I think of bitcoin as a sort of currency. I buy things with it, and if the price goes up, I'm happy. Everything becomes cheaper for me. Bitcoin has a fraction-of-a-cent TX fee, as compared to western union's $5 TX fee, and its safe than PayPal, sure to its decentralization. And also less scams, as there is no bitcoin chargeback.
about the less scams part. I think you can not really sure about that without a escrow service. Without it there will be a lot of scams as bitcoin is untracable and unrecoverable