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Beating eBay? No way. Even if you have better script, support, etc you won't beat eBay. You'd need like $ 20K in SEO to beat them.

I don't think we need advertising at all , I mean as a Bitcoiner you will logically search for something that accepts Bitcoin and you will end up finding OpenBazaar .

what is your first impression on this when you tested it ?

Don't waste your time until they implement anonymity:
http://ohiobitcoin.com/ob1-ceo-brian-hoffman-explains-levels-of-anonymity-in-openbazaar/

Not sure about this Hoffman character. Also the nodeJS/python client/server architecture is bloated - I don't want to run all of this (likely insecure) shit on my machine. Sorry if it's a harsh review.

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 .

Hey, good catch. I did not realize they were UDP and incompatible with Tor. He did mention i2p as a possible future option.

It is totally ugly.  It reminds me of dungeons and dragons.  Dark and cold look.  What a piece of shit.  Will fail for certain.  Where can I buy a put option?

Beating eBay? No way. Even if you have better script, support, etc you won't beat eBay. You'd need like $ 20K in SEO to beat them.

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 .

I have a question,Will openbazaar act as escrow?How is buyers and sellers protected in Openbazaar?

The interface doesn't look nice. It's too dark, and the first available products aren't much exciting either, it' doesn't look professional. Then a major turn-off is that to use it you have to download a big file. I'd be happy to sell stuff via OpenBazaar though. I just wish it would look more like Amazon.

i'm curious how are they going to deal with customs charge for international shipping, what if the receiver, lies about the customs charge? are they adopting the ebey politic?

Good to hear that openbazar has finally started operation!

But why a web version is not available? Why do I need to download an app to use openbazar. This way, it is impossible to beat ebay, or any other ecommerce sites.

Developers of openbazar should think about it and make it available in the web so that people can start using it with ease.

Beating eBay? No way. Even if you have better script, support, etc you won't beat eBay. You'd need like $ 20K in SEO to beat them.

What am i doing wrong every thing i search for comes back no results, is it just because there is so little traffic at the mo.  how do i just browse?

Based on this current version, I don't think it could compete with Ebay yet. I'd be happy if there are like 1000+ stores on there with a good selection of interesting physical items.
I think they need to work on their UI, I'm not a big fan of it.

i'm curious how are they going to deal with customs charge for international shipping, what if the receiver, lies about the customs charge? are they adopting the ebey politic?

Mine couldn't boot up. Stuck in preparing for around 30 minutes (told me estimated time was 30 seconds). I checked the debug log and it was full of no neighbor found warnings. Maybe my location (Iran) is too far away ??

i just do my first purchase from there :) This market is really a bazaar. It has so many things to buy

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 .

Like everything so far it's going to need third parties to thrive. Very, very few people are going to run an actual program on their machines. That's not how most of the world operates.

Lol do you even Bitcoin? :D

i'm curious how are they going to deal with customs charge for international shipping, what if the receiver, lies about the customs charge? are they adopting the ebey politic?

Like everything so far it's going to need third parties to thrive. Very, very few people are going to run an actual program on their machines. That's not how most of the world operates.

You need to run an actual program (web browser) to use amazon or ebay. Think about how many people with computers use a web browser. I'm betting it's more the 99%.

Browsers are used to access absolutely everything. If I had to fire up a new program for every site I'd abandon the internet. Sure, a few eggheads are going to go for it. Regular humans won't even dream of it.

Like everything so far it's going to need third parties to thrive. Very, very few people are going to run an actual program on their machines. That's not how most of the world operates.

at least the same that are running the bitcoin client will run this client, and many gamers also or tech savy enough will run it

average joe will be forced when bitcoin will be big enough, not that time for the moment...

i'm curious how are they going to deal with customs charge for international shipping, what if the receiver, lies about the customs charge? are they adopting the ebey politic?

for first time i was thought it,i wonder how deal with it,but i now i think open bazaar will not take any responsibility about fraud or if peoplelies each other,its pure seller and costumer responsbility.

Browsers are used to access absolutely everything. If I had to fire up a new program for every site I'd abandon the internet. Sure, a few eggheads are going to go for it. Regular humans won't even dream of it.

