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Hello Bitcoiners!

Bitcoin Black Friday officially launches on Nov. 29th.

This is the second annual event. We had a Bitcoin Black Friday last year and had about 75 participating merchants. Here's a rundown of Bitcoin Friday results from last year. http://codinginmysleep.com/bitcoin-friday-results/

Everyone had a great day... Let's do it again, but bigger!

This year we're aiming to get 500 (Yes, I said 500) merchants signed up and offering deals on their websites ONLY for Bitcoin users ONLY on November 29th.

For those of you who didn't participate last year, Bitcoin Friday is a one day sale two weeks before the great American pre-holiday sale: Black Friday. It is a chance to prove a couple things:

• Bitcoin is not only used for buying drugs. Huge this year with all the news coverage of the Silk Road closure.
• People will spend bitcoins, and not only hoard them.
• That the Bitcoin community treasures its Bitcoin merchants and appreciates their work and contribution to the Bitcoin economy.

Last year we had a couple spontaneous Bitcoin Friday parties erupt (looking at you Bitcoin Kiez and Room77 ;)). This year Bitcoin Friday will hopefully be sending packages of goodies (from BF participating merchants!) to groups that host Bitcoin Black Friday parties. Think Bitcoin Friday t-shirts, Alpaca socks, and other Bitcoin-related items. If you're interested in hosting a BBF party, let me know over PM. I'll be promoting this portion of Bitcoin Black Friday more in the next week.

So, I'd love some feedback on how the project has developed, please reply below with suggestions for this year's sale!

If you're interested in signing up for an alert when the sale begins, or listing as a merchant (it's free!) go to our website: http://BitcoinBlackFriday.com

Damn, it would be awesome if someone would organize a party in The Netherlands.

You should set it up! I know there are Bitcoiners in the Netherlands, I've met a couple!

I know, I met a lot during the European BitCoin Convention and I would gladly set one up. I just don't have the funds, nor the time, nor the skills required to do such a thing :P

All it takes is a Facebook group, somewhere to meet, and a couple invites ;)

Well I might do it if nobody else does. We'll see.

Seems big Bitcoin promo. I definitively marking November 15th in my calendar to check the deals

Woohoo!  Will definitely have a bitcoin Friday party in Cleveland, OH, USA at the only restaurant accepting bitcoins (for now)!

Still a month to go, please put some cheap GPU and I would gladly buy them..

Yes we're many..let's meet! Just heard there is a coffee place accepting bitcoins in delft!

All Things Luxury will definitely be interested in partaking again this year. We were really impressed with the results last year. Glad to see the community is still behind this great idea!

Can't wait to see your deal this year! :)

Interesting!  This is really cool! Should be much bigger this year :D

Can't believe I didn't see this thread until now.

BitBrew will be participating again this year, of course.

Looking forward to this! Hopefully we can hit the goal of 500 merchants! That would be a HUGE step forward.

We are almost ready to start promoting to merchants.

I think we'll have some super big exciting news to announce tomorrow or Wednesday. Keep an eye out for it! :)

Thanks,
-Jon

Great!

Is there a Facebook group or event? If someone makes one I can join and invite over 1,000 people :)
And maybe the people there don't have BTC, but they may want to join in and buy some that day.

You can count on YOKU again as a supporting merchant and sponsor.

We have submitted the request.

Merchants can now sign up with their deals! PM me for the link!

We've also changed the date to November 29th.

Wait, what?

Bitcoin Friday is now on Black Friday?

Yes. More information regarding the reason for the change soon.

Let's just say that this year's event will blow away last year's.

I assume you have good reason; however, branding as Bitcoin Friday may be a tough sell if it's on Black Friday.

I'll start re-promoting this as such and see how the conversations go and report back any feedback.

When will http://bitcoinfriday2013.com/ be updated?

I can't spam this link without causing confusion and saying Nov 29th when the website says Nov 15th.

I'll save my forum/chat spamming for tomorrow night :)  I'll get an extra hour of night to throw this link out there!

Thanks!  and in time for me to share the link some before going to bed :)

We updated it awhile ago. I think you just had it cached :)

When can we see a list of Vendors?

We haven't decided. I might release a teaser list halfway through the month.

