Coinify is a service used for buying and selling bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, company is started in Denmark back in 2014 but they are better known as ledger hardware wallet partners.
There are some forum
topics about Coinify showing how they are calculating ridiculously high fees, but that is just a start.
Some of you may remember this year
ledger Valentines deal when they offered $ Vouchers for purchasing their Love Packs.
If we dig a bit deeper and see below, we can see that ledger was offering limited $15 voucher for purchasing ledger Nano S, and $25 voucher for purchasing ledger Nano X with their partner Coinify:
https://shop.ledger.com/pages/ledger-valentines-promo-terms-conditionsEverything looks fine so far, but there was a catch and this was used as bait for spending money on purchasing ledger and customers were being forced to buy crypto over Conify if they want to claim their vouchers,
and we have
example of one guy who had to purchased $61 worth crypto to get $25 voucher.
He was unable to use bank transfer, and his only option was to use credit card with 4.25% fee but that didn't work also, so he never received his voucher and he felt fooled by both ledger and coinfy.
To find all the special rules you need to dig and search in ledger website fineprints and you will find out that many countries are not eligible, but this guy double checked and he was living in eligible country.
Redeeming a Coinify voucher
To redeem a Coinify voucher, you must meet the following requirements:
- Be in an eligible country, state, or territory. Please refer to our Eligibility page to see if you are eligible.
- Use a payment method accepted by Coinify.
- Purchase a minimum of $50 in the crypto of your choice on the Coinify exchange accessible through Ledger Live.
- If you meet these conditions, you can redeem your voucher by entering it in the promo code field when reviewing your transaction on the Coinify interface through Ledger Live.
https://support.ledger.com/hc/en-us/articles/360020980654-Buy-crypto-with-Ledger-Live-mobileWhat kind a voucher is that forcing you to buy more coins along with hardware wallet you already purchased?
I don't know, but this was probably one of the worst promos I ever saw in crypto, and now you have people screaming all over how Coinify is a scam.
Hope someone reads this - Don't use Coinify and don't fall for this bs again.