Of course it will not be able to compete with ebay.And I don't think this is the goal. This is just the first version and improvements and new features will come over time.
Furthermore the crypto space is way too small at the moment and therefore OB will not be a threat to any of the marketplaces out there.
But it is the first decentralized marketplace on top of Bitcoin which is pretty cool and more interesting things will come.

...
presumably you use the mobile Safari browser to access your Facebook, Instagram & Snapchat accounts on your iPhone?

and, do you even Bitcoin?

Who said that you could?

I was replying to someone who evoked it. Problem?

I heard about OpenBazaar first time back in 2014.I have been waiting for it to see what positive changes it brings in gigital market.I have download it from the very first day but didn't make any transaction yet.It looks impressive so far.

The interface doesn't look nice. It's too dark, and the first available products aren't much exciting either, it' doesn't look professional. Then a major turn-off is that to use it you have to download a big file. I'd be happy to sell stuff via OpenBazaar though. I just wish it would look more like Amazon.

The interface doesn't look nice. It's too dark, and the first available products aren't much exciting either, it' doesn't look professional. Then a major turn-off is that to use it you have to download a big file. I'd be happy to sell stuff via OpenBazaar though. I just wish it would look more like Amazon.

Couldn't get it to work, guess I'll wait for another less buggy release.

Doesn't work for me too also. I couldn't connect after half an hour of trying.
I was excited to try it, but what to do. We will need to wait some update or new release.
I hope everything will be ok soon.

it's just 70MB...

81.8 MB so it's quite substantial. It's larger than Mozilla Firefox and Multibit put together, and you can't ignore that you don't need to download anything to use Ebay or Amazon. I guess there should 2 versions of the software. A very light one, then a big one to those who have something to sell.

When you publish that listing, it is sent out to the distributed p2p network of other people using OpenBazaar. Anyone who searches for the keywords you’ve used—laptop, electronics, etc—will find your listing.

...
I am intrigued how this works on P2P. https://blog.openbazaar.org/what-is-openbazaar/ :
How will this work with millions of advertisements? How does the network search for the keyword? Does every user download the entire list of articles for sale?

Not too well, apparently :(

http://s9.postimg.org/e7smd436n/Capture.png

Here's a browser search front end for OB https://bazaarbay.org (not really up for installing an unknown app).

this is like the next greatest invetion after Crypto

and its complementary

And that's why It's "Open source" so you are ready to install an unknown app .

I hope this keeps developing. I found the search feature to be very poor. And some of the prices were absurd. Look at the example below.

https://bazaarbay.org/151da9f848720b160a005957f7b5294964290ae2/listing/f91fe2e3c72c298b383c0ae0b9a7328fb1dbdfee

They are asking $330 for 100 rounds of .556 TulAmmo. That is $3.30 per round for shitty steel case ammo. Please.

Are you using a PC or a phone? My Firefox browser cache alone is much bigger than 80 MB.
I am getting curious after all the feedback, so I will try it on an old laptop

If Lightening Networks can be half as successful as Open Bazarre, things will be looking good for this coin, and price will raise. There like peenut butter and jams.

Then it tries to help me delete system32. Is this normal?

Damned thing! It seems I can't even close the software without being connected, which I'm unable to do. There's that full width nav bar on top of the window, but there's nothing on it. I'll have to close it via the Windows' task manager.

Is this still a beta release?

It's not a normal behavior.Did you download the correct application ? System32 is your main system file,deleting which,your computer may never start and result in formatting your driver.However ,I could not make out how come Harddisk space and system 32 has to do with each other ? Are you using a Virtual PC ?

I think it's deserve a try, that's good to see a open source marketplace supporting Bitcoin as payment method

... b]It only supports bitcoin as its primary payment ...

... Ebay is great for that and I still use it, but their fees are fucking outrageous.  I'm sure all of you know that, plus the whole PayPal thing.

I would like to check out OB if/when I get a new desktop computer.

http://s14.postimg.org/vpp99df35/Capture.png

 ???

snipe

...
you have an option to use your local currency as your price. but people still have to pay in btc.

Are you sure? How would this even be enforced?

I don't have an option to pay from my currency,it shows bitcoins by default.When I open the app and see the default items on list ,the bitcoin pins I guess,the amount is shown in bitcoins.Not sure if there is a way to modify it.However its better with bitcoins right,anonymous and decentralized.

well I'm not sure how to answer that. I guess it can't be enforced.
but if someone bought something using some other currency outside of OpenBazaar (they only allow btc transaction) they won't be able leave a review because you're only allowed to leave a review when there's a record of the bitcoin transaction (not sure how it works in-depth). ...

