Topic: ***Bitcoincommodities.com NOW ACCEPTING BCH*** (Read 15985 times)

pushing this on top, had a downtime yesterday due to a cron job repeatedly backing up the whole drive... unto itself. sorry for that. back online now, happy cashing out!

Update: with BitPay now accepting BCH as payment, well, so do we.
Enjoy!

I do, to the tune of millions of euro each year.

I am really sorry that of all the messages and emails it had to be YOUR messages that were lost in the ether or caught in Google's spamfilter or God-knows-what.

To all others: The website is running, and all orders and requests are processed as quickly as possible.

Thanks for stopping by!

If you have internet "in your shop" then why don't you answer or process your clients requests?

Like I dont have internet "in my shop".


Well, good for them I guess.
Take care!

Don't talk trash. My requests which I wrote to your e-mail and web interface have never been answered. The fact that you answer here but not in your shop makes the whole situation not less suspicious.

I don't work for any other gold shop. But as your reliablilty is questionable and you are asking for it... I finally bought at Bitgild.com and am very statisfied.

I do respond to all mails sent to my email address.
What "other" gold shop do you work for?


Thanks for the thread bump, though.

Take care!

Nobody is responding on [email protected] nor at their web form for days now. Very suspicious. Better use another gold shop with reliable customer service.

Problem seems to have been resolved, unaware of any incidents that could cause such a disturbance.
Happy shopping!

Some sort of issue with the website.
I am currently on mobile since travelling (summer, after all).
Doing everything I can to find out what the heck is wrong.
Logs are clear so far, no quick way to find out at a glance.

As of today, accepting a variety of altcoins (again).

You are worried with good reason, each time you do a transaction like this, there is the counter party risk that the receiver of your bitcoins is not going to send you the gold or silver you ordered. Fortunately with Bitcoincommodities, there is always clear communitation of what is happening to your order:

BitPay BTC paid   Order has been paid. (not confirmed)
PAID (BitPay BTC complete)   Order has been completly paid.
Order forwarded to distributor.   

And there is always tracking once the distributor takes over...

But it would be nice to go to a counter, see the gold, send the BTC, wait until 6 confirmation drinking some tea and take the gold home and not having to worry about the whole chain set in motion. But that is what you get for the convenience of ordering online

My comment certainly wasn't meant as a slur, I hope you weren't offended!

The coins arrived today, all good. You have a happy customer here! I hope to order again in the future.

Another quality assurance for dennis here, he's trusted 

I'll try to live up to that.
All orders from the past week have been shipped or will ship tomorrow.
What a crazy week!

If you need tracking, drop me an email.

Dennis has been in business for a very long time supporting Bitcoin and he has proven to be a reliable vendor. I approve ;-)

I was a bit surprised by the lack of a thread about Bitcoincommodities, given that they are backed by / related to Bitcoin.de.
The prices are fairly reasonable, above the fiat seller prices, but much better than Bitgild.

I made an order yesterday and have received a few updates since then.  I am looking forward to my delivery and will post to say how everything goes.
It is a bit scary sending fairly large amounts of money to small Bitcoin businesses online, but Bitcoincommodities seem legit.

Hey, we removed the Altcoin payments after Cryptsy went belly-up.
Probably should remove that banner... maybe you can go through Shapeshift?

I'm trying to set something up, but I have limited time (and to be honest - in the whole time I accepted Altcoins, I had ONE order that wasn't paid with BTC).

So for the time being - bitcoin only.

The site is still active, orders placed arrive a week after order date.

As for other coins, do you want to pay with altcoins? I think they only accept Bitcoin.

Try emailing Dennis: [email protected]

is this still active? how can i see prices in other coins?

Currently accepting:


BTC, LTC, BLK, DASH, DOGE, FTC, MINT, NBT, NMC, NVC, POT, PPC, QRK, START and UNO.

how about adding those?
GRS
DOGED

prices are fixed, happy shopping!

Yeah, seems like prices are broken, thanks for the heads up.

