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Quote from: nelisky on January 16, 2012, 10:09:04 AM

But if all the inquiries being done on amazon are linked to this forum and the amazon person in charge of investigating bitcoins starts at the obvious points, i.e. this forum, how does that look? I seriously hope that many people are doing that as a result of watching the show, but if not...

Good point. Maybe the respective authors could add some no referrer service to their links in case amazon checks the referrer id on their support form.

http://www.no-referer.de/

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on January 16, 2012, 01:37:01 PM

Quote from: BTCurious on January 16, 2012, 01:31:22 PM

Quote from: nefanon on January 16, 2012, 12:04:54 PM

He was very slow to respond though, I wonder if he was busy or asking around.

Chat support typically handles multiple conversations at the same time. They may have been dealing with a difficult customer.

Yeah I heard they kept asking about this thing called Bitcoin.

lolol

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Quote from: BTCurious on January 16, 2012, 01:31:22 PM

Quote from: nefanon on January 16, 2012, 12:04:54 PM

He was very slow to respond though, I wonder if he was busy or asking around.

Chat support typically handles multiple conversations at the same time. They may have been dealing with a difficult customer.

Yeah I heard they kept asking about this thing called Bitcoin.

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Quote from: nefanon on January 16, 2012, 12:04:54 PM

He was very slow to respond though, I wonder if he was busy or asking around.

Chat support typically handles multiple conversations at the same time. They may have been dealing with a difficult customer.

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Quote from: BitcoinPorn on January 16, 2012, 10:05:15 AM

I like the offer of emailing the people who have Bitcoin interest. I believe that is something they would take note of, as they will want to have a targeted mass marketing email to promote if it were to happen, and the best audience is of course the people who were requesting it. If you have an Amazon account, ask that they 'note' on your account or whatever it is payment feature request and you would like to be notified when it happens.

Hi :-) someone say e-mail ?

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lol awesome! which leads me to say should we have " Tuesday Bitcoin Talk w/ Live chat help" days ? If we all hit up every major internet "live help" with the question this might just work!

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Well, it doesn't look like ThinkGeek is supporting bitcoin anytime soon...

Kevin D: Hello! How can I help you today?
Nefanon: Hi Kevin, I was looking at your payment options and I was curious: Does ThinkGeek plan to offer bitcoin payments in the future?
Kevin D: We have no plans to offer any other forms of payment at this time.
Nefanon: Aw, that's disappointing, a lot of geeks are getting into bitcoins and I'd love to share ThinkGeek with the bitcoin community as a supported retailer. Has ThinkGeek heard of bitcoins?
Kevin D: They have been introduced to us before and at this time there are no plans of using them.
Nefanon: Ok, cool! Well, I just wanted to make a formal request for ThinkGeek to accept them. It's an awesome technology that I think will only grow and become more popular.
Kevin D: I will forward that feedback for you.

He was very slow to respond though, I wonder if he was busy or asking around.

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on January 16, 2012, 11:12:55 AM

Quote from: Steve on January 16, 2012, 10:57:24 AM

Like others have pointed out, there's really no urgent need for Amazon to sell BTC that they might earn from their products. At least not initially. In fact, it would probably be really dumb for them to do so.

My guess is that if Amazon does in fact start accepting bitcoin, that they'll not only accept it, but also provide an exchange, a wallet, and even merchant services that lets others accept it.

Then, how long will it be before they have most of the 8M BTC currently in existence? Not counting the other entities that'll be jockeying for position to get on the Bitcoin band-wagon at the same time.

Can you imagine a high level boardroom meeting where the execs are trying to get their head wrapped around this Bitcoin acceptance thing?

It would be difficult for them to get anywhere near the 8 million without pushing the price into the stratosphere. Sales in bitcoin will be very light to begin with and Amazon has enough cash that they can float it without selling for a while. If they also opened an exchange, they could even begin paying suppliers (or even employees) in bitcoin. As for the board room, it's hard to imagine that Bezos would have any difficulty at all grasping the concepts of bitcoin and he certainly is the type of personality that would give seemingly crazy ideas a shot (and really, is bitcoin all that crazy? it just kind of makes perfect sense to me).

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You are now connected to Chandra from Amazon.com.
Chandra:Hi, my name is Chandra. I'll be happy to help you.
Me:Hi!
I was wondering if in the near future we will be able to pay with Bitcoins?
Chandra:I'm really sorry you had to take the time to contact us about this today. I'm really not too sure about that
One moment
Me:If you could find out anything that would be amazing.

Chandra:I wish I could. Unfortunately we don't have anything in our system, that shows this as a possibility. I'm sorry I wasn't able to find more information for you
Me:That's fine, thanks for letting me know.
I hope in the future Amazon will accept bitcoins!
Chandra:I will leave some feedback for this as well
Me:tyvm, have a great day!

