Topic: Criptoe.Com Physical Coin thread - page 3. (Read 6395 times)

Update:

Invoices have been sent to LTEX for shipping. 

-Fuse

I'm glad to see they made it in a timely manner.  With the exception of no tracking, the fact that they made it to two separate countries very far apart at the same time is pretty awesome.

I'll be sending the shipping invoices within the hour.

Cheers, all!

-Fuse

Package just arrived! Once I have the list of adreses I wil sent them off...

An ETA on delivery in Holland?

Just received my coin, cheers Fuse, looks even better in person 

I've sent you some corrections.

Once I've received my coins I'll try to take some pictures with my SLR camera, maybe there're good enough to use in your shop. And a translation:

Vol trots presenteert het Criptoe Team de eerste fysieke Guldencoin. Deze unieke munt is beschikbaar in een beperkte oplage van 250 stuks. Een zeldzame mogelijkheid om een stukje Guldencoin geschiedenis in huis te halen. Dit is tevens de allereerste fysieke munt die Criptoe uitbrengt.

Deze fysieke Guldencoin heeft een diameter van 44,45 milimeter en is 3 milimeter dik en is qua design gebaseerd op het Guldencoin logo. Op de voorkant van de munt is een uniek nummer gegraveerd, staat de waarde van de munt en de datum 4 april 2014, de dag dat het eerste Guldencoin block is gevonden.
Op de achterkant van de munt zit een uitsparing voor wallet informatie, staat Criptoe plus het serienummer. Aangezien het hier om de allereerste (Guldencoin) munt gaat die Criptoe uitgeeft is het serienummer 1. De Guldencoin is in zijn totaliteit afwerkt in de het officiële Guldencoin blauw, dit geeft de munt een speciale uitstraling die je niet terug zal vinden bij andere collectible munten. Op de zijkant van deze Guldencoin munt staat de tekst "BETALEN MET GULDENCOIN".

Elke munt wordt geleverd inclusief 2 hologram stickers en een speciale munt enveloppe. (I ignored "Shipping packaging will vary depending on country.", since this text is only for the Dutch)

*Bestellingen bestemd voor Europese landen worden naar het Nederlandse Guldencoin community lid LTEX gestuurd, hij verzorgt de verder distributie. Om de verzendkosten voor de kopers te drukken worden de bestellingen gebundeld en dan pas naar LTEX verzonden.

**De vervaardiging van deze Guldencoin munten is voornamelijk handmatig gedaan, het is daarom mogelijk dat een munt minieme oneffenheden bevat, dit is echter extreem uitzonderlijk. Als je niet voor de volle 100% tevreden bent over je Guldencoin munt, neem dan contact op met ny2cafuse op bitcointalk.org. Het is niet mogelijk om je bestelling te retourneren of om te ruilen.


Original text:
The Criptoe Team is proud to present the first physical Guldencoin collectible coin. Only 250 were made, and they are now available for you to purchase. Get your piece of Guldencoin history.  These are also the first physical coin that the Criptoe team has ever released.
The 44.45mm round & 3mm thick coin takes it’s design from the Guldencoin logo. The front face of the coin features and individual engraved number, the coin value and the birthday of the genesis block. The back face of the coin features a recessed groove for wallet info, and the Criptoe name and series number. This is a first for the Criptoe team, so this is Criptoe Series 1. Recessed features of the coin are done in Guldencoin blue colorfill, and it adds a special look to the coin not found in other collectible coins. The edge face of the coin is stamped with the phrase “BETALEN MET GULDENCOIN”, which translates to “pay with Guldencoin”.
Each coin ships with 2 hologram stickers and a paper coin envelope. Shipping packaging will vary depending on country.
*European orders will be shipped to Guldencoin community member LTEX, who will handle European distribution.  Orders will be bundled together and shipped to LTEX first, saving buyers in additional shipping costs and customs fees.