I bought several times at bitcoincommodities last year and wanted to order again, but whats up with the bitcoin prices? They seem way too high. For example 1oz gold philharmonic is listed with 998.4€ or 1250.1$ or 3.8373 BTC. That implies a BTCUSD of 325,78 and a BTCEUR of 260,18. Bitcoinaverage is at 383$ and 308€. Bitpay BBB is at 384$ and 306€. Where does that huge difference come from?

A 1oz phil should cost about 3.25 BTC not 3.84 BTC, thats 18% above market prices. As a customer you sometimes get a discount when using bitcoin, not a premium of 18%. Or are the displayed prices completely broken?

cool, i posted the update here

FLU (Fluttercoin) added, DARKCOIN re-enabled.

Now accepting:

BC
DOGE
DRK
DVC
FLT
LTC
MAX
MEC
NMC
PPC
QRK
UNO
WDC
XPM

sweet!
maybe say hello to the UNO (unobtainium) community they love trading .999/uno

Accepting

BTC LTC BC BQC DOGE DVC MAX MEC NMC PPC QRC WDC XPM

Silver coins are going back up this week.

Germany has changed taxation of silver coins this year. Coins that were bought last year are only resellable ONCE since there is a special taxation trick to deal with them. This makes it almost impossible to acquire normally taxed silver coins for resale, since 99.9% of all coins that are available in Germany are tainted with this special taxation.

I just went live with the bitcoin.de goldshop and will now decidedly look for a reliable supplier for large quantities of silver coins.

Y Not Silver Eagles available?  And neither maples?

One successful transaction accepting LITECOIN.
Any more takers, please?

Two exciting news on MARCH 24th, 2014

I will be able to offer UPS shipping within the EU now, at roughly 1/3 to 1/4 the price of FedEx shipments.

I am also VERY close to accepting four dozen Altcoins. For this, I need willing subjects with obscure coins who would like to try out buying some Gold or Silver with their currency.

Please PM me your currency of choice and we'll make arrangements for a test buy.
Looking forward!

I also buyed some Silver here, anything went well. Can only recommend this site, prices are just a few% over normal, therefore you can buy with Bitcoins directly and your state does'nt know you just buyed some Gold/Silver.

I just bought some Krugerrands this is a very very good service!

I just made my 4th order today 
Everything was fine so far and I highly recomment BitcoinCommodities!

Order received very fast, great packaging and comms, definitely recommended.
Hope to order again soon 

BitPay is changing their fee system as of November 1st.

I am passing the savings on to you and have already lowered my prices on silver coins and bitcoin rounds.
Gold coins will follow suit tomorrow.
I am also now offering FREE SHIPPING inside the US (dropshipped via APMEX).

Please keep on shopping!

Made an order yesterday and i have already the track number

I will update upon receiving  

According to the nice people at BitPay, my BitcoinCommodities is ranked as follows (turnover only):

#1 in Germany
#5 in Europe
#17 Worldwide

and that's with only switching over to BitPay in mid-March :-D

Thank you for your renewed confidence, everyone, I am very proud and always happy to be of service.

Hi,

that's probably not going to happen any time soon.
This is mostly because even the bigger local sellers only have limited stock and I cannot exercise control over far-away dropshippers such as APMEX. This would expose me to the risk of selling stuff that isn't in stock. I could always do custom orders, however.

hi 2weiX,

any news on also selling palladium/platinum? 

I will be a at the next BXB in BetaHaus in Berlin on the 19th.

If you are interested in buying some bullion, be it silver or gold or the odd Casascius coin (please check out my inventory), I am very much willing to deliver on the 19th.

Note: you NEED to order and pay until Wednesday, so I can securely prepare the transaction.

special offer:

2x250g gold shipped from the EU, only 3% over spot!
http://bitcoincommodities.com/product_info.php?currency=EUR&products_id=195

2weiX and team have outdone themselves again.  Flawless, smooth service from start to finish.  I can't say enough nice things about you all. 

My experience with these players has been A+.  Their website works well and is intuitive, their communication is excellent (order status, for example, is regularly updated according to where you are in the process via email and in your account history), their shipping is fast and packaged well, and the precious metal is legit.  

Can't really ask for much more than that.

Thank you 2weiX and team!

