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Quote from: sumantso on June 24, 2014, 05:39:16 AM

Actually bought tickets two weeks back from Expedia. Won't be wasting BTCs for this, though it does sound cool

A bit of an old post, but how is this a waste? You're getting something for your btc. A waste would be deleting your wallet and getting nothing in return. But as mentioned before, you currently can't buy tickets with btc anyways. I'm sure this will change in the future if the hotel thing proves to be successful.

If you are receiving anything of value in return for your BTC then it would not be a waste. If you would normally spend an equal amount of fiat for something then you might as well use BTC and simply purchase an equal amount of BTC on an exchange. This would make the bitcoin related economy grow.

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Quote from: sumantso on June 24, 2014, 05:39:16 AM

Actually bought tickets two weeks back from Expedia. Won't be wasting BTCs for this, though it does sound cool

A bit of an old post, but how is this a waste? You're getting something for your btc. A waste would be deleting your wallet and getting nothing in return. But as mentioned before, you currently can't buy tickets with btc anyways. I'm sure this will change in the future if the hotel thing proves to be successful.

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This is brilliant to see

the more and more big top online merchants come forward and start accepting the more bitcoin may become accepted and possibly accepted by those who are reluctant to accept at the moment. Seeing these accept only goes to show that bitcoin is becoming more popular it's just a slow process.

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Wow!! that's really a good news.Everyone just start accepting bitcoin..

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This is huge! This Washington Post article is totally endorsing Bitcoin!

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Quote from: tspacepilot on June 30, 2014, 11:49:40 PM

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Quote from: 666uazan on June 29, 2014, 02:54:02 PM

So celebrate this, what are we calling it? Victory? This 'victory' for bitcoin, but know that it is a victory that can, and will, bite some of you in the ass.

Why is it going to 'bite some of us in the ass'. I've booked a hotel with expedia in the past and didn't have a problem. I used a visa card. Next time I use expedia I may get to pay with BTC. I think that would be wonderfully convenient. Can you be a little more clear?

I guess the ability to chargeback on your card is what he meant. Bitcoin transactions are irreversible but I guess they will still issue refunds.

Aha, yes that seems like it might be what was meant. However, if I was negotiating in good faith with expedia and they owed me a refund, I'm sure they can find some way to do it (either by sending my BTC back or by generating a payment in fiat).

Companies like expedia have their reputation on the line so they have an incentive to issue a refund when one is due as people would not do business with them if they have this kind of reputation

Yes, Danny Elfman with a David Spade face, I couldn't agree more. For large, well established companies, reputation is crucial.

So larger companies do not really need to worry about credit card charge backs as much as their reputation. Credit card processors still need to price in chargebacks and related expenses. This is why bitcoin is so advantageous for large companies.

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Quote from: Keyara on July 01, 2014, 02:20:44 AM

Now that bad news is gone with the auction. We can finally focus on good news such as this.

wrong. the auction was good news - it was a litmus test to see how big and interested the whales are. i am pretty sure the coins sold at over spot value.

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Quote from: jjc326 on June 11, 2014, 09:29:57 AM

Wow all these new merchants, it really is like online merchants are interested in BTC. I think everyone has started accepting it since it's come down in price, right? I wonder what would happen if Bitcoin went down to like $100/BTC?

hmm, if the price of bitcoin down like that. I really hate it and I hope it does not happen, but if all online merchants interested and accept bitcoin. let's massive shopping: D

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Quote from: Ron~Popeil on June 29, 2014, 02:51:14 PM

The key now is to get the next level of penetration. Hotels accepting bit coin directly would be huge. It would be a nice role for escrow services as well to hold reservations and release funds once the cut off time is reached or release them back to the originator if they cancel.

I agree. Hotel reservation/booking as well as car rental's the obvious next step for the travel-based industries.

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Quote from: Keyara on July 01, 2014, 02:20:44 AM

Now that bad news is gone with the auction. We can finally focus on good news such as this.

I agree that this is good news. However, I'm not sure that the auction was actually bad news. I mean, in some sense, it seemed to me to be a legitimization of bitcoin by the us gov't. A pragmatic one perhaps, but a validation nonetheless.

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Now that bad news is gone with the auction. We can finally focus on good news such as this.

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Maybe this showed Bitcoin was accepted by more and more people.

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Quote from: DannyElfman on June 30, 2014, 11:28:02 PM

Quote from: tspacepilot on June 30, 2014, 04:42:53 PM

Quote from: sumantso on June 30, 2014, 05:29:22 AM

Quote from: tspacepilot on June 29, 2014, 03:21:57 PM

Quote from: 666uazan on June 29, 2014, 02:54:02 PM

So celebrate this, what are we calling it? Victory? This 'victory' for bitcoin, but know that it is a victory that can, and will, bite some of you in the ass.

Why is it going to 'bite some of us in the ass'. I've booked a hotel with expedia in the past and didn't have a problem. I used a visa card. Next time I use expedia I may get to pay with BTC. I think that would be wonderfully convenient. Can you be a little more clear?

I guess the ability to chargeback on your card is what he meant. Bitcoin transactions are irreversible but I guess they will still issue refunds.

Aha, yes that seems like it might be what was meant. However, if I was negotiating in good faith with expedia and they owed me a refund, I'm sure they can find some way to do it (either by sending my BTC back or by generating a payment in fiat).