I feel like I did my part~

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Where are you from in India? I know India very well.

Darjeeling.

I know Bombay. But I have some friends there!

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Quote from: Phinnaeus Gage on January 16, 2012, 11:12:55 AM

Can you imagine a high level board meeting where the execs are trying to get their head wrapped around this Bitcoin acceptance thing?

"Damnit Jim, Sumarjit promised a customer another payment method."

"Well shoot, what did he promise this time?"

"Bitcoin?"

"What in god's name is that? Oh I don't care, I'm going to go bathe in a tub full of money now."

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Quote from: Steve on January 16, 2012, 10:57:24 AM

Like others have pointed out, there's really no urgent need for Amazon to sell BTC that they might earn from their products. At least not initially. In fact, it would probably be really dumb for them to do so.

My guess is that if Amazon does in fact start accepting bitcoin, that they'll not only accept it, but also provide an exchange, a wallet, and even merchant services that lets others accept it.

Then, how long will it be before they have most of the 8M BTC currently in existence? Not counting the other entities that'll be jockeying for position to get on the Bitcoin band-wagon at the same time.

Can you imagine a high level boardroom meeting where the execs are trying to get their heads wrapped around this Bitcoin acceptance thing?

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Like others have pointed out, there's really no urgent need for Amazon to sell BTC that they might earn from their products. At least not initially. In fact, it would probably be really dumb for them to do so.

My guess is that if Amazon does in fact start accepting bitcoin, that they'll not only accept it, but also provide an exchange, a wallet, and even merchant services that lets others accept it.

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Quote from: P4man on January 16, 2012, 09:56:43 AM

Its not like Amazon is going to increase it sales by accepting bitcoins

No, but it could make some easy money by investing in BTC.

1) Acquire many BTC (100,000 or more) cheaply (under 10 USD/BTC).
2) Announce that they will be accepting bitcoin.
3) Wait.
4) Sell.

They could easily get 5x their initial investment and it would (IMO) be low risk.

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Quote from: Coinabul on January 16, 2012, 10:36:09 AM

@BitcoinPorn I think mass conversations with their support would work... But Amazon is too big, I think focusing on a target such as thinkgeek would be better.

ThinkGeek is a good target. I needed some C13 to C14 cables and when I bought from monoprice (only place I buy cables) dropped them an email about Bitcoin.

If Bitcoin could land some "medium sized" enterprises in next 12 months I would consider that a big win.

Sure the Amazons, Neweggs, and Steams are sexy but some medium sized enterprises are a more realistic target.

ThinkGeek
Monoprice
Kongregate (flash game site which accept payments)
A large adult services provider
Mini-ITX (a specialty computer parts provider - useful tie in w/ FPGAs)
FrozenCPU (watercooling specialty computer parts provider)
etc

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@BitcoinPorn I think mass conversations with their support would work... But Amazon is too big, I think focusing on a target such as thinkgeek would be better.

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german amazon call center also do not know about bitcoin payment...

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on January 16, 2012, 10:13:02 AM

Quote from: BadBear on January 16, 2012, 09:52:14 AM

It wouldn't just be Amazon though, if they got onboard everybody would. You'd have banks begging to work with the exchanges, of which better ones would have sprung up overnight. That right there would solve the majority of the problems.

Yes eventually but Amazon would be taking the first mover risk. Look I am not a Bitcoin bear I just think given current liquidity thinking Amazon would adopt it today is naive. They aren't interested in exposing themselves or their customers to volatility.

IMHO the market depth isn't there and Amazon even IF interested won't move until it is. This is the same reason a major hedge fund won't get involved in Bitcoin. The market depth doesn't support operations at the level they would be interested in.

Still it isn't doom & gloom. Market depth is growing and is more than sufficient for players with smaller volume (by higher than current volume). In time it will be large enough that Amazon can drop a day's "take" without causing more than a ripple.

Yeah, the "what if?" game is fun though.

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Quote from: BadBear on January 16, 2012, 09:52:14 AM

It wouldn't just be Amazon though, if they got onboard everybody would. You'd have banks begging to work with the exchanges, of which better ones would have sprung up overnight. That right there would solve the majority of the problems.

Yes eventually but Amazon would be taking the first mover risk. Look I am not a Bitcoin bear I just think given current liquidity thinking Amazon would adopt it today is naive. They aren't interested in exposing themselves or their customers to volatility.

IMHO the market depth isn't there and Amazon even IF interested won't move until it is. This is the same reason a major hedge fund won't get involved in Bitcoin. The market depth doesn't support operations at the level they would be interested in.

Still it isn't doom & gloom. Market depth is growing and is more than sufficient for players with smaller volume (but higher than current merchants/players). In time it will be large enough that Amazon can liquidate a day's "take" without causing more than a ripple.

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