NEW ITEMS


20kg Silver Bar and 1kg Gold Bar.
Have at it!

Also just in:

1oz Silver Casascius 1BTC Coins and 1/2oz Silver Casascius 0.5BTC Coins.

These are clearly priced as memorabilia, so don't fret. With the price declin, import duties and whatnot I am still not entirely making a killing off those. I just had to have them in the store is all.

That's exactly what I am saying.
They're buying BTC at MtGox to withdraw them.

The only difference in our statements is that I assume that many of those BTC get sold at other exchanges for USD (because they HAVE to... better pay 10% than risk another 20% price drop, amirite?).

I doub it. Remember the basic principle...buy low...sell high...

What is really happening is that people are purchasing bitcoins in MtGox in order to transfer out their USD funds in the form of bitcoins...

you could calculate that number if you wanted, but the crux here ist find someone who will actually process your BTC at that price.
reading bitpay's explanation of price finding, I find their approach makes the most sense.

Dear Customers,


the website bitcoincommodites.com uses the MtGox exchange rate to display the price of products in Bitcoin.

Some of you have already noticed that there are significant price differences from the advertised price on the site and the price billed at checkout by BitPay.

This has the following background:

MtGox has halted USD withdrawals for two weeks.

Following this, BitPay has removed MtGox from its pool of market places used to find the "right" price for the USD/BTC pair.

However, you will also find that the BTC price on MtGox is significantly higher than on other exchanges. This is because many people are using their MtGox funds to buy Bitcoins only to withdraw them to another exchange to sell them for USD there. This would explain the difference in price from the advertised products to the price billed at checkout.

Sadly, BitPay doesn't offer an API to access their USD/BTC rates, as they are determined at each checkout instance.

I have already contacted them and I hope they will provide us with an API soon-ish so as to not confuse customers and provide stability and reliability in pricing.

Here's the MtGox statement:
https://mtgox.com/press_release_20130620.html

Here's how BitPay calculates their prices:
http://blog.bitpay.com/2013/06/important-update-on-bitpay-exchange.html

Please do not hesitate to email me with further questions.

Regards,
Dennis Daiber
Chief Everything Officer of Bitcoincommodities.com

My default precious metals dealer. Always fast and trustworthy!

another smooth and successful transaction, another +1

+1

I will have you know that since switching to BitPay on April 13th, Bitcoincommodities.com has processed 166,028.79€ worth of orders.

Cheers!

the creator https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/mjbmonetarymetals-28640 stated this at one point.
don't let me seek out the post, though.

What proof can you offer that the dies are destroyed?  

I'm not trying to pick on you, I have about 20 of these coins and I would like to know who made them and how the die got destroyed, and how they are valuable?

no, not really, so far.

I have gotten a couple of requests, however, so I might start looking into that.

Any plans for platinum in USA?

I usually do that, although it's a manual process, which sometime makes me skip it.

That is correct. It was not meant as a complaint--simply a report. IMHO, you are to be commended for keeping up with PM sales that have boomed since the fall in gold prices.

My only suggestion (which I also mentioned in an email) is that it might be worthwhile to devise a way of notifying your customer when Apmex ships, so that we can be sure to have someone on site to receive the order.

Heh.

I am sure Coinabul is doing a good job altogether.
There are always a very low percentage of shipments that simply go wrong.
I've had for example one shipment destined for France go to Italy, and I am also currently lagging on fulfilment quite a couple of days.

Most of this lag can be attributed that I have had more sales last month than the whole year 2012 and got completely sold out TWICE (yes, It tend to keep low inventory).

The Bitcoin-Central hack and the fact that MtGox is behind almost 100k in SEPA withdrawals only adds to that.

I am working as hard as I humanly can to ship as fast as possible.

If you have any complaints or questions, please PM or eMail me.

note: I do not take coqui's comment to be a complaint, just sayin'.

That's 10X faster than Coinabul.

We now Support GBP as  viewing currency as well.

Payment is still in BTC or EUR.

I ordered one krugerrand on 4/8/13. It arrived on 4/17/13.

Store has been reenabled.

