Please start a BTC for physical gas card business

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Quote from: rodeoclownicp on December 10, 2014, 12:59:49 PM

Quote from: pr0d1gy on December 10, 2014, 02:05:33 AM

If anyone is still interested... Go on Gyft... Buy a Gamestop gift card for $25 or $50 (or multiples of). Gamestop sells giftcards that you can buy with Gamestop gift cards. Now to my point, they sell $25 & $50 Shell gas cards (may vary to your location). It may be limiting your choice for gas, but you can use it inside the store for anything like cash. They also sell cards for applebees, fridays, chillis, tacobell, subway, steam, itunes, xbox, psn, etc.. as well as other things that are on gyft..

prodigy whats up bro? hey 90% sure u cant buy gc with gc... i have tried-i admit it was not at gamestop. it was at wallmart, cv ,wallgreens

WAIT A SECOND-dude this is practically your thing-bro whats the word can u get it done? or at least help razick, he is having trouble with bitpay limit

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wts-fuel-cards-fuel-up-with-bitcoin-at-shell-exxon-chevron-bp-and-sunoco-879176

I know at most places they do not accept gift card for gift card, but for Gamestop I can verify 110% that they do. As I have been doing this for months, at various Gamestops, in my state and others... Just saying, this is a working method for gas cards.

not sure what you mean with the tread being "practically my thing", could you elaborate?

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Quote from: pr0d1gy on December 10, 2014, 02:05:33 AM

If anyone is still interested... Go on Gyft... Buy a Gamestop gift card for $25 or $50 (or multiples of). Gamestop sells giftcards that you can buy with Gamestop gift cards. Now to my point, they sell $25 & $50 Shell gas cards (may vary to your location). It may be limiting your choice for gas, but you can use it inside the store for anything like cash. They also sell cards for applebees, fridays, chillis, tacobell, subway, steam, itunes, xbox, psn, etc.. as well as other things that are on gyft..

prodigy whats up bro? hey 90% sure u cant buy gc with gc... i have tried-i admit it was not at gamestop. it was at wallmart, cv ,wallgreens

WAIT A SECOND-dude this is practically your thing-bro whats the word can u get it done? or at least help razick, he is having trouble with bitpay limit

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/wts-fuel-cards-fuel-up-with-bitcoin-at-shell-exxon-chevron-bp-and-sunoco-879176

pr0d1gy

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If anyone is still interested... Go on Gyft... Buy a Gamestop gift card for $25 or $50 (or multiples of). Gamestop sells giftcards that you can buy with Gamestop gift cards. Now to my point, they sell $25 & $50 Shell gas cards (may vary to your location). It may be limiting your choice for gas, but you can use it inside the store for anything like cash. They also sell cards for applebees, fridays, chillis, tacobell, subway, steam, itunes, xbox, psn, etc.. as well as other things that are on gyft..

Convicted2008

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I think I may get involved in this somehow. I live beside 3 major gas stations. Shell, Speedway, and Thortons.

Puppet

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gas stations and bitcoin are a perfect fit. Read an article a while ago that gas stations pay more in credit card fees than they make in profit.

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This sounds interesting. It would be nice to buy gas cards at a 1:1 rate but that would probably involve a whole company.

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It looks like good idea. Good Luck!

Razick

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I am offering pre-orders for Shell cards on this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.9703987

I am happy to sell other cards as well but I can't keep a big stock because cash is tight. Wink

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Quote from: rodeoclownicp on November 30, 2014, 08:25:02 PM

Quote from: Razick on November 30, 2014, 07:29:28 PM

Quote from: rodeoclownicp on November 30, 2014, 07:18:09 PM

Quote from: TheButterZone on November 30, 2014, 05:22:53 PM

Gas cards should be (or maybe they are) treated like credit and debit cards; they can't be used right out of the envelope, you have to call an automated activation service and put in the last 4 of your TIN, billing phone number, etc. Then as long as the thief doesn't know that, it wouldn't matter if card is stolen.

well when i say gas cards i mean a gift card but for a gas station- i am just trying to be able to buy a gift card for places that sell gas which are very common. just like a restaurant or clothing store gift card

How do you like the idea of buying a re-loadable card for a small one time fee and being able to add money at any time (there would be a delay before the funds are added, but usually within 12-24 hours) by sending money to a Bitcoin address?