Full deals details revealed day of.

If anyone is looking to get involved with the site organizational wise, hit me up on PM.

I need some help coordinating merchants across each continent, plus Bitcoin Friday parties.

Hi

I promote bitcoinfriday on blog.bitcoin.de, the magazine of the exchange bitcoin.de

i am interest

Bump.

Site redesign coming soon.

maybe amazon needs more time

Every event I go to that anyone even associated with Amazon is at, I corner them and tell them about Bitcoin. It's on my wishlist.

Bitcoin.de also takes part in bitcoin friday

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=331046.msg3551107#msg3551107

New landing page up on http://bitcoinblackfriday.com

Announced partnership with FightForTheFuture. They're going to help take this campaign to the next level, look them up, they're insane.

Looking forward to it ;)

Too bad the recent fluctuation in bitcoin price would take it's toll on the project.

I don't think it will affect it too much.

But if we hit 1000 on the day of... That'd be crazy.

If I had my webshop up yet, I totally would participate! Thanks for forming it together!

I tried to send a PM but couldn't get it to go through.

Luxe Chains sells high end Gold, Platinum and Palladium Chains (necklaces/bracelets), over 2000 styles.

www.LuxeChains.com (http://www.LuxeChains.com). We would love to participate in this years black friday sale.

Thank you!

Use http://www.bitcoinblackfriday.com/merchant to sign up your deal :)

at this point, i rather buy an amazon gift card with BTC instead of buying it directly. i know, people who are invested in BTC don't like this.. but sale prices on goods are much cheaper than the retail you have to pay in btc.

They are all good options that help support Bitcoin and the marketplace!

Gyft will be offering a deal to do that if you want. I think you'll be surprised at some of the prices offered on these deals though!

If you're looking for consumer electronics I'd probably hold your horses

This will be a major stress test on the bitcoin network.

Good luck on the event.

Maybe we should get everyone that isn't buying anything on that day to send bitcoins to another one of their wallets.

We need to boost the number of transactions per day to make it look like bitcoin is popular.

Then and only then will they take bitcoin enthusiasts seriously.

We have submitted our bitcoin friday deal for bitgild.com (http://www.bitgild.com). Some juicy discount is waiting for you :)

no more black friday !

yeah great idea. i will spent some coins on that day, need some warm socks ;-)

Well, I have some serious chrismas shopping to do.

I hope there will be some good offers and that the BTC prise holds.

there will be some.

At the weekend on bitcoin.de we present some offers on our blog.

Which website gives the best offer in regards to electronic devices?

Glad to see people wanting to participate!!

I believe that we can offer the best prices on a lot of consumer electronics such as mobile phones, cameras etc. We can also offer fast relatively cheap shipping to a whole bunch of different countries. Just keep in mind that they will be imported so your government may charge import duties/taxes. These aren't applicable in the US, Australia and some smaller countries. Check here (http://dutycalculator.com/) if you're not sure regarding taxes.

Anyone know if there will be a deal on Galaxy S4 cases? It would be especially awesome if the case had a Bitcoin design  8)

I don't think that there is one with a Bitcoin design, good idea though!

you can buy amazon vouchers for devcoins:

http://dvc4giftcards.us/store.html

Devcoins are cheap right now relative to other coins (they haven't gone up as much). Instead of spending your bitcoins, switch one of the alts with no merchants into devcoin and get some amazon vouchers.

I hope Bitcoin Black Friday is a success!  Is there anyway to analyze the blockchain to know for sure?

Do retailers typically convert to fiat when coins are spent?  Trying to time my next bitcoin entry -- trying to buy the dips, but there are no dips  :-\

I've got my eye on a speaker bar on bitcoinstore.com.

