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April 21, 2015, 03:41:39 PM
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What station and in what state was this heard on in the states? Or, in what area across the world? Need to know.

I heard it on satellite radio... Howard Stern show I believe but not 100%...
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April 21, 2015, 01:52:47 PM
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that site is looking great i just visited them,
is anybody from forum using their services before because i first time heard about them?
is they have legit service?
If they are willing to use Radio for commercial purposes I guess they are not here to scam you. It is odd that they are not advertising here on bitcointalk tho, whats the odds of hearing of bitcoin initiatives first on a radio than from the biggest btc forum? And they even are not interested of  making single service annunciation thread? Weird.
yeah like I said why advertise to the public than a community of people that have and spend their bitcoin.
 


Here is my updated analysis:

The rollout was premature, there are lots of intuitive inconsistencies and some actual inconsistencies.  Examples of intuitive inconsistencies are:
1) advertising on the radio before creating a free thread about the service on BCT
2) having a bitcoin auction site with bitpay but having fees calculated in USD
3) Canadian company (fiat is CAD) yet fiat selection is USD (for a btc site).

Examples of actual inconsistencies are:
1) 'About Us' pages speaks about a 10% fee "LOW 10% Commission ONLY when you sell", however the 'Fees' page speaks about a 5% fee "5% of the total sale to a Maximum fee of $250".
2)  In the "terms" it speaks about Bidbit.co, however when you actually register the legal terms of service that you actually agree to speaks of Bid-bit.com (not Bidbit.co).


I sent them an email 12 hrs ago, haven't heard from them yet via automatic reply or manual.  When I go to the site I get the DDos security relay message, does that mean lots of traffic is going to the site?  I don't know but it's clear that the radio commercial was premature, even as a test run -- I wonder if it was a national spot.



 

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April 21, 2015, 01:18:38 PM
#7
that site is looking great i just visited them,
is anybody from forum using their services before because i first time heard about them?
is they have legit service?
If they are willing to use Radio for commercial purposes I guess they are not here to scam you. It is odd that they are not advertising here on bitcointalk tho, whats the odds of hearing of bitcoin initiatives first on a radio than from the biggest btc forum? And they even are not interested of  making single service annunciation thread? Weird.
yeah like I said why advertise to the public than a community of people that have and spend their bitcoin.
 
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April 21, 2015, 12:37:48 PM
#6
that site is looking great i just visited them,
is anybody from forum using their services before because i first time heard about them?
is they have legit service?
If they are willing to use Radio for commercial purposes I guess they are not here to scam you. It is odd that they are not advertising here on bitcointalk tho, whats the odds of hearing of bitcoin initiatives first on a radio than from the biggest btc forum? And they even are not interested of  making single service annunciation thread? Weird.
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April 21, 2015, 12:10:45 PM
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that site is looking great i just visited them,
is anybody from forum using their services before because i first time heard about them?
is they have legit service?
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April 21, 2015, 08:51:02 AM
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I couldn't find a post about it on here. Odd that they are advertising it to the public rather than the community
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April 21, 2015, 06:23:57 AM
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It looks pretty decent, needs a few good people to verify it but seems like a good way to sell past our marketplace here on Bitcointalk.

I'm going to list a few things on it tomorrow, I actually shut down the computer earlier only to fire it back up again because of the commercial.  
Cool, can't wait to see how it goes. What radio station did you hear it on?

Sadly, I don't know, don't even know if it was connected to a national or local station.   Even worse I don't know if it was AM or FM.   But for sure it was not connected to a music, or sports format station.   Likely some family, talk, news, community, inspiration, and/or news type station.




What station and in what state was this heard on in the states? Or, in what area across the world? Need to know.


It was on the southeast Georgia and northeast Florida boarder.



The ad had high local production value or low national production value, I don't remember the speaker(s) having a local accent, not even minimal, so it could easily be dropped into any US market.



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April 20, 2015, 11:06:09 PM
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What station and in what state was this heard on in the states? Or, in what area across the world? Need to know.
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April 20, 2015, 10:31:50 PM
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Heard a commercial for bidbit.co on the radio, went to see what its about, looks like Ebay for bitcoin, I'm impressed so far, has anyone done anything there?
Do they have any threads in this forum?  (I could not find any)

The fees are decent, was a bit (pun intended) surprised to see all fees calculated in USD, figured it would be in btc. 

I took a look at their Terms of Service and found buried near the bottom of them that they are based in the "Province of Ontario" Canada.  
In the TOS it speaks of "Bid-Bit.com" not "bidbit.co" which is strikingly odd since they are asking people who want to operate at 'bidbit.co' to agree to terms with 'bid-bit.com' about activity at 'bidbit.co' without indicated how bidbit.co relates to bid-bit.com.

I sent a message asking them to chime-in at bitcoin talk, perhaps some of the intuitive oddities could be cleared up. 
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