Select OTC merchants— the one step you absolutely shouldn’t skip is clicking into their homepage to check the data and the process. Some people think that if a platform has a “strictly selected” label, it’s basically safeguarding you. And if ads are placed near the top, that’s even more of a “double insurance.” But this mindset mixes the platform and the merchant into one layer. The platform handles onboarding and review eligibility; it’s responsible for whether the merchant qualifies to enter. However, for each order, the person paying you is the merchant themselves—not the platform. An ad rank that’s higher only shows that they have stronger bidding or weight; it can’t prove they’re currently online, consistently closing deals, or that the process will run without issues today.

To judge whether a merchant is someone you should deal with, I never look at ad placements. I only look at three things they show on their homepage: whether their online days are continuous and stable, whether recent transactions have consistent volume or wildly fluctuate, and whether their withdrawal/deposit process is clearly and explicitly written inside the platform and includes platform protection. If any of these three points don’t pass, even if their quote is only off by one cent, don’t touch them.

Big platforms are only the first filter—they eliminate the worst ones, but they don’t mean the remaining ones are all safe for you to blindly transfer money. Treating the platform as the final answer is equivalent to handing over your “life gate” to a stranger who hasn’t even checked the homepage.

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