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Hi. I sale a Book on the Ebay and accept Bitcoin.

If you interests - http://cgi.ebay.de/Thomas-Huber-Ogre-Gipfel-Traume-/170608236377?pt=Sach_Fachb%C3%BCcher&hash=item27b90b1759

I also have contact the Support from Ebay and asked for the official acceptance of the Bitcoins and I'm wait for a reply from the support.

:)

If they agree I will send you 2000 BTC :)

E-bay won't agree because it's against their policy of requiring a payment method that is reversible.  The ebay rating system is currently for show for that reason as the buyer will always receive their money back no matter if they practice due diligence or not.

I wonder in the future would they not just offer their own escrow service if they were to accept Bitcoin. This would achieve the same effect I think.

Still, it is obvious they are not going to accept it for another (probably long) while. But we have biddingpond anyway. :)

Indeed. I mostly stopped selling stuff on eBay because they made it so easy for buyers to run scams and give sellers no help.

Em. A payment per bank is not reversible too. But ebay accepts this.

For the U.S.:

  http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html (http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html)
  http://pages.ebay.com/help/pay/accepted-payment-methods.html (http://pages.ebay.com/help/pay/accepted-payment-methods.html)

I suppose if you listed bitcoin as an optional alternate method for payment, ... and perhaps gave a 3% discount even as an incentive (the same amount you'ld lose to PayPal), then that might enable you to operate without violating eBay's policy yet still make it so some will likely pay with bitcoins.

In Germany the bank tranfrer are fee-free. And the 3% ist not required.
But this is useful Info, thanx!!


I hope you're right. At the time I readed the policy I haven't see the word "optional". This can be useful!

How about putting bitcoin in the title of bitcoin buyable items and then a note about bitcoin in the body of the auction?

The ideal would be to drift away from Paypal and Ebay and have a market like biddingpond.com that did not charge near 10% total for transactions.  I will soon start to list there (next week) and try it out. 

Reputation will be very important on a site like that because scammers will try to infest any site.  On a bitcoin driven site, most of the scamming would be done by the seller (not shipping, mis-representing) not by the buyer like in ebay. 

Today ebay has made it way to easy to rip a seller off, with the biggest stupid move of eliminating negative feedback option for the seller.  Now a scammer can keep doing the same trick to many sellers. 

i don't know what country you hail from but, personally, I have done bank reversals on wire transfers here in the United States. More difficult than a credit card transaction reversal but, still highly possible.  Not to go too off topic but this is one of the reason why I enjoy Bitcoin, YOU control your money not some bureaucratic mess(banks, government etc.)

This right here(emphasis mine). I will never remove the feature of two way feedback.  In the future I might even implement the ability to even block buyers based upon their positive/negative feedback ratio.  Right now I'm working on a couple of Bitcoin projects as the sole developer. One of them to be released in the next few days. So, time is definitely limited.

Agreed! I'm always amazed or upset with consumer rights.
In any trade the [scammer] can be on either side. There's no point in saying or assume "the seller" is the scammer or the potential scammer.
Then a "consumer", one that is «exclusively a consumer», is a social parasite, because normal people is both, producer and consumer. Market demands balance not grant one all privileges and make the other a sitting duck.

A while ago I quit a subscription for one of those "Consumer protection"'s magazine. I found outrageous that 99% of it was about mobile phones - for it I'll go fetch an operator flayer myself, thank you. And then add sections with a title so amazing as "The consumer demands". I really wonder who they think they're, because for "The consumer" they are meaning themselves. And "demands" goes as balanced as «the consumer must have the right to a full refund if return the thing to the shop within 15 days» - WHAT?! So let's say, I buy a pair of tennis, 15 days later go there for the refund, buy another, do the same... over and over... a free pair every 15 days? Was it the idea?!...

Gosh!...  >:(

I'm from Germany. And the bank transfer is not reversible (anyway "not", if the transfer already is in the "system").

It's true. And it's right. Those people are too seldom. And this is a little price for the customer rights.