If you both agree to a price, the client creates a contract between you both with your digital signatures, and sends it to a third party called a moderator. These moderators are also folks on the OpenBazaar network—could be your neighbor or someone across the world—who the buyer and seller trust in case something goes wrong. The third party witnesses the contract and creates a multisignature Bitcoin account (multisig) that requires two of three people to agree before the Bitcoin can be released.

The buyer then sends the agreed upon amount to the multisig address. You get a notification saying the buyer has sent the funds, and you ship the laptop to them and mark that it has been shipped. The buyer receives it a few days later, and they mark it received, which releases the funds from multisig to you. You got your Bitcoin, the buyer got the laptop; no fees paid, no one stopped your trade, everyone’s happy.
What if something goes wrong?

As we all know, things don’t always go smoothly. What if you’re buying a certain book from a seller, you pay the multisig, and they ship you the wrong one, or it was in poorer condition than advertised, or they don’t even send a product at all?

This is where the third party comes in. Remember that a multisig requires two of three people to agree in order to move the Bitcoin. They control the third key to the multisig, so the funds will not move until either the buyer and seller work out an arrangement themselves, or the third party agrees with either the buyer or seller on how to deal with the transaction and funds in multisig.

http://s14.postimg.org/vpp99df35/Capture.png

 ???


Think of the money you save by not needing a new desktop computer tho :)
P.S. You don't have to use PP on eBay you know. http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/choosing-a-payment-method-on-ebay.html

--snipe--

that's... disturbing.  :-\
unless they do something about that, people will have to rely on a really trusted users from outside of OB.
though that article you quoted doesn't have anything to do with what I said. you don't need to use a moderator to leave a review.

Chicken or egg problem. They have no choice but to have overly permissive access to mod/arbitrator accounts, as potential sellers cannot even build up good feedback scores from buying from other sellers (because no-one has an OB tx history). Think about it: this problem will only have been worse for the early eBay, and their early customers probably solved the problem the same way you're thinking.

You might just find a good Desktop for sale at opening ceremony of OpenBaazar  ::) I'd suggest you to go for an assembled Desktop with Ubuntu.

Early eBay didn't base its business on anonymity -- the parties involved were (at least in theory) known to a trusted third party called eBay.
Given a choice of trusting Anon from the interweb or a registered business with IRL address and stuff... well... call me a statist corporate sheep, but I feel a touch safer wit eBay :-\

Christ I need to get out more.  I don't even know what Ubuntu is.  Wasn't kidding about being a recluse, and I don't watch TV either and so I don't find out about these things unless I come here.  This section is much nicer than the bitcoin part of bitcointalk.  You guys snipe each other like a mound of bitches but the vibe is much different.

Yep, you're a statist coporate sheep alright. Do you even Bitcoin? Can you reply without lying/trolling? The answer's "no", isn't it

Carlton my boy, odds are I sold you your first coin. Your recent asshattery on this forum makes me doing that to you ... well, almost morally justifiable :)

You won't have any qualms proving it then.

Sign a message from a pre-2014 tx and it's possible that someone might believe your "OG Bitcoiner brah" claims. I'm waiting.

Christ I need to get out more.  I don't even know what Ubuntu is.  Wasn't kidding about being a recluse, and I don't watch TV either and so I don't find out about these things unless I come here.  This section is much nicer than the bitcoin part of bitcointalk.  You guys snipe each other like a mound of bitches but the vibe is much different.

You might just find a good Desktop for sale at opening ceremony of OpenBaazar  ::) I'd suggest you to go for an assembled Desktop with Ubuntu.

Ubuntu is a popular flavor of Linux, a PC operating system.  The good thing about Linux is it's free, and has plenty of free software that's almost, though not quite, as good as the fancy store-bought (or pirated) Windows counterpart. It's also much easier to tinker with, since it's [mostly] open source.
OTOH, it's unlikely that you are a tinkerer if you don't own a computer, and most pretty much all computers come with Windows pre-installed when you buy them.
If it matters, less than 2% of laptops/desktops use Linux (so ~1 in 100 computers runs Ubuntu).
http://s30.postimg.org/e9t9w6dy9/Capture.gif
So I'd say brave the outside & buy yourself a cheap new laptop if you have the money, cheap used crappy laptop if you don't, and a cheap desktop (remember, you also need to buy a monitor [screen, display], mouse & keyboard & a cheap wifi adapter for that) if really broke.
Plus side: Life will become 100% better.

close it from taskbar.

