I think food and housing are too things that need to be available via bitcoin to help it take off. once we can get those two we are well on our way to being able to be "off the grid" so to speak.
I agree! I'll look into Kroger ASAP. As far as housing goes, if anyone is willing to accept bitcoins for rent, please list it here: http://spendbitcoins.com/wp/category/housing/Would be so cool to see that take off! |
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dont know if people have said it, but definitely newegg
Unfortunately we had to cancel New Egg due to terrible customer service and a rejection of our affiliate application. If you are looking for mining equipment, check Memory Dealers, the first store on our home page. Cheers! |
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Sorry, forgot to post here that I already got this working with help from another thread. Thanks!
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Spendbitcoins.com is the easiest way to spend bitcoins on Amazon without incurring any transaction fees. How can I spend bitcoins? Directions: 1) Add the items you desire to your cart through http://am.spendbitcoins.com. Please note, we do not get credit if you do not add your items to your cart from our affiliate link. 2) DO NOT CLICK "PLACE YOUR ORDER". Instead, complete the form below: Email Address: Which site are you shopping on? Exact total (in site's native currency)? Where did you hear about us? Problems? Try a manual order. 3) Upon receiving the agreed number of bitcoins, spendbitcoins.com will send an Amazon gift card of the exact amount requested to the email you used to make the original request (within 12 hours). 4) Go back to Amazon through http://am.spendbitcoins.com and complete your purchase with the gift card. Please use our affiliates link to get to Amazon as that's what keeps this service free. That's it! You've just spent bitcoins with no transaction fees! I was all excited when you said you were back online selling Amazon GC for BTC. That was until I saw your instructions. Can I suggest you have an option "with fees" to just get the gift cert as a straight trade for BTC. If you want, keep this option available for those who want to jump through all the hoops, and don't mind waiting 12 hours to finish an online transaction, just so they don't pay any fees for a great service. Anyway, just a suggestion. Good luck. Hi there, The instructions aren't as hard as they look at first glance. It's just telling you how to get your total. If you already know the total you would like for a gift card, just put the total in the total box. Then it's just asking you to use our affiliate link when you use your gift card so that we get our cut from Amazon. If you don't want to do this, feel free to order anyway, just add whatever you think is a fair fee to the BTC amount requested. The 12 hours is the MAXIMUM amount of time it takes. It is usually much quicker, but it allows for the fact that we may be sleeping when you place your order. If anyone knows a way to automate ordering on Amazon, I'm all ears. Thanks for the idea. --Jeremy |
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speaking of spendbitcoins.com, my next 10 btc will probably be spent at godaddy. +1  |
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Any timetable on when other countries will be opened up to spendbitcoins.com? I can buy a kindle book from Amazon and read it on my phone, and I'd rather do it with butcoin bitcoin. edit - I had to leave the original error in. It's the first time I made that particular typo and I nearly pissed myself.
Which country are you looking for? Spend Bitcoins currently supports every amazon site besides China. |
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Did you stop selling Amazon?
Only temporarily. Will be back in the next few days. ...and we're back! Ordering is available again for Amazon with the exchange rate now being the lower of the 24-hour weighted average and the last trade on Mt Gox. That should stop a lot of leakage . Still happy to hear more ideas on how to make the business profitable, and still very open to an investor who would like to put up money, get paid in bitcoins, and get half the affiliate profits! I do all the work, you put up the money and get bitcoins with no fees + affiliate payouts. PM me to negotiate! |
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$a=ouvrirpage("https://mtgox.com/code/data/ticker.php");
$res=(json_decode($a, true));
$low = $res['ticker']['low'];
$a=ouvrirpage("http://bitcoincharts.com/t/weighted_prices.json");
$res=(json_decode($a, true));
$day = $res['USD']['24h'];
echo min($low, $day);
function ouvrirpage($site){
$ch = curl_init($site);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$res = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
return $res;
}or if you don't like curl: $a=file_get_contents("https://mtgox.com/code/data/ticker.php");
$res=(json_decode($a, true));
$low = $res['ticker']['low'];
$a=file_get_contents("http://bitcoincharts.com/t/weighted_prices.json");
$res=(json_decode($a, true));
$day = $res['USD']['24h'];
echo min($low, $day);
Cool. Got it working with the curl one (never rechecked that one with the <? /?> Last coding I did was GW-Basic in the early 90s.  And that was just copying and changing code, have never really coded anything from scratch. Anyway, bounty on its way to your signature bitcoin address. Thanks! |
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Did you stop selling Amazon?
Only temporarily. Will be back in the next few days. |
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<?php
$a=file_get_contents("https://mtgox.com/code/data/ticker.php");
$res=(json_decode($a, true));
$low = $res['ticker']['low'];
$a=file_get_contents("http://bitcoincharts.com/t/weighted_prices.json");
$res=(json_decode($a, true));
$day = $res['USD']['24h'];
echo min($low, $day);
?> Hmmm.... Does that code return a value to you? Maybe it's a problem with my server, but on my link it just hangs. Does it return a value for anyone else who clicks on it? http://spendbitcoins.com/jefftest/last-24hr.php |
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The following code gives my site it's current exchange rate. 2 BTC bounty for the first person who rewrites it to echo the lower of the last price on Mt Gox and the 24-hour weighted average on Mt Gox. Thanks! |
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(perhaps you can take on a partner who is bullish on BTC and is willing to finance you?)