I`m also from Germany, and bank transfers ARE reversible. Once someone I didn`t know transfered me some money by accident, and I didn`t say a thing. A month or so later my bank called me that the transfer will be reversed, for I was obviously not the intended recipient and the sender did a mistake. Banks here (and everywhere I suppose) have great liberties in reversing transfers that most people are not aware of. Another reason to like bitcoins :-)

What do you think about http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-Paperclip-w-4-Free-BTC-Bitcoins-Four-Bitcoin-/220973247094?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3373082a76#ht_500wt_1299 (http://www.ebay.com/itm/1-Paperclip-w-4-Free-BTC-Bitcoins-Four-Bitcoin-/220973247094?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3373082a76#ht_500wt_1299)

cool :) let's see how that goes... operation Paperclip 2.0

If enough people ask eBay about BitCoin for escrow (to avoid scamming), would they consider it? Or is that just stupid of me to think?

https://www.paypal-community.com/t5/Disputes-and-claims/Beware-A-Partial-Order-is-Considered-by-PayPal-to-be/td-p/40741

Someone else was trying to sell bitcoins in this manner.  They are no longer active, so perhaps that didn't end very well (chargebacks can occur up to 180 days after the sale, so sales of these might seem to be going well with no chargebacks and then all of a sudden boom!)
 - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=14632.msg398096#msg398096



Are you suggesting that eBay allow the seller to put in the restriction that payment using bitcoins to an escrow service is required?  I can't imagine eBay allowing this for listings on their own site.

I suppose what you could do is compose a listing that has terms "cash only, local pickup only"  but then in the description mention that the item can be shipped if paid for using bitcoins (through an escrow service if the buyer wishes).

AHAHAHA

Besides book only  costs EUR 4,58  :)

Maybe guy can give 2000 BTC how bounty to ebay to acceptance of the Bitcoins....... :D

I'm wondering if the transaction was happened, this would be the next Bitcoin Pizza :D

Yeah, and it could be named Bitcoin Book    :D

Bitcoin Book Day :D
Where everyone in the world make a transaction for a book with Bitcoin, and then read that book ;D

Yeah, and a Bitcoin Giveaway Day could be good idea too, some bagholders could spread us some BTC.... :D

That is a great idea, but I think they are huggers instead of givers. :(

Buy his book and get some bits back too: http://www.coinrebates.com/store/ebay

I never understood the concept of buying a definite amount of Bitcoins on eBay. It just doesn't feels right.

from my experience, I would never combine btc and ebay.  Paypals policy is clear "no digital goods" allowed.  They wont even review the case, just refer you to their policy refraining from digital goods.  Until they officially change thier policy, I'd stay away.

Because bitcoin is expensive on ebay?
I can buy bitcoin cheaper in a exchanger!

Many people on eBay selling mining equipment / contracts will accept BTC, but most will only advertise that in private messages or if you ask them. It takes some trust though on the part of both parties. My sense was that many of them accepted it as a way to avoid ebay's fees.

because of how certain i am they will agree, i will match this :P

I can't buy from ebay with bitcoin.
How to find sellers on ebay,that accept bitcoin?
I want to buy a router with bitcoin

you can easily find some ebay gift cards to purchase with btc
legitimate ones too

gyft.com has ebay giftcards, they accept bitcoin and you'll get back around 3% as gift for buying with bitcoins, I've been using them for more than 6 months now.

yeah, if you are a little creative, and dont put the exact phrase "bitcoin" in your ad, you can do it.  Just put accepting "btc", or "btc c0in" or "b1t co1n" or something like that.  Anyone who sees it and is looking to use btc will know to pm you and go from there.

If bitcoin gets to e-bay then i`ll use the site more.

I dont feel link giving out credit card info to anybody, even if they are respectable guys.

So its much easier to buy stuff with bitcoins on the internet , than to just use cash.

You can use sites like all4BTC to buy things on ebay as well. Assuming the seller ships to your country, that is.

But, you don't get a discount. What we need is something like a purse.io for ebay using ebay wishlists to create a marketplace. Create a wishlist of what you want to buy with your requested discount in BTC and someone else agrees to buy it at the higher BTC exchange rate. That person would be in effect buying BTC with paypal or other CCs. The buyer should not be able to see your actual shipping address, so it keeps it somewhat anonymous. Use a multi-sig wallet and the marketplace does not directly control anyone's BTC.

lol you make me laugh bro everyone knows that ebay never accept bitcoin but OP trying to convince the ebay to accept bitcoin....

i think you sell bitcoin and ebay,and with cheap price  :o :o

the only time I tried to buy btc on eBay with a "cheap price" as compared to exchange prices, I was scammed.

In fact, that was the one and ONLY time I've ever been scammed buying or selling on eBay.  So now I give anyone the same warning:  look at paypal's terms of service.  They do NOT allow buying and selling of digital goods. including digital downloads, software downloads. bitcoin, etc.  So if someone wants to scam you, this gives them a loophole.  Dont say I didn;t warn you!

if ebay sells bitcoin, it's better if you do not buy it
better to buy directly in the exchanger

Maybe they offer it at discount, because they need to sell it urgently while on exchange its harder, as wire transfer costs alot of money.

