Quote from: Slark on September 18, 2017, 05:31:52 PM

Quote from: bajing on September 18, 2017, 01:52:39 PM

If you think like that, I think it's impossible because china just banned bitcoin trading and not prohibits the sale of mining hardware, did you had taken legal steps because you send money through bank transfer, I think you have strong enough evidence to prove that they want trying to commit fraud as you allege but honestly I do not believe they do that.

Nothing is impossible when it comes to the scale of Bitcoin/Cryptocurrency scams/fails. Just look at the Mt.Gox or Bitfinex, they both top exchanges that disappointed everyone.
I am not saying that Bitmain is a scam, and considered their current strong position I wouldn't say so. In their defence, I say that bank transfers of all types can have delayed confirmation times.
Still, it is the best to reach their official help desk first then start a thread here where basically no one has access to their internal system and we can only speculate.

Well, I did try contacting their support and got blown off no less than 7 times now, and I tried opening a thread on their forum and posted the SWIFT and other transaction proof and got no replies as of yet. This is my first time doing business with a Chinese company of any kind so maybe this is the norm and I'm just not used to it (we are quite spoiled here in the U.S. in regards to customer service lol) but it isn't very comforting to have sent them a bitcoin and 1500+ USD in a wire transfer and get ignored like I'm a nobody. For most people that is a lot of money, myself included, and it is bad business to get cash from someone and just blow them off.

As for the bank transfer having delays....I bought into that until the 10th day (today is the 14th). I went to my bank and confirmed everything was legitimate and correct and then contacted bitmain again and got ignored once again. My bank is telling me to wait until Wednesday U.S. East coast time and if everything isn't resolved by then they said they would have a way of getting my wire transfer reversed (hopefully).

As for Mt.Gox, I think that is a different thing altogether, specifically because of Mark Karpeles and his involvement with Silk Road and organized crime. It isn't really fair to compare a mining operation like Bitmain to an international criminal / potential terrorist and his plot to get rich quick.

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