Uptick in sales of Casascius Coins - page 2.

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Quote from: thezerg on June 27, 2012, 02:35:28 PM

Someone needs to hit a B&N and take a photo of it sitting in the racks... B&N is a good half hour away from me. BTW I just bought a couple Casascius coins for gifts; this thread reminded me of 'em. Thx!

The magazine won't be in the racks of B&N until maybe September. It takes a while to process even after the contract is signed (which it is). Asking them to stock it is productive though.

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Someone needs to hit a B&N and take a photo of it sitting in the racks... B&N is a good half hour away from me. BTW I just bought a couple Casascius coins for gifts; this thread reminded me of 'em. Thx!

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Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on June 27, 2012, 01:41:00 PM

Quote from: TehZomB on June 27, 2012, 01:38:08 PM

I grabbed one because someone said it was a good way to show someone that bitcoins are a real representation of value.

Forgot where I saw that post.

The best way to show someone that Bitcoin is a real representation of value is to show them Bitcoin Magazine. Why would Barnes & Noble carry a magazine about a scam ponzi scheme no-value fake currency afterall?

good point.

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Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on June 27, 2012, 01:41:00 PM

Quote from: TehZomB on June 27, 2012, 01:38:08 PM

I grabbed one because someone said it was a good way to show someone that bitcoins are a real representation of value.

Forgot where I saw that post.

The best way to show someone that Bitcoin is a real representation of value is to show them Bitcoin Magazine. Why would Barnes & Noble carry a magazine about a scam ponzi scheme no-value fake currency afterall?

Point taken.

EDIT: Ordered the mag

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Quote from: TehZomB on June 27, 2012, 01:38:08 PM

I grabbed one because someone said it was a good way to show someone that bitcoins are a real representation of value.

Forgot where I saw that post.

The best way to show someone that Bitcoin is a real representation of value is to show them Bitcoin Magazine. Why would Barnes & Noble carry a magazine about a scam ponzi scheme no-value fake currency afterall?

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I grabbed one because someone said it was a good way to show someone that bitcoins are a real representation of value.

Forgot where I saw that post.

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I grabbed one because of this thread. Wink

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Quote from: casascius on June 27, 2012, 11:22:32 AM

Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on June 27, 2012, 11:21:08 AM

Not that I would toot my own horn (*gasp* "Completely unlike matthew!") but given that everyone I handed a magazine to in Korea, everyone that my reps in the USA handed to etc all commented immediately on the Casascius coin, I would say that your advertisement paid off.

Hope you bought more than one spot! Wink

I am in for next month, same ad, but with the (gold plated B) silver coin as the centerpiece rather than the gold coin.

That's a much better choice in retrospect.

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Quote from: Matthew N. Wright on June 27, 2012, 11:21:08 AM

Not that I would toot my own horn (*gasp* "Completely unlike matthew!") but given that everyone I handed a magazine to in Korea, everyone that my reps in the USA handed to etc all commented immediately on the Casascius coin, I would say that your advertisement paid off.

Hope you bought more than one spot! Wink

I am in for next month, same ad, but with the (gold plated B) silver coin as the centerpiece rather than the gold coin.

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Congrats! Not that I would toot my own horn (*gasp* "Completely unlike matthew!") but given that everyone I handed a magazine to in Korea, everyone that my reps in the USA handed to etc all commented immediately on the Casascius coin, I would say that your advertisement paid off.

Hope you bought more than one spot! Wink

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The Casascius 1oz 10BTC Silver Round (w/ Gold B)

Quote from: waspoza on June 27, 2012, 03:10:37 AM

Do you have pictures of silver 10 btc gold plated? Cannot find it on your site.

Have a look at this image on the wiki, which is a clipped piece of my recent Bitcoin Magazine ad.

https://en.bitcoin.it/w/images/en/e/e1/Casascius_25btc_size_compare.jpg

Here is a reduced size version:

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Quote from: casascius on June 27, 2012, 10:59:08 AM

I will update the website later today (...)

