OpenBazaar Opened , your first impressions ?

[countryfree]

"No response was received from the server. It may be unreachable or taking a very long time to respond."

It's failing to start once again. You know, this is annoying. I understand I'm not at home, and that my connection isn't great, but I've just accessed Poloniex via Tor, so OB should work as well...

OB does not work over Tor.

I know that. My point is that Tor, which is well known to be slow, works better than OB. And that is disappointing. I guess something can be done. You can help BTC by running a node on your home computer. Is there something similar which can help OB become successful?

The software's again failing to launch.

[xyzzy099]

"No response was received from the server. It may be unreachable or taking a very long time to respond."

It's failing to start once again. You know, this is annoying. I understand I'm not at home, and that my connection isn't great, but I've just accessed Poloniex via Tor, so OB should work as well...

OB does not work over Tor.

I know that. My point is that Tor, which is well known to be slow, works better than OB. And that is disappointing. I guess something can be done. You can help BTC by running a node on your home computer. Is there something similar which can help OB become successful?

The software's again failing to launch.

Sorry, dude - I was trying to be helpful.  I read the bolded bit above and it sounded like you were trying to run OB through Tor.

[Karartma1]

Finally!
I am downloading and installing it right now, I will try, test and see how it works. Hope this is going to turn out good pretty soon.

[Karartma1]

Latest version for Windows 8.1 x64 won't install
 

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Latest version for Windows 8.1 x64 won't install
 

any error message or did it just stand there with something like "shouldn't take more than 30 seconds"?

[AtheistAKASaneBrain]

Anyone actually bought anything there ?

I can't find anything worth buying to be honest. Unless they start delivering some really awesome discounts, I would rather just hoard my Bitcoin. They need to give a discount like purse.io otherwise who cares.

[chek2fire]

I have order several item until now. I am interest in hand made products or food products like honey, wine etc. The last item i have buy was a great hat for kids a gift for my nephew from USA . General the prices are good but i like to see more shops in the future.
I think open bazaar has a great start and i see many shops add every day.

[edgar]

i couldnt get the v1.1.2 64 bit to run.

32 bit works 'fine'

could use some instructions though!!


located the 'tutorial' perusing it now.

https://blog.openbazaar.org/tag/tutorial/

or

https://blog.openbazaar.org/openbazaar-user-tutorial/

[BayAreaCoins]

I don't really care for it... played with it for a day or two.

I might try to sell a few things just to test the waters.

Feel free to follow me there.

https://bazaarbay.org/734cab9c2f75dea7ca747da9dabf0773d99e34e0

[pinkslink]

I have order several item until now. I am interest in hand made products or food products like honey, wine etc. The last item i have buy was a great hat for kids a gift for my nephew from USA . General the prices are good but i like to see more shops in the future.
I think open bazaar has a great start and i see many shops add every day.

Totally agree, this is why i think OB will not affect ebay or amazon too much
but it will affect sites like Etsy
as OB makes it cost effective for small buisness or people working from home to advertise their products

people who just want cheap cheap, will always look to ebay or amazon for the after care as they cannot afford for something to go wrong after
(i have always said, when selling on ebay for years, ebay buyers usually cannot afford to buy the item they want, thats why they use ebay, looking for a cheaper price)

a lot of sellers of handmade goods i can see using OB, Etsy has a huge member base, but it bans sellers for no reason what so ever, and refuses to re-open accounts once banned, you read many nightmare stories about Etsy, where people have started off as a hobby, then they got good sales on etsy, so to keep up with demand they quit work and focus on Etsy, only for Etsy to ban account a few months down the line without reason leaving them without a paddle. OB elimates such cases so i feel many independant artisans will soon be on OB.

Right now OB needs better seach/filters, but its early days so everything will be done later once they have content to sort.

i do hate the unessicery hashtags though in search and tags, just why..................

[TippingPoint]

I see great potential there.  Searching sucks, but it will eventually be improved.  At the very least, it needs a dropdown list of search categories.  Created a store, and started listing items.  I am in on the ground floor.  How often does that happen in life?  The magic will start when people start listing really strange things.  That will result in free press coverage.  Then it goes viral.  Bitcoin will fly.

[helloeverybody]

I see great potential there.  Searching sucks, but it will eventually be improved.  Created a store, and started listing items.  I am in on the ground floor.  How often does that happen in life?  The magic will start when people start listing really strange things.  That will result in free press coverage.  Then it goes viral.  Bitcoin will fly.

The same experiance for me. The potential is there but at the moment im still getting various bugs such as not finding anything on my network, my shop not showing up and not connecting. i have had it working but for now its as if its not even connecting to the internet since i cant search any vendors or anything.

[TippingPoint]

I had the same issue, but I can now see my listings and other peoples' listings.  I turned off filtering, and exited and restarted.  Not sure what got it to work.  Since there is no server, it may just take time.

This is very early in the process, but the time to open a store is now.

OpenBazaar
A Free Market for all.  No Fees. No Restrictions.

[Wendigo]

People are selling some weird things on OpenBazaar I just saw one guy offering the users to buy shares in his goat farm haha. I saw a lot of artisans selling hand-made items as well maybe OpenBazaar will become the Etsy for Bitcoiners. Other than that most of the stuff is second-hand so I couldn't find anything worth to buy at the moment but I will be checking it for more stuff in the future.

[bitcoin-esperanto]

I think that a better promo of this app could embrace more user in the project...don't you?

[TippingPoint]

The listings will be the promo.  There are no restrictions, and there are no fees.  Any business can list there.  Any person can list there.  Sell for millions or for nickles.  Right now, there are cigarettes and replica watches.  What will be next?

[edgar]

OpenBazaar ‏@openbazaar 10h10 hours ago

Next update that fixes connection issues and resource exhaustion coming soon.

[spazzdla]

I cannot connect .

[Lionidas]

I tried to connect just now too. But without any success. Is the service down or is it just on a per user to user basis for these connection issues? I understand it is a new service but still it should be accessible for all to use for the first week or so before they do any maintenance for the up tick for the increase in traffic to their site. That is expected if it is such a success with it's current user base.

[Amph]

I cannot connect .

are you behind a firewall or something else that is blocking the access?