I tried, but it didn't work... But I've just launched it, and I'm pleased to see that OB is working today. But I haven't understood why it wasn't working yesterday. Hey, if I want to use OB for business, I need 100% reliability. I wonder how OB will compete against Ethereum.

I guess success will come from users, if there are enough people offering interesting products or services. Could it be possible to build a new Silk Road market out of OB?

I tried, but it didn't work... But I've just launched it, and I'm pleased to see that OB is working today. But I haven't understood why it wasn't working yesterday. Hey, if I want to use OB for business, I need 100% reliability.

Try using Linux or Mac, Windows (and the way the other apps you have installed on your PC manifest themselves with Windows) is likely making any early problems with OB much worse than they really are. Microsoft have always had a bad record with supervising different bits of software to play nice with one another.

I think in my country nobody is selling nothing here... so it's just waste for me  :-\

maybe. but you can still ship stuff from overseas. the shipping fee can be a killer depending on where you live though.

brb, buying a Mac to run OB :D

I don't think we need advertising at all , I mean as a Bitcoiner you will logically search for something that accepts Bitcoin and you will end up finding OpenBazaar .

I googled "Accepts Bitcoin" and didn't find openbazàar. The other user is correct. Advertising is the very next step. If people don't know of your business, it will not succeed.

I googled "Accepts Bitcoin" and didn't find openbazàar. The other user is correct. Advertising is the very next step. If people don't know of your business, it will not succeed.

SEO optimization took a quite long time,it'll probably still being optimized right now,although google adwords is really effective way for advertising,should try it out

I think it needs some stuff ironed out as does Bitcoin itself before it's pushed towards the wider world. Right now I think it's best if it remains in the hands of the believers.

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 .

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 .

Try using Linux or Mac, Windows (and the way the other apps you have installed on your PC manifest themselves with Windows) is likely making any early problems with OB much worse than they really are. Microsoft have always had a bad record with supervising different bits of software to play nice with one another.

Bad advice! Sorry to point it out, but Windows is the most successful OS on the planet by far, so if OB wants to be successful as well, it needs to work perfectly on Windows. Pleasing Windows users is more important than pleasing Mac users.

No it isn't. Using Windows for almost anything is unwise for all sorts of other reasons, too many to list, and those reasons are unlikely ever to change not in Microsoft's interest). Window's dominance of the market is not what I would call a success, and comments like only serve to continue the entrenchment.

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If it matters, less than 2% of laptops/desktops use Linux (so ~1 in 100 computers runs Ubuntu).
http://s30.postimg.org/e9t9w6dy9/Capture.gif
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OB offers very little privacy and nothing that offers a trustworthy transaction.
I can't really see it go anywhere without those basic features.

I can't remember having agreed on something you have said, but this time I do agree with you. I don't see much special things that will bring us something refreshing. I think it will get hyped up at the very beginning, and end up being left aside after 6 months.

It's a few days old. Of course it's going to be a long way from being match fit. The incentive is there to improve it. Let's see what everyone comes up with before giving up.

To me, the launch was entirely unimpressive. I don't know there's potential of the numerous issues to be fixed because there are just too many. Definitely not worth the hype it received and although I'm a fan of the core idea, the implementation seems disastrous. Decentralization sounds nice in theory, but openbazaar, as it stands today, is inferior to eBay by a great margin.

Clean, easy to use. Needs a better directory, or categories of what is available. After 48 hours of tinkering, I like it. Adding an auction feature would definitely start cutting into eBay/PayPal's monopoly.

We have created a listing offering escrow/mediation service. Just search for CoinPro under listings. We will rebate the .0015 to the first 20 users that leave positive feedback.

The problem with a decentralized auction is, that the winner doesn't have to pay. You will have a lot of auction crashers. The people who really want to buy stuff will hardly get them. I mean, you even can write a script, that always offers 1 $ (edit: sorry 0.000whatever BTC) more than the last bid at every listing. Kind of OB DDos attacks for the lulz. ::)

OB offers very little privacy and nothing that offers a trustworthy transaction.
I can't really see it go anywhere without those basic features.

