Hi there,

Sorry for the confusion. When you click "Submit and Continue" step 2 fills with a unique bitcoin address of ours for you to send to.

If you have any other questions, please let me know!

Happy Spending,
Jeremy

On Spend Bitcoins Australians can:

Pay Bills
Convert bitcoins to Australian Dollars in your bank account
Convert bitcoins to a reload on the Austpost reloadable Visa
Shop at Fishpond or anywhere online that takes AUD via credit card.

And guess what? We are currently offering 1-2% above Mt Gox market rate for AUD!

Buy anything in Australia or pay your bills, get your Australian Dollars in 1-2 days, and get 1-2% more for your bitcoin than on Mt Gox. Win win win!

Why? We sell bitcoin here in Australia and can almost always use more stock. Why buy it overseas with wire transfers when we can give the retail exchange rate fees back to Aussies instead?

Use spendbitcoins.com to convert your bitcoins to AUD in your bank account, on an Austpost reloadable Visa, on Fishpond or "anywhere (with AUD as the currency)" and you'll get 1-2% more from us than Mt Gox without any fees AND have your AUD in 1-2 business days instead of weeks!

Why? Because we sell a lot more than we take in, and it is better for us to give a bonus to Aussies than to wire money around the world. Yay!

http://spendbitcoins.com. Happy spending!

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-- I remember the days about a year ago when I'd make 10 or 20% on my bitcoins while waiting an hour for them to confirm on Mt Gox before I could sell them.

Hi there,

I believe this problem has been resolved. If anyone has this issue again, please let us know.

I'm very sorry, but both the apmex page and the wiring page are suspended at the moment.

Just confirming, jaychristopher is indeed on the spendbitcoins team.

Hi Dooglus. I'll definitely be contacting you on skype. I haven't tried yet because I haven't had a moment to.

I finally replicated this issue. It kept happening to me as well, even if I refreshed, but finally I tried ctrl-f5 and it resolved. Please try the same and let me know if it resolves for you. In the meantime we'll continue to try to isolate the issue and fix it or put up a proper error message.

Hi there,

Thanks for letting us know. We have so far been unable to replicate this issue, but you are not the only one who has reported it for themselves today.

We will continue to try to replicate it and seek to pick up patterns of those who it is happening to. Please keep trying and let us know if it starts working for you.

If the same or similar issues are happening to anyone else, please let us know what is happening, on which browser, which page, basically as many details as you can give us so we an try to find the pattern.

Thank you!
Jeremy

Hi there,

I'm very sorry for any inconvenience. Can you please be more specific on what is not working for you? For example, I just put through an order on chrome and it worked as normal. Which browser are you using and what is happening.

Thanks again for the feedback!

We removed this section long ago. [locked]. 

I think he's asking if he had the same issue as me, but it doesn't sound like it because mine never broadcast while his eventually did.

If you're talking about us, our prices have not changed. They have always been Mt Gox 24h high + 10%. The problem is that it seems higher as the value of bitcoin rises but in reality it is exactly the same. If bitcoins were selling on Mt Gox for $1 each, our rate would be $1.10, which means that $100 worth of bitcoins would cost you $110. If bitcoins were selling on Mt Gox for $100 each, our rate would be $110, which means $100 worth of bitcoins would cost you $110.

Psychologically it seems more to pay $10 per bitcoin commision that $0.10 per bitcoin commission, but in reality it is exactly the same. I'm thinking about changing the display rate to x +10% so that, for example, at this very moment it would say "5.69 + +10%" instead of "6.31". Would that be psychologically more satisfying for people, especially as prices are rising?

We would love to have lower prices, but unfortunately with wire fees, foreign exchange fees, and exchange rate risk, we have found this rate necessary to stay profitable.

I've been studying all semester, but Australia gives an extra week for studying between the last week of classes and the final exams.

Thanks again for all the help you've all given so far. One of you has sent me a private message offering to walk me through this over skype (he/she hasn't given me authority to say who, so although I'm sure they wouldn't mind, I'll keep it private since they sent me a PM) and I'm going to take you up on that as soon as we can connect.

Just thought I'd update where I'm at with all of this right now:

--I sent the customers their bitcoins again yesterday. This is my problem not theirs, and it sounds like these won't rebroadcast and I'll be able to retrieve them anyway.
--I had another transaction hang like this late yesterday, so I've just set up a new wallet and transferred my coins there in 100 btc lots (so if any more get caught it won't affect the whole amount).

Phew, this has been a week of putting out fires. And it's supposed to be my study week for finals. I haven't cracked a book once!

Oh well, the life of a bitcoin entrepreneur. Crazy roller coaster, but worth every minute.

Me too! Every other time I've done this it's been gone within 5 minutes.

EDIT: I received what I needed and disabled again about 5 minutes after this post.

I know this is going to make me sound incredibly ignorant, but we'll start with the fact that I don't know what you mean when you say I need to have a local web server running. I just have normal DSL internet access. Is it still possible to do this?