Not normally a fan of this type of consumerism, but to me this is more about demonstrating to the world the growing power of bitcoin.  My GF and I reviewed the vendors listed at:

http://www.bitcoinblackfriday.com

We will be buying:

1. Coffee (http://bitbrew.net (http://bitbrew.net))
2. Honey caramels and regular honey (http://www.beesbros.com/store-for-bitcoins.html (http://www.beesbros.com/store-for-bitcoins.html))
3. Fancy loose-leaf green tea (http://tealet.com/bitcoinblackfriday (http://tealet.com/bitcoinblackfriday))
4. Sexy lollypops (http://www.lollyphile.com (http://www.lollyphile.com))
5. Amazon and Target "gyft" cards (http://www.gyft.com/bitcoin/ (http://www.gyft.com/bitcoin/))
6. 1/4 oz gold eagle (http://www.amagimetals.com/gold/fractional (http://www.amagimetals.com/gold/fractional))
7. A bitcoin T-shirt from one of the many vendors.


Last year BitPay did 99 transactions on Bitcoin Black Friday (and that was the record at the time).  It will be interesting to see how much we have grown. 

I'm planning on doing most of my holiday shopping today with bitcoin.

Who's with me?

That's our plan too!  Now that "Gyft" cards are available for the hard-to-shop for people, I think I can do all my Christmas shopping with bitcoin!


You know what would be really amazing?  A whale like goat, nakowa, or rpietila, loaded, etc buying a space flight from http://www.virgingalactic.com (http://www.virgingalactic.com) tomorrow.  They actually have an add on http://www.bitcoinblackfriday.com/#cat=0 (http://www.bitcoinblackfriday.com/#cat=0)  ;D!

It's been Bitcoin Friday for over 12 hours in Aus ;D

To celebrate we're offering free shipping via FedEx on all orders over $200USD to a bunch of countries. These are Australia, Belgium, Canada, Demark, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, Ireland, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, United Kingdom, United States and Vietnam. Please note that the customer will be responsible for any taxes or duties imposed by their local customs or government.

We've also dropped the prices on a select few of our most popular products. They can be seen here. (http://coinsfortech.com/product-tag/bitcoin-friday-sale/)

The list includes-
•Canon EOS 5D Mark III Body Only now the equivalent of $3,084USD with free shipping. Listed on Amazon at $3,299USD.
•Canon EOS 650D (Body Only) now the equivalent of $594USD with free shipping. Listed on Amazon at $629USD.
•LG G2 16GB (Factory Unlocked) now the equivalent of $514USD with free shipping. Listed on Amazon at $524.95USD.
•Nokia Lumia 1020 (Factory Unlocked) now the equivalent of $622USD with free shipping. Listed on Amazon at $649USD.

Nice store!  I wish I knew about you guys before I bought my new iPhone 5s!  Next time...

gyft.com is offering 4 points per dollar on black friday, so 1 day deal only. i might make another order on coinbase and then trasfer it over there just for the hell of it. paying the exchange fee will probably negate any savings, but i don't mind.. it's just me helping move BTC around.

Looks good!

Im going to buy some stuff with my bitcoins!
hope you all do

Thanks Peter!

Can't wait to see what other deals are around. Any notable ones I should know about?

We will be doing most of our Christmas shopping with bitcoin tomorrow.  We will be traveling with our new smartphones (paid with bitcion) trying to do our shopping and answering the Bees Brothers emails.

Never a dull moment with bitcoin!

We're live folks!

http://www.bitcoinblackfriday.com/#deals-section

Thanks for doing this, it is much appreciated by all merchants and customers alike!

Cheers,

Ch

Loving it dude! There is so much to see and buy! Damn. I never knew that there were so many shops accepting Bitcoins.

Jon - please hire someone (serious here) to get the press involved in this.  Someone needs to gather the numbers for sales, or something, so that the press can write articles on this.  You're probably way ahead of me on this, but the press is writing about Bitcoin Black Friday - so they're going to go nuts if we can give them a dollar amount spent and number of merchants - maybe even number of purchases / people who participated.  This will be *huge* press for Bitcoin, and i would hire someone to contact every store that participated, and every press outlet possible (maybe put a notice on the website home page) ... to get the articles out there.

I realize this is short notice, but im hoping someone will consolidate this information on the sales and participants and help get the public aware of what went down!

Huge press opportunity for success of Bitcoin.  Very important!

All Things Luxury is partaking again this year and is offering 20% off all Jewellery! Simply use coupon code "BTCFRI"

http://www.allthingsluxury.biz

That'll be me on Saturday. ( :'( )

We're getting HUGE press right now, go hit up google news.

