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Black Friday just got 3% cheaper.

This November 9th, 2012, over 25 Bitcoin Merchants are hosting sales. Major sales in an attempt to introduce more consumers to Bitcoin and invigorate existing consumer spending. With news reports of 78% of bitcoins not being spent, we need to do *something*.

If you'd like to help, please give me some feedback, or post our promotion images: http://bitcoinfriday.com/promote.html

Thank you!

-Jon

Site is here: http://bitcoinfriday.com

I'll most def watch this and see if anything perks my interest to give a try. Pretty good idea to hitch on a popular mainstream thing and grab some attention.

Bittiraha.fi will definitely participate. Both our exchange and our online store will have discounts. I'm contacting via email for the details. Our services are only for the Finns at this time though. We are expanding in 2013.

Sounds good to me. You guys should host a Bitcoin party too! :)

I would like to join in if possible, banner specs? flash, size, anything allowed not allowed. Mine is going to be simple but think its good to get it out there.

I would like to join, Black Friday banner is on site http://mercabit.eu

My logo is found here http://mercabit.eu/logo.png

http://mercabit.eu/logo.png

Got multi banners on my site www.bitcoin-keys.com

Shoot me an email: jon [at] Bitcoinfriday.com and we'll talk! :)

You should email jon [at] Bitcoinfriday.com too.

Great!
Can I ask why it's called "Black Friday"?
Black is more of a symbolic color for doom/death.. (No racism intended!)

~ Flowz

Its based off a american shopping day after thanksgiving. Generally american stores have HUGE sales that day and it is the start to the holiday season.

^this.

It's just a play on the word :)

It's called black friday because that's the day in the year stores start operating in the black(good) as opposed to red(bad).

Omnicoins (https://www.omnicoins.com) will definitely be participating. Expect big savings from us on November 9. Further details to come.

I emailed this out to our 1,200 merchants!  I am sure many of them will participate.

I'm thinking we're going to turn off our paypal & credit card acceptance for the day, and put up a nice big statement in support of bitcoins on the front and checkout pages.

Do you guys still update the page?

Just did.

We're up to 50 Merchants.

Nicee  :)

Nice update! I spotted at least 3 Finnish Bitcoin accepting merchants in the list which is excellent.

I'm really looking forward to Bitcoin Friday. I will definitely spend some bitcoins that day.

Good idea! This may very well be the first time I purchase anything on "black Friday" in ~12 years I've been in North America. One concern is the credibility of all merchants you let participate. Given tne irreversibility of bitcoin payments, it would be a PR disaster to let a scammer or an incompetent merchant sneak through and ruin somebody's first-ever Bitcoin experience. This is why I liked MtGox's "trusted merchant" idea, although í don't how well it's implemented. Anyway, please screen carefully whom you advertise on this Web page.

Also, we need more buzz in the media about this campaign, with links to easy-to-start wallets. How would you get a curious newbie to get and spend bitcoins in a few days?

We are going to give a Bitcoin Friday bonus to our employees/owners (the kids ;)) so they can purchase something on Black Friday.

Still working out what kind of gift packages we are going to offer.

Thanks Coinabul for putting this together!

Make me a page!

Also, I'm screening them myself, I've disallowed a couple sites due to quality issues... But I won't take responsibility for all merchants, if you have any doubts, feel free to ask about them!

Great idea, I hope you guys rock the sale!

Maybe it's time for me to finally grab one of those lasers.    ;D

Anyone here every try one out? I don't know why, but I want one. Badly. lol

^ In your dreams  ;D

I'll be at least on the lookout for things to buy...  ;)

Great, but can you suggest specific sequence of steps I should recommend a btc-curious person to take, so they can acquire and then spend coins within a day or two? To me this is still  a sticking point: too many possibillities, endless combinations, most of them half-baked or too intimidating for an average person.

Looking forward to this. I'm long overdue for another order. You guys have the best caramels.

There is no easy method unfortunately. I hope this highlights the difficulty of using Bitcoin and how it needs to change!

