Tinkercoin Will Sell You $20 in Bitcoin, But Only Once (opens in new tab)

How are you going to deal with disputes? ie. I buy bitcoin at tinkercoin and now I'm want my $20 back. I've only to start a dispute at my bank and I'll get my money automatically until you prove that I've received the bitcoin. I'm not sure but I think you might have a hard time proving your system has no bug and that everything went as you say it did (ie. the customer actually own the bitcoin address you say is his etc.) I've always thought that you can't prove by your own system and that nobody will ever reach your code so see if it's right and even then, what prove that it is the code which was live when the customer was here etc.

Clearly, how are you going to prove the customer bitcoin address is actually his? Note I've almost no knownledge in this field and it's been a time I'm looking for an answer to this question.

edit: one might think that one $20 loss per x transactions can be absorbed by the cost of business but I think it doesn't work since the hack's going to be shared and it will grow in quantity and in efficiency to finally reach a buzz stage. I might be wrong again here.

There are plenty of places willing to sell you $1000 in bitcoins on a credit card?

A new number here in Uruguay costs U$ 2.

Though the market here is VERY different, many people legitimately use prepaid phones, it's not like in the U.S. where it's something seen as suspicious/fringe, so it might be subsidized by the phone company.

Edit: they do sell prepaid SIMs in the USA but they're really expensive, much like cell phone service overall there.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2414494,00.asp

some forums suggest there are cheaper options

www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g32655-i61-k5212639-Pre_Paid_SIM_card_while_in_USA_non_residents-Los_Angeles_California.html

Twilio or Google Voice numbers, maybe?

Ipkall's free PSTN->SIP numbers?

Completely understand your frustration. We have to keep a very high bar because of the possibility of credit card fraud, and sometimes we have false negatives. Sorry for the confusion!

Don't do it! SCAM. They steal all of your data. After giving them my FB info, and Credit card I got the same error. I was unable to get a hold of anyone (3 e-mails, 3 phone calls) I finally got "Trevor" on the live chat. He said "Their processor can't process my card" and "it's outside of their control" ... so thanks for stealing all of my data. My card works 100% just fine, don't fall for this!

Here's the story I was thinking about:

http://buttcoin.org/easy

Is there a service that makes the process of turning BTC into USD as easy as Tinkercoin claims to for USD to BTC?

Some of it just comes down to how you want to define things.

I mean, how do the various levels of problems dealing with Mt. Gox not fit under difficulties?

As justinreeves said, I choose to give that information to Facebook. It's absurd having to share all of this information to Tinkercoin so they can supposedly verify my identity to allow me to purchase $20 worth of BTC, without any indication of how they're going to use all this valuable information about me.

Stopped using Facebook auth a long time ago for this very reason and revoked access to all apps except those that I trust. There's no reason to share my entire Facebook account with everyone out there, and if that's the only way I can use their service, then I just won't use it. No big deal.

Because he chose to give it to FB? Just because he's fine with FB having that info, doesn't mean he needs to be fine with every other company getting it.

(1) Maybe it's not

(2) He gets to decide that, not you.

How is it really easy when you need a Facebook account?

This is going from amusing-scam to transparent-scam really quickly.