Who knows.

just wondering, is there like a dedicated auction that only accepts bitcoin? would be interesting if there was one!  :)

if true ebay accept bitcin this is big news this century

Ebay doesn't accept bitcoin officially due to the terms of paypal. It is only possible for them to accept bitcoin if the paypal also allows to deposit through bitcoin, which will never gonna happen because the source of bitcoin income is always anonymous.

All I know is buying coins on Ebay is truly an ass rape.

I have bought quite a few out of auction, the price at the end is something else

I think ebay will not accept bitcoin for now maybe later year.even if bitcoin is popular.

ofc they will consider it if there's 10k+ people asking  :D

Great, if this works for everything on EBAY, I'm down. Hope it does. ;)

I think eBay have to support Bitcoin soon, the number of Bitcoin's fans and users is growing daily , and a lot of countries allow making trades with Bitcoin, so i don't see real reason to eliminate Bitcoin from the eBay payment processors

eBay won't accept Bitcoin any time soon, if ever, for the simple reason that Bitcoin is irreversible and so requires funds to be held in escrow until both parties are satisfied.  It also requires fees to be paid by the seller either in advance or at the time of the sale, deducted from the amount received by the seller.  This is such a huge departure from their current model that they simply couldn't support it in parallel with their current transaction process via PayPal.  People (sellers particularly) will just get totally confused... "If they pay with PayPal I get it straight away but if they pay with Bitcoin I don't get the money until after I send the item and they notify eBay to release the money??" 

This is the reason that https://cryptothrift.com (https://cryptothrift.com) exists and why it is so popular amongst the Bitcoin community.  Everybody knows in advance that if the buyer chooses to use escrow (which they should), the money goes into escrow and the seller will receive their money after they have delivered.  The business is built around an escrow service that expects to have to intervene to resolve disputes and to release money from escrow to sellers in the event the buyer forgets. 

Disclosure: I am the co-founder and developer of CryptoThrift... expect big changes to arrive soon!
 

Nah, i think ebay already approve bitcoin as their payment, but not.

The OP of this thread ever said, ebay accept it. What is his plan to share some hoax in here.

For the OP: if you want sell same books with BTC, you can sell in on this thread and give us know about your conversation with the CS's ebay.
But please do not make some hoax news here.

For paulthetafy: It's nice.! Very great work. Hope your service can help a lot buyers and sellers in BTC.

ebay, PayPal and bitcoin dont mix up. they will never do

Not unless Paypal agreed that Bitcoin is better than fiat and willing to add Bitcoin to they payment system ::)
Which won't happen in the short time, but my gut tells me it will happen in the future :)
Don't lose hope, keep using Bitcoin

True. They do not help the sellers when they encounter that kind of situation.

In the future, there will be banks dealing with bitcoin just like fiat. You paypal account will link to that bank. Then your bitcoin become reversible when you sell things on Ebay.

Paypal in 2050 will probably be a bitcoin wallet like Coinbase.

I doubt fiat will exist by then, and ebay will have to stat competitive because NXT marketplace or openbazaar are direct competitors.

Yes. Competition is good. We will see the situation is 35 year's time. Or maybe even earlier as bitcoin grow exponentially.

That is alot of btc to be paid for just 1 book!

Neither paypal nor ebay gonna accept bitcoin in near future. They always blame bitcoin being criminals money due to its anonymous property. But i have heard a news about paypal investing to research blockchain technology, this may open door for bitcoin by them far in future.

I would very much rather buy things from this forum then trying to deal with find a bitcoin accepting buyer on ebay.

From my conversations with eBay representatives on private forums, there is no interest in them dealing with BTC at this time.  There is no security to them because they have no control over the transactions.  So if a seller rips another seller off, they are stuck paying out of pocket instead of tapping into the sellers account and taking the money out, or freezing Paypal.  They have no control over BTC like that and, lets face it, eBay is a CONTROL FREAK.

I'll give you 10K bitcoin if it work.

nice try dude,we all know that ebay won't agree because it's against their policy of requiring a payment method that is reversible. but i wonder if so many people do same as you,will ebay accept bitcoin soon?

I suggest you for sell your book on other marketplace,and you can add payment with bitcoin on it :)

Ebay (paypal) will adopt bitcoin soon. There are quite of lot of reports about that. You may have to save some bitcoin with Paypal first.

Never buy a single coin at ebay , all sellers are scammer at ebay.
You better save your money and choose to buy bitcoin in your local exchange or kraken!.

I asked eBay about this a while back. I can't remember the exact response but it was a no either way. Pretty sure I got one of my auctions taken down as well for writing that I would accept Bitcoin.

