OpenBazaar Opened , your first impressions ?

[gentlemand]

I can't remember having agreed on something you have said, but this time I do agree with you. I don't see much special things that will bring us something refreshing. I think it will get hyped up at the very beginning, and end up being left aside after 6 months.

It's a few days old. Of course it's going to be a long way from being match fit. The incentive is there to improve it. Let's see what everyone comes up with before giving up.

[alani123]

To me, the launch was entirely unimpressive. I don't know there's potential of the numerous issues to be fixed because there are just too many. Definitely not worth the hype it received and although I'm a fan of the core idea, the implementation seems disastrous. Decentralization sounds nice in theory, but openbazaar, as it stands today, is inferior to eBay by a great margin.

[1Referee]

I can't remember having agreed on something you have said, but this time I do agree with you. I don't see much special things that will bring us something refreshing. I think it will get hyped up at the very beginning, and end up being left aside after 6 months.

It's a few days old. Of course it's going to be a long way from being match fit. The incentive is there to improve it. Let's see what everyone comes up with before giving up.

I don't give up, but I look at things from a realistic point of view. Especially when it comes to certain things that got hyped up a lot. Remember Gemini? The great "Nasdaq" of Bitcoin for institutional investors. It's nothing more than a few traders exchange nowadays. But yes, let's give it some time, you are right.

[CoinPro*]

Clean, easy to use. Needs a better directory, or categories of what is available. After 48 hours of tinkering, I like it. Adding an auction feature would definitely start cutting into eBay/PayPal's monopoly.

We have created a listing offering escrow/mediation service. Just search for CoinPro under listings. We will rebate the .0015 to the first 20 users that leave positive feedback.

[edgar]

after updating, store/site is STILL inaccessable.

ive uninstalled and reinstalled 4 times... (win 7 - 64bit)


(win 7 - 32bit installs fine but laptop is tiny and screen wont fit/cant change size - NIGHTMARE TO SET UP)

[salmanahmedone]

Good to know about another good Market which takes bitcoins. 

[Amph]

To me, the launch was entirely unimpressive. I don't know there's potential of the numerous issues to be fixed because there are just too many. Definitely not worth the hype it received and although I'm a fan of the core idea, the implementation seems disastrous. Decentralization sounds nice in theory, but openbazaar, as it stands today, is inferior to eBay by a great margin.

what are those numerous issues, to me it seems a smooth launch, if there are i'm sure it's nothing major and anyway they are expected, the problem is on the other hands, the usage of it, still few thing to buy almost nothing worth it at the moment

[AGD]

Clean, easy to use. Needs a better directory, or categories of what is available. After 48 hours of tinkering, I like it. Adding an auction feature would definitely start cutting into eBay/PayPal's monopoly.

We have created a listing offering escrow/mediation service. Just search for CoinPro under listings. We will rebate the .0015 to the first 20 users that leave positive feedback.

The problem with a decentralized auction is, that the winner doesn't have to pay. You will have a lot of auction crashers. The people who really want to buy stuff will hardly get them. I mean, you even can write a script, that always offers 1 $ (edit: sorry 0.000whatever BTC) more than the last bid at every listing. Kind of OB DDos attacks for the lulz.

[doublemore]

Clean, easy to use. Needs a better directory, or categories of what is available. After 48 hours of tinkering, I like it. Adding an auction feature would definitely start cutting into eBay/PayPal's monopoly.

We have created a listing offering escrow/mediation service. Just search for CoinPro under listings. We will rebate the .0015 to the first 20 users that leave positive feedback.

The problem with a decentralized auction is, that the winner doesn't have to pay. You will have a lot of auction crashers. The people who really want to buy stuff will hardly get them. I mean, you even can write a script, that always offers 1 $ (edit: sorry 0.000whatever BTC) more than the last bid at every listing. Kind of OB DDos attacks for the lulz.

Dont get too hung up on online auctions guys, they are cool on ebay and that but mostly works best for used goods aswell.  Buy it now market place is a perfectly decent option on its own.

