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Originally Posted by DAT MOOSE
hello guys are these automated transfer sites legit? i dont mind paying a slightly higher vig for security and speed, but i see traheho has been banned(?) and they do look somewhat shady but that may simply be cuz they're new.
Look, do you want an 'automated' transfer site? Really? I mean, you and I could get a couple bottles of wine, and put one together by tomorrow about this time. We could even name it after you. Automated.
You get my point. This is the age of the internet, and fancy websites, that may, and may not, be what they seem. It really, really, is a joke these days, with the fifth graders, in school, saying "I know it's true, because I got my information from the internet".
Whether the website is fancy, or crummy, whether the introduction happens here, in this forum, or in your Aunt's parlor, you're dealing with an individual, or dealing with a partnership of maybe two persons. You might or might not get ripped off.
So the answer to your inquiry is "No". That having been covered, you should realize that you have the obligation, the responsibility, to investigate the person you might (or might NOT) trade with. You're going to make the decision, and you're going to live with the result (yes, you get to betch, but not to excess, every time you make a mistake. And yes, you're out the money).
We are all in the same boat. We are poker players who, somehow, end up with money on Site A, but we want money on Site B. Since the death of Neteller, what the heck can we do?
There are answers. A lot of people have published, here in this forum, a lot of guidelines, a set of rules. I trust that you have read them, those rules, but if I were a betting man, (Larry The Cable Guy: "that there was FUNNY. If y'all don't think that THERE was funny, well...) I really would bet that you have not read those (several) guidelines. I say that simply because we get these posts, almost daily, from newbies that have been ripped off. The numbers keep adding up. We might (and there are dozens of honest, helpful, members of this forum) post still more guidelines. (You see the irony, i'm sure).
So do the research. Trust that your trading partner is doing the research on you. But you're dealing with an individual, over the internet, that you've never shaken hands with.
Good luck with it.