They've helpfully put a box in section 1 so you can write 'shitloads of weed' in it, then for 2 it's either other private individual or local trader, I feel? Apparently this happens occasionally, so you can ignore it. That's a lot of roach material that they've given you.

Just a random survey used to help improve service

Hi Folks.
When my last delivery arrived it was inside a transparent plastic cover with this inside it. (Please see my preceding post with an image of the other side on it) Obviously I didn't respond but it's made me paranoid. Has anyone else received something like this and is it something to be concerned about? Cheers

It's nothing to worry about mate, just a random survey. Other people have had them before on here and it's never been a problem. Just bin it and enjoy your delivery 😉

Thanks Diesel2Rider, that puts my mind at ease👍😀

Hi Folks.
When my last delivery arrived it was inside a transparent plastic cover with this inside it. (Please see my following post with the other side on it) Obviously I didn't respond but it's made me paranoid. Has anyone else received something like this and is it something to be concerned about? Cheers

Disputing the order will focus their minds

Thanks for your reply. What happens when I dispute an order? Cheers

I believe it notifies Transaxe and the vendor that a dispute has been raised.
If it’s resolved to your satisfaction by the vendor (cos they don’t want a dispute against their name) you simply close the dispute and everyone’s happy.
If the vendor doesn’t respond then Transaxe will make a decision based on circumstances, vendor rep and buyer rep. If all goes well, you’ll be refunded in full.
Don’t let the dispute window close - even if pressured by the vendor, unless it’s resolved to your satisfaction. If you let it close you’ll have no comeback and you’ll have lost the coin. Some, less reputable vendors will attempt to delay you raising a dispute.
No harm in disputing. Keeps us all safe. Good luck. 🤞

I agree the green team are smashing it just now💥 service and there stealth is amazing
Brilliant service ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

They have you 7g of flower for free for 10 orders ???? Or have I read that wrong ha

I used them for my first ever nervy paranoid order with a little 3.5 thinking I’d get sent to jail 😂😂 was good and they where friendly and enough despite my constant pestering

apologies for the delay responding.
Yes, after 10 buys of 7g from The Green Team, they will give you a regular buyer bonus of whatever you've regularly bought.
I usually buy 7g of weed (various strains), so after 10 buys they will send you a next day delivery of your habitual weight. It's brilliant, 2nd time I've received the reward .
check out their page, there are full details if you scroll down to Regular Buyer Bonus, you'll read full details. Well worth it as (for me at least) they have everything I would ever want. good luck, cheers

Also had skittlez! Absolutely gorgeous smoke! Try their gummies too mate theyre amazing!

yes BlueBelle, I am tempted by their gummies, I reckon I'd just end up high all the time (nothing wrong with that!). cheers

Yes, Zkittles is amazing!! enjoying it daily!

Yeah, I can confirm it's all good. I've placed a few orders since the switchover, with some of my usual vendors as well as one I hadn't used before.

All received as expected so there's no change on that side of things, just a different web domain for whatever reason.

Yes it's Legit, I've placed orders and received them like normal

Yeah it’s all good.. think they just switched from .org to .com

Last week fees were up past £30 and I just keep watching and watching and eventually it dropped down to £2. That was at 6pm on a Saturday. It's almost like the fee goes up for a while then resets. Can't confirm that, just a theory. Buy in bulk other option

thanks for your reply Khuunntt, will keep an eye on fees over the weekend. Only way I can know the fees is to go thru the whole buy process without completing the order, is there another way to watch fees without going thru the process?

On Cpay you can view the fees before you buy using the desktop version, don't know if it's the same for Bitpanda. Fees are just ridiculous at the moment, we need a different payment option!

From a fellow Bigga

https://www.bitpanda.com/en/limits#transactioncosts

thanks for the link.
I have my Bitpanda send page open without completing order and am seeing fees going up every few minutes! when I looked at 11.30 this morning fee to send BTC was £17.39, now 2 hours later fee is £17.62!. Just can't justify buying with those fees, just gonna keep checking and see if I get better fee later

If you can wait till the weekend it goes down, yesterday (14-03-21) it was £ 2.57 to send.

