A web store that sells home products and accepts bitcoin only

[australianBoxingLove78sa]

The idea for the site began after I purchased an item from overstock.com After making a purchase, a coinbase page came up with a payment address. I transferred money from an exchange to the address. The exchange took longer than 8 minutes, and the receiving address changed. The money was refunded to a coinbase account which I would need to sign up at coin base.com and agree to their terms of use to claim the refund.

It hit me that Overatock didn't accept Bitcoin. I'm not sending Bitcoin to Overstock, I'm sending Bitcoin to coinbase and they in turn pay Overstock.

The very first statement in the original Bitcoin paper is "Commerce on the internet has come to rely on third parties" (paraphrasing).

P2P, so the web store at TheFutureWasYesterday.org is my effort to offer small household needs directly for Bitcoin. The site is still being developed and right now there is only one T-shirt and tea light candles, but am looking for feedback from the community

What types of household products would you buy with Bitcoin?

[vendetahome]

i would buy pretty much everything if the price was reasonable, also i think you should make a poll for it

[achow101_alt]

I would buy everything with Bitcoin if I could. Right now, there are no sites that I know of that sells home products for Bitcoin, but there are services like purse.io where you can buy stuff off of Amazon.

[anderson00673]

This is a brilliant idea.  I would really like to see some novelty coins like this one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1070042.0  or this one:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1041987.0

There are some amazing looking coins out there.

Also I would want to see other coin-stuff like ledgers and trezors. 

I know this isn't exactly what you were asking for but its what I would want on the site in addition to regular stuff.

I hope you get this shop up and running!

[australianBoxingLove78sa]

i would buy pretty much everything if the price was reasonable, also i think you should make a poll for it

Done  

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1072455.0

[australianBoxingLove78sa]

This is a brilliant idea.  I would really like to see some novelty coins like this one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1070042.0  or this one:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1041987.0

There are some amazing looking coins out there.

Also I would want to see other coin-stuff like ledgers and trezors. 

I know this isn't exactly what you were asking for but its what I would want on the site in addition to regular stuff.

I hope you get this shop up and running!

Good idea! I created "Bitcoin related Novelty" category. There is nothing listed in this category yet but I'll update when I get some things.

What about clothing? Like Bitcoin related shirts? Say "Will work for Bitcoin", or a bumper sticker "My child may not be an honor student but she receives her allowance in Bitcoin" with a Bitcoin symbol.

[anderson00673]

This is a brilliant idea.  I would really like to see some novelty coins like this one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1070042.0  or this one:https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1041987.0

There are some amazing looking coins out there.

Also I would want to see other coin-stuff like ledgers and trezors. 

I know this isn't exactly what you were asking for but its what I would want on the site in addition to regular stuff.

I hope you get this shop up and running!

Good idea! I created "Bitcoin related Novelty" category. There is nothing listed in this category yet but I'll update when I get some things.

What about clothing? Like Bitcoin related shirts? Say "Will work for Bitcoin", or a bumper sticker "My child may not be an honor student but she receives her allowance in Bitcoin" with a Bitcoin symbol.

Actually yes, those are great ideas for a novelty section.  I would buy a bitcoin shirt.  If those are successful you could do hats and hoodies too.  Bumper stickers are ok, but I like those plastic things that you can put on a window better.  They are easier to take off when they get old or you don't like them anymore.  I guess you could make lots of stuff like coffee mugs, travel mugs, condoms (ha!), etc.  It all depends on what people want.  I hope some others will say what novelty items they want too, because you only want stuff that will actually sell!

[Amph]

only the necessary household products, like the one for cleaning the mirror and for the wachining machine, just one each, nothing crazy

[EternalWingsofGod]

i would buy pretty much everything if the price was reasonable, also i think you should make a poll for it

Of the same opinion but in regards to household products factoring in shipping cost might be the biggest challenge so bulk deals would be attractive.
I guess it would depend on what you can get from your supplier at a price that is competitive with prices in other countries with shipping factored in, kind of like a Liquidation world.

[jacktheking]

Good and neat website you have there. The design look pretty neat but.. it is not attractive. I would suggest you to hire a web designer to design the web store for you. Anyway, putting up a ready-to-use CSS template to your site look easy.

Also, your site document is ending with .htm. Are you using JavaScript to handle the transaction? You should take a look a PHP. It can help you create high-end web application.

[australianBoxingLove78sa]

The site is functioning properly and the order form is executing properly now. There are only nine items currently for sale but more will come. There will be some Bitcoin artwork soon, more kitchen stuff, office supplies etc. Thank you all for your feedback.

The end goal is a an online store, like Target, or a home shop where all the everyday products can be purchased DIRECTLY with Bitcoin

[australianBoxingLove78sa]

Are you using JavaScript to handle the transaction? You should take a look a PHP. It can help you create high-end web application.

The transaction is handled via PERL script. I tried php and hada hard time getting it to do what I wanted.

I've been focusing the past week mainly on functionality, making sure everything is linked correctly. Once everything is completed in this sense I will move on to changing fonts, color scheme, adding thumbnails for images, and things like this.

The end game would be a nice user interface to shop on, hut not overly complicated. I like simple. I don't like going on eBay and having three dozens artifacts thrown in my face when I didn't ask for them. 

[Lorenzo]

The idea for the site began after I purchased an item from overstock.com After making a purchase, a coinbase page came up with a payment address. I transferred money from an exchange to the address. The exchange took longer than 8 minutes, and the receiving address changed. The money was refunded to a coinbase account which I would need to sign up at coin base.com and agree to their terms of use to claim the refund.

It hit me that Overatock didn't accept Bitcoin. I'm not sending Bitcoin to Overstock, I'm sending Bitcoin to coinbase and they in turn pay Overstock.

The very first statement in the original Bitcoin paper is "Commerce on the internet has come to rely on third parties" (paraphrasing).

P2P, so the web store at TheFutureWasYesterday.org is my effort to offer small household needs directly for Bitcoin. The site is still being developed and right now there is only one T-shirt and tea light candles, but am looking for feedback from the community

What types of household products would you buy with Bitcoin?

Didn't Overstock claim to keep a small portion of their coins in the form of BTC without directly exchanging to fiat? I remember they were one of the rare companies which chose to do so while still using a third-party payment processor.

i would buy pretty much everything if the price was reasonable...

Same here.

Where I'm from (New Zealand), we have an online auction site called Trade Me which works in a very similar way to eBay. I've been accepting BTC for several months now but the option doesn't seem to be very popular since nobody has chosen to pay via BTC yet. Using BTC to buy products online wouldn't really be that big of a stretch for someone like me. Heck, being able to do all of my shopping with BTC (assuming that the prices are reasonable) and only using fiat for the bare essentials would probably be even better.

[pooya87]

i would buy most of my household requirements like detergents and washing material stuff.
but i would prefer if the price was competitive or maybe if the website offers free deliveries or some promotional stuff like that.

anyways i wish your project become successful.