I recently got interested in Curecoin--well, not the coin specifically but the Folding@Home project that lets you earn it. Curious as to which exchanges Curecoin was traded on, I checked their official page and saw Livecoin.net listed. I also thought I recalled seeing that name pop up in the Scam Accusation section before, so I searched it and came across this thread.
OP, did you ever get any resolution with your issue? This is one of the things I can't stand about scam accusations leveled against exchanges--the lack of followup. There's no way to tell if OP actually got scammed or if he got his problem solved.
Meanwhile, I'm interested in finding out more about Livecoin, so I'm going to keep searching bitcointalk for info.
If you poke around there are a lot of people out there with the same issue.
Small alts that are only offered on 2nd / 3rd tier sketchy exchanges.
Most (all?) have scam accusations against them, most (all?) are deserved.
But, if you are sitting on some alt with no place good to trade you have to take your chances.
There seem to be no complaints against livecoin in the curecoin discussions so for a small amount you are probably safe.
I'm sitting on ~$50 worth just slowly getting POS rewards. If I need to get BTC, yeah I would go the livecoin.net route but with the assumption that I could loose it.
If you are sitting on a larger amount doing multiple deposits / withdraws would be the way to go. And just accept you are going to eat the fees.
-Dave