I wouldn't buy anything from Ebay that was related to Bitcoin. It's filled with scammers and stupid people. There are better options out there and anyone who does it for that purpose deserves to lose their ass.

i wonder why is ebay wan't accpet bitcoin,and i still find the main reason. i know some people on ebay are using bitcoin,and just like you,sell something on ebay,and than accept payment with bitcoin,but i think hard to make people wan your stuff,i suggest you to post on local website or your own blog.

from all of this time, since this tread has created 4 years ago, Ebay still not accepted bitcoin officially as payment

Yes. I heard Ebay or Paypal planned to integrate bitcoin many times. But it is not implemented yet.

they will not implement untill they satisfy themselves that bitcoin is as safe as fiat currencies ?

Well that's not going to happen anytime soon,  maybe they will implement it if open bazaar starts getting too much of the pie.  Although at that point it might be too late for eBay, obviously this depends completely on open bazaar succeeding.

It is not easy and money will talk and requests too.

And this is why they wont be around  decade from now unless they get on the Trustless program.

Great, I hope every seller will do just like what you do (accepting Bitcoin)

*if* you are caught they will close your listing etc and freeze your Paypal account.
I have witnessed it myself hell i even reported a couple listings before LOL

..top two results on Google. (ebay terms of service bitcoin)

https://www.quora.com/Why-is-Paypal-freezing-all-accounts-selling-Bitcoins
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/ebay-merchant-sue-paypal-anti-bitcoin-policies/

Maybe try doing research before hand guys ?

It seems bold me to buy stuff on Ebay with Bitcoins.
But I do not think it will happen so soon because most do not even know.
People think it is not reliable.

You could exchange and fill up your Paypal account. Easiest way.

That will be so nice. I think if that is possible more people will use Ebay. And more people will get more money if they sell stuff on Ebay.
I hope that is going to happen. That will be so good. And I hope that it will be possible later. Then I am going to buy more on Ebay.

Great work from OP Because He is just simply promoting around the world. We guys are these kind of things in adaption. Congrats for your great work. These kind of things will make the price change more big for bitcoin in real world.

Yes i think adding Bitcoin as payment processor in such famous marketplaces like Ebay and Amazon is real method to support this marketplaces itselves , because it's growing it's community and helping the Bitcoin's users to purchase it's services and goods easily

good luck with your book,i'm sure many people here often search goods on ebay,and they also use bitcoin,you can trade manually person to person,i suggest you to carefull and use escrow.

ebay, will not simply add bitcoin payment option. any stage, you can only use paypal cc

True, They are in tie up. Ebay is the biggest source for paypal. Only few traders from ebay accepting bicoin. This time bitcoin users who are interested in reading books has got a chance for purchase using bitcoin.

It must be a good way to helping bitcoin users to buys stuffs from ebay. It also make bitcoin more popular among rest of the peoples. I think this will be such a big move for bitcoin if ebay start accepting bitcoin payments.

That will be so nice. but I hope more people will use Bitcoin so we can spend more.
But you must dont trust everyone. Then can steal you or something, so watch out.

If that is going to happen. I think Ebay will have more users in a fast time. Many people want to pay with Bitcoin.
But it is also a risk, if it is new than you cant trust anyone. So look at their rating or review and than you can but there.

Bitcoin on the ebey. I really amazed when I hear it.. I thought ebey starting support bitcoin officially. But when I read OP Post I realized that just one person from ebey dealing with bitcoin. It is also Good thing for both bitcoin and ebay.. Hope ebey officially start supporting bitcoin soon.

Well we will be soon ,atleast i hope this year be present at openbazar that should open the eyes of the world since they will work with bitcoins,as i know only,soo we will be able to sell and buy anthing safety without being scared to get scammed .

It will be good for both I think. If Ebay use Bitcoin that it will be a good promotion for Bitcoin. And hopefully more used.
But the value of Bitcoin is very important too. You never know what the value will be after a few months.

Someone mentioned bitcoin at official ebay forum here  https://community.ebay.com/t5/Archive-Starting-an-eBay/When-is-eBay-going-to-start-accepting-Bitcoin-for-payment/td-p/17444741
And see the comments how people there respond on bitcoin to be  eBay payments method.
Most of them hate and didn't trust on bitcoin due many reasons like bitcoin are untraceable,  unrecallable etc.
It would be hard task to convince ebay accept bitcoin.

That will be so nice. I think if that will happen that the most people will use Ebay more. And it will become also more popular.
Bitcoin will also be more used and that is good for the economy. I hope later that it will be possible. But you never know what can happen later.