The problem with a decentralized auction is, that the winner doesn't have to pay. You will have a lot of auction crashers. The people who really want to buy stuff will hardly get them. I mean, you even can write a script, that always offers 1 $ (edit: sorry 0.000whatever BTC) more than the last bid at every listing. Kind of OB DDos attacks for the lulz. ::)

I don't see how it can beat ebay, you need a solid reason to convince people to use OpenBazaar.

Open Bizarre is the best bitcoin project to date 8)

Looks pretty successful to me :-\

But let's agree to disagree, if ignoring ~90% of potential userbase to minimize the market share is the objective, OB should focus on stable CP/M implementations.

I installed it tried to get it working for like 5 mins gave up.
There are hardly any instructions or anything.
It did not seem worth the effort it hardly does anything I can already use ebay or just meet ppl here to buy/sell stuff here on the forum.

I installed it tried to get it working for like 5 mins gave up.
There are hardly any instructions or anything.
It did not seem worth the effort it hardly does anything I can already use ebay or just meet ppl here to buy/sell stuff here on the forum.

You can't buy drugs on eBay

Bad advice! Sorry to point it out, but Windows is the most successful OS on the planet by far, so if OB wants to be successful as well, it needs to work perfectly on Windows. Pleasing Windows users is more important than pleasing Mac users.

at last they finally open the market. Haven't bought nothing there yet because it is still too small and with very few things. Once it gets big with a lot more products many more people will start to use it

i think ebay wont worry as chinese will always flood them with sales

but a website i can see being affected is etsy, and other similar sites

ebay shuld worry about this,open bazaar may become their competitor,and bitcoin holder will more glad to buy and sell anything on open bazaar.
i wish open bazaar will make ebay or amazon start accept bitcoin.

"No response was received from the server. It may be unreachable or taking a very long time to respond."

It's failing to start once again. You know, this is annoying. I understand I'm not at home, and that my connection isn't great, but I've just accessed Poloniex via Tor, so OB should work as well...

It is going to take some getting used to for me. Ebay is not a good comparison at this time OpenBazaar is very different.
Looking forward to more functionality and in learning more of what's already there.

OB does not work over Tor.

??? I know that. My point is that Tor, which is well known to be slow, works better than OB. And that is disappointing. I guess something can be done. You can help BTC by running a node on your home computer. Is there something similar which can help OB become successful?

The software's again failing to launch.

Latest version for Windows 8.1 x64 won't install
 ::)

Anyone actually bought anything there ?

I have order several item until now. I am interest in hand made products or food products like honey, wine etc. The last item i have buy was a great hat for kids a gift for my nephew from USA :). General the prices are good but i like to see more shops in the future.
I think open bazaar has a great start and i see many shops add every day.

I see great potential there.  Searching sucks, but it will eventually be improved.  Created a store, and started listing items.  I am in on the ground floor.  How often does that happen in life?  The magic will start when people start listing really strange things.  That will result in free press coverage.  Then it goes viral.  Bitcoin will fly.

I cannot connect :( :( :(.

are you behind a firewall or something else that is blocking the access?

I don't think so.. alas.. I have a feeling I am to stupid to figure it out..

OpenBazaar ‏@openbazaar 10h10 hours ago

Next update that fixes connection issues and resource exhaustion coming soon.

Great! Thank you if you're in the team behind OB. It's a fantastic project, with huge potential, but it still needs work. I guess developers shall prioritize work related to ease of connection and stability issues over those over design, or personalization options.

I have a feeling they're working towards more security options and creating patches and so as opposed to the connectivity or personalization aspects of the client, since the connectivity is fine, for the most part, unless there is something on your end blocking it.

I think the next necessary step toward success must be IP address obfuscation.

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 .

Don't waste your time until they implement anonymity:
http://ohiobitcoin.com/ob1-ceo-brian-hoffman-explains-levels-of-anonymity-in-openbazaar/

Not sure about this Hoffman character. Also the nodeJS/python client/server architecture is bloated - I don't want to run all of this (likely insecure) shit on my machine. Sorry if it's a harsh review.

