My first impressions were back when it was still in beta, using testcoins. I was amazed at how good the interface was, even at that early stage. It was the first time I actually felt like it would be worth opening a store. There's so much crap involved with opening on etsy and the rest. This holds a vision of a much better future if we can break through the inertia built up by the old system.
Even now, there are some great stores operating on OB and it will only get better.
Topic: OpenBazaar Opened , your first impressions ? (Read 17091 times)
The point Trade was meant to be free would attract a lot.No terms and conditions to sign,no central authorities for restricting the trade seems good.Beating Ebay is far away from reality now as it is such a big giant in online shopping.But it can gain popularity among bitcoin community.
I am not familiar with Openbazaar as i have never tried it but at the same time i don't heard a lot about this project. For me it provides neither more nor less than a way obvious to trade "under the radar" and a commercial activity through it while avoiding taxs.
I think it is a great project which will give rise to the market of bitcoins. We can beat eBay in the future if we are able to bring more people in the bitcoins market, however this needs a lot of time. I haven't started selling goods in the OpenBazaar but i will surely in future.
The point Trade was meant to be free would attract a lot.No terms and conditions to sign,no central authorities for restricting the trade seems good.Beating Ebay is far away from reality now as it is such a big giant in online shopping.But it can gain popularity among bitcoin community.
I'm not very impressed with OpenBazaar I think there is still lot of space for improvements. The offer could be better also as the number and quality of sellers.
Still the concept of trade available to everyone is good so hope that with time it will reach the standards and popularity of eBay or Amazon.
Still the concept of trade available to everyone is good so hope that with time it will reach the standards and popularity of eBay or Amazon.
Why would there be more quality sellers when almost all Bitcoiners do not really have enough Bitcoins to spend? They have fiat and why do they need to convert to Bitcoin just to use OpenBazaar? Google is a much easier option to use to find items you want to buy with fiat and credit cards.
very good point.
Its just another option of paying and for much more faster transaction. As you can see people today wanted also to purchase items from different parts of the world and are tired of going to banks to convert their local money to dollars so they can send someone abroad to pay for the ordered items he made. Bitcoin on the other hand is much easier to access, even without going out of the house you can still send you payments via bitcoin to the seller with ease without even going to the bank. It saves time and it saves money from transportation fee.
I'm not very impressed with OpenBazaar I think there is still lot of space for improvements. The offer could be better also as the number and quality of sellers.
Still the concept of trade available to everyone is good so hope that with time it will reach the standards and popularity of eBay or Amazon.
Still the concept of trade available to everyone is good so hope that with time it will reach the standards and popularity of eBay or Amazon.
Why would there be more quality sellers when almost all Bitcoiners do not really have enough Bitcoins to spend? They have fiat and why do they need to convert to Bitcoin just to use OpenBazaar? Google is a much easier option to use to find items you want to buy with fiat and credit cards.
I'm not very impressed with OpenBazaar I think there is still lot of space for improvements. The offer could be better also as the number and quality of sellers.
Still the concept of trade available to everyone is good so hope that with time it will reach the standards and popularity of eBay or Amazon.
Still the concept of trade available to everyone is good so hope that with time it will reach the standards and popularity of eBay or Amazon.
Why would there be more quality sellers when almost all Bitcoiners do not really have enough Bitcoins to spend? They have fiat and why do they need to convert to Bitcoin just to use OpenBazaar? Google is a much easier option to use to find items you want to buy with fiat and credit cards.
I'm not very impressed with OpenBazaar I think there is still lot of space for improvements. The offer could be better also as the number and quality of sellers.
Still the concept of trade available to everyone is good so hope that with time it will reach the standards and popularity of eBay or Amazon.
how could offers be better? Still the concept of trade available to everyone is good so hope that with time it will reach the standards and popularity of eBay or Amazon.
I'm not very impressed with OpenBazaar I think there is still lot of space for improvements. The offer could be better also as the number and quality of sellers.
Still the concept of trade available to everyone is good so hope that with time it will reach the standards and popularity of eBay or Amazon.
Still the concept of trade available to everyone is good so hope that with time it will reach the standards and popularity of eBay or Amazon.
The point of openbazaar is not in using bitcoin. The point is a p2p marketplace which is not controled by no authority and does not have no middlemen between buyer and seller. At least, this is what OB creators claim. Bitcoin is just a form of payment which allows automated escrow. OB success will depend on whether people really need such a decentralized marketplace or are they happy enough with ebay.
I don't think nobody is going to need anything more than ebay unless they want to buy drugs or avoid taxes, other than that, why would you use OpenBazzar I ask?
