J.Ayden
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So I'm getting ready to do my first big boy crypto purchase! I have BTC in Robinhood and can purchase more on Cashapp as well, but I don't really want to pay vendors directly from either of them (especially Robinhood tbh, I have all my stocks tied up there) in case the address or whatever is flagged somehow and gets my accounts shut down. I downloaded Exodus intending to send over what's in my Robinhood account, which I've obviously never tried to do before. Then I realized I can't fucking send any crypto from Robinhood because my goddamn ID expired a couple weeks ago on my birthday. It'll let me buy and sell all the crypto and stocks I want, as long as it stays in their app. That's kinda bullshit to me.
I figured fuck it, I'll just buy the BTC directly on Exodus and deal with the fees or whatever, but no. My fucking bank straight up blocked it?? I got an email saying the purchase was denied, but I could "try other options like ACH" and like idk what that even is. My next option is to buy it on Cashapp and try to send it from there, but that means even more fees, and I'm worried I'll run into the same roadblock with my ID. Plus Cashapp charges a 2% fee just for buying the crypto, unlike Robinhood.
I know obviously the solution is to just get my stupid ID renewed but who knows when I'll have time to take care of all that. >_< Part of the issue is I have this weird...stress? pressure? about stocking up while I can, given everything that's going on with peptides in the US at the moment. I might try to talk my girlfriend into setting up a Robinhood account, and just buy/send BTC from there, since she just got her ID updated a couple months ago. Does anyone know if the risk of sending money directly from Robinhood to vendors is legit? Or am I worrying about nothing? Basically, if I can get her to set up an account, it would be a lot easier to have her make the order/purchase and not worry about sending money to her for the crypto, then send that to my Exodus, then to the vendor from there.
Honestly I hate crypto so much. I treat it as a high risk stock, not as actual money at all. I will admit part of it is due to jealousy/regret because a few of my more techy friends in high school got really into Bitcoin specifically and sometimes I get lost in fantasies about if I had invested back in 2010/2011 when they were using it to buy shit on the dark web or whatever lol. It's also frustrating to me how difficult/impossible it is to use anything but crypto if you want to buy directly from China. That's literally the only reason I've stuck with resellers til now. I kind of wonder how hard it would be for a vendor to set up a fake business/website and only give that link to customers so no one else tries to buy anything from there, opening up "normal" payment methods. Basically, when I was in my early 20s I for some reason really wanted to try clove cigarettes, which are illegal here. So I found a website that sold them from India -- they had a front website with other products which is how you actually paid. You sent them an email with a list of whatever you were wanting to buy and they told you the total price. Then you used the retail site and ordered a bunch of random stuff for the amount you needed to pay and that's where you'd put in your address and all that, and because your bank thought you were buying stuffed animals or whatever, nothing got flagged on either end. I know a lot of vendors used to accept Paypal or Alipay or whatever, but because the products are obviously labeled/listed as peptides, they get shut down.
I don't even know if I'm really looking for any solutions, unless someone knows something I don't. I guess I'm mainly just venting lol. I've literally never, in the almost twenty fucking years of having this bank account, had something blocked completely. It'll sometimes flag things as fraud and I'll get an email asking if it was me, but that's it. They've never just said no before, including buying from multiple resellers! It's so frustrating.
I figured fuck it, I'll just buy the BTC directly on Exodus and deal with the fees or whatever, but no. My fucking bank straight up blocked it?? I got an email saying the purchase was denied, but I could "try other options like ACH" and like idk what that even is. My next option is to buy it on Cashapp and try to send it from there, but that means even more fees, and I'm worried I'll run into the same roadblock with my ID. Plus Cashapp charges a 2% fee just for buying the crypto, unlike Robinhood.
I know obviously the solution is to just get my stupid ID renewed but who knows when I'll have time to take care of all that. >_< Part of the issue is I have this weird...stress? pressure? about stocking up while I can, given everything that's going on with peptides in the US at the moment. I might try to talk my girlfriend into setting up a Robinhood account, and just buy/send BTC from there, since she just got her ID updated a couple months ago. Does anyone know if the risk of sending money directly from Robinhood to vendors is legit? Or am I worrying about nothing? Basically, if I can get her to set up an account, it would be a lot easier to have her make the order/purchase and not worry about sending money to her for the crypto, then send that to my Exodus, then to the vendor from there.
Honestly I hate crypto so much. I treat it as a high risk stock, not as actual money at all. I will admit part of it is due to jealousy/regret because a few of my more techy friends in high school got really into Bitcoin specifically and sometimes I get lost in fantasies about if I had invested back in 2010/2011 when they were using it to buy shit on the dark web or whatever lol. It's also frustrating to me how difficult/impossible it is to use anything but crypto if you want to buy directly from China. That's literally the only reason I've stuck with resellers til now. I kind of wonder how hard it would be for a vendor to set up a fake business/website and only give that link to customers so no one else tries to buy anything from there, opening up "normal" payment methods. Basically, when I was in my early 20s I for some reason really wanted to try clove cigarettes, which are illegal here. So I found a website that sold them from India -- they had a front website with other products which is how you actually paid. You sent them an email with a list of whatever you were wanting to buy and they told you the total price. Then you used the retail site and ordered a bunch of random stuff for the amount you needed to pay and that's where you'd put in your address and all that, and because your bank thought you were buying stuffed animals or whatever, nothing got flagged on either end. I know a lot of vendors used to accept Paypal or Alipay or whatever, but because the products are obviously labeled/listed as peptides, they get shut down.
I don't even know if I'm really looking for any solutions, unless someone knows something I don't. I guess I'm mainly just venting lol. I've literally never, in the almost twenty fucking years of having this bank account, had something blocked completely. It'll sometimes flag things as fraud and I'll get an email asking if it was me, but that's it. They've never just said no before, including buying from multiple resellers! It's so frustrating.
