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http://slickdeals.net/f/7146826-sony-playstation-4-319-99-free-shipping-newegg-pay-with-bitcoin?v=1

i think bringing more attention to these exclusive deals will help us draw in more users.. so if you have an SD account, please thumb it up.. or buy it if you are looking for a good deal on a PS4.

wow, thats a nice discount (and promo) !

Just bought one. It wasn't clear how to pay with Bitcoin, but once I figured it out, it took about 30 seconds. I used my Android Mycelium wallet.

Well this one way people will recognize bitcoin,it with  huge savings, bravo to newegg for doing this,  If giant merchants can do this, this will get more people to adopt into bitcoin much faster.

yeah i hope dell, overstock, tigerdirect and all the other retailers follow suit with this. bitcoin-only transactions with steep discounts.

More people pay attention to btc's price and buy in btc when they think there is bargain price. They will tend to pay with btc or save it.

btw, i see this post on slickdeals.net... and a lot of people still seem to be negative against bitcoin. they're calling it a ponzi scheme, even though newegg and other major retailers are accepting btc. there are still a lot of resistant people who remain firmly unconvinced.

The discount seems nice, probably they are trying to make money from the recent price falling and expect to rise higher.

This is absolutely the best news we can get.

The only way for adoption to grow, would be for merchants, who accepted BTC as payment method, to offer incentives and discounts like this.

As a merchant, you cannot simply state that they accepted BTC as a payment method, and wait for adoption to grow by itself.

The consumer needs to have access to a BTC ATM  {Without BTC he cannot buy anything} This MUST be a easy and fast process.
The payment with BTC must be easy and fast.
The fees must be lower than tradisional payment methods. {Credit cards / Fiat / Debit cards}
There must be something, to motivate the consumer, to switch to BTC payment. {Discounts}

If only one of these things fail, the consumer will not adopt the BTCcurrency and then you would find, that the hoarders, will be spending their coins, and the price of BTC will drop, because of the over supply of bitcoins, on the exchange side. {The demand will only increase, once more new people adopt BTC and wants to buy it}

Newegg has succeeded in finding a great way of doing this, and I applaud them for that.  ;D ;D ;D

17% discount when comparing to Amazon. Didn't know the profit margin for retail store is this high.

God damn I wish I had more BTC; this is a great deal and im tempted because I loved the Silent Hills demo, scary shit.

I am not convinced. Most people are lazy. 

Sure it's good news that companies are doing this, but who wants to spend their coins at current value. They're worth around $100 less than what they were a week ago and much more if you go further back, so a little discount isnt going to sway me at the moment.

I miss those deals here in Brazil.
But anyway, this is really great to get the attention of anyone, to spend Bitcoins or to bring new people to understand and maybe even use Bitcoin.

Consumers can buy bitcoin at market value and then buy the ps4 at huge discount. This has nothing to do with hoarding and investing and hoping for higher price.

Awesome deal! I love it when you get a discount by paying with BTC - it's like being rewarded for something that you want to do anyway  ;D

That's great. I think vendors are starting to realize the benefits of bitcoin over credit cards and traditional payment processors...

That's pretty swank. I'm so conflicted because I don't like consoles that much. 

it is very nice that they are doing deals like this. hopefully that motiviates some people to look into it :) more deals and sales will be required to interest ppl enough. one thing that always gets ppl is saving money!

Doesn't have to be down to hoarding, but you could go buy $320 of coins and by the time you get them and try complete the purchase for the PS3 those coins are worth $300 and you're short and lost money. This is the problem for consumers but with merchants they just get the fixed price in fiat.

I live in Canada. Unfortunately, newegg.ca doesn't offer bitcoin payments for now. Is this promo still available to me?

I think this is what would be known as a loss leader.


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Precisely, using it as a currency instead of an investment tool.

that is a very good deal, with 80 dollars off.

That's assuming that they are making a profit on this deal. Could be a loss leader, or maybe they just see the future potential of Bitcoin.

Does anybody know if they ship in Europe and if the bitcoin payments are avaiable for people outside America?

This is really cool! Sadly I just bought a PS4, maybe I should donate my PS4 to a family member and get another with this deal.

I wonder what Bitcoin only Holiday deals we will get this year, maybe we some bitcoin only Black friday deals :)

Is this offer still available?

Thanks,

Doesn't look like it. Yesterday, there was a banner saying that using the code BCPS410 would get you a $80 discount if you use Bitcoin. It isn't there anymore. Here's the link: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16868110114

Ive been looking to buy a PS4, good to know theres a great deal with bitcoin!  :D

EDIT: I just read the last few posts, looks like im SOL.

Looks awesome! i would thumb up...but how do i do that?

That's really cool discount.. i don't have an SD account.but honestly it's a great deal.

wow..bitcoin rules... 8) 8)

That a good price. But they just put out a article about they don't see why everyone is buying ps4's. Well this is one reason alot of the internet currency is bitcoins now. So alot of them are gonna be sold. Either way its a good way to boost sales.

I think its not for promotion but sort of investment. BTC prices low now, if they rise to $800 then they already would have made lot of profit.