Have you used Bitcoin as Real money to buy Real/physical goods?

[warwar]

It was my mum's birthday yesterday. And I wanted to buy a birthday cake for her, but when I reached the bread shop, I realized I forgot carrying my wallet and I had only a few bucks in my pocket.  I tried to talk to the boss of the shop if I can pay by bitcoin, to my surprise, she said YES and finally I paid the cake by bitcoin. 

This is my first time to use BTC as real money buying a real physical goods. 

As a bitcoiner, using BTC online is very common.  Have you ever used Bitcoin as Real money to buy Real/physical goods?  plz share your experience.   

I never used it to buy physical goods and still looking forward where I can, unfortunately in my place there is no any place stated accepted bitcoin. Maybe in the future I ask stores owner if he/she use bitcoin too , if they don't at least I can tell/explain about bitcoin. Well, I've planning to open my stores which accepted bitcoin too, so if there is no any, mine will be the first one.

It is nice that if you will accept bitcoin as payment if you open a store . I hope you will be successful with it. That is a good news and also a good promotion for bitcoin.
As my self i exchange my bitcoin and buy some computer stuff, foods and other wearable things. I already bought a lot with the use of my earning in bitcoin and i hope will continue earning and buy a lot more things.

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[The_Dark_Knight]

Last year i did buy a phone using bitcoin as a payment method. It is a PTP transaction, the seller knows bitcoin that's why i choose bitcoin to be our payment method. So far our deal is fast and smooth, without any doubts that the phone is broken or just an imitation of that phone. BTW the phone i bought is IPhone 4s, it is cheap at that time. No wonder many people buy phones from him.

The closer the business is to the tech industry the more chances we get they accept bitcoin, the only product that I ever bought with bitcoin was an eeprom that I need it with a specific set of instructions when I was about to pay the seller told me, you can pay with bitcoin if you like, and I said, really? I was very happy I could pay with bitcoins, but unfortunately that was the first and last time I used bitcoins to buy a physical product.

[Ipwich]

The first time I earned my bitcoin i exchange it over fiat,because its  not yet acceptable here to pay bitcoin so i have to exchange into cash.I buy three slices of cake and a can of soda,its a promise to myself that once i earned my first salary.Hopefully,there will be more earnings to come so that i can provide something more to myself.

[mikehersh2]

How did you pay using Bitcoin in a bakery? I can't wait for the day when you can scan your bitcoin wallet for purchases in local stores, and even online shopping like on Amazon. However there are ways to get Amazon giftcards using bitcoin. Through that I have been able to purchase some products on Amazon. Nothing serious, just a few gadgets here and there. For example, I paid for a $20 Amazon giftcard and purchased a cheap $15.99 Virtual Reality headset. But other then that, I am yet to come across a store that allows me to pay in Bitcoin, but i cannot wait until i do

[Longsnowsm]

I have bought things online with BTC.  I used Newegg and Purse.io to buy things with BTC.  Pretty cool.  I have not seen any local stores or shops that indicate they will take BTC.  I also noticed the other day that my cell phone provider will also take payment in a few different crypto's including BTC. 

[lionstrike]

i used bitcoin as real money to buy cell phone. You can buy tv, laptop.. as well

[ipanks]

i am not yet buy real/physical goods from bitcoin that i am withdraw but i only buy some voucher token electricity and voucher phone card in local website. i heard that starbucks accepting payment with bitcoin and i am curious to try because i am coffee fans, beside that i am planning to buy android phone when the amount is enough to buy.

[megynacuna]

I have never used Bitcoin to procure any physical commodity before but I normally use it to buy servers online to host websites and other intangible technology products. The closest I came was to convert at an exchange for fiat and so that's the only thing physical my Bitcoin had helped me procure.

[bravehearth0319]

Yes I used bitcoin as my real money, from my bitcoin wallet I will send it to coins.ph which is one of the merchant in my country who accepted bitcoin once it send here I will send it to money remittances to convert it into our currency in my name, then once I receive it ready to buy physical goods.

[margarete11]

yea I have a friend here in the philipines he let me buy some of his clothers in exchange for bitcoin I just have to go to their shop and send bitcoin to his wallet address and instantly I have a new clothes well It's just a simple trading bitcoin for clothes I think.

[romero121]

yea I have a friend here in the philipines he let me buy some of his clothers in exchange for bitcoin I just have to go to their shop and send bitcoin to his wallet address and instantly I have a new clothes well It's just a simple trading bitcoin for clothes I think.

In my country we haven't got lots of stores that accept bitcoin for their services. Got to know few online stores in the international level have given access to buy digital goods. I feel this to be a hard thing to get products shipped from other nations. For this purpose I prefer converting to fiat and purchasing.

[Mastsetad]

Never did that yet as there isn't any services in my country that accepts bitcoin for payment. Whenever i need money i simply convert them to fiat and then buy whatever i need. I never even asked any place if they accept bitcoin or not because bitcoin awareness is too less in my area.

[Roger Burton]

I do that all the time :p It's a reason why I use BTC. It has saved my life many times since I started use it.

[ReLieD]

As of now , I am going to receive my first payment on Tuesday .
So i havent used it yet. But im pretty sure everyone can.
As my friends use it for various other things.
Like recently my friend purchased few skins in a game.
He has bought me pro packs in certain games as well.
So no doubt you can use BTC to purchase goods .
You can even convert BTC into your currency and buy anything you want
online or even add that money in your debit/credit card and go shopping.
You can use you BTC as USD to purchase everything, which is a very good thing.

[Juggy777]

Yes I have been upgraded to using Bitcoins fractions actually to buy goods. Though it's very difficult for me to find stores that accept bitcoin in front. So the only way for me is to have it converted into Fiat. So as much as I don't like of have to sell and then buy. I have brought goods like earphones, suits, bags. I am planning to save some for my dream gadget fitbit charge 2 and also rest for swizz vacation, there they have shops that accept bitcoins upfront.

[neochiny]

Nope.
I've yet to use it to buy any sort of physical goods, whether on shops (because I can't find one that accepts it in my area)

or online (because I hesitate to splurge on delivery charges. International shipping could get costly, plus I don't like waiting weeks just to get my product.)

I've used it for games, digital stuff, ebooks, mobile credits, bills payment, membership fees, etc. Just things that doesn't take too much time or delivery costs. 
So, for physical goods, I use fiat.

[jeraldskie11]

I didn't use bitcoin in buying products or as a real money cause it doesn't accepted in my country for payment.  I really know that bitcoin can use for payment but only in other country because bitcoin is expose in his country. Maybe next year, if there's a business man  who really knows bitcoin in our country maybe it accepting bitcoin for payment.

[Wandering Soul~]

Of course I have but I've never use it into some local shops here just through online and if I'm going to use it here offline I exchange it it to my local currency . It's good that OP is quite lucky seems like the owner is a bitcoin user if not then I doubt the owner will accept it as a payment . Unfortunately I doubt that people here at my place uses bitcoin or even knows it . So I have never even asked a shop owner if he's willing to accept bitcoin .

[ASHLIUSZ]

I have made a bargaining with traders accepting bitcoin for digital goods, but finally as he does't show interest to sell the product for the price I have quoted I stopped the trade. Also we cannot get the desired product for bitcoin now, so used to buy using fiat and use bitcoin for other needs such as trading and investing.

[zvs]

Yeah, I bought some negros, see https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=100423.0 . laugh.