Good Luck

Thanks for your reply Milfhunter ,
It's definitely worth waiting until the weekend then, I did read here that sunday afternoons are good for lower fees. My challenge is to make my emergency stash last until then (allowing for delivery time), will be rationing myself!, last time I checked fee today was just under £18, just can't pay that!
planning a 7g buy to compensate for the fees, usually go for a 3.5g buy
cheers

thanks everyone for your responses, massive help!.
If I am understanding correctly then this is not a problem specific to Bitpanda but is because of the price of BTC causing exorbitant fees?
What I am still unclear about is why I am getting the 'wallet balance is too low' message before I input any amount to send at all. Is this message because my total BTC balance is too low (0.00128657 BTC -£44.50 atm) or is there a minimum amount threshold to send BTC and my send amount does not meet it? trying to pay around 0.0011 approx but never reach the stage to input the amount?
If the solution is just to buy another £25 worth of BTC then at least my options are clear and I can choose to buy but if I do that only to find that the reason is something different then I am in a worse situation and without my (eagerly awaited!) purchase.
I guess if the reason is just market volatility then there may be no point in contacting Bitpanda again (still no reply to my first contact last month).
Is it best to sit and wait a bit for BTC value to drop (if at all) or just bite the bullet, buy more BTC to make a purchase and swallow the high fees and total cost?
Any thoughts would be really useful to help me understand what's going on and get a good result. Cheers (sent 06/03/21)

I am having the same problems with Bitpanda at the moment. It is saying the balance is too low because there is a minimum spend of .0015, which is really expensive at the moment with the price of bitcoin. This is the minimum spend so you will need this amount in your account and you will need to spend at least that amount.
I have that in my account but the things I want to buy off here are not as expensive as .0015, its really annoying.

That explains my problem! Thanks for the info.
I have just over 0.0012 BTC in my wallet. I will have to top up £25 worth of BTC. The actual difference between my balance and the minimum balance/send amount is 0.0003 BTC (around £10ish). The item I am after is around 0.0012 so I may have to do what you did Smarty1 and just pay the vendor a bit extra to make up the amount to the minimum required. Could see it as a tip to vendor and to be fair they have been great generally so deserve it anyhow.
Only other option would be to buy larger amount but then total spend starts to get unaffordable. Also I had the experience of a delivery not arriving a few months ago, would be gutted to lose an larger order thru the post.
Probably go for the Smarty1 idea and pay vendor the extra 0.0003 BTC.
BTW Smarty1, where did you find out the minimum account balance/spend amount? I can only see min. withdrawal amount in BP info, does that count as a min SEND amount or should I be looking somewhere else?
Cheers,

Yeah its a bit annoying but if its a good vendor I don't mind. I was thinking it might change soon with the price of bitcoin increasing.

There isn't a minimum spend I can see in the T&Cs which is annoying and its only recently happening to me. Its when I am sending over bitcoin and and I type in anything under .0015, it says just below the box you are typing in that the minimum transaction is .0015.
Try setting it up as a test payment (without sending anything) and look just below the box.

I hope this helps.

If you want to check a fee pretend to go through with sending, pick your address (even tough your not sending) it will bring you to the next page where you can see the fee for sending at that time. I went to buy last week and had the same problem but to avoid it I had to send an extra 5 quid to the vendor as the transaction didnt meet minimum transaction amount. It should also tell you the minimum amount possible to send at that time. The more stable bitcoin is the better the fee will be if it is volatile the fee will also be volitile. Early hours of the morning seem best as less transactions are taking place at that time.

thanks for you reply.I think I tried your suggestion but I get the WALLET BALANCE TOO LOW alert before even inputting the amount to send.
Do you reckon that my BTC balance (0.00128657 BTC) is therefore too low to make any purchase and pay fees? looking to buy item total of 0.0012 but obviously send fees would be on top of that.
You mention a minimum transaction amount but I was unaware that there is one, is that stated on the Bitpanda website? I can only find minimum withdrawal amount, is that the same thing?
If the fees are very high atm then I can understand that my balance may not cover fees plus a minimum (£25?) send amount. Am I getting it right?
cheers buddy

Hi, the minimum you can send on bitpanda is 0.0015, not sure if this has already been suggested?

