Same here, apparently just abit slow on there end. Funds are safe

My payment cleared in approx 90 mins.
2347h @ 28/5/24

Mines just changed to paid and took 4 hours

Same but transax payment page says paid and order says unpaid.

Yeah I got hammered 40% of the order price the other day, but needed my herb so had to pay it sadly, I said 2 years ago Biggie needed to use something like Nexo or Monero, even XRP, BTC is not viable long term here, should have been thought about by the admins a long long time ago.

I been having back and forth with the coinbase help team they keep telling me change the speed of how fast you want to send BTC the slower the cheaper. But there is no option in setting to change that not for the UK coinbase but for the US only. I even said to them I wanna transfer from coinbase wallet back to coinbase main app and then maybe sell and buy another coin like LTC and its still wanting $34 to transfer $27 this BS network fee. Just become a joke. I use Paybis on LB fee are not as bad but around $8+ network fee and about $3/4 other fee depends on how much your spending. But It's a straight forward to use. ( just make sure u add the fee when your sending amount sometime it won't add it and then you will have to pay the fee twice) Good luck

P.s one thing I did notice on occasions the fee went down significantly bit still not justifiable after midnight UK time. But then check in the morning again went higher then the day before. As mad as that sounds try it.

I don’t send from an exchange anymore, I don’t ever us a CEX, no need to, I just run everything through MetaMask or Ledger now, it’s a far easier expierience imo, but slowing down the speed isn’t that much cheaper, can take literally 40 hours, that’s just stressful and panic inducing, the fact is high BTC fees are here to stay imo, so a viable solution needs to be found, XRP sent and received in seconds, might cost a dollar to send, that’s what we need, this just can’t be good for buyers or vendors can it. BTC is a storage of wealth, it’s not a payment processing currency, people need to stop treating it as such.

Peanut I’m feeling you dude

This afternoon I had $147 dollars in my account, placed an order for $130 dollar went to pay, $30 dollar fee for the transfer ! Didn’t want to cancel on the vendor and muck them around so had to buy more bitcoin to cover fees my half oz ended up costing me about 175 dollar
I completely agree with your question WTF 🤬
I love this platform but its pricing me out back to the 11 year old county lines smurfs on their electric scooters and man bags lol

Youre not doing anything wrong, some are paying the fees, im with you i cant pay these fees either, its really unworkable now.

We need a Christmas Miracle!

We want usdt say we want usdt
We want usdt say we want usdt
We want usdt say we want usdt

Hey peanut,

Don’t worry you’re not doing anything wrong, network fees atm are just ridiculous. It’s all based on congestion on the blockchain and the miners will set prices higher during busy times and there’s nothing we can do about this unfortunately (unless an alternative currency was used).

Fees tend to come down in the evening and early hours of the morning (UK time) as less people in america are trying to process their transactions.

It can vary every couple of mins so i’d recommend checking a few times in the evening and after midnight as you’ll hopefully find cheaper fees then.

I had a £45 fee on a $135 order all weekend and this morning i managed to put the order through when the fees were around £14 so i’m sure you’ll find a time when the fees are reasonable for you to order.

Hope this helped and good luck with the offers! 😊

It's Blockchain congestion, most exchanges are charging ridiculous network fees, it's not just Coinbase. Plenty of biggas are waiting for the fees to drop before they buy, I can't justify dropping the price of a Q just to move BTC from one wallet to another.

Ah yeah... just read all the other posts. Seems this is a universal problem and not just me (captain paranoia strikes again!!)...has this happened before cos I have ordered fairly regularily over 2 years and never had this problem...is it likely to resolve or am I going to have to start hanging out in dodgy places with dealers again ?

It will calm down eventually. There have been spikes for the past month or so, and earlier in the year there were congestion problems too.

As others have already noted, alternatives to BTC would make all the difference. It is being worked on as far as I am aware so hopefully there will be other payment options next year. In the meantime all you can do is check the network fees and hope you get lucky.

It doesnt calm down for long. This is the nature of btc. Its a volatile piece of shit and useless for our purposes. Im done with paying these fees and im not buying here til theres a payment alternative

I just used my Revolut account to send $55 and the fee was just $12
Forced into it really cos my coinbase has blocked my Lloyds account and my Revolut.
All sorted in less than 30 mins then :-)

I turned down the speed, to make the network fee more reasonable $10 on a £130 instead of $45. I changed it from 158 to 40, normally my transactions approve in 30 minutes, but its been 8 hours and still not processed. If anyones interested say and I'll update on the
processing time.

40 sats/VB? Mate your gonna be waiting ages. I'm stuck at 118 sat/VB since last night. Might have to buy more coin and see if I can speed up the transaction from exodus wallet. FML BTC is starting to piss me off

I know but I'm not in a rush.
The fees are starting to drop at the moment.
Looks like they are down by 50-60% right now

I'm not sure tbh mate, it might end up coming back to you @ 40 sat/VB. Don't look at the $ amount on mempool, look at the sat/VB amount that is being processed at the moment. Mine finally went through at 6pm yesterday thankfully.

