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https://www.change.org/p/jeff-bezos-amazon-com-should-accept-bitcoin-and-litecoin-cryptocurrency-as-payment-methods-asap

I don't think so Amazon will accept bitcoin anytime soon, as much as we all like Bitcoins we keep forgetting, only Japan is allowing to be used freely, rest have not restricted it but no official word on it. Then the issue of commission that seller and Amazon will have say they sold it when prices were low, but had to pay commission when prices were high, to many points, I don't think they are equipped to handle Bitcoin but good luck with your petition who knows it may actually give them food for thought.

Gladly signed.

Amazon should be happy enough with the situation as is, Purse manages to bring them a huge volume without the need of additional investments or even a code tweak. After all BTC has some ~15 daily million users around the globe while amazon has some ~225 million active customers. In their eyes it's not worth it just yet.

Edit: I singed the petition as well :)

I thought about this long time ago, about why such guan of online shopping doesn't accept bitcoin yet? I signed and hope my voice will mean something to that petition.

You should make a petition for the Japanese brand of Amazon first(there must be one, right?). They already have Bitcoin regulated. Other Amazons more likely to follow then.

If this is successful and is implemented, it would be great news for Amazon and Bitcoin Users, more payment methods = more convenience! :D 30% there already, I hope this petition can make an impact and possibly encourage Amazon to add BTC. :)

I want PayPal to add BTC too, and I think PayPal is also widely used in many countries by businesses and companies, hopefully either one can adopt Bitcoin. ;D

I don't think so it's much important amazon has to accept bitcoin even why do you want to accept bitcoin by amazon just convert into fiat money on exchanges and buy things from amazon

I don't think that such a petition would change much. Amazon processes transaction through cetnralized technologies, BTC isn't ready to take the volume this single company has at the time and would make its use as currency much more inconvenient with a rising price along with rising fees.

Also one can if someone wants to use bitcoin in Amazon.com, there are already gift card services that would allow buy Amazon gift cards with Bitcoin.

I don't think that Amazon would put it high in priority because anyone that wants to buy in Amazon with Bitcoins already can

Gift card is my mode of payment in amazon. I bought recently an alienware by paying directly bitcoin. I think dell is the only company on amazon that accepts bitcoin as mode of payment. And if dell accept then it is possible that amazon will fully adopt it. Amazon might hurry or else alibaba will overtake to it.

Even if the petition is met, I don't think Amazon would even consider adding bitcoin as one of its payment options given the hassle that they would face in converting plus additional regulations that they would need to meet. Aside from that, it wouldn't be a popular option since rising fees are also a problem.

Signed the petition anyways.

I did too but I am not expecting anything from the whole petition. If you think about it from a business standpoint, there is no need for Amazon to except cryptocurrencies. They have no need for censorship resistance and decentralized payments.

This is the second post like this I have seen. So people clearly want more ways to spend their bitcoins.I
Not sure how much it helps but one more adds up I guess ?   :P

As far as I know, there have been lots of petition made (or related thing to that) that being brought to Amazon to start accepting bitcoin payment. And I think Amazon already knows the request and demands for this by the people but still they aren't implementing it yet or putting it on consideration. This petition however will bump the concern.

Just signed it as I see no problem with it.

This is a good idea. Best it is trialed in Japan before it goes worldwide. Especially as I don't think bitcoin can cope with large volumes of transactions at the moment.

Though I signed it but it is less likely that Amazon will go for it since they have so many transactions & their margins must be pretty low ? so it won't be sustainable.

Signed.

However the major points to consider:

- what good will bitcoin bring if Amazon has support of only a handful of nations around the world? Before implementing bitcoin as a payment method, Amazon needs to expand into more countries.

- will this bring them more revenue vs the cost of setting this up? Ultimately their number one priority is to give shareholders more money.

-This decision will ultimately be up to Jeff Bezos. I don't think that a petition would really help, although there's a chance as always.

But if Amazon did implement btc, that would be the start of mass adoption IMO.

True because sometimes being first or at least early gives an advantage. Even if accepting bitcoins as payment would only bring in a small number of customers, being on the cutting edge could be beneficial down the road. They could be seen as leaders in this area and you never know if it could result in savings for them or even more efficiency.

These type of petitions will not have the desired effects (there's a lot of research to show the limited impact of petitions in commercial world). I still signed it of course, but I will next wonder if Amazon's acceptance will do anything for Bitcoin. Didn't Microsoft accept Bitcoin? Even Paypal at one point. And it didn't do much for adoption, did it?

Amazon accepting cryptocurrencies I don't see that happening in a while, this ecosystem is still young and there are too many things to solve until that time I guess we will have a good chance.

This won't do anything. Can't you already use third party services for buying on Amazon in the forum here ? I'm sure I read about it here on a thread.

Anyway let us know what happens and how it goes. I guess at least we can see how interested people are to use Bitcoin on Amazon.

I have never seen evidence of those change.org type websites doing anything unless it had an insane amount of people signing. I doubt Jeff Bezos is going to follow what the website says to deliver his business. Im sure he is the type of guy that is too much of a narcissist and a control freak and he will not compromise his own business plan and will only accept bitcoin he feels like it. Hopefully with the lightning network ready we can have a viable way to get Amazon on board, for now.. it's useless.