Yes I think there is a minimum amount you would need to send to complete the transaction. When mine failed it said the transaction was too low. So it then gave the minimum amount I would have to send if I wanted to send the money. I had to pay the vendor an additional 4 quid to bring it to minimum required to send.

thanks for your quick reply, my problem is that I don't even get to the stage of inputting an amount to send, the 'balance too low' message displays at the stage just before the level you describe so it must be for another reason unrelated to the amount I want to send.
I have seen the ' transaction amount too low' message you mention on previous buys and I solved the issue by topping up my BTC.
I can only guess that if fees are so high atm then they would eat up a big chunk of my BTC balance which would then fall below the minimum send amount thus triggering the 'balance too low' message before Bitpanda knows the amount I wish to send. In this case I guess the solution would be to top up my BTC balance, does that make sense?
many thanks

The fee right now is €2.50 and that is a really low fee man so you wont get better than that. I understand what your saying dude. Sounds like a fucking pain in the head.

Thanks for the heads up on current fees.Just tried a purchase, still getting balance too low message. Looks like the only option I have is to buy another £25 of BTC and see what happens. I'd be gutted if I get the same message and can't complete purchase but don't know what other option I have.
at this time my Balance is 0.00128657 BTC, the item I tried to buy is 0.001 BTC inc postage.Do you think the reason for the 'balance too low message' would be just due to fees? cheers

Bitpanda fee at £2 at 18:00

6/3/21

With Bitpanda the transaction fee doesn't depend on how much you're sending. It is based on how much activity there is on the whole bitcoin network at the time. I think the problem you're having is that the amount in your bitcoin wallet isn't enough to cover the £25 minimum plus whatever the transaction fee is right now. same problem for me… I currently have about £55 worth of BTC and I'm getting the same message as you, suggesting the transaction fee is above £30 currently.

So I'm waiting a week til payday and buying bulk. 6/3/21

yeah that makes sense to wait and also to buy in bulk.
My reserve stash is getting worryingly low but struggling with the thought of paying £30 fees for a £45 buy. I am having to accept that in current conditions it is too costly to buy a small order, don't want to get 7g or more in one go but it is actually the most sensible option economically. Either that or be more Zen about it and accept that I will run out and just wait for better conditions (sounds horrific to me !!). If I do that the one advantage of a break is the massive hit I'll get when I do have a puff after!

Had this problem the other day trying to order edibles. They had a minimum withdrawal amount of £45 worth of BTC.

Hope you get it sorted Brother.

hi Dopedad, thanks for your response,
can I ask, when you say 'they had a minimum withdrawal amount of £45 worth of BTC.' was it with Bitpanda and if so is that a general rule of theirs (that I missed before)? If that is the case then just topping up might be my solution,
cheers mate. (sent 06/03/21)

Yeah it was bitpanda brother. They seem to make it up as they go along.

Got myself an electrum wallet and send my monthly weed budget to that at the start of the month. And you get to set your own fees.

I get two different errors at the moment: the first related to min purchase which currently fluctuates around .001btc any order has to be more than that and then the total cost has to include .0003 or so in fees so you need enough to cover both and be over the minimum in your wallet so you might need .002 in the wallet to buy .001? There could be other mojo at work

Same for me. There’s no real idea of the fee until the transaction. Last one I did was a lot higher for fees than before. In fairness it does warn you of any possible shortfall when fees are taken into account but I’d agree entirely that you don’t know what the fee will be. Three or four transactions have been very low fees but I’ve had to ‘top-up’ by £25 at least twice which is a bloody nuisance. It’s all a bit of a mystery!