Yeah I think you might be right, the fees rose again today and trending up.
Nice one for getting yours through

UPdate: fees are down to 105 sat on the last block processed this morning, trend is down.

Order finally went through on 4th January at 40 sats. I guess the lesson is to pay more attention to what is going on with the BTC and Exchange, especially at busy times.

My last purchase I paid way too low a fee and even once id accelerated it it took three weeks to confirm. When it did eventually confirm the order went through. Check Mempool. At the moment 40 sats wont even get a sniff as low priority is 200 sats and 153 and above is taking over an hour. Yep. Truly sucks. Sorry you are having this experience

You still waiting aye?

Yes, but the fees are dropping at the moment.
I checked last night and the median was about $35-$40 its currently at $15

Doesn’t really solve the issue though, fees are still high, you spend 12 hours checking every ten minutes shitting your pants that it actually gets there, then causing delays on dispatch in an already in places slow service, ‘RM not vendors’ generally. It’s just becoming a bit of a hassle rather than a godsend it used to be.

It's a new level of shit right now, been waiting for the fees to come down cos I couldn't afford the original $60 but this morning the fee for a cart of $138 was $150 on eco. Not quite the Christmas present I was looking for.

I stocked up a bit before and had ti accept the fees, very very begrudgingly but I’m waiting for a cart that I kind of needed for Xmas day while out away from home and it’s not come, been 13 days, reship sent on Tuesday NDD still not here, that’s the ultimate insult to the fees, I paid the massive fees and still out of my shit, insult to injury, you’re not the only one man, it’s deffo been a massive hassle this year.

This is the exact same situation with me lol

It really is killing it, 30 quid is a joke, was trying to grab something thats been in my cart for about 5 days, im pretty much going without it at this rate, no way i can pay 30 quid just to spend my own money.

I really thought my first Christmas on LB would be legendary, its not going to be.

What are you trying to buy B0W?

Hey Polly, so i have a couple of bits of flower on order from The Spacemen, Q of a nice treat and a half of a better value option, ive been juggling them as long as possible to try figure out which one to pay for and which to cancel, at these prices its cancel both 🤦🏻‍♂️
Im going to try again in the early hours🤞🏻

Had to empty my cart too my man can’t justify spending almost a Q in fees 😕

Its not the way i like to empty my bag!

Ouch!…hope you get sorted and don’t go short over the festive season mate🤞🏼

Thank you, keep those fingers crossed, fees down a little 🤞🏻

Feel you mate local plug for goose this year 😩

Yep, I just bought some shake for £60 and had to pay £30 in network fees (50%!!!). Something needs to be done asap as people will start looking elsewhere. This should've been sorted already tbh the fees aren't going anywhere...

Yeah I am already trying to medicate, already on a very low income... I think I have now been priced out of LB completely. I can barely scrape together the bit that I can as it is, so thats me out I think!!

No way you just paid the £30 fee for shake 🫣

Needed shake, it's a brand new batch and £90 in total for the oz is still somewhat reasonable. Still the network fees are avoidable and unexcusable at this point.

Hi frogman420..I myself did a $90 order this morning.( Not for shake).using Bittylicious
Cost was £73.48. With fees jumped up to £93.67
So £20 is quite a jump. Considering normally pay £5 fees at the most..crazy atm 🥴🥴😕

Yes it needs sorting im done with this site until it changes its so frustrating, everyone is losing money left right and center, enough is enough just before christmas to. No one buying anything for a month or two, they will change the then.

Hey Guys,
So yeah I agree the fees are getting ridiculous and I about had a stroke when I had to add currency twice just to pay the fees. So i started using a wallet that tells you the fees upfront which is still crap but at least i know the damage before hand.

I don't mind paying some fees and mine only ended up being $20 thereabouts. A month or two ago I think for the same amount it was only $10 so yeah LB needs to allow us the use of less popular crypto before everyone rages and destroys things...well ok maybe that was just me lol

Merry Xmas guys and hopefully we got some kind of resolution!

I'm running low on the CI 🦄 piss. Don't want to pay that many fees but not many other options open to me.

Had to stock up on Unicorn 🦄 Piss myself!🔥🤩

The more festive Reindeer Piss still a pipedream eh? 🦌

😂🎅😂

Wow was £15 most of last week - now looks like £30 is the new ‘fee’ - that is fucking ludicrous. Cancelled all my Christmas orders. Looks like I’m going old school scoring this year 😡😡😡

Yeah it’s really shitty. Wanted to get an order in for a couple ounces total but spilt over 4 vendors. No way I’m laying out 120 in fees. I’ll use cityofcanna in the meantime.

Can ask what City of canna is my dude?

