OpenBazaar Opened , your first impressions ?

[Carlton Banks]

I tried, but it didn't work... But I've just launched it, and I'm pleased to see that OB is working today. But I haven't understood why it wasn't working yesterday. Hey, if I want to use OB for business, I need 100% reliability.

Try using Linux or Mac, Windows (and the way the other apps you have installed on your PC manifest themselves with Windows) is likely making any early problems with OB much worse than they really are. Microsoft have always had a bad record with supervising different bits of software to play nice with one another.

brb, buying a Mac to run OB

Maybe it' s another one of those chicken or egg problems, eh?

Need Mac for OB  <-> Need OB for cheap 2nd hand Mac

[PakistanHockeyfan]

Beating eBay? No way. Even if you have better script, support, etc you won't beat eBay. You'd need like $ 20K in SEO to beat them.

I don't think we need advertising at all , I mean as a Bitcoiner you will logically search for something that accepts Bitcoin and you will end up finding OpenBazaar .

I googled "Accepts Bitcoin" and didn't find openbazàar. The other user is correct. Advertising is the very next step. If people don't know of your business, it will not succeed.

[gentlemand]

I googled "Accepts Bitcoin" and didn't find openbazàar. The other user is correct. Advertising is the very next step. If people don't know of your business, it will not succeed.

I think it needs some stuff ironed out as does Bitcoin itself before it's pushed towards the wider world. Right now I think it's best if it remains in the hands of the believers.

[bitcoinbox]

Great project. I hope it does encourage people to use bitcoin for other reason than trading or speculation.

[TastyChillySauce00]

I googled "Accepts Bitcoin" and didn't find openbazàar. The other user is correct. Advertising is the very next step. If people don't know of your business, it will not succeed.

SEO optimization took a quite long time,it'll probably still being optimized right now,although google adwords is really effective way for advertising,should try it out

[Hirose UK]

actually I didn't sell anything yet, but I think openbazaar is one of good way in business. we can get good opportunity to earn extra money.

[bargainbin]

I googled "Accepts Bitcoin" and didn't find openbazàar. The other user is correct. Advertising is the very next step. If people don't know of your business, it will not succeed.

SEO optimization took a quite long time,it'll probably still being optimized right now,although google adwords is really effective way for advertising,should try it out

Maybe we should crowdfund some advertising, buy some google ads?
We can go to the /services/ sub & commission somebody to raise funds (they could keep 10% for their services), that way it'll cost us nothing.
Isn't that how decentralized stuff works?

[VanDeinsberg12]

too fast to think to beat ebay, much still needs to be addressed

[Danzing]

I installed it today (well, this account was created here too). Very good impression on the first glance. Will be listing a bunch of used items I had to take down from eBay because of ridiculous fees. Still can't figure out how to create backup. Anyone knows?

[PakistanHockeyfan]

I googled "Accepts Bitcoin" and didn't find openbazàar. The other user is correct. Advertising is the very next step. If people don't know of your business, it will not succeed.

I think it needs some stuff ironed out as does Bitcoin itself before it's pushed towards the wider world. Right now I think it's best if it remains in the hands of the believers.

Are you implying I'm not one of those many believers? Please trust me that I do believe. I am just making the suggestion that there should be more advertisement for these kind of premiering businesses.

[bankingbtc]

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 .

my first impression is pretty good, on first week there are lots of sellers already, and they sell lots of different stuff, same like in ebay, so i really think that it can beat it it just will take time, i hope that this site won't close, and i also hope that there will be more and more sellers

[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 .

yes i already started to sell items and  i even sold them all, well for me it looks like great site, ebay copy just with bitcoins, and i very like for that that it is made for bitcoins users, this will attract more people that will sue bitcoins for sure,  i hope there will be even more sites like this in future

[countryfree]

I tried, but it didn't work... But I've just launched it, and I'm pleased to see that OB is working today. But I haven't understood why it wasn't working yesterday. Hey, if I want to use OB for business, I need 100% reliability.

Try using Linux or Mac, Windows (and the way the other apps you have installed on your PC manifest themselves with Windows) is likely making any early problems with OB much worse than they really are. Microsoft have always had a bad record with supervising different bits of software to play nice with one another.

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.

[Carlton Banks]

I tried, but it didn't work... But I've just launched it, and I'm pleased to see that OB is working today. But I haven't understood why it wasn't working yesterday. Hey, if I want to use OB for business, I need 100% reliability.

Try using Linux or Mac, Windows (and the way the other apps you have installed on your PC manifest themselves with Windows) is likely making any early problems with OB much worse than they really are. Microsoft have always had a bad record with supervising different bits of software to play nice with one another.

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.

[bargainbin]

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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.

[TippingPoint]

It is encouraging that they are open.

• only the first step in this process, and the software has some limitations
• Search in OpenBazaar is limited to querying the network for listings tagged with keywords that Vendors have assigned
• OpenBazaar users don’t have their IP addresses obfuscated
• All traffic between OpenBazaar nodes is encrypted, so that others cannot see the details of transactions. This includes an end-to-end encrypted chat. Data is only seen by the parties directly involved in the trade
• working on support for IPv6, Tor, and I2P connections

Tor would be important for me.

[PakistanHockeyfan]

Just wondering, where is the administrators of OpenBazaar? Are they all here using BitcoinTalk as well or are some not present here? I wanted to ask what they're going to do about actually broadcasting their new service and webpage.

[TippingPoint]

I would classify it as a soft opening and not a Grand Opening

[kwukduck]

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

[1Referee]

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

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.