Bulk buying from now on I guess

I’ve just signed up with Coinbase saved at least £15 in fees compared to the site I was useing before on a $120 order very happy and sign up was very quick and easy

does the sign up process for Coinbase require the passport ID registration etc and the video confirmation like on BITPANDA?
many thanks

Ye I had to send a pic of passport no video confirmation and I was verified within 2 hours and honestly can’t believe how much cheaper it is defo recommend :)

coinbase sounds easy to register with and seems like a good option, what I would like to do is set up a coinbase account, send my BTC from Bitpanda to a coinbase wallet and make a purchase paying the vendor from my coinbase wallet. I'm quite new on crypto so not sure if this is possible. will look into it. thanks

I would never ever recommend using Coinbase to buy your BTC, it’s by far and away one of the most expensive for fees etc, avoid like the plague. Not sure how it compares to Bitpanda as never used it but Coinbase is not cheap at all.

thanks TK42 for your advice. I guess for the moment I'm stuck with Bitpanda at least until I've made a purchase unless there's a way to set up a wallet hosted somewhere else, move my BTC there and buy from there. Not sure if doing so would save me any money this time round and sounds like a hassle.
Once I've ordered my item I'll come back here to get advice on using a different exchange.
Changing exchange may not reduce fees, not sure and don't know enough atm to know exactly what to do.
thanks everyone

Ye I think you should be able to do that. Crypto is a mind fuck been at it over a year n still don’t completely get it lol. Good luck

Hi again folks,
sorry to keep banging on about the same thing, really appreciate all the help and suggestions so far,
I currently have 0.00128657 BTC in my BTC wallet in Bitpanda. trying to make a purchase here that totals 0.0012 BTC. Keep getting the 'wallet balance too low' before even inputting amount.
Feeling frustrated at not being able to make purchase, is the best course of action to simply buy another £25 worth of BTC?
If I understand correctly is this message from Bitpanda due to very high fees that would eat up the majority of my BTC wallet balance taking me below a minimum send amount?
Have found it hard to understand info on Bitpanda site regarding minimum withdrawal, is this the same as minimum send amount (which is not quoted on info page)
Just don't want to buy more BTC to find that the problem is unrelated to my balance.
sorry to repeat my questions just trying to understand the best course of action. many thanks

Current minimum bitpanda transaction is 0.0015 btc so you'll need to order $75 of product. On the plus side fees were only £2 (12 pm 8/3)

Ye I’d top up abit more. I think the 0.0012 won’t include bipandas sending fees probably you don’t quite have enough

thanks for your advice, I think that's the only option I have. as you say bevbevan1, my account probably is just a few pounds short to cover a purchase plus fees and meet the minimum send amount, didn't really want to buy the BTC right now but I know I would change my mind if I run out, wish I could be chilled enough to just run out and not stress about it but the closer I get to running dry the less I worry about spending the money, not good I know but it seems to keep me on an even keel! I smoke so little (about 3.5g every 6 weeks or so) so feel ok about it, works out about £1/day as I calculated it, that's how I justify it to myself anyhow!
cheers everyone

The fee just went down to £2. But now there's seems to be a higher minimum transaction amount?!

I think you’re spot-on about volatility, there’s no knowing what it will be and the £25 is a nuisance. Wildly fluctuating fees for me - between 0.0002 up to 0.0008, financial Russian roulette.

Fees seem crazy high right now. Any know what they sending fee is on bit panda at the moment?

the easiest way would be to poke their eyes out with forks, then they wont be exposed to anything bad on the internet.

problem fixed

Urm mines now 20 but a couple of observations

1, that’s one rich kid to be able to afford little biggy rates maybe if your kids got access to that kind if cash maybe start there.

