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Originally Posted by krikeysmate
Hey, you mentioned how shady there wire transfer practice is? Can you elaborate on this? Are they just not wiring it to you? I was kind of hoping that wire transfer is the only way you can actually get money off
Okay so here's what they did:
Before BF, about 6 months after I signed up, I requested a wire transfer from them for 25k. I was a little worried at the start when they were saying they might not be able to make it happen and were taking 3-4 weeks until giving me a response. Then I came here to 2p2 and found that the owner Atil Singh had helped other players in the past, so I pm'ed him and explained my situation.
Very quickly we were chatting about the stuff on skype and he assured me that there would be no problems and that he would push the money through. I received that money very quickly and also was able to make a number of other similarly sized wire transfers over the next few months.
Then, BF happened. At that point I had a little over 30k on the site, and I started thinking I should get the money off in case the DOJ went after Carbon as well. So I did the same thing I had always done in order to receive a wire transfer, except this time I received no responses from any of the places I had previously had success. Their technical support began ignoring my e-mails, I sent about one a week, they would pretty much tell me every time "sorry we don't have an answer for you at this time but we will get back to you within 48 hours" and they just NEVER got back to me. After about 6 weeks they completely stopped responding. So then I started sending Atil messages on skype, at first I threatened to make a big deal out of it and to post about my problems with them on 2p2. When those threats didn't work, I sorta backed down and was like "look I know you guys pretty much have me by the balls but please could you just send me one message and let me know my funds are safe or that you will do what you can to help me get my funds out safely?" And still nothing.
I sent PM's to CarbonChris, which went unanswered for a couple of weeks. Finally I was getting too nervous about it (30k is enough money for me to live for like at least 6 months so it's kind of important to me), so I started looking for someone to buy up the money in my account.
I found somebody in HSNL transfer thread who would trade me cash if I flew to Vegas, so I did that, flew to Vegas for a couple days, traded 25k in my account for 75 cents on the dollar and put my cash in the bank.
A week after I arrived home I talked to two friends who both use Carbon and both had received similarly sized (to my 30k) bank wires while I had yet to receive any kind of message from support.
So basically they cost me almost 8 grand. And still I haven't heard a peep from them. Keep in mind I am the highest level VIP that their system offers and this is the type of treatment I received. It was pathetic and I'm very unhappy with them.