I'm glad to say that someone has answered your wish!
http://www.gogreensolar.com/
Bitcoin for Solar panels!
+10 http://www.gogreensolar.com/
Bitcoin for Solar panels!
Topic: [ANN] BitcoinStore.com (Beta) - Electronics super store with over 500K items! - page 10. (Read 75302 times)
January 23, 2013, 10:41:38 AM
January 23, 2013, 10:38:12 AM
Hi,
1- The bitcoin prices I see on bitcoinstore is exactly the price I'll pay? Hope yes.
2- I would like to see on Bitcoinstore the usd value of 1 bitcoin. (the value used by bitcoinstore)
3- I would like to see on site, something like: (the bitcoinstore prices will be refreshed in 5 minutes)
1- The bitcoin prices I see on bitcoinstore is exactly the price I'll pay? Hope yes.
2- I would like to see on Bitcoinstore the usd value of 1 bitcoin. (the value used by bitcoinstore)
3- I would like to see on site, something like: (the bitcoinstore prices will be refreshed in 5 minutes)
January 23, 2013, 10:22:46 AM
Do you guys buy used Cisco equipment for BTC ? and if so.. where about are you located ?
Sure, but it needs to be at least a few thousand dollars worth at a time.
The main office is in Santa Clara California.
January 23, 2013, 10:15:24 AM
Oh, and an I-dare-you-to-add-this product, that I think might have a niche bitcoin market: solar panels.
Promise to buy at least one
Promise to buy at least one
I'm glad to say that someone has answered your wish!
http://www.gogreensolar.com/
Bitcoin for Solar panels!
Holy shit that's awesome. Seems like a pretty legit company too.
January 23, 2013, 09:56:28 AM
Do you guys buy used Cisco equipment for BTC ? and if so.. where about are you located ?
January 23, 2013, 09:52:07 AM
Oh, and an I-dare-you-to-add-this product, that I think might have a niche bitcoin market: solar panels.
Promise to buy at least one
Promise to buy at least one
I'm glad to say that someone has answered your wish!
http://www.gogreensolar.com/
Bitcoin for Solar panels!
January 22, 2013, 02:55:02 PM
A simple technical solution to how to update the price would be for instance to have a cron job running every n minute. For instance, every 3rd minute. Then writing this value to a database or a file. Database would probably be best.
Then, when script executes server side, fetch this number from the database and display it in the web store.
You may also look into fetching BTC price from several sources, at least all the major exchanges, and if no data has been retrieved from any exchange for the last 20 minutes, halt trade, and notify admin. This should not happen often, if at all.
Leading price could be mtGox, but if unavailable and have been unavailable for say n minutes, use the price from the second biggest exchange and so on.
I don't know if you've thought about it, but at the checkout, some people may gamble on the fact that the price of bitcoin may change, for instance they go to chart and have merchandise for 50 BTC in their chart, and they see the price is on a downtrend, so perhaps they put in the order at say 15, and then don't complete it until price has reached 13, perhaps 2 hours later. But I would assume you've thought of this ?
Then, when script executes server side, fetch this number from the database and display it in the web store.
You may also look into fetching BTC price from several sources, at least all the major exchanges, and if no data has been retrieved from any exchange for the last 20 minutes, halt trade, and notify admin. This should not happen often, if at all.
Leading price could be mtGox, but if unavailable and have been unavailable for say n minutes, use the price from the second biggest exchange and so on.
I don't know if you've thought about it, but at the checkout, some people may gamble on the fact that the price of bitcoin may change, for instance they go to chart and have merchandise for 50 BTC in their chart, and they see the price is on a downtrend, so perhaps they put in the order at say 15, and then don't complete it until price has reached 13, perhaps 2 hours later. But I would assume you've thought of this ?
January 22, 2013, 01:56:40 PM
I agree, and understand that this issue needs to be fixed.
It likely will be with the next update to the live website.
At no point is anyone over charged on the current site though.
Here is a screen shot of the checkout from a few minutes ago that clearly shows the correct exchange rate of about $17.40 being charged despite the old exchange rate being displayed on the local website:
Thanks to Bitpay.com for making such a great bitcoin payment module!
