Stopped at a small shop yesterday.

[MoonShadow]

I was at the post office yesterday, and nearby there is a little shop that sells prepaid phone cards and money services, mostly to Mexican immigrants.  I've bought phone cards there before, and went in to talk to the owner about buying bitcoins.  I didn't offer any pitch, just mentioned the website and said that I'd be interested in buying from him if he offered them.  He seemed intrigued, and was on the website before I left the shop.  If there are going to be local businesses selling bitcoins for a decent markup, it's these businesses that profit by helping immigrants in America send money to families abroad.

I don't even know what these places are called.

[jimbobway]

Way to go on making an effort.

[ShadowOfHarbringer]

I was at the post office yesterday, and nearby there is a little shop that sells prepaid phone cards and money services, mostly to Mexican immigrants.  I've bought phone cards there before, and went in to talk to the owner about buying bitcoins.  I didn't offer any pitch, just mentioned the website and said that I'd be interested in buying from him if he offered them.  He seemed intrigued, and was on the website before I left the shop.  If there are going to be local businesses selling bitcoins for a decent markup, it's these businesses that profit by helping immigrants in America send money to families abroad.

I don't even know what these places are called.

Nice, but unless there are bitcoin exchangers in every country, such effort will probably have totally no effect.
People need to exchange bitcoins for their local currency and do it locally, otherwise bitcoin is muich worse than western union or moneygram in terms of money transfers worldwide.

[MoonShadow]

I was at the post office yesterday, and nearby there is a little shop that sells prepaid phone cards and money services, mostly to Mexican immigrants.  I've bought phone cards there before, and went in to talk to the owner about buying bitcoins.  I didn't offer any pitch, just mentioned the website and said that I'd be interested in buying from him if he offered them.  He seemed intrigued, and was on the website before I left the shop.  If there are going to be local businesses selling bitcoins for a decent markup, it's these businesses that profit by helping immigrants in America send money to families abroad.

I don't even know what these places are called.

Nice, but unless there are bitcoin exchangers in every country, such effort will probably have totally no effect.
People need to exchange bitcoins for their local currency and do it locally, otherwise bitcoin is muich worse than western union or moneygram in terms of money transfers worldwide.

I would wager that guys like him have contacts back in the mother country willing to get into the other end of things, and eventually we wont need to convert at all.

[TheMadBear]

Pretty sure we have Btc atm's here. That would be some wat the same as buying it in a store right?

[Teljkon]

This is where you need sales people to do roll out its the next phase. Ie guys with the Atms working on both sides to make placements the current model pays residuals to all involved owner, sales person and machine builder maintainer. Ideally thought your sales guy is also maintenance. Everything could be done for a 10th - 20th of a percent and people would still make plenty of money. Indeed the next step. 

[JasonXG]

That's good I'm glad to see that people react so well to bitcoins. Perhaps this man can harness the power of bitcoin to help immigrants and support his people and family at the same time. Way to go dude !! If we all did this just once we will get bitcoin really rolling.