Topic: [RARE] Six BTCC Artist’s-Proof One Bitcoin Coins For Sale (Read 2071 times)

I am not a fan of raffles...you toss away coins with bad chances of winning. I think running an auction with all of them at once is the way to roll.

The problem with raffles is that they're actually gambling. Operating gambling business is regulated.

Look forward for release in thread here

Could just do a raffle, would eliminate the script chance, allow people an opportunity, and people won't get mad about web code.

They'll just say that the blockchain raffle was rigged

Hi everyone,

The big sale is now over, along with the promotional offerings of these 6 "artist's proof" coins.  All 6 have been sold.  You guys were fast!   

There has been some discussion about whether scripts were used.  I frankly don't know.  From the perspective of a web front store, that's hard to tell, and we didn't have the capability to filter out scripting.  (A sufficiently smart script is indistinguishable from a well-behaved web browser.)  What I do know, is that you had to be lucky, to click on the page just at the right time, to get allocation and ability to add to the shopping cart, and then successfully checkout.

The purpose of this "special", is just to give a lucky price break to people who was there at the right time to buy the coin at a good price.  It was in conjunction to the promotion for our big sales event.  In the end, there were only a few coins available, so by nature, there was no single fairest way to sell them.  (Remember, not all of our customers are members of Bitcoin Talk, so an auction-only way was not enough.)  So in the end, we decided to sell some of them via this method, and then sell a few more via auction. 

We will announce the auction soon, so that you may bid on them if you didn't get to buy it on the store.

thanks,
Bobby

There was only 6 for sale anyway. All 6 have now been purchased. The remainder of the 10 or 11 they said they had, will be auctioned on the forum.

Well, no one can complain now.  It's been completely removed from the site. 

They said 6 coins will be available in the shop. There were 6 coins available in the shop, at 11am and 11pm times. They did exactly what they said they would.

I did not use a script. However, I suspect that the last two coins were bought with a script.

Fair?

This is what you call fair??

You exploit a flaw in the system to get the very first coin, somehow get "lucky" enough to get another one - you then go and sell them to private buyers at inflated prices to line your own pockets - and then you manage to get yet ANOTHER coin as well?!

You call this fair?? Right.

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I have been trying, like everyone else, to get one of these coins at the allotted time. There is no chance in hell that a human is making those coins disappear so quickly. This is a script. End of. And until it is proven differently, my stance on that remains firm.

Oh that's odd then...

Only ones left are the Auction ones. Be interesting to see how that goes.

It appears the more unscrupulous collectors/traders are using scripts (allegedly) to ninja the purchase.

So, that's put me right off future "specials" from BTCC... as in .. whats the point?

In my view, the more recent past has shown BTCC struggle to issue coins on a fair basis. The releases are in disarray and collectors feel like they are being gouged on some items. All in all, it's not been a pleasant experience. A shame as it started so well.

Anyhoo, there's plenty of other coins out there that are in fact rarer, and in some cases, more desirable, my ire will pass and cool stuff will appear, the world turns and we all move on.

Viz

Has nothing to do with luck. Someone was either using a script or a bot, and I confirmed this on the last order today. They ordered it within <2-3 seconds which is impossible for a human. This applies for the last two orders. I can not say anything regarding the previous ones as I was not there to witness them.

It's possibly because it's waiting for payment from whoever got the one that was available.
Well done to the ones who were lucky enough! 

something is wrong

the coin is available but keeps saying sold out on going to cart but coming back , its still there


EDIT : sold out now

What is happening?

OK ...

Not amused
staying up til 3am to get a coin is fkin annoying as it is .... then to find I'm getting screwed anyway by crap web code.... FFS
BTCC ... you failed.

*grumble

Viz

Well, get me one!

Weird... seems they have serious webcart bugs.

I managed to add this one to cart, but did not win it.

Damn I should have waited for it
Next time maybe

No. This same thing happened last night too. The coin showed up for sale some time after 11am(utc+8). I don't know when exactly, but it did.

Edit: And now while I was writing this, it did! At 11:06.