This is going to be one of the many petitions that I signed, and that I know will go nowhere when it comes to a final outcome. Even if we get everyone who uses Bitcoin to come out and sign the petition, it's not going to change the fact that Amazon is only going to move forward with accepting another currency if they find that for a fact they'd be able to make more money off of accepting it, maybe less fees from accepting it as well. But with the current state of Bitcoin, who knows what they'd want to do.

I'll sign it, but it's not going to go anywhere.

No, some people see this also as a way to help increase the price of Bitcoin. While I admit that I want the price of Bitcoin to go to $10,000 per coin, this petition is nothing but a desperate move by the OP.

 "http://Amazon.com" should accept "Bitcoin" and "Litecoin" cryptocurrency as payment methods as soon as possible.Because the ratio of bitcoin is rised and people are getting BTC. and investing BTC. So in future instead of paypal btc will be use.

Signed.

I do wish this petition specified that Amazon should enable bitcoin payments for their sellers, rather than just for items sold by Amazon itself.  Just as Etsy and Ebay have done.

They are still choosing to not accepting bitcoin as payment for their customer safety and sellers safety we can not blame them if they are not accepting bitcoin because they are always bring customer to the safety ways..
Bitcoin is anonymous and there is no identity of users can be seen if they registered in amazon and claim or sell product there.
Amazon area always verifying your address real name  credit card or paypal as their verified account unlike bitcoin that you do need any too much information just name and password is enough..

I didn't. First because this petition mixes bitcoin and litecoin, and I don't support that altcoin, then I'm afraid Amazon could kill BTC. We're having network congestion problems, and a huge marketplace like Amazon could only increase the problem. Let's fix it first.
(Yes, I know SegWit and BIP148 should be implemented next month, but this isn't done, yet.)

Done signed, If this happens amazon will earn a lot of $$ because there are a lot of potential buyer in Bitcoin community that are looking for a great shopping site to integrate Bitcoin to their system. They just have to look for a 3rd party site that can easily convert flat to crypto when someone is going to buy some of their product.

I don't think Amazon will accept bitcoin soon since just recently there was a thread with Alibaba accepting bitcoin but even though the vote was heavily in favour of Alibaba, they probably still won't accept like other online sites like Ebay. But maybe due to the recent media attention Bitcoin has been receiving, especially after Google invested heavily into bitcoin, they might actually accept the contract. I also don't think that Amazon is ready to handle bitcoin yet, since they probably don't even have the necessary equipment

I think amazon signing the bitcoin petition of users and companies will be approved soon,wait for amazon because they are still thinkinb about it and they are thinking on how they can earn from it

I gladly signed. But why is the goal just 5000 sigs/supporters? Is that a significant enough number to make Amazon even consider it? Given how much volume Amazon does in sales, wouldn't a larger amount of signatures have a greater impact? Like, I don't know, like 20K at least?

Most of the high class organizations won't take these petitions seriously, it should have been at least 20-25k and it was possible actually because there are more people who wants to buy things from a giant like Amazon with Bitcoins and litecoins.
Signed the petition.

Signed! Thanks for sharing this, we should all share it forward.

https://i.imgur.com/KrCvYqb.jpg

I found this on Reddit. Some Reddit users have pointed it out as fake, but the guy who posted this has a good amount of Karma so most probably he isn't trolling and also another couple of users confirmed this claim, https://gyazo.com/fad6daab8c81b4d6eba998294c78d200

https://m.imgur.com/a/zNV78

So it looks like Amazon is working on/planning to add Bitcoin maybe even Litecoin as an payment option in the nearby future.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6kd7ar/amazon_accepting_bitcoin_within_months/

I signed the petition but still don't know if amazon would even see this petition, but let's just hope for good !
Nice link you brought up here ! Some are saying fake, some are confirming it, don't know if the conversation is legit or not.

I can't see why Amazon would bother accepting bitcoin at the moment, there are far too few users, they don't need the publicity and they don't need the cost of implementing a new payment system. It doesn't stack up for them

Here's a more effective strategy, buy your Amazon gift card with Bitcoin and forward a few screenshots of the transaction. Instant proof that people are buying on Amazon with BTC.

I really don't think we're going to see them bothering any time in the near future though.

Soon will reach 5000 signs, would be fine at least double this amount.

Lets say Amazon would accept bitcoin (I don't think they would) and people actually use it. How would it affect the network? would people would have to pay fees to get their products?

think how many transactions are going to be...

We are all looking forward to that day when big online companies like Amazon, Facebook, Twitter and the likes would accept Bitcoin as one of their payment options. But for now, this is not yet coming because these companies have not yet made any commitment to incorporate Bitcoin -- not yet even in their drawing board.

I am sure they also looked into its possibility and decided that it is not yet time for some factors and I am sure the number one factor is volatility. Dealing with volatility means they would set-up a system to cope with the challenge and it has the potential to disrupt their already-established flow.

Another big factor is that there are not really so many people who are using Bitcoin for shopping because we are holding on to our Bitcoin as a speculative tool. I think this is also true in Japan as there are shops that are accepting Bitcoin but never experienced an uptick in Bitcoin-based transactions.

I am sure that a time will come when we can all use Bitcoin for these and other companies that are operating online.