OpenBazaar Opened , your first impressions ?

[ed_teech]

Mine couldn't boot up. Stuck in preparing for around 30 minutes (told me estimated time was 30 seconds). I checked the debug log and it was full of no neighbor found warnings. Maybe my location (Iran) is too far away ??

[chek2fire]

i just do my first purchase from there This market is really a bazaar. It has so many things to buy

[Wendigo]

i'm curious how are they going to deal with customs charge for international shipping, what if the receiver, lies about the customs charge? are they adopting the ebey politic?

If you mean who will pay the VAT tax if the buyer is in the European Union and the seller is overseas in the USA for example then I suppose the seller is only liable for the shipping costs to the country where the buyer is based in. Any additional customs taxes are the buyer's responsibility. As it's peer-to-peer trading everything regarding the shipping costs and customs taxes should be agreed upon before the deal is finalized so there won't be any nasty surprises when the goods arrive.

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Mine couldn't boot up. Stuck in preparing for around 30 minutes (told me estimated time was 30 seconds). I checked the debug log and it was full of no neighbor found warnings. Maybe my location (Iran) is too far away ??

that happened to me too but then I found out that I need to set a permission for it (in my case a window popped out asking me to allow/disallow it).

also for those who have issues searching for listings, I just found out that we can search them using external sites like https://bazaarbay.org/ .

[Boosterious]

sastified with this bitcoin project,its amazing free market for undecetralized currency,people that use bitcoin will have own market with so many product and seller,lets party with our payment.

[Amph]

i just do my first purchase from there This market is really a bazaar. It has so many things to buy

i didn't found so many worth item to buy maybe the supplement, i was looking for electronic stuff not much going on there, it still need some times before we can actually buy somethingthat is usual on other market

[Kprawn]

I have two issues with OpenBazaar : One - The decision to make moderators the escrow... I would much rather have people, who already built up a good reputation to handle the escrow side of

things. Who knows, some of these people might be moderators already? Two - The concept might be too difficult to understand for the average user. You must remember that the

average user are comparing this {OpenBazaar} with what they know. {eBay} and they might get confused. Things must be made idiot proof for migration from the old to the new to begin. 

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this is like the 10th time I've said this. the moderators are simply users. similar to bitcointalk escrows. you can become a moderator the moment you created an account.

[bakingbad]

https://blog.openbazaar.org/openbazaar-is-open-for-business/

We was all waiting for this moment since years , what is your first impression on this when you tested it ? Can we really beat eBay ?
You guys started selling your goods ? I personally didn't start ... yet .

i didn't started too, but  i am planning too, and no i didn't buy anything now too yet, but site looks awesome,  i found lots of good thing  i plan to buy

and of course that it can beat ebay because it's easier to use and most important part is that you can pay with bitcoins and not fiat, that's really important

[gentlemand]

Like everything so far it's going to need third parties to thrive. Very, very few people are going to run an actual program on their machines. That's not how most of the world operates.

[Carlton Banks]

Like everything so far it's going to need third parties to thrive. Very, very few people are going to run an actual program on their machines. That's not how most of the world operates.

Lol do you even Bitcoin?

[bargainbin]

Like everything so far it's going to need third parties to thrive. Very, very few people are going to run an actual program on their machines. That's not how most of the world operates.

Lol do you even Bitcoin?

You mean does he use exchanges/web wallets/mining pools/BitPay/other payment processors/Bitcoin ATms & just about everything ordinary BTC users rely on?

[knowhow]

Well i will give a try at it i didnt know we needed to download the program,i thinked would be like ebay an webpage with everything on it anyway its time to see the project that took a lot time to be developed and ready.

[countryfree]

i'm curious how are they going to deal with customs charge for international shipping, what if the receiver, lies about the customs charge? are they adopting the ebey politic?

If I understand OB, it will not care at all about that. Everything will be between the buyer and the seller, without OB having any responsibility in the deals, which are private. OB won't even know the nature of the deal. That's the wild, wild West...

[Junko]

It's absurd to think OpenBazaar will beat ebay anytime soon or in the near future. ebay has been around for such a relatively long time. And then there's Amazon to also compete with.

That being said, you have to start somewhere. There will be growing pains and kinks to work out here and there along the way, but I think OB will eventually thrive given time. What's the rush anyway?

[DarkStar_]

Like everything so far it's going to need third parties to thrive. Very, very few people are going to run an actual program on their machines. That's not how most of the world operates.

You need to run an actual program (web browser) to use amazon or ebay. Think about how many people with computers use a web browser. I'm betting it's more the 99%.


OpenBazaar seems like an interesting concept. At first glance, the screenshots make the program look pretty good (can't say for sure, since I didn't download it). It's nice that they use multi-sig addresses, but the seller, who wants to scam could use another computer and become a moderator for his own deal, which is the risk of 2 of 3. The Mod could also be bribed if it is a large amount that would be worth stealing.

[gentlemand]

Like everything so far it's going to need third parties to thrive. Very, very few people are going to run an actual program on their machines. That's not how most of the world operates.

You need to run an actual program (web browser) to use amazon or ebay. Think about how many people with computers use a web browser. I'm betting it's more the 99%.

Browsers are used to access absolutely everything. If I had to fire up a new program for every site I'd abandon the internet. Sure, a few eggheads are going to go for it. Regular humans won't even dream of it.

[Kakmakr]

Like everything so far it's going to need third parties to thrive. Very, very few people are going to run an actual program on their machines. That's not how most of the world operates.

You need to run an actual program (web browser) to use amazon or ebay. Think about how many people with computers use a web browser. I'm betting it's more the 99%.

Browsers are used to access absolutely everything. If I had to fire up a new program for every site I'd abandon the internet. Sure, a few eggheads are going to go for it. Regular humans won't even dream of it.

I disagree, we already use other programs to access different services and they are in no way linked to the browser. Let's take access to other P2P networks like torrents for example. You access the listings on a web site and then download the content via torrent software. How is this any different than what OpenBazaar are doing?

The same goes for your mobile phone. How many Apps are downloaded per day to enable people to access services not offered on their phones or built in browser. People will download Apps, if they want to use a service.

[Amph]

Like everything so far it's going to need third parties to thrive. Very, very few people are going to run an actual program on their machines. That's not how most of the world operates.

at least the same that are running the bitcoin client will run this client, and many gamers also or tech savy enough will run it

average joe will be forced when bitcoin will be big enough, not that time for the moment...

[KenR]

Like everything so far it's going to need third parties to thrive. Very, very few people are going to run an actual program on their machines. That's not how most of the world operates.

at least the same that are running the bitcoin client will run this client, and many gamers also or tech savy enough will run it

average joe will be forced when bitcoin will be big enough, not that time for the moment...

What could the third party decentralized application can probably do to your machine ? lol ? Most of the world operates on the system laid by corporate slaves ,you're a part of it.Either support the good or end up living life paying the service taxes.