Sure ebay being  an old company and if accepts bitcoin would be a great exposion to us,but we dont need them as we will have our own ebay,openbazar should make some pression into ebay to add bitcoin as they see the volume.

ebay won't accept bitcoins in any way, you won't sell your book, only for real money, try your luck in other sites, because ebay and bitcoin won't go together never

Well i believe ebay would be replaced,the same way that social media got eated by facebook that bringed inovation into that area,with ebay i  believe openbazar will be the only survivor in the medium if not short time.

Bitcoin on Ebay is very good. But it must be very safe otherwise it doesnt work and that will be not good.
And if it is going to happen you will make them both more popular to use. And people see what Bitcoin can do.

I hope ebay will make the bitcoin a payment method on their website, I think it will take some time before they will, but they will at the end I'm sure of it.

I think they will accept it when a global famous company steps in with the bitcoin, ebay would do it too because they want to destroy the competition of course.

I think they will accept it on a day but they will wait till a another marketplace will step in, In my opinion there are just to scared to step in all with the bitcoin and it also not reverse able.
Ebay only accepts payment methods that are reverse able for disputes and all that kind of stuff.

They can work with bitcoin when they see the sucees with openbazar but they wont take the risk with a coin,a way to pay they cant control or refund soo they will avoid bitcoin for now.

That's true. Sellers always get screwed on eBay.

look like nice book,but i can't understnd deutch language,maybe you can post english version here about book reviews.
how was now?are get some answer from ebay about official acceptance of the Bitcoins?

I know about a user at ebay that sold btc for paypal, too.
He sold a lot btc....
But 100% of the buyers used hacked paypal accounts..... :-\

idea is nice, shame that i don't need this book, and i like to see sellers on ebay that accepts bitcoins as legal peyment

just isin't it not legal, against ebay rules? i am pretty sure that they won't let anyone pay with bitcoins ever, so it couts as illegal payment way right?

Bitcoin on Ebay is very good. You can see that the most people are also using Bitcoin now and that is very nice.
I hope that more people will use it. And that we can use Bitcoin as a good payment method. That will be so nice.

This thread is up there for legendary status.  The responses are choice and I am dying laughing but this one takes the cake.  "operation Paperclip 2.0".  This needs a t-shirt.

I saw few posts describing as few eBay sellers accepting bitcoin and their major product are books. When I tried to find some trader I can't. It seems very difficult to find a seller accepting bitcoin for his goods.

Bitcoin on Ebay will be very good. Because people can see that Ebay will accept Bitcoin more and more.
So they are also going to use it and that will be perfect for Bitcoin and in the future.

I think some seller of ebay is joined here in our forum and sell some their product accepting bitcoin like this..
And lets hope ebay will develop and accepting bitcoin as payment.. it will happen in the future but now its impossible that they added it as payment unless they hire escrow for deals..

I'm pretty sure Ebay does not accept bitcoins, I'd be surprised if they do.
Bitcoin as a payment would be very convenient.

now bitcoin is getting bigger bit by bit, there is a new online buyer protection called g2a shield which more online game key sites are
going to implement it would be sad if ebay implement that and not bitcoin :-\

Bitcoin on Ebay can be so good. Because many people around this time use Bitcoin so they can see that Ebay also accept Bitcoin.
And that will be so good. Because they will use Bitcoin also more and that is very good for the future.

Ebay is very popular. And Bitcoin also. And I think that it will work good together. Because you can use them very good.
If people see that more than they maybe also going to use Bitcoin and buy things on Bitcoin.

Bitcoin and Ebay is very good. But not everyone knows that you can pay with Bitcoin on Ebay and that is really bad.
People should know that it is possible to pay with Bitcoin on Ebay. If they know it than it will rise both.

Bitcoin is a bad thing for eBay. Sellers will refuse to accept reversible payment methods like PayPal, and only accept bitching and bank transfers. Then people will be disappointed at the loss of the convenience of PayPal, and move away from eBay. eBay will lose business and there will most probably be a copy of it as it's successor, that doesn't not accept bitcoin. The end.

sadly  i don't like that book, but i like your idea of paying with bitcoins in ebay, even if it's against ebay rules

but it's awesome to see that people uses bitcoin more and more now, i imagine what will be in future, everyone should use bitcoin or atleast know about it

Ebay should really accept the bitcoin as a payment soon they would attract way more people than before.
Also the fact is that if they do not want to do this, people should make a sort of Ebay that accepts the bitcoin.
Another idea is some kind of agent for it like taobao has with cssbuy.

everyone is brave to say that, and thing is simple why, ebay will never ever accept bitcoins because it is against their rules

and with selling book, i think that it is good idea, more and more people will sell things for bitcoin, but i don't think that there will be a lot of buyers because of site like purse.io

i don't like this book too but  i also like that idea, who knows, maybe in future ebay will change its rules and we will pay with bitcoins

also there is site like purse.io you cna buy thing from amazon there using bitcoins, so that would be easier to buy book or sofrom there not from you i think

they won't accept it unless bitcoins will rule the world and everyone will want to change to them,  then they will have to accept bitcoins or close their sites

and i think that it is good that you sell book for bitcoin on ebay, you should really find a seller that will buy that book from you

i think they will accept because growing of this payment method.now everyone started to loving btc.so by this demand they will must add btc payment method.

