Comment · Sun, February 25, 2018
Warning: coinpayments.net is blocked in some states
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euid · 1 points
tl;dr: make sure you can visit https://www.coinpayments.net without being blackholed to http://pleaseprotectconsumers.org/ before you place an order. Otherwise, the web store breaks completely.
I placed an order today at Ceretropic. I have contacted support about this issue, but I am here to warn other redditors about a potentially serious issue.
Right now, the only option to pay is via cryptocurrencies. If you go all the way through checkout, coinpayments.net will accept your transaction and send you an email confirming it.
If you are in a blocked location, however, when you click "Continue to seller's store", it will display (in my case - for a new account) an empty order history. The payment will still have gone through, but the items you purchased remain in your shopping cart. So CoinPayments gladly accepts your money, but it is not seen as a completed transaction on Ceretropic's website.
I didn't figure out what was going on until I went to the coinpayments.net website directly, without trying to make an individu…
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Majalisk · 1 points
It has actually been like this for a long time. Guess I maybe should have mentioned....? Apparently. Looks like your support never passed this along, since OP claims to have told them about this.
I imagine those states want more info on the people for tax, general spying, and regulatory purposes. It makes sense and is what many states would do.
Since the VPN works, it is just organized by IP.
u/MisterYouAreSoDumb
Either they did not mention it, or it got lost in all the million things I get told in a day. Haha