There would be a one time fee of about $7.50 or so per card (including shipping) and after that a small (3% or so) fee to reload the card. About $3 of the fee would be direct expenses (the card companies charge fees and there is shipping to me and then to you.). So $4.50 - $5 would be profit and then the 3% fee would be partially profit and partially expenses such as running the website.

Only some brands (namely Shell) offer re-loadable cards though.

Here's the list of stations I plan to offer based on how common the stations are nationwide.:

Priorities (Shell and Exxon are common in all 50 states):

Shell
Exxon Mobile

If they seem to be selling I'll add these:

Chevron
Bp

And these and some others would be added if there is enough demand.

Sunoco
Phillips 66

way to go- i will try and help get the word out - as well as be a customer- just a thought - may even help simplify- what if i get my own card for sunoco and you load it for me. i was not aware of reloadable- also i would be happy with cards that already bought with a set amount (25,50,100) that are just shipped to me- almost like you just buy them and sell them for btc - i am just throwing some stuff out there

Sounds great. I am working on a website right now. I will probably buy a bulk order of refillable shell cards to start to help lower shipping costs. Sunoco doesn't have refillable cards, but I would still be happy to sell them. The only thing is that I don't want to order a bunch in advance since I don't have Sunoco stations where I live.

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Quote from: Razick on November 30, 2014, 07:29:28 PM

Quote from: rodeoclownicp on November 30, 2014, 07:18:09 PM

Quote from: TheButterZone on November 30, 2014, 05:22:53 PM

Gas cards should be (or maybe they are) treated like credit and debit cards; they can't be used right out of the envelope, you have to call an automated activation service and put in the last 4 of your TIN, billing phone number, etc. Then as long as the thief doesn't know that, it wouldn't matter if card is stolen.

well when i say gas cards i mean a gift card but for a gas station- i am just trying to be able to buy a gift card for places that sell gas which are very common. just like a restaurant or clothing store gift card

How do you like the idea of buying a re-loadable card for a small one time fee and being able to add money at any time (there would be a delay before the funds are added, but usually within 12-24 hours) by sending money to a Bitcoin address?

There would be a one time fee of about $7.50 or so per card (including shipping) and after that a small (3% or so) fee to reload the card. About $3 of the fee would be direct expenses (the card companies charge fees and there is shipping to me and then to you.). So $4.50 - $5 would be profit and then the 3% fee would be partially profit and partially expenses such as running the website.

Only some brands (namely Shell) offer re-loadable cards though.

Here's the list of stations I plan to offer based on how common the stations are nationwide.:

Priorities (Shell and Exxon are common in all 50 states):

Shell
Exxon Mobile

If they seem to be selling I'll add these:

Chevron
Bp

And these and some others would be added if there is enough demand.

Sunoco
Phillips 66

way to go- i will try and help get the word out - as well as be a customer- just a thought - may even help simplify- what if i get my own card for sunoco and you load it for me. i was not aware of reloadable- also i would be happy with cards that already bought with a set amount (25,50,100) that are just shipped to me- almost like you just buy them and sell them for btc - i am just throwing some stuff out there

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Quote from: rodeoclownicp on November 30, 2014, 07:18:09 PM

Quote from: TheButterZone on November 30, 2014, 05:22:53 PM

Gas cards should be (or maybe they are) treated like credit and debit cards; they can't be used right out of the envelope, you have to call an automated activation service and put in the last 4 of your TIN, billing phone number, etc. Then as long as the thief doesn't know that, it wouldn't matter if card is stolen.

well when i say gas cards i mean a gift card but for a gas station- i am just trying to be able to buy a gift card for places that sell gas which are very common. just like a restaurant or clothing store gift card

How do you like the idea of buying a re-loadable card for a small one time fee and being able to add money at any time (there would be a delay before the funds are added, but usually within 12-24 hours) by sending money to a Bitcoin address?