It likely will be with the next update to the live website.
At no point is anyone over charged on the current site though.
Here is a screen shot of the checkout from a few minutes ago that clearly shows the correct exchange rate of about $17.40 being charged despite the old exchange rate being displayed on the local website:
Thanks to Bitpay.com for making such a great bitcoin payment module!
January 22, 2013, 01:37:04 PM
The website displayed exchange rate is having trouble updating automatically however the exchange rate at the actual checkout updates every 5 minutes.
If the current exchange rate is $17.44 and it has been that rate for more than 5 minutes, that is the rate you will pay at checkout.
If the current exchange rate is $17.44 and it has been that rate for more than 5 minutes, that is the rate you will pay at checkout.
Sure, but $13.52 was the exchange rate like two week ago.
I don't want to be a dick, I appreciate what your doing here, that's why I brought it up. Cause I'm afraid it looks sketchy and will turn people away (not everyone is going to understand how the price is corrected at checkout).
January 22, 2013, 01:24:11 PM
For now, please check out the Home Appliances section: http://www.bitcoinstore.com/more/home-appliances.html
The BTC/USD conversion rate used is $13.52 while Mt. Gox is at $17.44
Just pointing this out so you can fix it, because it looks dishonest.
*facepalm* No wonder I felt something was amiss here.
The website displayed exchange rate is having trouble updating automatically however the exchange rate at the actual checkout updates every 5 minutes.
If the current exchange rate is $17.44 and it has been that rate for more than 5 minutes, that is the rate you will pay at checkout.
January 22, 2013, 01:04:45 PM
For now, please check out the Home Appliances section: http://www.bitcoinstore.com/more/home-appliances.html
The BTC/USD conversion rate used is $13.52 while Mt. Gox is at $17.44
Just pointing this out so you can fix it, because it looks dishonest.
*facepalm* No wonder I felt something was amiss here.
January 22, 2013, 01:02:38 PM
For now, please check out the Home Appliances section: http://www.bitcoinstore.com/more/home-appliances.html
The BTC/USD conversion rate used is $13.52 while Mt. Gox is at $17.44
Just pointing this out so you can fix it, because it looks dishonest.
January 22, 2013, 12:17:51 PM
MemoryDealers:
I am sure the community is interested in knowing how you are doing. Is the site currently answering to your expectations ?
I will certainly consider using your site the next time it's time to order electronics.
How is it for ordering to countries outside the US, I didn't see any shipping options for this. Do you at the moment ship internationally ? If so, it would be interesting to know what kind of shipment options there are, and the cost of these.
Also, are you shipping from the US, or are you shipping from Asia (China) ?
The site's shipping internationally (and for a quite good price too), and from the USA. (The shipping options are from USPS).I am sure the community is interested in knowing how you are doing. Is the site currently answering to your expectations ?
I will certainly consider using your site the next time it's time to order electronics.
How is it for ordering to countries outside the US, I didn't see any shipping options for this. Do you at the moment ship internationally ? If so, it would be interesting to know what kind of shipment options there are, and the cost of these.
Also, are you shipping from the US, or are you shipping from Asia (China) ?
Try adding stuff to your cart and checking out to see the shipping options.
I'm still going through the product list here....
January 22, 2013, 11:05:29 AM
MemoryDealers:
I am sure the community is interested in knowing how you are doing. Is the site currently answering to your expectations ?
I will certainly consider using your site the next time it's time to order electronics.
How is it for ordering to countries outside the US, I didn't see any shipping options for this. Do you at the moment ship internationally ? If so, it would be interesting to know what kind of shipment options there are, and the cost of these.
Also, are you shipping from the US, or are you shipping from Asia (China) ?
I am sure the community is interested in knowing how you are doing. Is the site currently answering to your expectations ?
I will certainly consider using your site the next time it's time to order electronics.
How is it for ordering to countries outside the US, I didn't see any shipping options for this. Do you at the moment ship internationally ? If so, it would be interesting to know what kind of shipment options there are, and the cost of these.
Also, are you shipping from the US, or are you shipping from Asia (China) ?
