Do we need ebay like site to promote bitcoin

[btvGainer]

Ebay has played a great role in the success of PayPal in becoming leading payment processor.Do we need a similar ebay like site to popularize Bitcoin and make it leader in money transfer?

[DimensionZ]

Ebay is great for getting second-hand stuff. We have an alternative to that already and it's decentralized and open source - OpenBazaar. However in my honest opinion Amazon is the better site for new stuff and a lot of my friends use it way more than Ebay. If Amazon adopts Bitcoin it would be a huge push for getting Bitcoin into the mainstream. If someone launches a Bitcoin alternative to Amazon with the scale and plethora of offered products it would be a dream come true.

[chennan]

Ebay is great for getting second-hand stuff. We have an alternative to that already and it's decentralized and open source - OpenBazaar. However in my honest opinion Amazon is the better site for new stuff and a lot of my friends use it way more than Ebay. If Amazon adopts Bitcoin it would be a huge push for getting Bitcoin into the mainstream. If someone launches a Bitcoin alternative to Amazon with the scale and plethora of offered products it would be a dream come true.

Well, I'm pretty sure a couple of big time companies accept bitcoin as of right now for some services and goods... Overstock, Microsoft, etc.  ... even though when I say "etc.", I've actually ran out of examples.  But I'm pretty sure a quick google search of which sites accept bitcoin would be fairly easy.

I think the main point of this thread is *if* it were to go "mainstream" on Ebay specifically would it create enough publicity to make Bitcoin "mainstream".  The answer is "mehh... idk".

While a lot of people still use Ebay for a lot of things, and also for the fact that I don't personally use it for anything; it's hard for me to tell if Bitcoin being incorporated on there would do any good.  It seems to me though, that a lot of people are starting to outsource Ebay for goods they would get on there for Amazon Prime and stuff like that... also, I see people are starting to form small local groups you can hook up with people in your area to sell and trade stuff on Facebook, which would be for free... in which you could also use Craigslist, but that's another topic.

The fact that Ebay's rates are so stupid high is a reason to not use Ebay at all... if Ebay's founders had any sense, they would at least try to cut out some of the fees (especially if they are dealing in paypal) and use Bitcoin.  Whether this promotes Bitcoin or not is hard to tell... Seems to be more "ebay stores" selling to people directly than people selling to other people.  If some old grandma goes on Ebay to buy something for her grandson on there, she is going to look at that gold BTC symbol and she would have no idea what that is, nor care.  If someone does know what it stands for but don't have any, they probably won't take the time to go purchase some because they don't know how too...

Interesting to think of what the possibilities are if it does make it to Ebay though... lots of potential scenarios could come up.

[Meuh6879]

banks fail make the job : portugal, spain, italy, autria ... plenty of example in 2015-2016 to purge the holder in other system than fiat bank account.

good.

[gentlemand]

There's been enough publicity. That's not going to solve the overriding problem which is - what advantages does Bitcoin have for buyers? Unless they discount the hell out of everything there are somewhere around none.

[whored]

OP, we already got our own eBay -- OpenBizarre.

[chennan]

There's been enough publicity. That's not going to solve the overriding problem which is - what advantages does Bitcoin have for buyers? Unless they discount the hell out of everything there are somewhere around none.

Great point... even though it's still pretty young in terms of publicity, I think the word of Bitcoin has already been released in the mainstream a couple of times.  The fact of whether it was "good" publicity or "bad" publicity in the eyes of the public through the mainstream media is not really relevant.  I think the fact of the matter is that Bitcoin has been heard by millions of people and they know what it is and does.

Now, what fact that the public probably haven't heard in the "mainstream media" is that the cost reduction in sending funds over the internet... It's stupid how low of a transaction fee Bitcoin possesses in relation to paypal or Western Union... That's the biggest thing that Bitcoin needs to promote for itself.  Whether Bitcoin can handle the transaction size if it does get serious "mainstream publicity" and transactions sky rocket is another argument, and I think Bitcoin devs need to start taking a serious look at that.

[btvGainer]

There's been enough publicity. That's not going to solve the overriding problem which is - what advantages does Bitcoin have for buyers? Unless they discount the hell out of everything there are somewhere around none.

Why do they need extra discount to use bitcoin? Only when people actually use bitcoin,will they be able to learn the advantages that bitcoin has

[gentlemand]

Because that's the only possible reason to tempt most people into trying it and even then they probably won't bother with the current ball ache when it comes to obtaining BTC. Online commerce works sweetly enough as it is.

[dollarneed]

There's been enough publicity. That's not going to solve the overriding problem which is - what advantages does Bitcoin have for buyers? Unless they discount the hell out of everything there are somewhere around none.

Why do they need extra discount to use bitcoin? Only when people actually use bitcoin,will they be able to learn the advantages that bitcoin has

for those who never use bitcoin before they don't care what is bitcoin has,but if there extra discount if they purchase with bitcoin then they'll go with it, peoples are too lazy to move on from their comfortzone once they already make a purchase with paypal or something else and they feel statisfied i think they won't use another payment processor

[lumeire]

OP, we already got our own eBay -- OpenBizarre.

Much like your username - bizzare. 

A much better alternative would be Bitify. It's run by a member here.

[Monnt]

Openbazaar boiiiis!


*That moment when eBay goes bankrupt because of the inevitable success of bitcoin and OpenBazaar*

Told you so.

[benmartin613]

Openbazaar boiiiis!


*That moment when eBay goes bankrupt because of the inevitable success of bitcoin and OpenBazaar*

Told you so.

Openbazaar will be a great success and that is all what we need to support it so we can all have an online shop for bitcoin users.

[BayAreaCoins]

Sorry... OB isn't going to hurt ebay at all.

At least not at the moment/current state.

I've been messing with it a little bit for a week now.

[extrabyte]

Good point. yes ebay played a major rule for paypal. but only epay is not responsible for this. we should consider amazon as well because it is equal to ebay marketplace in usage..
yes bitcoin also need marketplace's support to get a good place for future, I think now we got a better marketplace for bitcoin and it is Openbazaar.org.

[Bitcoinpro]

Ebay is great for getting second-hand stuff. We have an alternative to that already and it's decentralized and open source - OpenBazaar. However in my honest opinion Amazon is the better site for new stuff and a lot of my friends use it way more than Ebay. If Amazon adopts Bitcoin it would be a huge push for getting Bitcoin into the mainstream. If someone launches a Bitcoin alternative to Amazon with the scale and plethora of offered products it would be a dream come true.

OB is the way to go for sure

[KenR]

Sorry... OB isn't going to hurt ebay at all.

At least not at the moment/current state.

I've been messing with it a little bit for a week now.

I agree to an extent.Not everybody but people who find it useful and oppose the service taxes by commercial giants like Ebay will continue to use it anyway.At the current state its difficult to assume anything,too early for that.OB is not even used at its full potential at the moment,certainly a place for all Crypto lovers to spend their coins.I have seen people offering other services such as writing,designing etc maybe it will turn out to be the largest market for crypto freelancers.

[Boosterious]

Ebay has played a great role in the success of PayPal in becoming leading payment processor.Do we need a similar ebay like site to popularize Bitcoin and make it leader in money transfer?

Yes that's true,marketplace is the main decision for paypal to make good promotion and start to accusiation world of payment,and i said yes bitcoin need marketplace like ebay or amazon,it will make bitcoin more easy to accepted by people.

[TotalPanda]

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[lubing7683]

For many people BTC is a community currency, Although some larger retailers start accepting bitcoin and BTC have many advantages, decentralised, anonymity, etc, but some advantages can't accepted by many governments