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This account is now managed by Bitwala GmbH, previously Safaru B.V.

What do you mean? Safaru and Bitwala isn't the same entity? Or does this company operate other subsidiaries and now Bitwala separates its activity from this branch?

...the services of Safaru B.V., a private company with limited liability...
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Bitwala was a brand operating in the Netherlands under a legal entity called Safaru B.V, which itself was founded in 2014. Due to regulatory changes, we had to suspend our services and in 2018 the Bitwala GmbH took over the brand and we build the new product together with our partner bank here in Germany.

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This account is now managed by Bitwala GmbH, previously Safaru B.V.

What do you mean? Safaru and Bitwala isn't the same entity? Or does this company operate other subsidiaries and now Bitwala separates its activity from this branch?

...the services of Safaru B.V., a private company with limited liability...
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the services of Safaru B.V., a private company with limited liability
It's what the T.O.S. are showing
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Bitwala scammed me for 5000€ and ignoring me or telling me to wait for months now.

Everyone intressted in the full story will find it within the last 2 pages of the thread and therefore is able to see what I talk about.

Hello Malschauen,

We have sent you an email with further info on your case.

Best regards,

Robert @Bitwala
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Bitwala scammed me for 5000€ and ignoring me or telling me to wait for months now.

Everyone intressted in the full story will find it within the last 2 pages of the thread and therefore is able to see what I talk about.


edit: Bitwala contacted me again shortly after this post and 2 days later they did send me the bitcoin of the transaction which didnt exist according to bitwala shortly before (bitcoin amount of my original transaction plus 0.1 btc one day later paid by bitwala as a compensation for my loosage which was caused by bitpay as a service used by bitwala) they also contacted wavecrest and the other 3000 € missing were transfered to my bank account shortly after. Nevertheless when calculating all together I am still missing some euros, but actually I am happy that I got nearly the whole amount back and that bitwala reacted really fast after I wrote this warning and contacted the moderators responsible for this subforum.
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This account is now managed by Bitwala GmbH, previously Safaru B.V.
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Hi malschauen,

I understand that you are not happy with the progress of your case but as I said we need time to work out what went wrong and coordinate all aspects with BitPay. We have not forgotten you.
Please give us some more time and be assured we will work this out.
 
Best regards,

Robert @Bitwala

Nearly 4 weeks after your initial answer and about 4 month after I transfered about 6k€ to my bitwala accoutn and there is still no answer and I still received only 1k and you still owe me about 5k€ and you still cant give me any reason what the problem is, instead I only received excuses or get ingored completly. I provided evidence within emails and within this thread.
Any news or how long do I have to wait?

Good luck with your business, but due to the circumsances I will not use any of your services in the future nor will I recommend it to anybody. Actually you claim yourself to want to become a blockchain-bank. Can you realy imagine a bank, which tells you to not have received your deposit even when you got a receipe for your deposit, without providing you any reason, just ignoring your receipe and letting you wait for months? Sorry, but I cant.
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Hi malschauen,

I understand that you are not happy with the progress of your case but as I said we need time to work out what went wrong and coordinate all aspects with BitPay. We have not forgotten you.
Please give us some more time and be assured we will work this out.
 
Best regards,

Robert @Bitwala
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Hi malschauen,

I need some time to answer all your questions but be assured that your case has not been forgotten and we are working on all aspects in-house and with BitPay to get the needed answers.

Best regards,

Robert @Bitwala



Summary: I sended 6000€ worth of bitcoin to my bitwala card some weeks before it closed. Since it was closed, I did anything I was asked to do, but only received about 980 Euro back. But the very best is that they are rejecting the validity of the blockchain, claiming a transaction not to have happend, even when it has more than 10.000 confirmations on the blockchain.

Thanks, unfortunately in the last resonse you denied the blockchain again, this is really getting frustrating. Bitcoin is beeing trusted due to the blockchain, I did send you a blockchain link and you only answering again and again like 'it didnt happen'. Can you give me any advise on how to process now, I really dont like to write you the same thing again and again and getting the same answer again and again. I HAVE A BLOCKCHAIN TX PROOVING MY PAYMENT, PLEASE EXPLAIN ME HOW BITCOINS SENDED ON THE BLOCKCHAIN HAVIN NEARLY 10.000 CONFIRMATIONS COULD NOT HAVE REACHED YOU?

I will try it once again, if i dont get any reasonable answer, I might choose to start warning people about your service as well as getting into contact to a lawyer. I really liked your service, using it often and never having problems. But whats not funny is that I send you 6000 Euro in btc which are stuck for 4 month now and you only have dubious statements about my coins.

So again firstly:
1. On 21.12.2017 I wanted to load my Bitwala card with about 1400 Euro in btc
2. Bitwala asked me to send the BTC to this address: 173NjX9FvAscwKpHyAjTeyWNmJgAyAyM9W
3. I did send the Bitcoin (about 0.1): https://blockchain.info/de/tx/15087bc5d723dad73facfef6ef00bc5ad70e3928043d3bbbcf26a45668c7d0b3
4. After replacing the fee multiple times the transaction confirmed one day later (see link at point 3.)
5. Bitwala never credited me any money from this transaction
6. Today Bitwala claims to not have received any Bitcoins sending me a link taking me to this site: https://insight.bitpay.com/ stating: Transaction Not Found

So just to be sure, maybe you are trying to tell me that you write your own version of the blockchain and that blockchain.info is a scammer site?