2, my boy had about 5 dealers in his school class. County lines is rife you’ve got 12 year olds with black bags full of weed and much much worse - much more if an issue imo one of them got robbed and the little bastards raped him, a 15 year old and they videoed it and distributed it. I bet his parents wished he was on little biggy

3, again loads of fake prescription drugs online which the kids go mad for, fake vallium and adderal which are actually killing people

I get what your saying and yes I’m a parent and certainly won’t be encouraging weed use but on the list of things as a parent I worry about, this is pretty low on my list. Also I agree with nick In the respect that most 14 year olds are more tech savvy than us oldies and will laugh at our controls while bypassing them.

Holy crap - then why ISN'T your son on little biggy?

Weed won't harm anyone in my humble opinion, but hanging about with and being near gangs of wee scumbags? That'll sure do it

Please if what you say is true I'd be making sure I sorted my son myself. These county lines fuckers are bad news

So this is how we stop children. Now how do we stop the childish adults? 😂

We are not to be stopped. I explained to my wife that out of all of her children the only one never to grow up will be me 😉

I take offence at that 😝

It’s only weed…..

Would you let your kid smoke weed lmao? their brains aren't even fully developed..

You cant stop kids doing what they want if they are determined, personally id tell them to be careful as definetely not good for young brains...i believe their was less psychosis back in the day due to lower levels of THC

Yep. True. You can’t stop a determined kid. All you can do is try foster a relationship of trust. Talk to them about drugs.
I’d rather my kid has knowledge and safe access to clean drugs like weed and psychedelics (that’s all I do)
I’d much rather my kid did that than alcohol, which can be bought at any off license.

You likely had 0% influence on his decision to start weed and yeah now you are in an uncanny valley between understanding and enabling. Good luck bigga at the end of the day you can only go with your heart when you get here.

Weed is turning into the most innocent option for kids these days. Watch out for prescription pain killers, they are the gateway to a path that kills.

No I wouldn’t but this topic is about building tech barriers and “lines of defence” that I wouldn’t do either.

Out of interest: What age did you have your first spliff?

12 and there was no Internet

I was 13 but then weed was 4-6% THC. We are to blame for our kids getting into problems with ultra strong weed because we keep demanding it! 🤷‍♂️

Here here..
We had to go on a mission for our bag😁

I was 13 but like you said, weed was really weak in comparison back then!

Weed is isn’t great really is it?most ppl I know has turned them weird,it makes me into an arse the day after I’ve smoked it,I shouldn’t smoke it really I smoke a tiny bit every 2 weeks and it still has a negative effect on me,and it’s fucking addictive,like I’m thinking about it all of the time,I like it when I’m stoned but too many negatives for me.
Just probably not for me.
For under 18s definitely a no no.

I only dabble a little. I don’t like getting super stoned. Not a fan of couch lock or paranoia
Only a one hit or a few puffs of vape every now and then. I also prefer sativa, more of a social vibe for me. Puff puff chat chat.

It’s not for everybody. But then, what is?

Protect your cash from them little weed monsters

Whole site behind login and disable robots.txt so search engines can’t crawl. 2 quick and simple fixes to make this site much more secure and keep it under the radar! I’d happily help myself if the owners needed developers

I’m shit with remembering links, if I couldn’t google, I’d never find the site again.
No visible content without login is a good idea. Bit how do you stop a kid from registering? Can’t be anonymous and verify at the same time

thanks

Written by someone without teenage kids!

Wrong ;)

On wifi a teenager is as easily blocked as anyone if you control your router and don't share the password, just block the site in question and you are done.

Most of us hold the purse-strings on our kids mobile subscriptions, credit card use, and control the mailbox keys in their house. Any help with this stuff just ask.

If they can get through all of that you have something functionally equivalent to an adult on your hands.

We've gone beyond security now and the remaining options are surveillance and parenting. I'll leave this dirty work to you all :)

As I say,you don't have teenage offspring,do you? My 13 year old daughter can go through a Parental control faster than I can set them and yes, when it comes to tech,teenagers are little adults and have a far better understanding of tech than older age groups.

I sure do home slice, I'm not sure what you mean by parental controls but that's not what you should rely on.

