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The Great Robocoin Rip-off

Posted by Soulskill on from the expectation-versus-reality dept.

FhnuZoag writes: Last year, Andrew Wilkinson, founder of MetaLab, bought a Robocoin Bitcoin ATM, figuring it would be a fun little side project and a good way to help move Bitcoin forward. It did not quite turn out that way. He has now written a timeline of the 10-month, $25,000(CAD) struggle. In short: there was a massive shipping delay, a $2,000 charge to clear customs, no knowledge base, unhelpful support, and the ATM itself flat out didn't work.

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  1. Re:Serveds him right for being a hipster twat by c · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I think a general rule of thumb is that once you hit 5 digits of price, a test drive is never too much to ask.

    That's really just a subset of an even more general rule of thumb, "a fool and his money are soon parted".

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