I have definitely been thinking about this and am considering it very strongly now. It would be a way for someone who wants to accumulate bitcoin (well, that's me--I guess I mean someone who wants to accumulate bitcoin and has the capital to do so) to accumulate them without paying exchange fees and without moving the market, but I would continue to do all the work. If anyone with very deep pockets is interested, let me know! Another idea: Sell products and services on your site that have a higher mark-up (say 30% to 100%). This could possibly give you enough profits to make the "thin margin" sales (Amazon) worth the trouble and risk.
Another great idea. You'll be getting a PM from me soon! Trader Steve gave some good advice. You can use the mt gox api to sell the coins straight away.
I know there is an api to sell the coins straight away, but does that include getting the coins from my wallet to Mt Gox straight away? Resist the temptation to speculate with them. Either you don't know what you are doing and will take unnecessary losses, or you do know what you are doing and really should keep that activity separate.
Yeah, I learned my lesson on that one. I was following the "high for the week is on Wednesday or Thursday" rule but news that causes a slide down can happen any day of the week and I don't have enough capital to hold the bitcoins till they go back up again AND keep running the business. I have tightened things up and am not losing nearly as much as when I was trying to speculate, but still am going the wrong direction. Maybe you should charge a little. 0.0000001 cent @ whatever is not a real price. The average for a larger sum like 50 btc is always lower. Try 0.5% .Thats not really much. I hope you will continue Don't worry, I'll definately continue. It will be back up just as soon as I can code a proper exchange rate. 0.5% would not be enough to keep the 24-hour average as the exchange rate, but someone has PM'd me an excellent idea for the exchange rate--the lower of last price and the 24-hour average. That should stop the losses (on average anyway) as long as I automate trading. Does everyone reading this think that is a fair exchange rate (still with no added fees!)? On a side note, I'm not a programmer. I'm having trouble grabbing the 'last' price from Mt Gox. Here is the current php that grabs the '24 hour weighted average' from bitcoincharts.com: My site then just calls what this code echos whenever it needs the current BTC rate. 2 BTC bounty to whoever can rewrite this code (not give me hints on rewriting it myself, actually rewriting it, remember, I'm not a programmer to echo the lower of the Mt Gox 24 hour weighted average and the Mt Gox last price. Thanks for the help everyone (don't stop now, though, happy to hear any more ideas on making this profitable!). |
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Sell featured spots for people's items/store?
For sale: Featured spots for people's items/store. Make me an offer by PM. |
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P.S. -- Here are Spend Bitcoins stats for the last month: 8,800 Visits
17,338 Pageviews
1.97 Pages/Visit
55.99% Bounce Rate
00:02:26 Avg. Time on Site
44.39% % New Visits There's gotta be a way to make that profitable. |
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I have really enjoyed running Spend Bitcoins and will continue to do so, but something has to change. The entire point of Spend Bitcoins was to allow people to spend bitcoins at the market rate without paying any transaction fees. Instead, I got the vendors to pay the transaction fees (+ theoretically a profit for me) by signing up for their affiliate programs. However, the affiliate payouts are actually not covering my losses. So far, Spend Bitcoins is actually a few thousand USD in the hole (<sob story>which is a large part of the reason I can't afford the trip from Australia to the US I had planned for this Thanksgiving for my parents to meet their new granddaughter  </sob story>. I have been using the 24 hour average as my exchange rate, and it appears that gives too much incentive for my order volume to be greatest during down markets (or perhaps the problem is simply that we have basically been in a down market, with small blips up, since the Mt Gox hack). This then means that when I exchange btc -> USD (which I have to do a few times a week in order to pay for Amazon and other purchases), my loss has averaged greater than 5%, which is about when I get from Amazon. The ordering pages are currently down for maintenance while I work out what to do with the exchange rate. One idea I have is to use the last Mt. Gox trade as my exchange rate, but that could be abused as well. I really don't want to make my exchange rate lower than the market rate, as I would then be just another btc->gift card exchanger without my unique selling point being that there are no added transaction fees. So... if you have enjoyed the services of spendbitcoins.com or just have some nifty ideas for me on how to make my business profitable, can you please post them below? |
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Can anyone help? I'm trying to grab the last price from Mt Gox using the following code: <?php $url = ' https://mtgox.com/api/0/data/ticker.php'; $ch = curl_init(); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_REFERER, $url); $json = curl_exec($ch); curl_close($ch); echo $json;//['ticker']['last']; ?> and it's just hanging. Can anyone spot an error or if it's completely wrong just give me the right code? 1 BTC bounty if it works! Thanks! |
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Tom Williams,
You better come up with %100 of everyone's bitcoins ASAP even if you need to buy them with your own money from one of the exchanges.
Those bitcoins are YOUR responsibility.
I can think of times in my life where I made mistakes, and paid tens of thousands of dollars out of my own pocket to make things right.
Now it is your turn.
Do the right thing.
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