January 22, 2013, 08:25:16 AM
Lots of MAJOR updates to the site will be pushed to the live server within the next week or so.
They will make everything on the site much easier to use and navigate.
For now, please check out the Home Appliances section: http://www.bitcoinstore.com/more/home-appliances.html
It is hard to find something that BitcoinStore isn't cheaper than Amazon on in this section.
Thank you to everyone who has already placed an order!
They will make everything on the site much easier to use and navigate.
For now, please check out the Home Appliances section: http://www.bitcoinstore.com/more/home-appliances.html
It is hard to find something that BitcoinStore isn't cheaper than Amazon on in this section.
Thank you to everyone who has already placed an order!
January 22, 2013, 08:16:48 AM
I give the store 5/5 starts from me. I ordered an item 1. 9. 2013 and got it today, shipped here to EU. I got what I ordered and it works as advertised and I'm very happy. 
Yep, that's about the only major flaw I could see with bitcoinstore.com but it didn't really effect because I was willing to spend some extra time and thoroughly search their site for the item I needed.
You really need to give your site's navigation some reworking....
Yep, that's about the only major flaw I could see with bitcoinstore.com but it didn't really effect because I was willing to spend some extra time and thoroughly search their site for the item I needed.
January 20, 2013, 01:30:32 PM
Damn, I never knew you sold Victorinoxes. I just bought one from eBay. 
You really need to give your site's navigation some reworking....
You really need to give your site's navigation some reworking....
January 20, 2013, 11:14:30 AM
Oh, and an I-dare-you-to-add-this product, that I think might have a niche bitcoin market: solar panels.
Promise to buy at least one
+1 Promise to buy at least one
January 19, 2013, 04:05:46 AM
Oh, and an I-dare-you-to-add-this product, that I think might have a niche bitcoin market: solar panels.
Promise to buy at least one
Promise to buy at least one
January 19, 2013, 03:25:22 AM
Wanting to support an Amazon-that-takes-bitcoin, I placed an order with BitcoinStore.com. Here is my capsule review (permalink):
Major criticisms:
Minor criticisms:
Conclusion: Rough around the edges, but good selection and they take bitcoins. Would buy from again... assuming that my current order arrives!
- Order placed successfully. Largely shopped in the "home and appliances" section, as hardware and software generally flow freely to me
- Nice, clean, minimalistic interface. Not as fancy as Amazon.com by a long stretch, but certainly usable and apparently well stocked.
- Bitcoin payment, apparently via BitPay's engine, was successful. A standard bitcoin address was presented on the page, and the reference client sent coins to the address without a problem.
- Did not bother to compare prices with Amazon.com. Main goals were to stimulate the bitcoin economy, reward businesses going a good job representing bitcoin, and provide a real-money review of the store.
Major criticisms:
- I checked out as a guest, not creating an account. It was disappointing that there is no order URL at which I may track my order, e.g. https://orders.bitcoinstore.com/#1099000000 Almost all other online retailers offer this logical, basic feature: watch the status of an order on the retailer's website, even if you did not create an account.
Minor criticisms:
- The store sells 128GB flash drives, but the search string "128gb flash drive" does not return useful results.
- Shipping was simply described as "standard shipping", without additional information about shipping methods. USPS? UPS? FedEx? Who knows?
- Two shipping methods were offered to me: "standard shipping" for free, or "standard shipping" for some amount of money. Seems pointless to offer the same method twice, with two different prices.
- Sending bitcoin payment before clicking "place order" is quite awkward and backwards from standard user expectations, I would think.
- Nevertheless, as instructed, I sent bitcoin payment to the network before I clicked place order. The user interface displayed an error. I waited a few more seconds, then clicked "place order" again. This time, it succeeded.
- Order email, received after placing and paying for the order, simply says "Once your package ships we will send an email with a link to track your order." -- again failing to describe how my order will be shipped
- Order email is 100% USD, with no mention of BTC at all. Payment was in bitcoins, of course (the only payment method available).
Conclusion: Rough around the edges, but good selection and they take bitcoins. Would buy from again... assuming that my current order arrives!
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