Companies like expedia have their reputation on the line so they have an incentive to issue a refund when one is due as people would not do business with them if they have this kind of reputation

Yes, Danny Elfman with a David Spade face, I couldn't agree more. For large, well established companies, reputation is crucial.

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Quote from: tspacepilot on June 30, 2014, 04:42:53 PM

Quote from: sumantso on June 30, 2014, 05:29:22 AM

Quote from: tspacepilot on June 29, 2014, 03:21:57 PM

Quote from: 666uazan on June 29, 2014, 02:54:02 PM

So celebrate this, what are we calling it? Victory? This 'victory' for bitcoin, but know that it is a victory that can, and will, bite some of you in the ass.

Why is it going to 'bite some of us in the ass'. I've booked a hotel with expedia in the past and didn't have a problem. I used a visa card. Next time I use expedia I may get to pay with BTC. I think that would be wonderfully convenient. Can you be a little more clear?

I guess the ability to chargeback on your card is what he meant. Bitcoin transactions are irreversible but I guess they will still issue refunds.

Aha, yes that seems like it might be what was meant. However, if I was negotiating in good faith with expedia and they owed me a refund, I'm sure they can find some way to do it (either by sending my BTC back or by generating a payment in fiat).

Companies like expedia have their reputation on the line so they have an incentive to issue a refund when one is due as people would not do business with them if they have this kind of reputation

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Quote from: tspacepilot on June 30, 2014, 04:42:53 PM

Quote from: sumantso on June 30, 2014, 05:29:22 AM

Quote from: tspacepilot on June 29, 2014, 03:21:57 PM

Quote from: 666uazan on June 29, 2014, 02:54:02 PM

So celebrate this, what are we calling it? Victory? This 'victory' for bitcoin, but know that it is a victory that can, and will, bite some of you in the ass.

Why is it going to 'bite some of us in the ass'. I've booked a hotel with expedia in the past and didn't have a problem. I used a visa card. Next time I use expedia I may get to pay with BTC. I think that would be wonderfully convenient. Can you be a little more clear?

I guess the ability to chargeback on your card is what he meant. Bitcoin transactions are irreversible but I guess they will still issue refunds.

Aha, yes that seems like it might be what was meant. However, if I was negotiating in good faith with expedia and they owed me a refund, I'm sure they can find some way to do it (either by sending my BTC back or by generating a payment in fiat).

I think that overstock will only issue bitcoin refunds for people that buy with bitcoin, and if you buy with bitcoin you cannot get a fiat refund. AFAIK the items are priced in fiat and refunds are given in terms of fiat, so if for example you buy something for $600 and the price of one BTC is $600, you would send 1 btc for your purchase. A few days later you request a refund and when the refund is processed the price of BTC $550, you would receive 1.09090909 BTC ($600 worth of bitcoin based on the price when refund is issued).

I would imagine that expedia would have similar policies for refunds.

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Quote from: sumantso on June 30, 2014, 05:29:22 AM

Quote from: tspacepilot on June 29, 2014, 03:21:57 PM

Quote from: 666uazan on June 29, 2014, 02:54:02 PM

So celebrate this, what are we calling it? Victory? This 'victory' for bitcoin, but know that it is a victory that can, and will, bite some of you in the ass.

Why is it going to 'bite some of us in the ass'. I've booked a hotel with expedia in the past and didn't have a problem. I used a visa card. Next time I use expedia I may get to pay with BTC. I think that would be wonderfully convenient. Can you be a little more clear?

I guess the ability to chargeback on your card is what he meant. Bitcoin transactions are irreversible but I guess they will still issue refunds.

Aha, yes that seems like it might be what was meant. However, if I was negotiating in good faith with expedia and they owed me a refund, I'm sure they can find some way to do it (either by sending my BTC back or by generating a payment in fiat).

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Quote from: tspacepilot on June 29, 2014, 03:21:57 PM

Quote from: 666uazan on June 29, 2014, 02:54:02 PM

So celebrate this, what are we calling it? Victory? This 'victory' for bitcoin, but know that it is a victory that can, and will, bite some of you in the ass.

Why is it going to 'bite some of us in the ass'. I've booked a hotel with expedia in the past and didn't have a problem. I used a visa card. Next time I use expedia I may get to pay with BTC. I think that would be wonderfully convenient. Can you be a little more clear?

I guess the ability to chargeback on your card is what he meant. Bitcoin transactions are irreversible but I guess they will still issue refunds.

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Quote from: 666uazan on June 29, 2014, 02:54:02 PM

So celebrate this, what are we calling it? Victory? This 'victory' for bitcoin, but know that it is a victory that can, and will, bite some of you in the ass.

Why is it going to 'bite some of us in the ass'. I've booked a hotel with expedia in the past and didn't have a problem. I used a visa card. Next time I use expedia I may get to pay with BTC. I think that would be wonderfully convenient. Can you be a little more clear?

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So celebrate this, what are we calling it? Victory? This 'victory' for bitcoin, but know that it is a victory that can, and will, bite some of you in the ass.

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Quote from: TopherB on June 11, 2014, 08:55:23 AM

Another Brand name merchant joins the fray.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/06/11/expedia-wants-you-to-book-your-next-hotel-stay-with-bitcoin/

Really great news, I actually may use this service. Thanks for the news!

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