I'm really stressing that merchants with a physical presence host a "Bitcoin Party" to sell bitcoins for cash and teach consumers how to use clients. That's ideally the easiest way to buy coins on the day of.

Cheers,
-Jon

I will get Whiskey Dicks in Orlando to do a happy hour special on Friday after work, and I'll be there to educate and sell bitcoins.  I always help people install a wallet on their phone when I'm there.

Perfect! :)

In Helsinki we have the Bitcoin Café on Bitcoin Friday.

http://www.facebook.com/events/348863115209832/

Any update on what bitcoin special you are going to run?

Anyone need a concealment holster? I'll be putting up some holsters that I'll be liquidating on Bitcoin Friday. It was a deal gone bad for me, but the timing was perfect to help out the bitcoin economy. More details coming when I get them up on the site.

It looks like we are going to offer 20% off all our items.  This will hopefully get some new future customers and a way of saying thanks to the repeat customers.  We will post on our thread tomorrow night.




I might be interested in a concealment holster for a Sig 226 and a 228.
What I really need right now is something like an Uncle Mike's Kydex Belt holster for two FMK 9C1's and the 226. Got anything like that?

Soon it starts! :)

Created our blog post about it finally. http://shiresilver.com/blog/2012/nov/bitcoin_friday_promotional_deal

Turning off the PayPal and credit card options tonight so tomorrow we'll be bitcoin only (just for the day).

MtGox has halved their fees!

I intend to spend some coins at privateinternetaccess.com.   ;D

I'll make my first bitcoin purchase tomorrow! ;D
This will be a great day for bitcoin!

WalletBit has halved its fees. This means our Bitcoin payment processing fees are only 0.445%! As long as it is Bitcoin Friday somewhere in the world, our fees will be half off.

Unfortunately, no, I don't have those. What I have right now is the Cell Pal, a deep concealment holster. But it will hold anything from a LCP sized semi auto, up to a full size 1911. So one of these will be all you need to fit those. Here's a site with some info (http://www.concealmentconcepts.com/cellpal.html). It's not my site, because I had taken them off and just set up the page for Bitcoin Friday. I don't want any premature orders, so I'll put my page up at midnight.

Also, I had to look up the FMK. They seem like pretty good guns, I hadn't heard of them before.

EDIT: I went ahead and put the page up. http://shamblindistribution.com/bitcoin-friday.html

Got our first Bitcoin Friday order. Now I can go to bed  :D

http://shiresilver.com/blog/2012/nov/bitcoin_friday_promotional_deal

Cool Idea, I'll have to fire up bitcoin again for the occasion.  :)

Bitcoin Magazine's Bitcoin Friday Offer is live now at http://bitcoinmagazine.net/subscribe

Thank you, just ordered issue 2, 3 & 4

Deals, deals for all! Everything live.

hi,

are there plans for a subsummation of sorts of all notable press hits, interesting stories etc etc?



https://twitter.com/helenpidd/status/266986018517970944/photo/1

Working on it as we speak!

did anyone buy anything?  :P

Hundreds.

While I welcome discount deals, nothing wrong with 78% of bitcoins not being spent, right?
Just means plenty of people use it as a long-term investment.  I am guessing the fact that it can be used this way has motivated plenty of people to learn more about bitcoin, download the client and blockchain, and do the occassional purchase as well.
More purchases and a bigger bitcoin economy would obviously be good for BTC acceptance and value however.

The 78% bit was more to motivate people.

Hoarding has been pointed out before as an issue, some people agree, others disagree. I don't really subscribe to one side or the other, I merely believe, as you said, that a bigger Bitcoin economy helps Bitcoin in the long run.

Is this a weekly or monthly event ?

Oh I see this was only Nov 9th :-\

Maybe also December 7th ?

Man. I'd literally die if it was every week.

I'm talking with other community members and we'll see how often events can be thrown. Right now, the best way to stay informed is to sign up for the newsletter on the homepage.

Cheers,
-Jon