What do you mean ? As far as I know addresses aren't shown for public .

Have to agree here.

Did anyone do a security review on the application?

Openbazaar's open source delelopment looks like a joke, so bad the people at /r/buttcoin are making fun of it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4f18b5/openbizarre_developer_gets_very_sad_locks_grammar/

For a new project you should not blame them for not being mature on all fronts. Maybe an open source developer wants to improve on this ;)

'Somebody should fork OpenBazaar to create OpenBazaar Classic so the initial euphoria can be sustained.'
LOL

OpenBazaar should not be blamed for not being mature on all fronts. All the projects in the begining has flaws and we need to fix them .
So thats not a big deal unless the bug is left unattended.

Openbazaar's open source delelopment looks like a joke, so bad the people at /r/buttcoin are making fun of it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/4f18b5/openbizarre_developer_gets_very_sad_locks_grammar/

The UI is nice but overall the software is still pretty buggy. I don't think it will supplant ebay until it can run in a browser. Also the fact that it's really difficult to move to a VPS after installing locally is also kind of a drag. Growing pains, I guess. I do see the potential but I feel like I am running an early beta of the software.

Beating eBay? No way. Even if you have better script, support, etc you won't beat eBay. You'd need like $ 20K in SEO to beat them.

I totally agree there will be bugs in first release that is why we users need to contribute about the project so that it can grow more and be efficient enough to get our need in the site.

Idiots making predictions, lol

https://blog.openbazaar.org/openbazaar-is-open-for-business/

It works.  With no central server.

what it needs:

• Hidden IP addresses, using Tor or I2P, essential for success

...

Another tool which looks more promising is I2P, something which we’ve begun to investigate more closely. I2P already uses UDP.

I totally agree there will be bugs in first release that is why we users need to contribute about the project so that it can grow more and be efficient enough to get our need in the site.

Thing is, in open source, the developers need to accept valid contributions and give proper credit to contributors. The link I posted is evidence that they aren't even doing that for the smallest things like spellchecking.

For a new project you should not blame them for not being mature on all fronts. Maybe an open source developer wants to improve on this ;)

'Somebody should fork OpenBazaar to create OpenBazaar Classic so the initial euphoria can be sustained.'
LOL

OpenBazaar is a great initiative and project for buying with bitcoin.
Since its a new project we can expect some delays or misconfgurations but that is not to be discouraged them but we can expect full swing overall improvement very soon.

The recent work has been with I2P.


https://www.reddit.com/r/i2p/comments/470uvo/i2p_and_openbazaar_help_me_make_the_combination/

I'm a bit doubtful about the competence of the developers though. I get that it's just the start, but even after coming out of beta, several updates did nothing but worsen problems introduced in previous ones.

There are other players in the distributed market space. I believe Syscoin is launching their DM soon, possibly others are too?

This looks promising.

I hate to be a naysayer about I2P, but who the fuck implements network-layer with JAVA?! Probably packed with vulnerabilities and SLOW... Who knows, maybe OpenBazaar will be the killer app for I2P.

The lack of listings is largest problem I noticed.  I want to try a transaction to see how it works; but couldn't find anything I wanted on the platform.

keyrings?

stickers?

iron-on patches?

someone selling wristbands....

some grotter with 'fun' pics...

jeeez! what more could you be looking for on a week old market?


#theygotnuffiniwant!!!

OpenBazaar is a great initiative and project for buying with bitcoin.
Since its a new project we can expect some delays or misconfgurations but that is not to be discouraged them but we can expect full swing overall improvement very soon.

Hehe, NEW project but it's full of errors. It does not matter that it's new. It's a crap. Also, it costs 1 mil USD according to their website :)

1 million and they come with this shit?!?!?!? pffff. Something is wrong with these people and of course with the stupids investors.  ;D

You can hire IBM or any other giant software company with these money and they can create the software you may need not a crap which can be easily call  ; Open shit ERRORs bazaar

http://uk.businessinsider.com/openbazaar-gets-1-million-seed-round-from-andreessen-horowitz-union-square-ventures-2015-6

It works, it is free, and there is no server that can be shut down.

Number of times I worried that someone will shut down Craigslist servers: 0

Number of people engaging in successful agorism on Craigslist: 0

Number of people engaging in successful agorism on Craigslist: 0

Number of people engaging in successful agorism anything on OpenBazaar: 0
What's your point?

where the starbucks gift card stores? someone open one up asap.

