Seller protection is "free" if you follow their rules and ship to the Ebay/PayPal confirmed address using a tracking number or USPS delivery confirmation. I've heard that if you ship USPS, you have to write "DO NOT FORWARD" on the package, otherwise the buyer can have USPS forward the package to another address, then claim the package never arrived, and Ebay/PayPal makes the seller eat the loss.

Buyer got their bitcoins below market value, which means I get quite a bit less than market value.

Buyer paid by e-check, which means I have to wait for it to clear before shipping.

New auction selling 25BTC is posted, this time with a buy-it-now option: http://cgi.ebay.com/300555905164

Bidding is at $53 with one hour left. There may be a frenzy of sniping at the end (I hope), but if not, these bitcoins will be sold at $3.71 each! (MtGox is currently at $3.88 each)

Once Ebay takes their 9% and PayPal takes their 3%, that means I would get $3.26 each for my bitcoins (even less than that, depending on how much shipping costs). Even if I sell at a loss, I will still do at least one more auction. I'd like to establish whether this is a viable way to sell coins, even if I have to lose some money doing it.

If I make a substantial profit, I will definitely do more auctions, and I'm sure some of you will too.

I wanted a simpler way to accept bitcoins, and I eventually came up with this:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Lazy_API

It's not uber-secure, but it is really, really easy.

You can use PayPal to buy my bitcoin gift certificate on ebay:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7072.0

I'm trying selling bitcoin gift certificates on Ebay:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7072.0

I know this is an old thread, but I want this link here for posterity.

Don't forget to send that greasemonkey author a little bitcoin tip

Just posted what my next certificate will look like at the top of the thread, assuming this auction goes smoothly.

A 7-day auction feels way too long. Next auction will probably be 3 days with a buy-it-now option.

More like wait 180 days. I doubt you want to wait that long.

You can use PayPal to buy my bitcoin gift certificate on Ebay. Search for "bitcoins".

Not a lot of extra trouble, but the fixed cost for shipping might make it not worth it. I'm guessing my next auction will be for a $25 gift certificate, but it will be good for 25 bitcoins as described above, so it will actually be a BIGGER lot than the $50 certificate I'm selling now. Edit: Next auction is linked in the top post, and is for 25BTC with a face value of $100.

I think that the accepted way to buy and sell bitcoins for credit card via PayPal is going to be selling paper gift certificates on Ebay. I started a thread about it here:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7072.0

I think Ebay may turn out to be the best way to use credit cards to buy bitcoins, and PayPal to sell bitcoins. Check out this thread I started:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7072.0

Actually, I just realized that you can buy bitcoins with your credit card right now on the ebay auction I linked to, if you are in the U.S.

For my next auction, I'm going to offer a gift certificate good for bitcoins OR carrots: http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7072.msg104604#msg104604

For future auctions, I'm thinking about using this gift certificate template:

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/8881/certificate50.png

I created a "web store" that this gift certificate goes with: https://sites.google.com/site/onedollarbitcoinsandcarrots/

What do you guys think?

I decided this idea wasn't going to work very well.

I'm experimenting with using ebay to sell my bitcoins:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7072.0

I'm using a physical gift certificate, shipped with a tracking number so that I qualify for seller protection.

That would be because, like most people, I don't have one!

Anyway, even if I did make one, it would be new/untrusted, and it would just confuse 99.9% of people on Ebay who saw the auction.

I'm going offline for the evening - you guys all bid so I can be happy tomorrow morning, k?

If the auction ended right now, some lucky person would get their bitcoins for just over $1 each

Hopefully I'll have some snipers when it ends.

Actually there are no air quotes. I am literally going to ship a piece of paper, tracking number and all.

If I don't, I'm not eligible for seller protection in case of fraud.

Bitcoin values always go up when they get easier to buy/sell.

Prices go down when mtgox is having problems and when coinpal, coincard, and bitcoinmorpheus all get shut down at the same time.

All this uncertainty is why I am experimenting with selling some bitcoins on ebay by way of a Gift Certificate (an already well-established category on ebay):

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=7072.0