Title: myus.com-like service with bitcoins? Post by: mimarob on May 16, 2011, 07:16:33 AM As a non-US resident I have for a number of years enjoyed the great service of myus.com In essence it is a proxy shopping service. I can order stuff from merchants that either don't ship abroad or charges a fortune to do so because of the bureaucrazy involved. It is also possible to have them pay for an item or an auction on ebay with their credit card and then bill me for the stuff. myus.com then sends the goods anywhere in the world with DHL or similar, making all customs declarations go smoothly.
Now something is screwing around with my credit card, though I can still use it here in Sweden, it seems to bounce when they tried it last time. I don't think it's the great, service minded people at myus.com that are incompetent. I more think of this as an international money conspiracy of the evil credit card buissneses (tm). So in order to startup a service like this I filled in something called a usps 1583, my guess is that this is so that they don't get the blame if I send something I shouldn't via their service. A subscription is about $130 a year and I pay something like $10 to get the paperwork done, then there is a small charge for storage if I choose to delay my shippings more than a month. Right now I feel it would be tremendously more easy to pay this with bitcoins than trying to call up my bank or sending them an international wire-transfer (which usually ends up costing about twice as much as the actual services I pay for :-) disclaimer: I do not work for myus.com nor do I promote them in any way other than as a private individual blablabla... etc. Title: Re: myus.com-like service with bitcoins? Post by: Anonymous on May 16, 2011, 07:20:54 AM This is exactly what bitcoin needs. If you need some startup funds use http://glbse.com to issue some shares and I think people would support it.
Title: Re: myus.com-like service with bitcoins? Post by: FooDSt4mP on May 16, 2011, 07:35:08 AM That, or convince myus.com to accept bitcoins. Either way, you win, bitcoin wins.
Title: Re: myus.com-like service with bitcoins? Post by: bitdragon on May 16, 2011, 08:50:56 AM I have been considering using such a service to order my next laptop on
http://www.system76.com You could have someone in the US make the dollar payment in exchange for bitcoins in the meantime? Title: Re: myus.com-like service with bitcoins? Post by: mimarob on May 17, 2011, 07:55:52 AM I'm not a us resident so I can't do this myself, but I think there is a demand for it, myus is obviously expanding right now.
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