Secondly:
1. On 19.12.2017 I wanted to load my Bitwala card with about 1550 Euro in BTC.
2. I did so and transaction was confirmed about 3 days later, which was was never a problem before.
3. Bitwala did not credit me any money for the 0.1 bitcoin i send
4. Asking bitwala for a refund, they assured me that I will receive back my original 1550 euro converted back to the actual bitcoin rate.
5. They send me back about 1000 Euro in btc, telling me that this is the amount I send originally
6. After sending like 5 mails saying that it is simply not true that they send me the original amount of euro, they now state the following:

first mail:

Quote from: bitwalasupport

We had announced that our refunds are performed following the current EUR/BTC exchange rate at the time of refund. We use the EUR amount to refund your BTC transaction and this can lead to users receiving more or less BTC, but the same equivalent in EUR.


second mail (note the date when the transaction was made on , meaning that the value at the time was about 980 Euro, which everyone can look up on coinmarketcap: https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/3ad5ce29ccd786c09551352988af13e06405ddb191074866c25176b6c65806da

Quote from: bitwalasupport

Initially, you paid for the invoice: 0.099646BTC which at the moment was worth: €1535.42.

We have refunded to you the equivalent of the EUR amount which is worth now 0.13247853 BTC.


Third:

Quote from: bitwalasupport

-We have written to you in the conversation that our refunds are performed following the current EUR/BTC exchange rate at the time of refund. We use the EUR amount to refund your BTC transaction and this can lead to users receiving more or less BTC, but the same equivalent in EUR. Therefore today is worth 1190 Euro and we are not responsible for the BTC volatility and we can't control its price.


The things in bold were bold in the mail, too. Just feeling kidded.

On the forth mail they finally admit that they didnt send the original amount, but now have some other reason for not refunding me

Quote from: bitwalasupport

The case for the other card top up (hafoLituDCshGqFAg) is complicated. Your initial transaction (card top up) was not performed due to low network fees. Then our cards were disabled and even though the amount was transacted, it was not topped up.

BitPay issued a refund of the amount paid minus applicable fees. Because the bitcoin price can change quickly over time, BitPay only keeps the exposure to the initial invoice exchange rate for 30 days. After 30 days, they update and lock in the BTC/USD exchange rate at the current rate. Then they refund the BTC amount equivalent to the dollar amount of the invoice at this rate.

Feel free to get back to us for further assistance.


So really? First you let me wait for months. Then you are telling me that I will be refunded the original euro amount. Than you only refund 60%. And nearly a month later you are telling me that "BitPay only keeps the exposure to the initial invoice exchange rate for 30 days". Does I really have to pay more than 500 Euro for your fault? You gave me a Bitcoin address, I send you the coins, but you did not gave me my money letting me wait for some month and after assuring me to send me back the original euro amount you just send me 40% less claiming it is due to time? REALY?

Furthermore it is not true that it was not confirmed due to low network fees, as I like did replace the fee manually for several times till it was confirmed, which was mor than a week before your card closure. See link to Blockchain: https://blockchain.info/de/tx/b683829464d0819a3fab90c18b4b14a1787aac19d28d41b68d166c7f6dc613d4


Lastly my card had 3000€ loaded into it, I now send the requested document for refund 3 times to the mychoicesupport. The first time the transaction we are discussing were included in the refund form so it was rejected. So after correcting it to 3000 euro instead of 6000 euro I dont get any answer anymore at all.

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And the best thing I nearly forgot to mention: After I asked for a refund, they completly removed the 'pending' transctions from my account, so that I am now completly unable to review any details of it, luckily I did save all the relevant data.

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February 27, 2018, 03:15:49 AM
Will this account (and card) be available worldwide? Or only to EU/German citizens?

Hi TryNinja,

To be decided on at a later time.

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February 27, 2018, 03:14:53 AM
Nope, I got mine, I'm just asking out of curiosity if you are going to have the same services as before as well.

Hi Astargath,

Understand, we will inform all users about the offered services in the next months. One thing I can already say is that the products (wallet, debit card and bank account) will be extremely stable and overall "better" Wink.

Best regards,

Robert @Bitwala
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Will this account (and card) be available worldwide? Or only to EU/German citizens?
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February 26, 2018, 01:14:45 PM
So are you going to enable fiat withdrawals again when you finish the site?

Hi Astargath,

Sadly we need to differentiate between refunds and our new setup as a bride between Crypto and Fiat. If you are still waiting for a refund please send me a PM. But yes we will offer many services around Crypto and Fiat currencies.

Best regards,

Robert @Bitwala

Nope, I got mine, I'm just asking out of curiosity if you are going to have the same services as before as well.
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February 26, 2018, 12:37:14 PM
So are you going to enable fiat withdrawals again when you finish the site?

Hi Astargath,

Sadly we need to differentiate between refunds and our new setup as a bride between Crypto and Fiat. If you are still waiting for a refund please send me a PM. But yes we will offer many services around Crypto and Fiat currencies.

Best regards,

Robert @Bitwala
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So are you going to enable fiat withdrawals again when you finish the site?
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February 26, 2018, 11:10:54 AM

Bitwala is merging the crypto and fiat worlds and you can pre-register today! - https://www.bitwala.com/bitwala-bank-account-coming-soon/

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February 26, 2018, 03:20:20 AM
Hi @Bitwala I have a question just to be sure
Existing customers don't need to pre-register, right? Because, I saw a retweet on your Twitter feed from a Bitwala guy (sorry, I don't remember his name) with a link to pre-register, so I was a little confused. I don't want to miss my slot as it will surely be the rush when it comes  Grin

Hi LeGaulois,

Because our service will run under the German entity of Bitwala all users need to pre-register. The good thing is that our existing users get to skip 100 places in line.

Best regards,

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February 24, 2018, 07:03:51 PM
Hi @Bitwala I have a question just to be sure
Existing customers don't need to pre-register, right? Because, I saw a retweet on your Twitter feed from a Bitwala guy (sorry, I don't remember his name) with a link to pre-register, so I was a little confused. I don't want to miss my slot as it will surely be the rush when it comes  Grin
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