Customers to decide if eBay should adopt Bitcoin, will they?

[cryptocoinsnews]

Auction giant eBay wants to know how you feel about Bitcoin.

An undated post on eBay’s Deals blog titled “What’s the Deal with Bitcoins Anyway” featured a two-minute video encapsulating many of the pros and cons of the virtual currency.

Read more here:
http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2013/09/06/customers-to-decide-if-ebay-should-adopt-bitcoin/

Will they adopt it?

[reactive4ce]

Will they adopt it?

Good news, Im sure they will

[HermesConrad]

I have been hearing rumors of this for a while, very good news. I sincerely hope they begin to accept it.

[CompNsci]

It would be more interesting if they actually had a way for customers to provide input. A good sign nonetheless.

[BitcoinBarrel]

They'd be dumb not to. BTC FTW

[favdesu]

would be really good for bitcoin if ebay would adopt it!

[btcforall777]

dont they own paypal? or paypal owns them???

[b!z]

They will not. They already own Paypal, why should they use something they cannot control>?

[dree12]

They will not. They already own Paypal, why should they use something they cannot control>?

Do they control the USD?

Bitcoin is also a currency like any other. PayPal is a way to transfer currency. Put one and one together...

[Toadee]

Here is a link to the blog post and video: http://deals.ebay.com/blog/whats-the-deal-with-bitcoins-anyway/

Looks promising to see something like this on their official blog.

[Mike Christ]

They will not. They already own Paypal, why should they use something they cannot control>?

Do they control the USD?

Bitcoin is also a currency like any other. PayPal is a way to transfer currency. Put one and one together...

But PP provided something to the USD it didn't originally have.  BTC is already essentially complete in whatever PP could add.

[Eastwind]

Will PP charge higher than usual BTC transaction fee for their service?

[DELTA9]

My paypal account has heen frozen forever. I hope they adobt bitcoin so I can use ebay again. Most sellers will most likely want to only use paypal because it is easier to convert into fiat. Anyways this is great news!

[favdesu]

Here is a link to the blog post and video: http://deals.ebay.com/blog/whats-the-deal-with-bitcoins-anyway/

Looks promising to see something like this on their official blog.

I dunno, maybe I'm missing something, but they ask a question and there is no way to comment on the blog?

the site looks really amateurish to me... is this really the official blog?

[johnyj]

Even those credit card and other online payment companies would adopt bitcoin, since that will greatly simplify their international transactions (today they provide two different currency convertion process in international payment, means they do have some cost when it comes to foreign exchange), and that will greatly reduce the traffic burden on the bitcoin network

[Anon135246]

I hope so, makes it alot easier to place international orders.

[Morbid]

this could be the highest push for bitcoin so far.

[marcovaldo]

Where do you see that eBay wants/plans/thinks or just imagines to implement bitcoins?

eBay has a business model based on fees (with paypal).
If they implement bitcoins, they will take 5% fees on each transactions, and it won't be cheaper to pay with bitcoins or usd, so what would be the point?

[101111]

Where do you see that eBay wants/plans/thinks or just imagines to implement bitcoins?

eBay has a business model based on fees (with paypal).
If they implement bitcoins, they will take 5% fees on each transactions, and it won't be cheaper to pay with bitcoins or usd, so what would be the point?

Yeah, who cares if one of the largest online marketplaces in the world accepts bitcoin?

[/sarcasm]

[TheXpert]

Could anyone add subtitles for this video? Or just correct english text?