[ANN] BitcoinStore.com (Beta) - Electronics super store with over 500K items!

[Herodes]

A simple technical solution to how to update the price would be for instance to have a cron job running every n minute. For instance, every 3rd minute. Then writing this value to a database or a file. Database would probably be best.

Then, when script executes server side, fetch this number from the database and display it in the web store.

You may also look into fetching BTC price from several sources, at least all the major exchanges, and if no data has been retrieved from any exchange for the last 20 minutes, halt trade, and notify admin. This should not happen often, if at all.

Leading price could be mtGox, but if unavailable and have been unavailable for say n minutes, use the price from the second biggest exchange and so on.

I don't know if you've thought about it, but at the checkout, some people may gamble on the fact that the price of bitcoin may change, for instance they go to chart and have merchandise for 50 BTC in their chart, and they see the price is on a downtrend, so perhaps they put in the order at say 15, and then don't complete it until price has reached 13, perhaps 2 hours later. But I would assume you've thought of this ?

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[MemoryDealers]

Oh, and an I-dare-you-to-add-this product, that I think might have a niche bitcoin market:  solar panels.

Promise to buy at least one

I'm glad to say that someone has answered your wish!

http://www.gogreensolar.com/

Bitcoin for Solar panels!

[Justin00]

Do you guys buy used Cisco equipment for BTC ? and if so.. where about are you located ?

[BIGMERVE]

Oh, and an I-dare-you-to-add-this product, that I think might have a niche bitcoin market:  solar panels.

Promise to buy at least one

I'm glad to say that someone has answered your wish!

http://www.gogreensolar.com/

Bitcoin for Solar panels!

Holy shit that's awesome. Seems like a pretty legit company too.

[MemoryDealers]

Do you guys buy used Cisco equipment for BTC ? and if so.. where about are you located ?

Sure, but it needs to be at least a few thousand dollars worth at a time.
The main office is in Santa Clara California.

[teste]

Hi,

1- The bitcoin prices I see on bitcoinstore is exactly the price I'll pay? Hope yes.
2- I would like to see on Bitcoinstore the usd value of 1 bitcoin. (the value used by bitcoinstore)
3- I would like to see on site, something like: (the bitcoinstore prices will be refreshed in 5 minutes)

[ewibit]

I'm glad to say that someone has answered your wish!

http://www.gogreensolar.com/

Bitcoin for Solar panels!

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[MemoryDealers]

1- The bitcoin prices I see on bitcoinstore is exactly the price I'll pay? Hope yes.

All prices are in USD in the database and are updated to the equivalent BTC price every 5 minutes based on the feed from Bitpay.com

2- I would like to see on Bitcoinstore the usd value of 1 bitcoin. (the value used by bitcoinstore)

Great idea!  This will be implemented soon.

3- I would like to see on site, something like: (the bitcoinstore prices will be refreshed in 5 minutes)

The USD prices don't change. The final BTC price is calculated at the moment of checkout.
I will give some thought on the best way to make this clear on the site.

[teste]

On topic 3,

I mean bitcoin price. (not dollar).
I think the btc price on site, should be the same on checkout.

[MemoryDealers]

I think the btc price on site, should be the same on checkout.

I agree,  and soon it will be.  (Or very very close depending on the market depth)

[jgarzik]

BitcoinStore review update:

• My order was filled, shipped, and arrived today
• One item, Victorinox mini-knife, was backordered.
• I was notified within 24 hours of the backordered item, via zendesk support interface.  They offered to refund, or let me wait for the item.  Opted to wait for the item (while the remainder of the order shipped immediately).
• The rest of the items arrived in a single box, marked "MemoryDealers", via FedEx Ground to my North Carolina/USA location.
• Everything packaged well, and functioned as expected.  Purchased two LED mini-flashlights, a clock, a knife and a set of Wine Enthusiast beer glasses.
• Accurate packing list was enclosed with package
• Notified via both email and zendesk support personnel of USPS/FedEx tracking numbers.

[caveden]

Just a tip: you should try to improve the search function.

I noticed you had these slightly cheaper than in Amazon. So I wondered whether you also had a low-cost version of it.

I typed "case sony prs-t2 light navitech". Almost 3k results were returned. Obviously, most of them were not really related. The official cover for Sony was among the first results though, so I suppose the low-cost cases just aren't available, otherwise they'd be among the first results... am I right? (I confess I didn't browse through the 3k results)


Anyways, thank you for this great site. It's awesome to see lower-than-amazon prices, and realize they can only be thanks to Bitcoin (and, of course, the great hard work of the people behind BitcoinStore).

[kiba]

wrong picture: http://www.bitcoinstore.com/dell-330-0874-flat-panel-monitor-stand-for-latitude-e-family-laptops.html

[Herodes]

"case sony prs-t2 light navitech". Almost 3k results were returned.

Maybe the search catches all words, so you get everything that match 'case' and 'ligth' too, so that should be plenty of hits.

Perhaps an advanced search function would be an idea, where you could search for an entire phrase or only in certain catagories  etc.

[mrb]

A simple technical solution to how to update the price would be for instance to have a cron job running every n minute. For instance, every 3rd minute. Then writing this value to a database or a file. Database would probably be best.

Then, when script executes server side, fetch this number from the database and display it in the web store.

* mrb puts optimization hat on head

Personally I would just store the exchange rate in a js/json file, and have the browser calculate the Bitcoin price on the client side with javascript code multiplying the exchange rate with whatever USD price is in the html page.

That opens up the possibility to update the Bitcoin prices in the page almost in real time with zero load on the web server.

[smoothie]

Curious why is this thread still in the bitcoin discussion thread?

Shouldn't it be moved to the Marketplace? Or service discussion?

[hazek]

Curious why is this thread still in the bitcoin discussion thread?

Shouldn't it be moved to the Marketplace? Or service discussion?

Because being able to buy 500k+ items with bitcoins is a very significant development for Bitcoin.

[World]

I would like to see on site Chromebooks + WorldWide shipping.Thx

[John (John K.)]

I would like to see on site Chromebooks + WorldWide shipping.Thx

Even better if the Nexus tablets/phones were available. Please? 

[smoothie]

Curious why is this thread still in the bitcoin discussion thread?

Shouldn't it be moved to the Marketplace? Or service discussion?

Because being able to buy 500k+ items with bitcoins is a very significant development for Bitcoin.

LOL right...so then every other development for bitcoin should be listed here. Your logic makes no sense. Where is the cut off for being a "significant" development as opposed to an insignificant one?