Number of weeks OpenBazaar has been launched: 0

What's yours?

That was your point? Ok

I'm a bit doubtful about the competence of the developers though. I get that it's just the start, but even after coming out of beta, several updates did nothing but worsen problems introduced in previous ones. And they failed at implementing basic checks for stores such as stock updates (https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenBazaar/comments/4f1ywt/sold_item_but_listing_remains/d258lnt). Not only that, but they don't seem to be welcoming comunity contributions in their open source development. I hope that if this isn't resolved someone else would be courageous enough to take over with a fork.

Sorry, clearly overestimated you. But, alas, while a word to the wise is sufficient, you need things spelled out. So here you go, Tiger:
My point is rather obvious: Since no one engaged "in successful agorism anything on OpenBazaar," your post ("Number of people engaging in successful agorism on Craigslist: 0,") was either a non-sequitur or simply stupid.

If you need further tutoring, please see me after school -- you're holding back the rest of the class.

Number of people engaging in successful agorism anything on OpenBazaar: 0
What's your point?

To their credit, I believe they hav released the FIRST EVER decentralized P2P marketplace app (other than Taaki's proof of concept). I agree that it's sloppy, and I hate the choice of python/nodeJS etc for this type of app.

Nonetheless, it mostly works, and it's a huge step forward in software concept and design.

Right, uh, get well soon? ???

It is nice to have a shop and that is also nice for Bitcoin itself so you can make Bitcoin more acceptable and that is quite nice.
The only thing is that you must make it more popular and that is also important otherwise people will not know it.

You are right about that it only need to get a lot more popular so even people that do not use the bitcoin are knowing it, this will also help the bitcoin for sure.
I really like the openbazaar although I must say there is still not a lot for sale these days, I hope this will change soon.

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It is nice to have a shop and that is also nice for Bitcoin itself so you can make Bitcoin more acceptable and that is quite nice.
The only thing is that you must make it more popular and that is also important otherwise people will not know it.

Another non-sequitur. Diagnosis: ineducable.

I did my taxes

Yeah, I'm not really sure why it is you keep bringing up garden shears (even more bizarrely, "non-gardening shears"???). Educate me about these garden scissors you keep mentioning, and what it has to do with the topic at hand

Number of times I have brought up "garden shears" (prior to this post): 0

Well, you've said 'non-sequitteurs' about 3 times, not 0, so perhaps it's you that needs to put the pipe down? Why are we interested in scissors, that aren't scissors? If not scissors, er, uh, what are they? Exactly? Why do you, or anyone else, care?

OpenBazaar Opened , your first impressions ?

I see it has potential. And I can sell/buy my stuff on it, for less.

It is nice that you are opening a store and so you are also make Bitcoin more popular and used and that is perfect for the currency.
But you have also to promote it more to make it more popular so that is important.

OB is the best place to buy bitcoin art & jewelry made by stoners out of scraps of household wiring. Bar none.

Well you not gonna make it more popular if you do it on the openbazaar to be honest because with the open bazaar only users that using the bitcoin are on it.

I see it has potential. And I can sell/buy my stuff on it, for less.

it seem like a nice project, i have installed on my pc but it keep throwing me the same error. "too many login attempt". is anyone have the same problem ?

Beating eBay? No way. Even if you have better script, support, etc you won't beat eBay. You'd need like $ 20K in SEO to beat them.

Haz haz for the bazaar has opened.

Once I get some bitcoin in my hands I will visit and go on a shopping spree to get out of this rutt because of the doom and gloom of the bitcoin price recently.

Nowadays it seems most of trading volume goes to ETC and ETH, btc's price is under downtrend pleasure. If you have no faith in holding btc for the long term, I advise you cash out them asap.

I always excited to see new things implemented in bitcoin, hopefully there will be more and more shop implemented bitcoin, openbazaar will be great pioneer for future bitcoin online shop and it has been proven, since openbazaar site launch there are a lot of shop accepting bitcoin now

Are you the developer, producer, creator ?

I'm not , I'm just a simple bitcoiner like most of you on Bitcointalk.

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 .

I haven't looked at OpenBazaar since shortly after this thread was opened. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.