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Support => Customer support => Topic started by: youdamann on April 11, 2013, 08:08 pm

Title: Disappearing Bitcoins
Post by: youdamann on April 11, 2013, 08:08 pm
I am a newbie so hopefully this is all SOP I don't understand yet.

I had 3 orders in my shopping cart (3 separate vendors) with just enough Bitcoins to cover all three (0.01 to spare). I executed the order. Only 1 of the 3 went through. On 1 of the remaining orders, the price changed quite a bit. Worst part was that all of my Bitcoins disappeared. I checked with the vendor on one of the rejected orders and he had not received anything.

Now I have 1 order in escrow and no Bitcoins left. Somebody help me out..... what's going on?
Title: Re: Disappearing Bitcoins
Post by: samesamebutdifferent on April 12, 2013, 06:53 am
I'm not sure what you have done as each order is processed individually as you are making them so when you say you "executed the order" I do not know what you mean by saying only one went through.

Please provide a more detailed explanation of what did?
Title: Re: Disappearing Bitcoins
Post by: youdamann on April 12, 2013, 12:59 pm
I had added 3 separate items to my shopping cart from 3 separate vendors. I did not see any way to execute the orders one at a time so I assumed they would all get executed simultaneously (like Amazon) with each vendor getting the appropriate order and payment when I did execute the order, which I went ahead and did by clicking the button and entering my PIN.

I immediately got a message that I didn't have enough Bitcoins to execute all the orders. One disappeared from my shopping cart but the other two did not. I re-checked the site and one of the prices had, indeed, changed rather dramatically for one of the items. I chose a different item in my price range (assuming at taht point I still had my remaining funds) but when I went back to the shopping cart, my account balance showed 0.01bitcoins. I checked my order page and only the one order was there with an escrow amount of $56.85.

I had 0.84 bitcoins in my account. The order that went through was for 0.37 bitcoins but my account continues to show only 0.01bitcoins - the amount that would have been left had all 3 orders gone through at the quoted price.

If the other 2 orders did NOT go through, I should have 0.47bitcoins left. If they DID go through, I should have pending orders on my orders page.

Do you see anything in the process that I did wrong? Have you heard of this before? I have already escalated this to a customer support ticket but have heard nothing back yet.

Thx
Title: Re: Disappearing Bitcoins
Post by: scout on April 12, 2013, 08:16 pm
I think you're just going to need to wait to hear back from SR Support - there's nothing we can do from our end here in the forums.
Title: Re: Disappearing Bitcoins
Post by: samesamebutdifferent on April 12, 2013, 08:34 pm
I agree with scout, not sure what happened to be honest from your description, first time I have heard on an issue like this.
Title: Re: Disappearing Bitcoins Solved
Post by: youdamann on April 17, 2013, 06:43 pm
So . . . it just so happened that bitcoin crashed to the precise point where I would be left - after executing the first item on the list - with exactly the same number of bitcoins I would have had if all 3 transactions occurred at the original price.

I was just another victim of the bitcoin crash.

 :'(
Title: Re: Disappearing Bitcoins
Post by: jpeg666 on April 17, 2013, 09:55 pm
I think I had a similar problem I ordered 2 things and once Or I think it was 3 but the client crashed and when I logged in my bitcoins were gone and only 1 item showed and being processed and the others were just gone.  I just waited and it appeared back when the vendor did his thing for the order.

Hope this is what happened and everything resolves itself