Topic: Announcement: Tradehill is back - page 2. (Read 11198 times)

Hey repentance: This is why I don't include TH on the same list with Kraken. And this is why neither should you.

I have been trying for quite a while to get a response to my claim request.  I have tried sending private messages, multiple e-mails etc.  I'll keep trying but. . . obviously. . . it would be nice to be one of the few that can claim no have had a good experience recovering lost funds/bitcoin through the old TradeHill site.   

Sucks.

I am still waiting. It's been 4 days since they told me that they would follow up with claims, but no response so far. What should be a quick and easy process has taken 10+ months so far. I seriously get the feeling that they don't care as my deposit was a smaller one.

I am going to try calling them next. There are a few phone numbers that I have gathered. I just need to check the local time in California.

I suggest calling the number on the website if you haven't received them.  I emailed them a bunch of times, called, and posted to them on twitter multiple times....

They really should have sent out an email when they shut down letting everyone know....

It seems simple enough for Jered/TH to post the results of a database query indicating that there are N accounts with balances, waiting to be claimed.  Perhaps some questions could be answered too:

Does TH still have the database that holds the account data?
Has TH sent emails to account holders, letting them know they can and should make a claim?
Is it that hard to create a website that will allow old account holders to log in and thereby prove they own an account and make a request for their holdings?

After reading the beginning of this thread, it looked promising, and then along comes this "curious character" MPOE-PR, claiming Jered is a scammer.  And MPOE-PR was provided a few posts later with a motive that could possibly make sense, but I'd have to research it more to see if the "we don't deal in fiat, so why would we care?" claim makes sense.  Does TH have any apparent plans to offer bitcoin investment exchange services like MPEX?  It doesn't seem so.  So now I'm thrown back onto the Be Cautious bandwagon.

...where everyone should be all the time anyway!

If anyone reviews my work over the years (Google dscotese) and wants me and my analytical skills to explore the possibility that MPOE-PR is right about Jered being a scammer, PM me.

The best way to scam is to screw a minority of people and reward the rest.  The fact that it works so well makes a lot of people believe we need a government to come down on such scammers.  Only problem with that is that the government screws everyone a tiny bit except a minority, and provides that minority with propaganda and resources to keep the scam going and keep the people divided.  These scams together make me believe that we need to be wary of strangers, and trust our friends only with as much as we're willing to lose to find out that they aren't our friends after all.

In the end, you can be looking over your shoulder all the time, worried your schemes are going to catch up with you (Yes, George Bush and Karl Rove and Larry Silverstein, you're included), or you can relax, knowing you did your best to do right by everyone you ever knew.

Well, they have not made everyone "whole", including me.

Here was what I wrote here expressing my opinion about them back in June 2011.

"Also regard to tradehill .....  I suspect that they won't be easy to deal with if there are future monetary disputes.  I do have an acct with them btw."

My own words appear to be prophetically applied to me.

Almost all of my BTC came through Tradehill-I where I had very few problems and none of them of a dishonest nature.  When they shut down they pro-actively made me whole.  I cannot speak for others, but in my personal experience Tradehill-I showed no sign of anything but the highest level of professionalism and integrity.

I'll reserved judgement on whether Tradehill-II is a scam or not, and I have more reliable means of ascertaining this than an MPOE-PR assertion on bitcointalk.org.

As butt-hurt as I may be about being excluded, I can see a very clear business logic behind targeting 'accredited investors' at this point in time.

This was a scam. You not being taken in - for whatever reason - is a blessing you should be thankful for.

I say was because it's pretty much defunct by now. Good for whoever was quick on the ball and made claims here in the early few days when they still thought they could stem the tide - a little BTC back from a scammer beats no BTC back at all I would guess.

In the same boat as you and many people here.

This has the appearance of a scam.  Scammers love to string their victims along with false promises.

Good luck getting in.  I was unwilling to claim over $1M in net worth and only have around 1000 BTC (that I wish to dump in the near->mid term) and they would not even return my application to become a member.

Further up this thread you'll notice that Joel dug up documentation saying that an 'accredited investor' means $5M in net worth.

I notice that Coinlab achieved the hurdle of getting 'two important customers' migrated three weeks ago and have been resting on their laurels since.

So it could be that for the rest of us it's a matter of taking our chances with the non-aligned flake-o exchanges or exploring alternate means of trade.  Bitcoin is definitely moving toward it's destiny as a rich person's toy faster than I even theorized it would.

My favorite exchange is back!

I have sent a email regarding my BTC from my old account and I have not heard anything back.


Can someone help me?

Still no reply after the original message from them. It's been 2 days now since that message and 10 months since my first e-mail. I am still hoping to hear something more.

I'm happy to see new competition against Mt. Gox.  Too much power in that one exchange.

I have been contacted by them. But, not through that e-mail address or the forums. I'll let you know how I get on; I should have an answer later today.

Why are they posting claim info when they don't even bother to return claim inquiries?  I contacted them and only sent 1 follow up email, it has been a week and no response.  According to them, they settled most accounts and only have a few straggling accounts left to payback, so why are they ignoring these few claim emails?

I am starting to think that they settled a few small accounts to get those people to shill for them to enhance their reps.  It is kind of odd that a few people here are popping veins defending tradehill, considering that they have not even done the minimum of their expected obligations, which is letting people know ahead of time that they were shutting down, and square away legitimate claims.

I've been trying to get my Bitcoins back for a good while now, but I have yet to recieve a response. I'm posting here in hopes of getting Jered's attention.

No, you hit a wall.

Hit a nerve, did I? How tragic. Keep spewing your bile, it seems to be the only thing you're good at.