**Because the manufacturing process includes a lot of work done by hand, some coins might contain extremely small blemishes, although it is extremely rare.  If you are not 100% satisfied with your coin, please contact ny2cafuse in the bitcointalk forums. No refunds or exchanges.

Word of mouth was my original intention with the referral program.  I was just thinking it might help spread the word if I offered a discount/free coin to people who helped get the word out.  It's not a necessity at this point though.

I don't mind the pace of the sales, but I want to make sure I reach a wider audience so the coins aren't all held by a handful of people.  I was thinking that I need to get the site translated to Dutch as well.  The store system has an easy translation, but I need to get the product description translated as well.  And better pictures lol.

I agree though that this is a collectors item.  It's not like the original casacious coins that were traded.  I see these as being something you stick on your desk in a display stand, and in 3-4 years they're worth a considerable amount of money, in both NLG and in terms of collectibility.  I just hope the community sees them the same way.

-Fuse

I know this is a common way to attract more buyers.. if you sell diet ebooks or some other commercial product. This is a collectors item, I don't think you'll get way more promotion than you have now. Besides, you take the risk that your shop url will appear on obscure spam sites. All for the clicks and sales.

Maybe instead of a referral system you can create a discount for your existing customers. For example a discount on their second order/coin, and a bigger discount on their third order/coin. A lifetime discount. In this way you can activate the real Guldencoin fans to buy more coins at once or placing a second or third order in the near future.

Let the word of mouth do its job..

Hope all goes well, no tracing is allways a bad thing , let's hope the packages get to their destination

Fuse and I have been in constant contact about this and other things. I have no worries about the shipment as I receive USPS parcels regularly. I have tried to contact them, but they, logically, could not provide me with any information based upon receiving address alone.

All problems with LitePaid that you might have had are also things I have had with my WooCommerce shop. It took Kenny personally to alter the code of my shop to resolve, so there also lies no blame on Fuse for that matter.

I will distribute all sendings the minute I receive Fuses package, lets hope we make it before Christmas.

Thanks for following up, mate.  And thanks for the kind words about your experience.

I'll look at DHL as well.  Part of my research for the weekend 

-Fuse

I guess that one user outside US and EU would be me here in sunny nZED.  All I can say is BIG UPS to fuse, when I had a problem with my wallet while trying to make my purchase, he helped me sort it out and even instant refund which was caused by my wallet problem.  and he has kept me  up to date and even notified me when he shipped ( which was earlier then expected) and did let me know about it having no tracking info, which is non issue to me, so all in all a great experience

@Fuse have a look a DHL, I get packages from them all the time and always supply tracking info, but not sure how their prices compare

Paypal now accepted on Physical.Criptoe.Com

Physical.Criptoe.Com now has a Paypal payment option for credit card/bank purchases.

I am looking in to a referral program as well.  I will release additional info when I get it all sorted out.

Thanks,

Fuse

Sorry, Frais, I should have updated the thread.  I shipped two packages via USPS.  One to a user outside of Europe and the US, and one to LTEX.  However, USPS would not provide tracking numbers for the international packages.  I have notified both LTEX and the other receiver, and they have both responded.  I offered to provide confirmation of shipment to them to confirm the package left my local post office.

Had I known that they would not provide tracking info, I would have used a different shipping service.  I will be using Fedex or similar for future shipments.  I will ask LTEX and the other user to confirm they have gotten this info as well.

I'm sorry for the confusion and delay in notification.

-Fuse

Any news about the shipping?

Orders up until this time (22:36 PST) have been boxed up and will ship tomorrow morning.  I will provide LTEX with the tracking number and I will have him confirm he has received the info.

I will be shipping a separate order to Oceania, and I will provide that specific user with their own tracking number.  I will have them confirm here that they have received their info as well.

Cheers,

Fuse

The shop: http://physical.criptoe.com/index.php

Store is open again for sales!

Please report any issues you run in to in this thread or via PM so I can address them immediately.

-Fuse