CHECKOUT DISABLED
DUE TO MTGOX API LAG




I had to disable checkout because people were OF COURSE ordering on tha basis of 1h-old prices.
Until I or MtGox get this sorted out, checkout is disabled.


Sorry!

That's pretty much all I carry, since most ppl want the standard coins.
All coins random year unless stated otherwise.

We are experiencing an issue with our mtgox pricing API.
Wether MtGox switched it off again, or if the lag is too big, or if we got caught in the DDoS filter again - not sure.

Until this is resolved, bitcoincommodities.com has disabled its inventory.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding.

Should have posted sooner but had a very positive experience with Bitcoin Commodities last month.
Purchased 5g gold, shipped from Germany to the UK in around 3 days... perfect.
2weiX was very more than helpful throughout, thanks again!

updated

1.5% rebate for >15000USD

minor privacy issues during registration removed
local pickup fee introduced.

+1 for bitcoincommodities.com - another smooth and successful transaction 

My apologies - I meant that a bit tongue-in-cheek (I promise I'd say something less... delicate... than "nosey bastard" if I really wanted to get nasty ), though my concerns I did mean sincerely.
 
Seriously awesome customer service right there - Within a day of my having a bit of a rant, you corrected the problem.  Kudos, and thanks for taking the time to address this.  

You've fixed my objection, tomorrow I'll place an order with you - If you'll still have me as a customer, of course!

Hi,

sorry, I hadn't even considered that.
Seems this is the standard configuration of osCommerce regarding those things.
Since I rarely order at my own site (and if I do, I use the same old fake-acc over and over), this hasn't even crossed my mind.

So apart from your language, which I finde slightly offensive, your input is appreciated.
I'll try to configure the store in a way that asks for as little info as possible.

Just to reciprocate on the helpfulness: You are aware that you are not in any way obliged to give me your REAL birthday and phone number?


EDIT: date of birth and telephone number are no longer required (if they are designated as required, the minimum length is NULL).

Does anyone else find it extremely sketchy that this nosey bastard wants your date of frickin' birth just to check out?
 
I use Bitcoins largely for their increased level of anonymity (to the extent you can have something physically shipped to you "anonymously"  ).  Not so I can give anyone that hacks you a simple one-click identity theft of all your customers.
 
You just lost a $600 order, friend.  Let me know if you wise up, because you have a good storefront - But damn me if I'll give you more than my shipping and email addresses.

updated 1st post.

please post any questions in this thread, as I am compiling my FAQ and could use some help ;-D

That's way below me. Not even worth the hassle.
I have a large customer base, a decent website (just kind relaunched today), awesome service.

Kinda weak competition. Why not just C&D him back?

exactly.

The fuck?

Bought several grams of gold from bitcoincommodities, everything went very smooth. Also excellent customer service Will definitely buy from them again.

update in 1st post

To all customers who sent cash and might be worried about their coinage being delayed:

I just had to (for the first time) reach for my backup stash, which took a while to load.
All of today's payments have been made, all correspondence has been taken care of.

Please proceed as usual.

:-D

BitcoinsInBerlin
mtgox € codes available.

BitcoinCommodities.com
updated websites, better pricing, better shipping options.
dropshipping via APMEX possible.
due to being caught in the wake of a subnet block after a DDoS (my guess, at least), we had to move servers and are operating in an iframe.
store works a usual, though.


Bitcoinsinberlin
bitcoins are available as well at mtgox_ask+5%
western union (temporarily?) not available, they're being dicks if you do too much business, it seems.

+1

Ordered 10 silver maples up to Norway, arrived today all in good order.

Will use again

Sir,
thanks for pointing all these out. I have tried to amend the page to adress your concerns. I hope you will find it sufficient.

As for your remarks regarding the static adress - well, there's always the option to generate a new adress for every deal but having one "vanity" adress that's recognizable seemed to be in order.

Since this (and bitcoincommodities) is a one-person hackjob, everything on this side is done manually so i guess it's hard for anyone to truly spoof me.

I see the Wiki page added for that was a duplicate of an existing article so I merged in the changes.

 - http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoins_In_Berlin

I see the exchange site shows "SEPA, bank transfer" as two separate values.  Does that mean there is an accepted bank transfer option other than SEPA?