Bitcoin will be very good on Ebay. Because you can make both very popular with it and that is very good also for the future.
I hope that Bitcoin will be more used in the future and that more people will get to know about Bitcoin.

They are gonna accept it because other marketplaces will accept it also soon and they do not want to lose people because they are not accepting something.
Its all just a matter of time in my opinion, Ebay is normally not accepting payments that are not reverse able  so that is also why they do not accept it right now.

ebay until now have not accepted bitcoin in the payment list. there has been no news about it. actually if we all bitcoin users request to the ebay to add bitcoin. I'm sure they would be willing to add a payment method with bitcoin

Continuously bitcoin acceptance is increasing on most of the online stores. Recently bitcoin acceptance is introduced in the one of the biggest largest super market chain of Africa.

the problem with bitcoin is that lack of reversibility. For the honest buyer and honest seller this isnt an issue. but those scammers that relay on it dont want it and they tend to be the ones that scream the loadest unfortunately.


Plus using bitcoin it is way to easy to cut ebay/paypal out of the equation and if you do that how are they going to steal their 6% fees from you.

Bitcoin on Ebay can be so good, you will make them both very popular and also more used and that is perfect. It is good that Bitcoin is more acceptable now.
So you can spend more your Bitcoins and that is good, so Bitcoin is on different places and that is perfect.

With eBay's acceptance of bitcoin much more competitive online stores will also start accepting bitcoin as eBay is one of the top online service provider.

I thought that ebay still not accepting bitcoin as payment but the future is nearly come and i think more store online will accept bitcoin as payment.. just believe in bitcoin and it will happen..

I would never combine btc and ebay.  Paypals policy is clear "no digital goods" allowed.  They wont even review the case, just refer you to their policy refraining from digital goods.  Until they officially change thier policy, I'd stay away.

Bitcoin on Ebay can be really nice for serious, because many people are using both, but not many people use that combination.
And that can be really good if they will make the combination and so you are also making it more acceptable and also more spendable.
If that will happen than Bitcoin will have a good future.

I loled :)

It is good to have Bitcoin on Ebay, so you can earn some more money with it if you are selling your products through Ebay because many people is using Bitcoin.
And you can also make it both more popular and that is also good, but there will be a time that Bitcoin will be everywhere acceptable and that the value will jump.

I don't think that for now bitcoins would be good for ebay. There are not that many people, who trust virtual currency, as for ebay it would ruin many sales, as lots of sellers would not accept BTC. Firstly, society needs to widely accept virtual currency, only after that it can be integrated into such big e-shops like ebay.

well some peoples are trying to build their marketplace like eBay, there so many site you can find out there, but i think it need more time to grow and being competitor of the eBay, once there is a competitor of the eBay that accept bitcoin officially, we're gonna leaving eBay soon or later

Well the project related to replace epay would be openbazar but i dont see any recent news about it here soo lets wait,ebay will fall down soon or later.

ebay looks to be the initiator of digital shopping. Its a vast network, now to make a change in the growing market openbazar concept has existed, but it doesn't have the potential to make ebay down soon or later.

intersting post,but i dont interest to your book,sorry. but i suggest you to doing better than this,yous should sell other thing on your account,sell clothes or other product will better,bitcoin user love goods like that.
btw,and i'm also trying to do that ;)

Do you remember social networs before facebook? I had almost forgotted them,soo openbazar for those who wanna and like to shop online anything may be the hit to ebay high fees and paypal service supporter.

Bitcoin on Ebay can be very good, you also can see now around this time that Bitcoin is getting now more popular and also more used and that is perfect for the people who have Bitcoin.
And it is also nice if Bitcoin will be more acceptable so you can spend it more in stores and that will be nice for you.

But first more people have to know more about Bitcoin, so they can also use it by themselves.

People keep trying but the market and merchants are at ebay a reputable company and alive for a long time,the same way paypal bitcoin could easy replace or make them looose their costumers,but the merchants support paypal because the reverse process and being on the market for several years,and their support,something that bitcoin will never have,support and reversible option.