Strong passwords and keys are not breakable by teenagers. Outside of Hogwarts that is.

the best way to reach a teenager is to message them in class

We'll see

You can use a mix of 3 browsers to get around parental controls put direct onto phones/laptops. Your best setting restrictions via the router with the IP log in

A VPN is an easy way around any router blocked sites. Most teenagers could figure that out in my opinion.

lol

It’s just that’s it’s illegal makes the whole thing seedy and shady, it’s absolute nonsense, ridiculously making it legal would actually make it harder for minors to get, but the powers that be are morons as we know. Unfortunately weed is the last thing you should be worried about in this modern world, as many have said ylu simply cannot stop them, but I also don’t think turning a blind eye is also right, kind of a don’t take the piss attitude is the one to take, only one I feel that works.

You can use a service such a nextDNS which is a DNS service that you can control and as such limit what sites any device hitting the DNS server can access.
I run it on my router at home and have two profiles one for adults and one for kids.
You can aslo set the DNS server on their mobile phone so they cant access this stuff even when at a mates house or on 4G.
Its not fool proof but its a good layer of defence.
Of course it doesnt help if their Mum is derranged and insists they have two mobile phones

Source https://xkcd.com/936/

There are easier ways to create a complex password than we have been "taught"

Even the chap who created the rules on modern passwords is sorry

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-man-who-wrote-those-password-rules-has-a-new-tip-n3v-r-m1-d-1502124118

Anyhow have fun all ☺️

Wouldn't the second option in this cartoon be pretty vulnerable to a dictionary attack?

I'm not clever enough to review the maths involved

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/6095/xkcd-936-short-complex-password-or-long-dictionary-passphrase/6096#6096

This poster seems to know their onions though 👍

TLDR seems the comic is right

bigg up

How many people use more than 10 characters ever?
Even though anything less is basically useless….so most passwords even using the full combo are pretty useless? 😵‍💫🤓

My standard passwords are 11 characters. Websites that don't require good security, I use passwords that are 10 characters. Websites where security is more important (banks for example) I use 13 characters. Every password on every website is unique. And I don't use a password manager where a hacker would only need to crack one password to crack all of my passwords, instead I have a method of choosing and remembering the password for each website I visit. Any new website I visit I know what the password would be for that website if I signed up. All I have to remember is the METHOD of producing the password, not the actual passwords.

What is your method of generating and remembering passwords without a password manager?

Well, for obvious reasons I'm not going to answer that. But there are various ways that you can generate password algorithms.

e.g.

Take every other character from the URL: For littlebiggy.org you might get iteig.

Next count the number of vowels in the URL and add to the end: for littlebiggy.org, ignoring the TLD, I count 3. Add that to the end:

iteig3

Add some standard text that you add to all passwords, e.g. verysecure.

iteig3verysecure

Add a symbol on the end. For an odd number of vowels add &, for an even number add *

iteig3verysecure&

Not a terrible password (although "verysecure" perhaps isn't an ideal phrase to include).

Or another method might be to take the first 2 and the last 2 characters of the domain, ignoring the tld:

ligy

Repeat it

ligyligy

Count the position of the first vowel (2) and add to the end:

ligyligy2

Double the number and add to the end again

ligyligy24

Add a space and then add the domain name's TLD (org) in caps:

ligyligy24 ORG

Again, not a terrible password.

The point is that you come up with your own method for generating the passwords and apply it as appropriate.

The only downsides to this approach are:

1. You have to ensure you create an algorithm that consistently generates strong passwords, so a little testing is a good idea.

2. And the other issue is that many websites insist on enforcing their own stupid rules that limit the password you can choose. I've seen sites that refuse certain kinds of punctuation, but accept others. Some sites won't accept long passwords, where others won't accept passwords that are shorter than 12 characters. A lot of sites won't accept ANY punctuation, which is just plain crazy.

The worst of all, though, is when a website EMAILS your password to you after you've set it. It suggests they're storing your password in plaintext in their database. Horribly horribly insecure.

password padding with numbers and symbols either side of a memorable phrase. ie ££££££BuggerIt88888