If you get paid in bitcoin, maybe you feel tempted to buy something, but as some pointed out... nobody is going to bother to convert fiat into bitcoin paying the exchange fees and waiting for the transactions to happen and so on, just to do the exactly same thing you could have done with regular fiat. Maybe in the future it will come handy, right now is just an experiment, or at least that is the case for developed countries, in other countries with no access to ebay it could be a big hit.
Countries with no access to ebay have access to plenty of other online marketplaces.
The point of openbazaar is not in using bitcoin. The point is a p2p marketplace which is not controled by no authority and does not have no middlemen between buyer and seller. At least, this is what OB creators claim. Bitcoin is just a form of payment which allows automated escrow. OB success will depend on whether people really need such a decentralized marketplace or are they happy enough with ebay.
I don't think nobody is going to need anything more than ebay unless they want to buy drugs or avoid taxes, other than that, why would you use OpenBazzar I ask?
If you get paid in bitcoin, maybe you feel tempted to buy something, but as some pointed out... nobody is going to bother to convert fiat into bitcoin paying the exchange fees and waiting for the transactions to happen and so on, just to do the exactly same thing you could have done with regular fiat. Maybe in the future it will come handy, right now is just an experiment, or at least that is the case for developed countries, in other countries with no access to ebay it could be a big hit.
nobody is using it... 
The point of openbazaar is not in using bitcoin. The point is a p2p marketplace which is not controled by no authority and does not have no middlemen between buyer and seller. At least, this is what OB creators claim. Bitcoin is just a form of payment which allows automated escrow. OB success will depend on whether people really need such a decentralized marketplace or are they happy enough with ebay.
This is a very positive start it's been so many months and I hardly knew about this. It's decent but to say it can take on eBay just cause it accepts Bitcoin is huge imagination. I don't think it can just beat eBay by use of Bitcoin, it will require more than Bitcoin heavy marketing needs to be done. More and more people should be using btc. Each and every country should accept Bitcoin then maybe.
I haven't looked at OpenBazaar since shortly after this thread was opened.
Have there been any improvements?
Have there been any improvements?
Everything should be available to read from their official blog : https://blog.openbazaar.org/ and there is definitely weekly improvements since the first day they released it . Unless they keep developing it and start doing some serious marketing and advertising the software even though Its decentralized , It will end up dead for sure.
This will never take off until governments all around the world remove physical cash and people start working for btc, then people will have a real incentive to use bitcoin to buy stuff, but right now, why would they bother with using crypto to buy stuff when they can use fiat? you need to first convert fiat to then get btc to then buy... too many steps.
I haven't looked at OpenBazaar since shortly after this thread was opened.
Have there been any improvements?
Have there been any improvements?
Everything should be available to read from their official blog : https://blog.openbazaar.org/ and there is definitely weekly improvements since the first day they released it . Unless they keep developing it and start doing some serious marketing and advertising the software even though Its decentralized , It will end up dead for sure.
https://blog.openbazaar.org/openbazaar-is-open-for-business/
We was all waiting for this moment since years , what is your first impression on this when you tested it ? Can we really beat eBay ?
You guys started selling your goods ? I personally didn't start ... yet .
We was all waiting for this moment since years , what is your first impression on this when you tested it ? Can we really beat eBay ?
You guys started selling your goods ? I personally didn't start ... yet .
I think I find it difficult to look for stuff to buy that is near from my country or seller from my country because the ship cost should be more expensive than the stuff itself when it is sent from the other country. so I do not try to buy things there yet.
Right now, I saw the first store and I think its pretty nice, now everyone can start such a store and it also looks pretty fine.
The downside is only that you can get scammed if you make such a website and someone makes a look a like from your one and sell the same with lower prices in my opinion.
It will not happen fast of course but its possible for sure.
The downside is only that you can get scammed if you make such a website and someone makes a look a like from your one and sell the same with lower prices in my opinion.
It will not happen fast of course but its possible for sure.
Can OpenBazaar Make Free Trade Unstoppable?
The mission of OpenBazaar is to give everyone in the world "the ability to directly engage in trade with anyone in the world for free," says Brian Hoffman, the project's 33-year-old project leader.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5F0Ohet0co
The mission of OpenBazaar is to give everyone in the world "the ability to directly engage in trade with anyone in the world for free," says Brian Hoffman, the project's 33-year-old project leader.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5F0Ohet0co
Are you the developer, producer, creator ?
I'm not , I'm just a simple bitcoiner like most of you on Bitcointalk.
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