Topic: BitcoinWireless.com - 280 carriers in 112 countries, Bitcoin with no fees! - page 2. (Read 4632 times)

May I ask for carrier, country, fee and speed?

I've done two successful Simple Mobile refills.

Apart from one person on reddit that is "happy about the service since one month", is there any other person that actually got his phone charged? At what fee? At which delay? With which carrier?

I received the following e-mail:

Hello,

A BitcoinWireless order has been created for you:

Carrier: Virgin Mobile Canada
Product: Virgin Mobile $25 CAD Top Up
Phone Number: 2506318267

To complete your order:
Send 1.0318 to 1PeDgZ2di3RYwxyj7vGrfVtJG5Zmcd1zGF

Order ID: 18149251-5cbf-4eae-a3ea-4250ef141bf1



After payment is received, you'll receive another email confirming the payment, and then a third email when your phone has been credited.

Thank you for your business,
BitcoinWireless.com

I sent payment to  1PeDgZ2di3RYwxyj7vGrfVtJG5Zmcd1zGF and there are now 102 confirmations, as well as 47 confirmations of the amount being cleared to 1HZ1vaSVxnhgGqXuUvnxXFGTQJQajN6QRe

But I have not received "another email confirming the payment, and then a third email when your phone has been credited."  or any further communication at all.

I would appreciate some update.

You guys might want to test out that feedback form. I asked a simple question ~16 hours ago and didn't get a response.

About eight hours after I made payment, I finally sent a message to customer service. I didn't receive a direct response from them, but it took about another hour before I finally got the PIN I needed to refill my phone.

While I see that this has a lot of potential, and I understand kinks are being worked out, for me the biggest deal here was that there was no indication it would be 9 hours before I would get my phone minutes, which is pretty jarring when one expects the service to be completely automated and relatively fast. More information throughout would be good. I understand that if Bitcoin Wireless sends the funds to the carrier and then has to wait until the carrier acts, there's not much they can do about that. But it doesn't change the fact that because of all this, I won't be using the service nearly as often as I otherwise would. I literally could have walked across town to Wal-Mart (or the gas station, or other places) to get a phone card and back to my house in the time it took for my PIN to be delivered, and for me the speed and automation of the service is just as important as it being a place to spend bitcoins. Once I see more reports of successful purchases and kinks being worked out I may buy on occasion, but it won't be a regular thing.

Also, so far when I've spent bitcoins on cellphone minutes it's been through this forum. Bitcoin Wireless sent my PIN, unencrypted, through email. I can't say I'm very comfortable with that. But since they likely can't directly refill my phone themselves, I'm not sure what other options there are that wouldn't put another couple steps at least into the process. Still, addressing this would go quite a ways toward enticing more purchases out of me as well.

Charlie, you must be responding to giszmo here and not me.  To date you've taken my bitcoins, NOT compelled my provider to send me an email as promised, NOT added money to my phone, NOT responded to my email, NOT responded to filling out a form on your site, and NOT refunded my bitcoins.

I tired a topup to a Jamaican (Cable & Wireless) Number and still have not received the topup to the phone as yet.

It has been a few hours will keep this post updated.

My first order you refunded. That is right.
The second order you claimed to have delivered which I claim you haven't. Well, maybe you paid the telco and they told you they delivered but my friend has received nothing.

Fast, yes but not every single time. My (and all other's) questions about fees remain unanswered.

Great. Hope you sort that out soon. Will be back in Chile in some weeks from now

Thanks for testing this for us.

I also think that you should mention to everyone that we fully refunded all your orders.

Additionally, I personally responded to you every single time extremely fast.

Thanks again for testing, we are working on the Chilean issue.

Charlie

+1

I don't think they would ever pull this off to scam people but I tried twice and never did it charge any phone. It was on two different Chilean numbers. Also I think problems should be made public and if they fail to make it public, I will not hesitate to bring it up again.

(I charged friends phones twice as the service went life days after I left Chile and Germany is not on the list. My friend ran out of credit after sending 2 SMS 12h after I "charged" it and hours after bitinstant insisted the phone was charged $4. My friend also did not get any notification whatsoever and neither did I get my 3rd mail.)

Hello, many thanks... some comments about country Ukraine... (international code +380)

- local money is UAH, not RUB...
- you can sell US$ note thru the local exchange desk rate about 8.1 UAH per 1.0 US$
- so, today, 2013 Feb 9 - to buy 25 UAH voucher (for example) you need to sell 3.09 US$
- Ukraine few mobile providers -
       gsm : kyivstar mts life beeline
       cdma: intertelecom
       umts: 3mob
       landline: ukrtelecom

and many others services which payable by street cash machines, such as cable tv, internet providers etc.

you service is very interesting, and, i suppose, you will improve your Ukrainian partner

thank you again

Geez, it's clearly not a scam, the same guys already move 10s or 100s of thousands of coins per month, it's just new and they are working out the kinks I'm sure.

But when you launch and ask for feedback would be a good time to be quick on support, my simple inquiry via the form on the website is like 10 hours waiting.

I tried it for the first time a couple of days ago.

I followed the instructions to send 0.4239 BTC to some address. Some time later I got a confirmation that the funds were received. The message said "You should now wait to receive a third email, which provides instructions from your carrier in order to credit your mobile phone. This email may take up to a few hours to receive."

I didn't receive the follow-up email or the credit on my phone after 24 hours. They've ignored a follow-up email as well as a message I sent from the contact form on their web site.

At best, they're disorganized and their customer support sucks. At worst, it's a scam.

I've already decided that I won't use them again. I'm interested in hearing if anyone else has successfully gotten credit.

Exactly! Now that I'm able to get them (think SMS), I can now spend them anyway I want to. Therefore, if you are next to me (or not), I can transfer some of my coins to you for product/service or fiat currency. If my normal bill is $100/mo., and through some service I purchase $20 worth of bitcoins, my next billing cycle will reflect a balance due of $120, which I can now pay with bitcoins, thanks to Bitcoin Wireless.

Bottom line, we are so close, if not now, to being able in getting bitcoins into the hands of a noob/newbie within a minute of them asking how do I get some. I fire up the droid, log on to something like text2pay, get coins, which will be billed to my carrier's account, transfer coins from my phone to his. If it takes me more than a minute, it's because I'm between cells and only at 3G.

seems like this is an additional way to spend them (not receive them). Always a good thing though.

Finally! An easy way for everybody to get bitcoins. Or am I missing something?

Awesome, thanks!

Thanks for the tip. I will reach out to H20 on Monday and get clarification from them.

Stay tuned for an update

Charlie

Looks like the US H20 Wireless option needs a little refinement.

With H20, which has great prices and runs on the ATT network, there are (1) Month and (2) Minute plans. Credit bought between plans is not interchangeable. The Bitcoin Wireless page does not distinguish between them and only offers 'H20 $25 Recharge' and 'H20 $40 Recharge'.

The H20 Wireless page is not very helpful either. H20 Wireless customer service is horrible. And if you need to convert a Month plan to a Minute plan then you have to go through the Master Distributor of the Distributor you bought from (a complete nightmare). Thus, it is not possible to buy with complete confidence.

Consequently, I would recommend some special attention by the developer(s) to make sure H20 Wireless purchases are handled properly so buyers don't have to deal with H20 customer service. With Tangible Cryptography dropping H20 there is an unmet market demand.