[keyscore44]

Wow lots of naysayers, yet to try out the latest release but I'm sure it cant be that bad...

[pedrog]

OB offers very little privacy and nothing that offers a trustworthy transaction.
I can't really see it go anywhere without those basic features.

No fraud prevention mechanism?

[CoinPro*]

Clean, easy to use. Needs a better directory, or categories of what is available. After 48 hours of tinkering, I like it. Adding an auction feature would definitely start cutting into eBay/PayPal's monopoly.

We have created a listing offering escrow/mediation service. Just search for CoinPro under listings. We will rebate the .0015 to the first 20 users that leave positive feedback.

The problem with a decentralized auction is, that the winner doesn't have to pay. You will have a lot of auction crashers. The people who really want to buy stuff will hardly get them. I mean, you even can write a script, that always offers 1 $ (edit: sorry 0.000whatever BTC) more than the last bid at every listing. Kind of OB DDos attacks for the lulz.

That happens all day on eBay too. Scumbags bid up items with no plans on actually paying. Easy fix (which eBay should have done years ago), is require the bidder to have the funds already in account. Once auction ends, immediately transfer funds to seller. Sellers can have the option to require immediate transfer or not. Kind of like if you go to a high value auto/art/antiques/etc auction, you need to prove you have the funds, and are required to complete transaction.

[sotisoti]

I don't see how it can beat ebay, you need a solid reason to convince people to use OpenBazaar.

[bitbunnny]

I don't see how it can beat ebay, you need a solid reason to convince people to use OpenBazaar.

That would be very hard and maybe the intention is not to beat the ebay. Let's give Bazaar a chance, maybe it will become good alternative.

[edgar]

Open Bizarre is the best bitcoin project to date

https://bazaarbay.org/e8ce6352205ff2ab9c2224207b58dc7d8a88e41a

[TippingPoint]

The advantages of OB over eBay would include being able to sell items that are on the eBay prohibited list, and the absence of a listing fee or sales fee.

An analogy might be the classified ads in newspapers, which have almost completely disappeared.

[BellaBitBit]

The installation and setting up a store is pretty intuitive.  Of course at first things are going to be bumpy, nothing can be perfect in beginning phases. 

At the end of the day OB has a lot of advantages over Ebay - no fees, sell whatever, no overlord feel.

And auctions - auctions were dead on Ebay about 10 years ago...those were the days...  If OB can get an auction thing going again then ebay is really toast.

[countryfree]

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Bad advice! Sorry to point it out, but Windows is the most successful OS on the planet by far, so if OB wants to be successful as well, it needs to work perfectly on Windows. Pleasing Windows users is more important than pleasing Mac users.

No it isn't. Using Windows for almost anything is unwise for all sorts of other reasons, too many to list, and those reasons are unlikely ever to change not in Microsoft's interest). Window's dominance of the market is not what I would call a success, and comments like only serve to continue the entrenchment.

Looks pretty successful to me

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If it matters, less than 2% of laptops/desktops use Linux (so ~1 in 100 computers runs Ubuntu).

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But let's agree to disagree, if ignoring ~90% of potential userbase to minimize the market share is the objective, OB should focus on stable CP/M implementations.

That's what I meant. It doesn't matter that Windows is good or bad, or that using it wise or unwise. What matters is that of all computers which will be sold this year, probably ~85% will come with Windows. No one running an online store can ignore Windows users.

[Rune]

I installed it tried to get it working for like 5 mins gave up.
There are hardly any instructions or anything.
It did not seem worth the effort it hardly does anything I can already use ebay or just meet ppl here to buy/sell stuff here on the forum.

[ed_teech]

I installed it tried to get it working for like 5 mins gave up.
There are hardly any instructions or anything.
It did not seem worth the effort it hardly does anything I can already use ebay or just meet ppl here to buy/sell stuff here on the forum.

You can't buy drugs on eBay