Wirex: All-In-One Trading App 4+

UPDATE**
they have improved the service greatly and the new card was free for me as i bought the old one previously. the rates to top up from my bank card to ltc are pretty good. i definitely recommend the app now.

When transferring bitcoins to your card balance, they charge a much stronger rate then the current rate. Basically giving you less fiat currency than you are supposed to get. When i transferred money from my card balance to my bitcoin wallet, they charged a much weaker rate - essentially meaning my gbp currency is weak and would need more of them to get the exact same bitcoin balance i started with! Bear in mind i did these two transactions right after each other. For example if the current btc/gbp rate is 5500, they will give you a rate of 5200 when converting from bitcoins to gbp and they will give a rate of 5800 when converting from gbp to bitcoins. This company tried really hard to hide this and when i confronted them with this they just said that the rate is always changing. Please avoid!!! You will lose money!! They literally steal like 5% if your money giving you less £ that you should get. They stole around £30 off me.

Hi SZVW, We're sorry to hear that you have had this experience with us. We would like to assure you that we do not add anything on top of shapeshift's conversion rate. If these rates fluctuate slightly it is through Shapeshift. Please let us know how you're fairing now with our app. We would love to hear an update from you. Thank you.

Once you have money on their platform they will prevent you from transferring out of the Wirex platform they will lock/block your account without notice and it will take you months to sort it out, in the meantime you will be left in the dark with no answers or progress. They even limit how much you can spend per transaction on the card or block transactions when ever they feel like it. You will never know which transaction will be refused so not a reliable card to carry. Even though it was my money, they wanted to know where I was spending it, picked certain transactions and wanted proof of who it was I sent money to.
Your account will get locked without doubt and without notice, then pray you get your money back..... I was one of the lucky ones who got their money. If I could give zero star I would. Oh by the way, the refunds I got on the card never made it back to my account, I lost all that cash.

Update: it took me over 3 months to take £35k off this platform and am happy to say my account is now closed. Just look how long it took them to ask for a ticket number. They put a lot of obstacles in my way to prevent me from getting my money. They did their best to steal my money so if you still have money on this platform, be warned. I have no ticket number because they were closed without resolution multiple times.

Hello there. We are truly sorry for your dissatisfactory experience. Please, provide us with the ticket number so we can assist with refunds. Thank you in advance.

i love my wirex account: the main reason being having “normalised” cryptocurrencies; they removed that dark shadow that would obscure cryptocurrencies making them “those mysterious things, bordering the line between legit and scam that combine everything you never understood about IT with everything you never understood about economics”.
and in the easiest possible way: for the first time showing them for what they actually are... cash that you can literally use for everyday’s shopping!
the genial intuition being “physically” aligning your usual fiat account account to your crypto wallets, giving the chance to instantly exchange, with incredible ease of use, one asset for another at super competitive exchange rate or transfer fees.
to give the customers an even smoother experience, connected to the account, a rechargeable Visa Debit contactless, which allows a wide use of the money you own, returning up to 1.5% cashback of what you spend in physical stores, but in BITCOIN.
this app has made a dramatic change in my lifestyle 🤑

Hi there,

Thank you for your feedback! We appreciate you taking the time to write this review.

Have a lovely day!