Is EUR the only currency accepted for cash-in-the-mail and in-person trades?  (your competition in a nearby country  accepts USD, GBP, and more.)

For the Western Union and Moneygram, are those EUR or might those be USD instead or in addition to EUR?

How about cash-out methods.  How are funds (fiat) delivered?   such as:

 - Cash, in-person?  
 - Cash sent by mail (if so, to where?)
 - Western Union?
 - Mt. Gox redeemable code (EUR)?
 - SEPA bank transfer?
 - Any other method?

The site has links to btc.to address shortener.  You may wish to make those SSL (e.g. https:// ).  Actually your site contents could be easily altered enroute and the link replaced entirely, so you may wish to add SSL to your site itself.  Either way, are you sure you want to provide a static Bitcoin address?   You could get into the situation where someone monitors that address (e.g., adds the address to blockchain.info/wallet to obtain notification) then contacts you with cash-out instructions.  You'ld probably become aware of the problem before sending fiat funds to the wrong party but this just introduces an incompatible transfer method.

trade with yossarian pending

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=post;quote=1100852;topic=11431.60;num_replies=60;sesc=e0bbb86976eb40a3eb5e4dec5ad46064

Everything went fine, extremely fast transaction, good guy, would recommend to anyone. 2weiX is a best BTC trader in Germany and Europe If you want BTC/EUR or EUR/BTC transaction give him a call, I did and I'm very satisfied with his service. A+++

sent

Date: 14 August 2012.

'AmazonStuff' is the owner of the GPG key with fingerprint:
64FFEE402BDA387AF97911AC1C4EAE9FA33C05A7
with a e-mail address: [email protected]
owner of bitcointalk account with a username: AmazonStuff
owner of bitmit account with a username: btcsync

'bitcoinsinberlin' is the owner of the GPG key with fingerprint:
BFFEE01B9D5D61ADAB125A213BCABFBEBA1BC328
with a e-mail address: [email protected]
owner of bitcointalk account with a username: 2weiX
owner of the website: http://www.bitcoincommodities.com/
owner of the website: www.bitcoinsinberlin.com

'bitcoinsinberlin' confirms that he's resident of Berlin, Germany.

This contract is for the exchange of 208.6 Bitcoins at a
rate of EUR 9.789 per BTC for a total of EUR 2042

1. 'AmazonStuff' agrees to send 208.6 BTC to the bitcoin address 1BerLinyFLJ23SEz3HfBbt3RnrxKCnyngT listed on website:

www.bitcoinsinberlin.com

2. 'AmazonStuff' agrees to pay EUR 42 Moneygram fee charged by Moneygram. If actual Moneygram fee is different than this 'bitcoinsinberlin'

agrees to pay the remainder of the Moneygram fee.

3. 'AmazonStuff' agrees to make a payment of 208.6 BTC (for actual transfer and Moneygram fee) to the bitcoin address

1BerLinyFLJ23SEz3HfBbt3RnrxKCnyngT within 1h of both parties signing this contract.

4. 'bitcoinsinberlin' agrees to make a payment of EUR 2042 (actually sending EUR 2000 + EUR 42 Moneygram fee) via one of the MoneyGram

agent locations in Berlin.
Moneygram transaction type should be '10 Minutes Service'.
Payment should be made within 1h of receiving 6 confirmation about 'AmazonStuff' BTC payment to 'bitcoinsinberlin' address

1BerLinyFLJ23SEz3HfBbt3RnrxKCnyngT

Payment should be made before 14 August 2012. 15:00h CEST (Central European Summer Time).

Moneygram payment should be made to 'AmazonStuff' receiving address.

5. 'bitcoinsinberlin' agrees to send scanned (photographed) proof of payment and Moneygram reference number to 'AmazonStuff' within 1h of

making Moneygram payment.

6. 'AmazonStuff' agrees to pickup Moneygram payment within 1h of receiving Moneygram reference number.

SPECIAL OFFER ONLY UNTIL SUNDAY: 1/10 oz Vienna Philharmonics 5% off (only 10 in stock)

March 2018

We're now "natively" accepting BCH via BitPay.