card service was working, the fees would be the same. They have many withdrawal options, they having some difficulties with their main one but that's about it. Their platform and service is still working and i see no reason as to why utilizing that should be free. I'll give you it would be a good service they could offer if they wanted, but nothing you can demand and most certainly not a reason for calling them scammers.


But I am a business entity and having those money locked up also caused issues for my customers and my company. It took over 2 weeks before we had alternative accounts in other banks ready, before we could resume our normal services. Our mistake was to rely on a single bank rather than spreading it over a few different, but those are expensive lessons you learn through time. We applied with multiple banks when the FBME went down, the slowest bank took more than 80 days to have our accounts ready for use. Banks are some of the slowest beasts out there and can be source of great frustrations.

They have never said the issue was with Wavecrest, so how's that even relevant? There are more than one bank partner involved in this process.


Uhm, just for example I have more than $60k stuck in FBME Bank Cyprus for more than 2 years now and i can't do jack shit about it. Troubles happen in the real world, banks closing, loosing correspondent banks, regulations changes etc. We don't know at all what the actual issue is so we can only guess. It's true it's bad service they didn't provide full explanation, but that doesn't make them scammers in any regard.


How do u figure that is a scam? Did they steal your money? Have you lost anything, except the ability to utilize your card? I can still use AdvCash as exchange between e-currencies, why would they shut the only thing down that is still working? That wouldn't make any sense. If they shut down withdrawal and still accepted deposits, it's an entire different story - but open your eyes and see how it's really going on.

All those scam shit claims is nothing but pure trolling and spreading FUD.

I think it's an excuse for everyone, both small and big Bitcoin users. Bitcoin is still rather new and from my own perspective, finding banking partners that are stable and willing to work with Bitcoin related companies is maybe less than 1% of the existing banks. So we should generally be thankfully for them trying to break into a new market, knowing there can be some hiccups along the way such as this. When i initially signed up for my card, I already knew a situation like this could happen due to what I just mentioned - i think it's worth keeping in mind.

I'm not trying to say the situation is optimal or good for anyone, I'm just saying they don't appear to be scammers and they are indeed trying to sort the issues. Feel free to call it bad service from their part, I might even say the same due to their lack of details regarding what the actual issue is with their banking partners. Just don't call them a scam until they've actually scammed people. It's not like AdvCash have any interest in having these troubles, on the contrary, they are loosing money and customers over it, which i assume is the last thing any company want to happen.

Maybe? Hopefully not. For what it seems, they are doing everything in their power to sort the issues, so the delay is most likely caused by a 3rd party and not within AdvCash's control.

So i just created this account so i could respond to this post. I don't think people is treating AdvCash fairly in any way, they deserve some nice words also.

First of all, don't call them a scam. They write from day one they had troubles and it's clearly they are trying to sort them out. If they were a scam, they wouldn't have let anyone know officially, but just kept the site open, accept money and put them straight into their pockets. They even sorted a temporary solution, so we could at least a few bucks out on our cards, $100 isn't much but it's for sure better than $0.

Next to that, they never disabled any withdrawal method beside bank/cc. I had 5+ BTC deposited, which i withdrew last Friday just as a precaution. If they were scammers, they would never have allowed me to withdraw that amount of money.

Finally, today i loaded my card with $50 i had in leftovers - that didn't work last week. I'll deposit some BTCs later to see if i can deposit more than the mentioned $100 limit, to see if their issues got solved.

And last but not least, some banks can be extremely slow to deal with, I know this for a fact. That may be a bad choice of bank, but you won't know that until you tried the bank. Whatever the core issue is, I'm sure they will take measurements so it won't happen again.

So people, chill and AdvCash do their work, I'm 100% confident that the issues will be sorted.