Alternative site. Normally very expensive compared to LB but as you can pay in ££ doesn’t seem so bad when crypto is crippling 😖

Yeah. Wasn’t sure if it was ok to mention here. It is a little pricey and I tend to stick with LB but with these fees it’s meh at the moment. Going to bite the bullet with some hash today from here though… Will just have to get a decent chunk to make it seem worthwhile 😂

Thank you my friend!! I have always wondered, what I would do if LB went down... I don't really have a local plug!! I am a 41year old disabled woman, stuck at home. I don't even go to the pub... you know, so I can ask dogdy Dennis, who's always half baked and sits in the corner by the loos!! 🤣😂

You don’t need to do 4 separate transactions . Just Put everything in the same cart and When you go to pay for the cart It will give you one total to pay and the site will redirect the funds to the appropriate vendors ….
It’s still £30 at the mo but for a bulk order it’s easier to swallow

Is it!? I didn’t know this. Thank you. You’re sure? 😂👌🏻

I'm trying to order at the moment but there's no way I'm paying £30 in fees.

fees are killer mate. The site really needs an alternative coin quick!!

Can anyone explain to me WTF is going on? The fees are insane right now.

Traffic on the blockchain due to volatility- miners set their own fees and we are hostage to it….

Great if XRP or XLM can be used

Yeah i agree, it’s honestly ridiculous, i was trying to make a purchase of $135 over the weekend and had a £45 network fee 😫🤯

Luckily this morning it had calmed down a bit and i paid £14 network fee, but still having to wait and check network fees every 10 until they calmed down was not very fun and there needs to be a better alternative for when the fees are fucked like this.

Getting annoying now as today (18th) is probs about the last day to order if you want it definitely guaranteed before xmas, although I haven't noticed my post slowing down yet tbh.

The fees had been going down since last night, where half as much this morning as yesterday thought holding out a little longer would see them come down some more but nope ofcourse not they've gone right back up even higher! If you catch any sort of break biggas just take it while you can!

Good luck everyone <3

Try in the early hours when the Americans are asleep it will be better.

Glad im not the only one outraged. Grabbed half blue cheese half shake and a vape and had to pay 30 in network fees which is beyond a joke. Came to 38 in total with coinbase fees buying coins/ sending.

Paid the same in nov but was only buying shake so could allow it but it’s ridiculous. Won’t use LB again till it’s lowered and I suggest ppl boycott. Only grabbed off here as im out in the sticks and cars in the garage. Won’t be back till it’s sorted. What a shame..LB was a lifesaver in lockdown

Its not really LB's fault, its a problem with bitcoin.
I use electrum to send BTC - this gives quite a bit of flexibility on how to pay the fee - you get 3 options and a slider.
I paid about £9 today on £200 which cleareed in about 30 mins.
I could have paid about £30 if I had chosen one of the other methods.
Also pays to look at the mempool which tells you the current rates:
https://mempool.space/

this is definitely not LB fault, the fault is with the Bitcoin network itself.

Are they relatively easy to use? I still use coinbase smh

I use coinbase to buy
I then transfer to my electrum 'wallet' on my PC.
I then send from electrum.
Generally not a good idea to pay LB direct from coinbase.

Thanks for letting me know that! Is this because of it being more traceable? Also electrum fees I assume are like everyone elses rn?

The next btc halving is this coming April, i bet that fucks it up even more. We need another coin. im a conspircist. i blame THEM

Yeah man idk wtf I'm going to do, I don't have irl dealers anymore.
Maybe it's time to hit TOR sites...

Just came here to say the same . I couldn’t believe my eyes this morning.
Like most people I accept there will be a handling fee for using the service and I thought £15 was more than enough for that but £30 today is just taking liberties . As with so many things greed has taken something useful and made it unworkable . Bitcoin needs kicking into touch by this site .

Has any one tried revolut, really simple to add and send to bct address, I ordered £200 of stuff and only charged me £8 fee in total

Was this today? 18/12/23?

I ordered today mate was charged £29.19 for network fees

I ordered last Thursday

i use revolut and the ability to use the QR code is useful , fees can be OK but they seem to vary however like you I think its very simple , just remember to delete the wallet number that you have transferred to once the order is sorted or you could potentialy send to it again in error.

If you pay 9.99 a month for the revolut plus, you got loads of benefits, including cheap crypto fees, the most I’ve probably paid is £10, that’s buying and sending included

I’m getting changed £100 to send £700 to my Trading account to cash out…. Normally £2 / £3, hopefully it gets sorted sooner than later

I ordered about 4:30 this morning to get the fees down a bit and got roughly £100 order for £23 fees. Still extortionate but a little better than yesterday where it was up to £62 in fees for the same order. It is getting silly now. Good luck everyone.

I made a $480 purchase the other day. My fees were $8.70 . That was with the rabbit speed. Turtle was about $6.80 and lightning was around $24 .

I stupidly didnt know what was going on with the network fees I have now had $200 dollars stuck on the blockchain for over 5 days now.