[ANNOUNCEMENT] BTC Buy (www.btcbuy.info): trade BTC for gift cards

[coga]

btcbuy is back up. sorry for extended outage

[bal3wolf]

Iv orderd 7 cards from him got them all fast and its been easy and fast to do.

[violetdream]

This is really frustrating. It is a cool idea that I was excited about but I can't order, it keeps saying that price is fluctuating too much..Well..it ALWAYS will fluctuate so I don't know when I should order. 

Edit: Well, trying for about 10 mins now when the price has been at 12.19 for a while...price is still "fluctuating". Please someone tell me how to use this service!

[violetdream]

I emailed support and not only did I get a gift card 5 minutes later but support helped me find out that there was a bug with long decimal points in the BTC...Very happy with this service, will return again

[hawks5999]

when will amex, visa gift/prepaid cards be offered?

[coga]

when will amex, visa gift/prepaid cards be offered?

I have been trying to find options, but unsuccessfully so far. Those all come with caveats, which renders them useless, such as:

- must order physical card (means must pre-order, cannot issue fast)
- before usage, must register and verify name/address/age/ssn/phone #
- some will even impose monthly fee if not spent

if you know where can I get them without above-mentioned caveats, let me know, I will be happy to offer

[coga]

Service moved to EC2, and we now have SSL certificates to protect from DNS spoofing and traffic sniffing. So, those who care about security, can now use https://www.btcbuy.info

[tonto]

I just used this site last night, and it was 100% perfect.  
 
Will use again, thanks
 
+1
 
oh, and my amount wasn't huge, but enough to make me nervous for my first-time:  $150.
But went smoothly.

[pekv2]

Will be using this service in the near future for sure. Keep up the great work. And never close it down .

[pekv2]

Great service. Fast and well, fast .

Thanks coga.

[Paul.Oberauer]

Will there be in the near future gift card for Amazon.de?
I would be interested

[coga]

All, thanks for kind words!

Those who monitor this thread, I would like to announce that this weekend we shall have a "sale", e.g.: commissions would be halved. Have a blast folks!

[preparation]

Will there be in the near future gift card for Amazon.de?
I would be interested

+1

[coga]

Will there be in the near future gift card for Amazon.de?
I would be interested

+1

I would be happy to handle this folks; but the cost of handling amazon.de is significantly higher for me, so as long as there are no expectations of the same price level as you getting with amazon.com...

[preparation]

of course I would expect the fees to be higher as if buying an amazon.com gift card.
Could you tell as the current rate (€ for one BTC) to see if it would be interesting or not?

[coga]

of course I would expect the fees to be higher as if buying an amazon.com gift card.
Could you tell as the current rate (€ for one BTC) to see if it would be interesting or not?

If I go with my current setup, I would estimate it could be ~5% more expensive than USA-based cards.

I am still researching what could be done to lower down this number, because extra 5% shuns away a lot of customers.

[preparation]

depends on the exchange rate which will be used. Therefore the question is whether you first calculate Bitcoin into Dollar and then Dollar into Euro or immediately Bitcoin into Euro.

[coga]

I've been running a "sale" a week ago or so. This time, the price reductions will become permanent

[RevolutionMaster]

This is good stuff, especially with the low commissions. I've been cashing out bitcoins as Amazon credit for a while now.

[nobody]

Just wanted to say this is a great service.  I cashed out all my bitcoins using it.