You can actually buy stuff with Bitcoin!?

elux

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So I did actually buy stuff with Bitcoin. With personally minted coins. Feels good man.

I bought Counter-Strike from franco, and a Solar Powered Car from littlegood.
Looking to buy more things, but haven't found much of interest just yet. Other than this cute netbook.

Do you have something I want? Use the bear market to do some real trading. Increase consumer spending! Grin

TradersEdgeDice

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Yeah, this was to scratch an itch about going through the process of designing and manufacturing something. And I am a currency trader. It started before the advent of bitcoin. So, no BTC symbol.

I'm run a linux cloud server where I'm hosting a lot of paying clients so there is no cost in this little project.

It's already discounted for BTC. Maybe I can also throw in five dice of the next production run with BTC on it.

200 sets to go. It's not like that's a promise I can't keep.

gregwtmtno

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Quote from: TradersEdgeDice on February 03, 2012, 11:58:12 AM

Sold hundreds of my wares with paypal. Have yet to score a BTC sale.

I'm not a miner or a speculator. I am a merchant.

Right now, offering bitcoin payment as an option seems to be a matter of belief in cryptocurrency. That needs to change into offering bitcoin payment because that is where the money is.

Thanks for accepting bitcoin. Just try and stick with it. Out of curiosity, what are your business's biggest expenses? I think one great way to get more merchants to accept bitcoin is to have what they need available for bitcoin.

SgtSpike

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Quote from: TradersEdgeDice on February 03, 2012, 11:58:12 AM

Sold hundreds of my wares with paypal. Have yet to score a BTC sale.

I'm not a miner or a speculator. I am a merchant.

Right now, offering bitcoin payment as an option seems to be a matter of belief in cryptocurrency. That needs to change into offering bitcoin payment because that is where the money is.

Definitely harder on folks selling specialized items. For things like dice, it's a small crowd to begin with. And the number of people in that small crowd using Bitcoin is well, probably quite minuscule.

Thanks for offering your products for Bitcoins though. The more merchants that do it, the more people we can encourage to start using Bitcoin.

TradersEdgeDice

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Sold hundreds of my wares with paypal. Have yet to score a BTC sale.

I'm not a miner or a speculator. I am a merchant.

Right now, offering bitcoin payment as an option seems to be a matter of belief in cryptocurrency. That needs to change into offering bitcoin payment because that is where the money is.

gregwtmtno

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Yeah...I think the actual amount of money being spent as opposed to speculated with is pretty minimal...unless you count silk road. (And even then not so much)

tiberiandusk

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The North Remembers

Things are slow. People sign up then never sell anything. Undecided

Nicolai Larsen

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Earthling

I see 4 now?

tiberiandusk

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Quote from: bbit on February 01, 2012, 12:50:27 AM

Quote from: tiberiandusk on January 31, 2012, 11:38:26 PM

I'm still hanging in there. BitBid

you have no auctions ouch! Huh

They expired on the 31st and have been reposted.

Nicolai Larsen

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Earthling

Quote from: bbit on February 01, 2012, 12:50:27 AM

Quote from: tiberiandusk on January 31, 2012, 11:38:26 PM

I'm still hanging in there. BitBid

you have no auctions ouch! Huh

Yea, bitbid is pretty much dead. Luckily I found Bitmit instead who have a great deal of auctions.

bbit

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Quote from: tiberiandusk on January 31, 2012, 11:38:26 PM

I'm still hanging in there. BitBid

you have no auctions ouch! Huh

tiberiandusk

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The North Remembers

I'm still hanging in there. BitBid

bitcool

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Live and enjoy experiments

Bitmit is nice but what happened to biddingpond? It has been offline for quite a while.

chsados

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maybe one of you SEO pros could write a craigslist script to advertise hot items listed on bitmit to get some new users.

bitmit also needs to have a page dedicated to buying bitcoins. this is what i see holding bitcoin back from large adoption. if mtgox somehow allowed approved e-commerce websites access to the order book giving customers an easy way to buy bitcoins then users who stumble upon bitmit and wont have to spend a day and a half figuring out how to get btc in the first place.

imagine if a user saw an item of interest and could input his cc details and hit pay. behind the scenes the cc is used to purchase bitcoins at mtgox and instantly sends btc to the seller. this would obviously require mtgox to change the way it works which i doubt would ever happen.

SgtSpike

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Wow, there's actually a lot of stuff listed for sale there now. Much more than I ever saw at biddingpond.

Probably the biggest problem is feedback. You have to start somewhat small when selling with 0 feedback, else you'll lose big on the lower prices the items you list sell for.

Also, I love the icons indicating shipping details. Much clearer than eBay's setup.

MaxSan

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I would like to see it melted with sulphuric acid. High speed also required as i have a short attention span.

rjk

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1ngldh

Quote from: Nicolai Larsen on January 31, 2012, 03:35:31 PM

Quote from: nayrB16 on January 31, 2012, 10:02:55 AM

I have also successfully sold on Bitmit a radeon x1600 graphics card to be exact. I also have other items listed as well under nayrB16http://bitmit.net/en/trade/i/614-original-xbox/seller_info#

If I win the XBOX, will you be willing to destroy it in whatever way, while recording it? (I want the video Cheesy

)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWtxs5rl7jk
Sorry its not your particular XBOX, but that is FPSRussia using various firearms to destroy an XBOX - fun to watch Grin

Nicolai Larsen

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Quote from: nayrB16 on January 31, 2012, 10:02:55 AM

I have also successfully sold on Bitmit a radeon x1600 graphics card to be exact. I also have other items listed as well under nayrB16http://bitmit.net/en/trade/i/614-original-xbox/seller_info#

If I win the XBOX, will you be willing to destroy it in whatever way, while recording it? (I want the video Cheesy

)

elux

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Quote from: nayrB16 on January 31, 2012, 10:02:55 AM

http://bitmit.net/en/trade/i/614-original-xbox/seller_info#

2 BTC X-Box!!? Shocked

nayrB16

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I was lucky enough to solve block 121306

I have also successfully sold on Bitmit a radeon x1600 graphics card to be exact. I also have other items listed as well under nayrB16http://bitmit.net/en/trade/i/614-original-xbox/seller_info#

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