This warning probably should have been more apparent on Dread weeks ago, although I wasn't here to handle it. This post will stay as a site-wide announcement, until issues are reasonably solved.

As of right now, Bohemia is still experiencing some serious issues with their Withdrawals, while the rest of the site remains functional, which means of course, money is going in and not all of it is making it back out.

Now, usually this is a sign of an exit scam and that becomes clear pretty quickly, but with how long this has been going on and with a lot of reports of large amounts of money making it back to vendors, it could go either way.

I think it is justified right now to put out this warning, so at the very least users are wary of it, but I do believe Bohemia is attempting to rectify everything.

Across Dread you can find many posts regarding missing or failed withdrawals from the market, but there is seemingly just as many posts stating they were able to retrieve their funds, it would be great if users could leave a comment below with their own experience so we can see the scope of the problems at hand.

The other worries I've had here is that there have been multiple reports from vendors that their accounts were locked out of the market and yet still continuing to take orders. One of these was explained by /u/BohemiaNorth earlier today as being due to the vendor's pgp key expiring, I haven't confirmed whether that is true and its not the only report I've had of this happening.

I can't personally call this an exit scam at this point in time, but the worries equate to similar situations in the past where a market has exited, so there are obvious reasons why someone would believe that to be the case.

My own theory as to what has happened here, based on info I've received and the issues that we are seeing, is that there is a chance that the market's wallet was drained at some point due to a bug or similar. It would explain the withdrawal issues and means that the market is processing withdrawals as and when deposits are made to try and recover over time. While this isn't great, if that is the case, then they could and probably would have ran with whatever they could by now, however, as I said, it seems they are trying to make good and continue the market. Bare in mind, this is my own speculation too.

I have tried to reach the Admin, who is usually very responsive with me and have yet to hear anything, although BohemiaNorth passed on the message. I will update this post if and when he does, or with any new info.