If you generally like sales upticks, update it with some images of the different coin types. You need to show these 5 BTC Coins, silver coins etc. more! People just don't like buying gimmicks when not even knowing what they look like! I've been hinting at this for a while... if you don't like sales upticks, then I dunno. Tongue

Anyway, thank you for the indicator! Either the magazine has more impact than expected, or something else is going on there...!

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Quote from: farfiman on June 27, 2012, 09:30:54 AM

Quote from: casascius on June 26, 2012, 11:00:59 PM

For what it's worth, I have seen a recent increase in the volume of sales of Casascius Coins, yet I haven't done anything recently to prompt it. By recent, I mean over the past week, and the average volume is probably double the quantity of orders and many of them are larger than average.

I suppose it could mean anything - maybe there was a posting somewhere that got a lot of attention, or maybe a popular gift-giving day is coming up that I just haven't realized. Maybe we've reached a hump of BTC price spurting and people now want to spend some coins. Your guess may be as good as or better than mine, I thought I would throw it out there, just for what it's worth.

It means bitcoin magazines ( with the ad) are finally being delivered everywhere :p

Think so as well

Was just handing the magazine over to a friend of mine and he asked me about it

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Curious - seeing some rise in interest here as well: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitstamp-usd-strange-activity-and-how-its-causing-overall-arbitrage-90217

I've also literally had my first ever contacts to buy BTC via localbitcoins.com in the last days - 3 in total, 2 within minutes of each other, oddly. Will have to find out where they heard about it from.

(Don't take this as thread-jacking, just trying to draw a few threads together.)

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Your gold coins seems to have come down in price? Is that correct?

I have been introducing people to BTC and since they are not the most tech smart I have been sending them your way. You will odds are get a $5,000 to $10,000 order in the next week or so and sooner 1 (maybe two) of the gold coins will be bought.

I may very well be able to dump the minimum reserve on the gold coin just by offsetting the gold price with a buy elsewhere on the market, and I am in a position where I can now easily do that. Gold has fallen enough that the reserve is outright silly. So yes it's fallen due to the BTC exchange rate, but I intend to drop it even more so it's a simple $200-over-spot with no reserve.

I will update the website later today, but can accept an order where the correct calculation is figured and paid regardless of what my website says.

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Quote from: casascius on June 27, 2012, 12:19:21 AM

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When I first introduced the coins, it was the Christmas shopping season, and I had a really hard time keeping them in stock, with individual orders of 50+ and 100+ coins being regular. Through the months of 5-dollar bitcoins orders were relatively slow, just a few orders a week and almost always small. I haven't made marketing Casascius coins a huge priority, for example my website could use some new photos (and some more robust hosting), I presume that if I put more effort into it I'll sell more coins, but simply have other priorities that have kept me from it.

I've used them for Christmas presents. No-one had a clue (or looked like they cared) what these shiny things were/are, but I told them that they were "worth" about $3 USD. I can't wait to see the faces next Christmas when I tell them what they are worth then (I hope they remember where they put them!).

Also - great item to have in your pocket just in case some asks you about bitcoin (which frequently happens if you wear a bitcoin t-shirt or use a bitcoin coffee mug at work).

Thanks Mike!

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consider putting up google analytics on your site, it will provide you with stats about your traffic and where it comes from if you're not using some local web stats tracking software

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Quote from: casascius on June 26, 2012, 11:00:59 PM

For what it's worth, I have seen a recent increase in the volume of sales of Casascius Coins, yet I haven't done anything recently to prompt it. By recent, I mean over the past week, and the average volume is probably double the quantity of orders and many of them are larger than average.

I suppose it could mean anything - maybe there was a posting somewhere that got a lot of attention, or maybe a popular gift-giving day is coming up that I just haven't realized. Maybe we've reached a hump of BTC price spurting and people now want to spend some coins. Your guess may be as good as or better than mine, I thought I would throw it out there, just for what it's worth.

It means bitcoin magazines ( with the ad) are finally being delivered everywhere :p

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Mike you forgot you placed a big ad in bitcoin magazine for these?

Also, this video of buying a Casascius coin from a vending machine is on page 2 of youtube search for "bitcoin" currently at 6300+ views.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2K6nNj_LEE

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I've been watching Casascius coins for a while now but never purchased one. Perhaps it is time for that to change. Great product.

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