Try to look also those reviews about it so that you can have a second thought about it. You may lead others especially the newbies who will take your advice so if they took cryptopia and the same problem happens to them, you will be blamed.
I think you and bithodler are derailing this thread and going off topic slightly. If you had even bothered reading my initial post i listed cryptopia as I have used it and again shared my experience on it i.e the two factor authentication is pathetic and they do randomly close off markets. But at least your money will show on there and can be withdrawn safely. Please can you try and refrain turning this into some sort of mud slinging match or conspiracy theory and stay on topic. If you have a different experience to share then please by all means do so.
Isn't that right to try and do your own research since someone has suggested that to do so? I know you have good experience using cryptopia but how about those other users who experienced bad with them?
Won't you consider that?
Just like these mate. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/cryptopia-turning-into-a-scam-2673828 & https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3007252.120
And adding my experience, I registered to them and there is someone that is trying to access with my account though I don't have funds there so there's really something wrong with their security. It may not only with them but also with other exchanges.
I'm not disagreeing with you, the whole purpose of this thread is so people can share their personal experiences and opinions. No one persons opinion is the gospel, yes I did have a bad experience with cryptopia myself in that they closed the btc and ltc markets without warning causing me to lose a bit of money as my paccoin was trapped. I just said that yes there are issues in the markets etc but your money can be deposited and withdrawn it wont just "disappear" like on yobit!
The other thing to clarify is, yes stick to big exchanges if you want to trade in the big coins but, some of the decent alt coin projects are on these smaller shady looking exchanges. This is where alot of the money disappearing acts tend to happen. There is not a whole lot of reviews on these exchanges etc. So it would be good to hear from people regarding these.