Made my first purchase!  

Even though QT failed to generate a confirmation in less than the necessary 15 minutes..., and the shopping cart timed out.

And where does it say that LiteCoin can handle more transactions then Bitcoin? It doesn't matter that LiteCoin has "faster" transaction. It needs to have more confirmations then Bitcoin before it gets accepted.

EDIT: Changing your post and removing the Litecoin part doesn't help.

wanted to buy some stuff with bitcoin but bitpay was broken. anyone has the same problem?

"Oops. That page doesn't exist.

If it seems like there should be something here, please let us know by contacting our support team."

@ GeekBitcoin
This made me laugh ::)

Same - first purchase done!

Techdirt.com is taking bitcoins for their Black Friday bundle.

Blockchain is busy with transactions: http://www.bitlisten.com (http://www.bitlisten.com)

I wonder how the number of transactions today (Bitcoin Friday) will compare with a typical Friday?

Let's fuck off this bs black friday thing and just spend normally. Honestly I don't want to be associated with ripping off thousand people to give 3 people a bargain. Fuck that shit. Let's be better that those cunts

In case no one else noticed, apparently there's a winery on the list too, that got placed in with the charities:

http://www.handofgodwines.com/

edit:  Nevermind, there doesn't seem to be a way to pay with Bitcoin :-/

I can't wait to find out the statistics

Time to bump this thread.

When is bitcoin's big shopping day this holiday season?   ???    ;D

a party ? i love it, count me in. ;D

We will be participating again this year ;)

Interesting concept.
A lot of people in this forum weren't around when this took place last time.  :)

28th of November. I'll make a new thread for the event tomorrow.

How many are you aiming for this year?

Let's not, clowns.


http://themisescircle.org/blog/2014/02/12/im-hoarding-bitcoins-and-no-you-cant-have-any/

Well if noone ever spends their bitcoin then the overall bitcoin economy will not prosper which will lead to a long term lower value for your bitcoin that you have hoarded.

There is NO "bitcoin economy", if everything is being instantly converted to fiat. Once businesses close the goddamn loop and pay suppliers, employees, rent in BTC, THEN there will be a bitcoin economy.

Which restaurant are you talking about?  I believe The Wine Spot and The Tavern Company both do. 

That will be a tall order to fill

Is there a website for this year?

can anyone do something in bangladesh plz. I am dying to some btc activity herein my country. :'(

You're prolly right. Check the date on the message you're replying to.

This next bitcoin day (2014) should really be discussed in a new thread.

Are you doing any deals this year? Then again, It would have to be a massive discount to get me to spend my coins at the moment. I just can't bring myself to spend them at current value. Feel like I'd be losing money if I did. Maybe this time next year will be different.

Bitcoinblackfriday.com

Sign up is on there too.

Some deals are already in and they're insane. Up to 90% off at one tshirt retailer. Some of our bigger merchants are doing more discounts than they did last year too.

We are. Most of our repeat customers replace their BTC as they spend them, though I do understand your sentiment. Unfortunately the exchange rate last year was much more ecommerce friendly.


Thanks! Will be signing up shortly.

New thread up: 

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=849829.msg9461480#msg9461480

Thanks Jon!

I know you put a lot of work into organizing this.

New thread! BFL customers are still waiting for miners they purchased during last year's Black Friday sale. Come to think of it, that'll make it all your fault, ergo on the naughty list you go: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=845576.0  ;D

Later, bud.

/s

They approached me to join the event.

I turned them down. They were not listed on our website.

This is a great idea. I'm looking forward to spending some BTC.

Can we get more coins from faucets and games on Thanksgiving Black Friday and Christmas?

Is there a bullion place involved? I want some cheap phyzz :P

In my experience it's cheaper to buy metal locally with fiat.

Oh, just found out Amagi might be making an offer: https://www.amagimetals.com/info/bitcoin-black-friday/

The majority of people cant afford BTC, let alone spending it. ::)

What do you mean "can't afford BTC"?

The rolleyes smiley is the universal standard for /sarcasm.

Can't tell the smilie is rolling eyes.

Tbh honest my local currency isn't doing too good atm. But I think Bitcoin still has some more low supports to test