The market now is also getting better as you can see, here are now many Bitcoins users that is more buying some stuff online and that is good because you make it more spendable.
To promote Bitcoin it is good to promote it via internet because there are a lot of people that are on the internet and they are seeing that much so they will get to know about it.

I really hope the bitcoin is getting accepted soon or later by ebay, although I think we are still far away from it to be honest, this is because the fact is that the bitcoin is not a reverse able thing compared with other accepted things on ebay.

Its nice to have Bitcoin on Ebay, because so you make both it more popular and also more used and that is nice the value only of Bitcoin must rise soon and that it would be perfect.
Only there are not that many people knowing that you can buy some stuff with gambling.

Well we now got open bazaar as a example and I must say its pretty nice and good working, if you compare it with ebay it comes pretty close.
Ebay will maybe in the future accept the bitcoin but right now they are only accepting reverse able transaction pay methods.

If we give it a few years, OpenBazaar could be able to compete with the Ebay, that could force Ebay to reduce fee.

OpenBazaar could be able to compete with ebay, if they give extra discount and some cool event or something different from ebay, i turlly believe that OpenBazaar will be widely used, and sooner or latter , bitcoin will be going adopted mainstream,
look at to purse,io nowdays peoples are prefer to paying through that site to purchasing something on amazon than paying on amazon directly, due to the their promotion and extra discount that they held

Damn.

Haven't you bought your own island yet? Don't tell me that you threw away all of your coins before the pump.

And while people buying 5€ stuff for 2k btc don't know where i was...

Its nice to have Bitcoin on Ebay so there will be now more users with Bitcoin is going to buy their stuff on Ebay because Ebay is now also accepting Bitcoin and that is nice.
I hope later that more people will get to know about it and make it also more popular for Bitcoin itself.

good initiate,more people sell something on ebay and acdept bitcoin,it will good for bitcoin and all people that want shop in ebay with bitcoin. i wish this forum create section for ebay seller.

I really hope the bitcoin is gonna get accepted by eBay very soon and I also think they need it because there are coming a lot of marketplaces that will accept it and if eBay stays behind they will sell less more soon or later because of it.
Its in my eyes just a matter of time before they will use it and accept it for payments.

You see indeed that Bitcoin is getting more popular and more used and that is quite nice because the value is getting also higher so that is good for Bitcoin and Ebay.
The only thing now that we have to do is promote it more so more people will get to know about Bitcoin on the Ebay.

There are now more people that is selling stuff on Ebay and that is also nice for Bitcoin itself because if there will be more users of Bitcoin than people will also spend it more.
And than other people can make Bitcoin more acceptable and that is quite nice for the currency itself.

I hope the bitcoin will get accepted by ebay although I think this is gonna take a while they are gonna do it for sure soon or later.
The requests for the bitcoin are rising more and more on ebay and they know they need to soon or later implant it because of that.

if ebay starts accepting bitcoin it would be a great mile stone by Btc

Some sellers of Ebay already starting to accept Bitcoin and that is the problem not everyone knows that so we have to change that and also promote it more so more people will get to know about it.
The only thing that we cant control is the value and that is just time to wait for a better value soon.

Don't think they will accept the bit coin because they cant give you any warranty on the product. They prefer
to pay with pay pal or other online bank paying methods.

Someone recently pointed me to an app called Gyft. They sell giftcards and accept bitcoin. Ebay being one of the cards they sell.

Buy the giftcard with btc then use that for ebay. You just used btc to pay for ebay....sort of.

I don't think you can trade here without paypal

This is actually an ol' way to get away from them not allowing this.
But you still run a risk. Be warn!

yeah ebay still reluctant to use the services of bitcoin maybe they would trouble to do a refund, or if something happens like a fraud. of course you can not do refund if using bitcoin to payment method
maybe it's a difficult to consider

you wont be able to use bitcoin on ebay because it is not a reversible currency

I dont think ebay will accept bitcoin as payment is because the price of bitcoin is unstable unlike paypal and other e-curriencies they are afraid to lose money if the bitcoin price go drop if they accept bitcoin as payment maybe it is the main reason why after many years uptil now bitcoin is not accepted on ebay, and lets see what may happen. In future.

I agree e-bay definitely won't accept bitcoin as payment to their goods. But still we are hoping that they will accept soon and see the fast growth of bitcoin industry today so that we can easily shop from them.

Bitcoin on ebay is also getting more used and that is quite nice for both because there will be more used so you are also making it more popular so that is nice for the future.
The only thing that have to change is indeed the value but we have just to wait and see for what will happen.

i didn't know ebay is using the payment method for Bitcoins.
is it that they could get profit out of it or is it people pay with coins and the other gets gold.
that would be smart ebay.

no why would it be stupid i think they would consider about it why would they not?
every new thing has his positive and negative site of it you can always try.

