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by RandomTisk 1246 days ago
I'm done with Coinbase too. I first started using it in 2017 or so, things went smoothly until I sold some crypto and tried to cash it out. Transaction was stuck in pending with no way to contact anyone or fix it. I finally got a resolution through some Coinbase employee's social media account.

Then I mostly purchased and sent very little of my crypto out of coinbase, using them as my wallet. Over a five year period I spent (sent out of Coinbase) maybe $500 or so of completely legal purchases around the web.

Last year I wanted to send my crypto to my own private wallet and they wouldn't let me (account restricted, no explanation). They claimed my account wasn't verified, when it was. By then they had chat support, but chat support couldn't help me, they just told me to verify my account again and again and again in some kind of loop of insanity.

Thankfully they let me sell the crypto and transfer the USD back to my bank account and leave that awful platform forever.