Hello Bitcoiners!

We have to first off thank you for all the support you've given us and I doubt I'll ever be able to start off any announcements without mentioning how much we appreciate our customers. We spent a great weekend in San Jose last month meeting you guys face to face and I have to say that few companies have quite the loyal and generous customers that we do.

And I'm also coming to you with a bit of sad news, fixing our search function is harder than we expected. We knew it would be hard, but the tweaks we've been able to add have only made a bit of a difference.

But I had a thought about that... The Bitcoin community has never sat down and waited for something to happen. Most of the major institutions in Bitcoin were created by Bitcoiners. Nearly everyone in the community contributes in some way, whether it is a member of the Dev Team or a poster on this forum, everyone has contributed in some way.

So, the world presented us with a broken banking system and we made our own; what if I present you with an API to BitcoinStore's catalog, and request a better way to search?

Here's the end goal: provide some workaround that will allow our customers to better find what they're looking for, that will work for a couple of months until we can really fix our search on our site (to do so will probably require coding a custom search function.)

I have been presented already with a couple ideas to do this:

• A Firefox/Chrome plugin that shows up on NewEgg or Amazon when they have a BitcoinStore product.
• An offsite web-app that provides clearer/simpler search
• Or perhaps some other idea

Anyways, here's our API: https://www.bitcoinstore.com/api/rest/products
(add ?page=X to see page X)

I'm thinking people will be able to pull from there to create a database that they can use to do search functions on. Simply updating the catalog every couple of hours should allow the sites to see any changes in availability.

Please let me know if anyone needs additional features or information on the API. I don't think you can place orders through the API yet (probably due to security issues), but I'm sure we'll be able to clear some sites to do so in the future.

Furthermore, if someone provides a beautiful workaround using the API, I will be more than happy to toss a couple bitcoins your way. This is by no means a contest, but I'm happy to provide a financial reward.

Thank you so much for your support, and I look forward to the responses on this thread!

-Jon

We're looking into it internally.

At this point, don't get too hopeful, but personally (while I don't hold any litecoins!) I think that anything we can do to advance any crypto-currency is a good thing.

This is going to take a while to decide on, but I'll keep you guys updated. Even if we decide not to accept LTC, I can think of a couple ways we can help the Litecoin merchant economy grow.

Cheers,
-Jon

I haven't seen anything from you on those other accounts.

We have been busy at Bitcoin2013, so I apologize about the delay.

Anyways, we do not focus much on international shipping yet. It is too costly for our customers, we want to provide the best service for our customers, which means only-US so far. We are looking for more suppliers abroad though!

Update:

Hello,
Unfortunately we have received too many orders to process them all at the speed you guys are used to. We are currently experiencing a processing time of 48hrs at the moment.

We are scaling up our processing team to expedite all current and future orders.

Furthermore, we are receiving too many international orders to process them all. We do not want to provide a service you pay for, then fail to deliver. For this reason, we're turning off international shipping for the time being. It is a huge bottleneck for our order system. We have a lot of international customers and we do not want to shut them out, but at the same time we do no feel comfortable giving them anything less than stellar service.

Feel free to continue placing orders domestically, there only will be the slight delay of 24hrs or so on any additional orders. We are working tirelessly to fix the issues we're having.

So, in summary, international shipping is turned off until we can hire more staff and all orders are slightly delayed right now. Because of the actions we are taking, any further order delays are unlikely and we should get back to same day processing soon. Keeping our reputation clean and our service smooth is important to us, please let us know if there is anything else we can do. (I promise you we're working on the search function).

-Jon Holmquist
https://bitcoinstore.com

We'll be adding a couple decimal places in soon!

Was the item backordered?

We're working on better communicating that when customers shopping.

I have 720x90 / 728 x 90 / 125x125 / 468x60 / and other sizes upon request.

Looking to place banner ads, I can also do text ads as well.

Please respond if you're interested. I pay well... and in BTC!

I take PMs as well

Cheers,
-Jon

3@3

Can I have you recheck your load times? We've recently bumped up our hosting.

Cheers,
-Jon

We're working on adding more images and better descriptions. I don't know if we can start sending our traffic to Amazon, but it's a nice idea!

I'm looking for Bitcoin-related sites with mainly US-Based traffic.

Please send me a PM and we can decide on rates.

I'll be using the Bitcoin ad networks as well. But for any people who prefer to do manual deals, please send me a PM!

Cheers,
-Jon

We're looking into ways to make it cheaper. A lot of international taxes target electronics though.

I'm pretty sure that's a 10-pack. I'm looking at why it's not showing the quantity.

We'll be doing a whole slew of articles on how to get newbies used to Bitcoin and BitcoinStore. I think that it is an uphill battle, but why not lure them up the hill with a financial gain?

I think at the end of the day, if there is plentiful information, and getting bitcoins is easy enough, they'll find their way to our door, so to speak.

Community members like you will be definitely involved in spreading that info, hopefully I'll have some documents that'll make your explanations easier. Thank you so much for what you're doing!

I might message him and talk about a partnership!

Anyways, in regards to your earlier message we're back up. Sorry about the downtime.

Cheers,
-Jon

You gave me a heart attack there. I thought Kim had started a BitcoinStore

We're back, guys, and we are *thrilled* at the response you gave us! First and foremost, we apologize for the downtime. Starting from 7:15PM we started handling so much traffic it actually completely overloaded our hosting provider's servers. The good news is we have scaled our servers up to accomodate and will be looking into ways to further optimize our server stack to handle the increase in load.

Thanks for sticking with us at Bitcoinstore!

Don't forget to wear your favorite pair of Alpaca socks!

You can't put a price on security

Everything is at a wholesale price for any level of order.

Cheers,
-Jon