If people will ask ebay about that. It would take time for a transaction to be done.

And that's a bad thing for an online shopping because they're goal is to have a convenient and fast transaction.

In many on-line shopping I have done it's been hours before they confirmed my card payment, I don't think Bitcoin confirmation time is the reason.
PayPal is quick only for confirmed accounts - it takes time to be confirmed, and new sellers waits days before they can use money received.

eBay and PayPal are one company (regardless official splitting on paper).
+ eBay charges very fat fee on every transaction
+ PayPal charges fee on every transaction
= they do not like you to pay directly (even you sell something explicitly "cash on pick up only" you still have to add PayPal as payment choice)

eBay/PayPal provides "Buyer Protection"
+ it is very favourable to buyer as he can make claim with little proof to have money back.
+ it is backed by force on taking monies back from seller even he declines buyer claim because t&c accepted by seller gives them power to take over his bank acc./credit card
= nature of Bitcoin (and any crypto) will not allow above scheme (or scam (https://www.google.co.uk/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=paypal+scam&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=XacnV_jjINWogAa6_6ioDA#channel=fs&q=chargeback+paypal+scam) as many see)

Therefore I'm sure they not looking forward to implement Bitcoin any time soon.

It's a milestone in the growth of bitcoin. When adoption touches a certain limit, big corporate and trading companies surely take part in the bitcoin usage. Right now I believe only few sellers of eBay accepts bitcoin for their products.

The bitcoin is getting much more popular on the internet not only on the internet also on TV commercials
i saw it on the news yesterday. Ebay is making big steps and will not be the only one who use bitcoins these days.

As you can see indeed you see that Bitcoin is getting also more popular on Ebay and that is nice for the future because some people are using Bitcoin as their payment method so they can buy things now on Ebay.
And it is nice that you can make a lot of money with with Bitcoin on Ebay if you are selling and you also make it more acceptable so that is perfect.

For sure this is the best publicity the coin ever had in the past 10 years. Ebay is such a big company
nice that they accept the bitcoin now that will be nice for the future.

Nobody said that actually eBay itself accepts Bitcoin.

There are people who use the platform of ebay to sell their products are accepting bitcoin in terms of payment. It will be a good news if ebay will start to accept bitcoins soon and many people will go into bitcoins if that happens.

I found couple of sellers who can sell coins for bitcoins. But all it was determined via trial and error method - usually they do not advertise it

My comment was related to Erzatium post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3861.msg14741718#msg14741718) where he assumed that eBay accepts Bitcoin.
Please read before commenting.

Bitcoin on Ebay is getting more popular and that is perfect because Bitcoin is also getting more used so that means that Ebay will get more users and can earn more money.
People are also going to use Bitcoin as their payment method and that is perfect for the currency so that is nice.

But we have to wait and see for what will happen with the value because everyone is hoping that it will be more worth.

There are also sellers in ebay that accept bitcoins for your payment to their goods , products.
You just need to talk to them and have your deal correctly.

Soon or later, ebay will accept it, its just a matter of time before they will in my eyes.
I think they are just waiting till other marketplaces also stepping into it, plus normally they do not use not reversible payment methods...but we could maybe use a sort of escrow right ?

Where have you found this revelation?
eBay did NOT "setup" paying method with any cryptocoins.
No best, big step... sorry.

Yes, any seller may declare he takes Bitcoin payment the same way he can declare cash payment or any other payment, and as always, eBay WILL advise buyers NOT to use it.
Also seller may be banned because it is actually against eBay rules!

To make it very clear for you, there is quote from eBay Accepted payments policy: (http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/accepted-payments-policy.html)
"Paying with Virtual or Cryptocurrencies - Not Allowed."
"Make sure your listing follows these guidelines. If it doesn't, it may be removed, and you may be subject to a range of other actions, including limits of your buying and selling privileges and suspension of your account."

I don't think ebay will like this too much. I wish you the best of luck and many good tidings on your journey.
I have been on this journey myself, the paypal/ebay hell of 12 circles.

You are making this forum useless Adrayrd - stop spamming useless posts.

It nice that we can have Bitcoin on Ebay and that is because around this time there are also now a lot of people that is using Bitcoin as their new payment method and that is perfect.
But not everyone knows that it is possible to pay with Bitcoin so we have to promote it also more.

What if ebay will do it and if he will accept bitcoin this would be a good way to promote bitcoin since ebay is a well known online shop, so people now will ask, what is that bitcoin? Out of curiosity bitcoin is free advertise to their website and people will get into bitcoin.