Now that a large online retailer is accepting, bets on who's next?

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Quote from: empoweoqwj on January 10, 2014, 10:29:26 PM

Quote from: Kyt Dotson on January 10, 2014, 09:57:30 PM

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I would definitely like to have amazon accept bitcoins. Newegg and Microcenter would be nice too. I don't buy from the Google Play store but if they accepted bitcoins I think I could probably make more purchases

Looking at the recent Newegg tweets, it seems that even if they're not the next to start accepting BTC they're somewhere in line this year.

Now Overstock has started the ball rolling, you'll find big players like NewEgg implementing bitcoin within a few weeks. There's no reason to wait around now

I sincerely look forward to being able to report on that. 2013 was a year filled with a great deal of interesting news of growth and adoption -- and if 2014 shows the same rate, we're in for a wild ride.

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Quote from: Kyt Dotson on January 10, 2014, 09:57:30 PM

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I would definitely like to have amazon accept bitcoins. Newegg and Microcenter would be nice too. I don't buy from the Google Play store but if they accepted bitcoins I think I could probably make more purchases

Looking at the recent Newegg tweets, it seems that even if they're not the next to start accepting BTC they're somewhere in line this year.

Now Overstock has started the ball rolling, you'll find big players like NewEgg implementing bitcoin within a few weeks. There's no reason to wait around now

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Yeah it's gonna take some years before more adoptions come into play I'm going to guess. Going to be interesting to see where all this goes, kinda like in the mid 90's with the whole technology boom. Pretty neato

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I would definitely like to have amazon accept bitcoins. Newegg and Microcenter would be nice too. I don't buy from the Google Play store but if they accepted bitcoins I think I could probably make more purchases

Looking at the recent Newegg tweets, it seems that even if they're not the next to start accepting BTC they're somewhere in line this year.

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Quote from: el_Tico on January 10, 2014, 03:52:00 PM

Not to be pessimistic but Overstock.com could get spooked like Biadu and others.
They're just testing the waters.

I hope it's successful for Overstock but probably less than 5% of their customers use Bitcoins

Spooked by Baidu? What are you talking about? Baidu got spooked by the Chinese government lol.

Go do some research before posting nonsense, please.

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probably less than 0,1 percent. yet.

still nearly noone uses bitcoin. how many years took it for paypal to get those 7 percent of online-payment market? the company was founded 1998 - good ol times. be prepared for bitcoin in 3 to 5 years. for amazon i expect at least yet another year.

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"Fly you fools"

Not to be pessimistic but Overstock.com could get spooked like Biadu and others.
They're just testing the waters.

I hope it's successful for Overstock but probably less than 5% of their customers use Bitcoins

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I think Amazon has to follow EXTREMELY soon. If they're working on building delivery drones and Bitcoin can take only a few hours to set up with Bitpay, they gotta do it. Ok, it might take a bit longer for Amazon to set up Bitpay because of their gigantic scope and variety of products/services, but still, they can do it. And they will, soon.

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unsure, if amazon is taking bitcoins?

this very damn important website gives a hint (also written in an other thread)

www.isamazonalreadyacceptingbitcoin.com Grin

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Netflix are rumoured to be considering making a bitcoin announcement soon:
http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1ue9kh/max_keiser_netflix_considering_bitcoin/

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Quote from: runam0k on January 10, 2014, 11:01:27 AM

Amazon would be amazing.

Newegg, however, looks like being next.

I'm gonna venture a guess they will too. Which would be awesome. Love Newegg

Also is it surprising a US company would open it doors to btc to the US only? If that's shocking news to you, then idk what to tell you. Stop arguing about it

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Quote from: BTC-TK on January 10, 2014, 10:34:09 AM

They are still not officially accepting since it is not available for international payments (e.g. the whole world).

BS, international shipping from US E-Tailers is primitive and inconsistent at best. Hey they can barely sell to Canada. Overstock sells to Americans, Americans can buy there with Bitcoin.

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Quote from: pontiacg5 on January 10, 2014, 11:26:47 AM

Because it's a US site, in a US press release, and anything to do with international is moot to the target audience.

It is pointless to argue, so this is my last post on the matter.

I have made an illustration so people won't have their brain overheating.

