As current member of WOIP would be aware, the site isn't working as well as it has been in the past. The woip news blog was updated on 15th April to reflect their account of events.
Dear customers,
We are glad to announce that DDOS attack is successfully neutralized. Our automatic billing system is under reconstruction at the moment.
Unfortunately, because of the disorders in Liberty Reserve working and also because of our failures caused by the hardest DDOS attack, we temporarily have to conduct all the payments in manual regime. Payments delays and temporary limitation of large amounts to withdraw are possible during next few days.
Please avoid money withdraws during these days.
Thank you for understanding,
WOIP Administration
During this time I also noted that Liberty Reserve were also having major problems.
Also during this time payment times were slow and larger amounts, we aren't sure what they call larger amounts, but I had $100 withdrawal returned to account balance and then requested $50 which was paid but outside the 2 hours timeframe. But at least payment came. So ok, we realize that they were dealing with some major issies behind the scenes. Reading the forums, well of course the red flags are up, and of course commonsense should prevail.
Time has gone on, latest update on the woip news blog was 28th April
Latest news
Dear friends,
We are extremely thankful to our constant customers for their patience and constancy at working with WOIP.
We are successfully dealing with our technical renovations at the moment, and everything will work as usual in the nearest future.
Best regards,
WOIP administration
Seems to me they are upgrading their system and auto payment system. Having this information, well we can read what we like into it. Naturally I would like to think, and do hope this is the case and things will return to normal - well as they were before. The system was handy as a place to put any spare Liberty Reserve and let it build, and if a good program came along, 10 minutes and you had your upgrade. Worked brilliantly.
BUT!! Where do we stand currently? The burning question! I would NOT be putting any deposits in and I am now attempting a couple of small withdrawals a day. Less than $10, as the last few days I have been paid those, but a $20 withdrawal is still pending since yesterday, at time of posting this.
So really I didn't tell you anything that you probably didn't already know. All that we can do is ride this out. Try to withdraw some daily and keep our fingers crossed it all works out. Also remember this has been running for a long long time. I don't know how many members there are, but my number is in the 200,000's and joined 31st October 2008. So we are looking at a huge database of members and it probably is taking time to implement a new working system.
So 2 definate things to do:
1. Be Patient 2. Don't deposit until the situation is resolved.