There would be a one time fee of about $7.50 or so per card (including shipping) and after that a small (3% or so) fee to reload the card. About $3 of the fee would be direct expenses (the card companies charge fees and there is shipping to me and then to you.). So $4.50 - $5 would be profit and then the 3% fee would be partially profit and partially expenses such as running the website.

Only some brands (namely Shell) offer re-loadable cards though.

Here's the list of stations I plan to offer based on how common the stations are nationwide.:

Priorities (Shell and Exxon are common in all 50 states):

Shell
Exxon Mobile

If they seem to be selling I'll add these:

Chevron
Bp

And these and some others would be added if there is enough demand.

Sunoco
Phillips 66

rodeoclownicp

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Quote from: TheButterZone on November 30, 2014, 05:22:53 PM

Gas cards should be (or maybe they are) treated like credit and debit cards; they can't be used right out of the envelope, you have to call an automated activation service and put in the last 4 of your TIN, billing phone number, etc. Then as long as the thief doesn't know that, it wouldn't matter if card is stolen.

well when i say gas cards i mean a gift card but for a gas station- i am just trying to be able to buy a gift card for places that sell gas which are very common. just like a restaurant or clothing store gift card-

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Gas cards should be (or maybe they are) treated like credit and debit cards; they can't be used right out of the envelope, you have to call an automated activation service and put in the last 4 of your TIN, billing phone number, etc. Then as long as the thief doesn't know that, it wouldn't matter if card is stolen.

Razick

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Quote from: rodeoclownicp on November 29, 2014, 11:39:06 PM

Quote from: Razick on November 28, 2014, 11:36:37 PM

I might be interested in doing this. What kind of gas cards would you want to have available?

finally, i want sunoco the most but bp, marathon, speedway, schell, mobil/711, texaco

i put them in order of most desired. let me know i will try to drum up some business

the best selling point would be for people that convert coin into cash could now keep there cash and trade coin for gas!!

I definitely like the idea, but here's a few questions to consider:

- What kind of markup would I be able to charge and still make it a good deal for customers?
- What about shipping costs? An uninsured envelope wouldn't cost much, but there is a risk of not receiving your order...
- Should I offer insurance? This could be an optional add on to orders.
- Would you like to have the option of refillable cards? That way you could send more Bitcoin and I'd just refill the cards with a small fee.
- What sizes do you see yourself purchasing most often?

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Quote from: Razick on November 28, 2014, 11:36:37 PM

I might be interested in doing this. What kind of gas cards would you want to have available?

finally, i want sunoco the most but bp, marathon, speedway, schell, mobil/711, texaco

i put them in order of most desired. let me know i will try to drum up some business

the best selling point would be for people that convert coin into cash could now keep there cash and trade coin for gas!!

Razick

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I might be interested in doing this. What kind of gas cards would you want to have available?

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This is a good idea actually.. can't believe one of the serial btc entrepreneurs hasn't started this yet.

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Quote from: jeffersonian2012 on November 21, 2014, 12:58:41 AM

This would be very helpful because my biggest expenses are food and gas. Once there is an easy solution to buy these things using BTC then I wouldn't have to worry about having too much fiat!

no worries, just give your oversupply currency to me Grin

stop spamming

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This would be very helpful because my biggest expenses are food and gas. Once there is an easy solution to buy these things using BTC then I wouldn't have to worry about having too much fiat!

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Would be nice.
+1.

Solid idea.

it would cut down on the need to convert btc ... keep the cash you would spend on gas and use your btc for gas... it would keep the value of btc high as well.... thanx for the plus 1

hell if somebody went to the store and bought a bunch and just started selling them it would work

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