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NewEgg is the rumour

ebay + Amazon - no chance in the near future

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In regards to who is next though I would love to see amazon or netflix get accepting

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Quote from: BTC-TK on January 10, 2014, 11:21:11 AM

Quote from: pontiacg5 on January 10, 2014, 11:07:46 AM

If I went on ebay.COM and I was in Uganda I would expect whatever I saw, seeing as how a US site is not generally trying to cater to Uganda customers Roll Eyes

Are you for serious? I didn't think it possible one could be this dumb. You've lived overseas for a while now, right? Does this really bring you that much of a shock that a US company doesn't mention the exclusion of foreign countries for bitcoin payments specifically? In what was mostly quick press releases, no less...

When they claim to begin accepting Bitcoin they don't specify that they don't really accept BTC for international shipments WHATSOEVER, ANYWHERE, not in ANY media. All I'm saying is that it's misleading to people who live outside of the U.S.(the vast majority) that actually take time to browse through their website ONLY because they accept BTC and selecting a product only to find out they cannot checkout with BTC, it's misleading and it's wrong. How can you possibly be this dull to miss the whole point?

Because it's a US site, in a US press release, and anything to do with international is moot to the target audience.

It is pointless to argue, so this is my last post on the matter.

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Sounds like a pointless argument.

Overstock officially accept bitcoin in the US.

They are working on officially accepting it globally.

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Quote from: pontiacg5 on January 10, 2014, 11:07:46 AM

If I went on ebay.COM and I was in Uganda I would expect whatever I saw, seeing as how a US site is not generally trying to cater to Uganda customers Roll Eyes

Are you for serious? I didn't think it possible one could be this dumb. You've lived overseas for a while now, right? Does this really bring you that much of a shock that a US company doesn't mention the exclusion of foreign countries for bitcoin payments specifically? In what was mostly quick press releases, no less...

When they claim to begin accepting Bitcoin they don't specify that they don't really accept BTC for international shipments WHATSOEVER, ANYWHERE, not in ANY media. All I'm saying is that it's misleading to people who live outside of the U.S.(the vast majority) that actually take time to browse through their website ONLY because they accept BTC and selecting a product only to find out they cannot checkout with BTC, it's misleading and it's wrong. How can you possibly be this dull to miss the whole point?

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Quote from: BTC-TK on January 10, 2014, 10:49:48 AM

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Quote from: BTC-TK on January 10, 2014, 10:41:15 AM

Quote from: pontiacg5 on January 10, 2014, 10:37:28 AM

Quote from: BTC-TK on January 10, 2014, 10:34:09 AM

They are still not officially accepting since it is not available for international payments (e.g. the whole world).

Maybe to you, but to me overstock.com accepts bitcoin. Trying to dispute that fact is just dumb. Overstock.com IS accepting bitcoin.

Coinbase and overstock are both US companies, by the way.

Just seems to me that it is a little misleading and egocentric to claim that overstock now "officially" accepts BTC when they only accept it in the U.S.

weather it is 1 country or many they still accept it somewhere and as they tweeted they are working on accepting it globally.

Then once they do it would be appropriate to open this thread, imagine you clicking on a "Ebay now accepts Bitcoin!" thread in awe, going on eBay.com, selecting a beautiful golden watch only to find out after an hour long wait in support that they only accept BTC in Uganda.

I was pretty pissed since I still want that watch but I don't want to reward them for wasting my time and essentially being no different than Amazon/eBay or anyone else...

If I went on ebay.COM and I was in Uganda I would expect whatever I saw, seeing as how a US site is not generally trying to cater to Uganda customers Roll Eyes

Are you for serious? I didn't think it possible one could be this dumb. You've lived overseas for a while now, right? Does this really bring you that much of a shock that a US company doesn't mention the exclusion of foreign countries for bitcoin payments specifically? In what was mostly quick press releases, no less...

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Quote from: BitcoinBarrel on January 10, 2014, 10:54:37 AM

I think Amazon will be jumping on board soon, hopefully. Ebay and PayPal are buddies and PayPal hates Bitcoin so I don't see that happening. Amazon has always been at the forefront of the internet and if they are smart they will understand Bitcoin's potential.

I hope you are right. Amazon has more than 50 times as much sales revenue as Overstock. (About 61 billion versus 1.1.billion)

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