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Come on Americans! Lead the way on this one (Bitcoin payments accepted in the States from today)! Get the Bitcoin economy going! Spend spend spend!  Please post photos, info or whatever you like about what you bought on this thread. https://www.overstock.com |
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"In a nutshell, the network works like a distributed
timestamp server, stamping the first transaction to spend a coin. It
takes advantage of the nature of information being easy to spread but
hard to stifle." -- Satoshi
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exstasie
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January 09, 2014, 08:57:46 PM |
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Is there anything on there of good value? From what I recalled before, they only shipped to the the US.
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KeyserSoze
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January 09, 2014, 08:59:35 PM |
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Bought some couch pillows and "stuff holder" for the shower. Amazing how costly "stuff holders" are. I suppose the lesson there is I need to get rid of some stuff.
Slight issue on checkout was mostly my end -- yesterday I had trouble getting Coinbase to load in browser and refreshed it several times at which Coinbase banned me from logging in for 24 hours. So on checkout from Overstock they wanted me to login to Coinbase to pay, but of course I had been banned, so I had to do a secondary option where I just scan the QR and paid from my iphone (which had previously been logged into Coinbase anyway). So, no biggie, it worked.
I was also concerned because I have had a failed Coinbase purchase at Gyft, 1.5BTC which now makes me wary about using Coinbase to pay, however the success notice at Overstock came absolutely immediately, no "up to 15 minute" wait like there is when someone has the BitPay intermediary screen (waiting for payment to hit the network). I imagine this is because Overstock is integrated with Coinbase.
I had purchased quite a number of things at Xmas via BTC and I only had to wait about 4-10 seconds for each to process through BitPay. This overstock purchase was immediate via Coinbase.
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seldon
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January 09, 2014, 09:00:18 PM |
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Is there anything on there of good value? From what I recalled before, they only shipped to the the US.
They ship internationally, however only us-customers can use btc. Does not make to much sense imho, probably legal reasons. |
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exstasie
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January 09, 2014, 09:02:46 PM |
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Is there anything on there of good value? From what I recalled before, they only shipped to the the US.
They ship internationally, however only us-customers can use btc. Does not make to much sense imho, probably legal reasons. Thanks! Good to know. I can ship stuff to a US warehouse, so might do that if I see anything exciting. |
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January 09, 2014, 09:07:02 PM |
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Is there anything on there of good value? From what I recalled before, they only shipped to the the US.
They ship internationally, however only us-customers can use btc. Does not make to much sense imho, probably legal reasons. Tweet and email them, see what comes back. |
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T.Stuart (OP)
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January 09, 2014, 09:08:00 PM |
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Is there anything on there of good value? From what I recalled before, they only shipped to the the US.
They ship internationally, however only us-customers can use btc. Does not make to much sense imho, probably legal reasons. Thanks! Good to know. I can ship stuff to a US warehouse, so might do that if I see anything exciting. Go for it! This thread needs to be full of pictures of random goods within the next few days!! |
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T.Stuart (OP)
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January 09, 2014, 09:10:44 PM |
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Bought some couch pillows and "stuff holder" for the shower. Amazing how costly "stuff holders" are. I suppose the lesson there is I need to get rid of some stuff.
Slight issue on checkout was mostly my end -- yesterday I had trouble getting Coinbase to load in browser and refreshed it several times at which Coinbase banned me from logging in for 24 hours. So on checkout from Overstock they wanted me to login to Coinbase to pay, but of course I had been banned, so I had to do a secondary option where I just scan the QR and paid from my iphone (which had previously been logged into Coinbase anyway). So, no biggie, it worked.
I was also concerned because I have had a failed Coinbase purchase at Gyft, 1.5BTC which now makes me wary about using Coinbase to pay, however the success notice at Overstock came absolutely immediately, no "up to 15 minute" wait like there is when someone has the BitPay intermediary screen (waiting for payment to hit the network). I imagine this is because Overstock is integrated with Coinbase.
I had purchased quite a number of things at Xmas via BTC and I only had to wait about 4-10 seconds for each to process through BitPay. This overstock purchase was immediate via Coinbase.
Great report thanks! |
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kwest
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January 09, 2014, 09:15:40 PM |
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Is there anything on there of good value? From what I recalled before, they only shipped to the the US.
They ship internationally, however only us-customers can use btc. Does not make to much sense imho, probably legal reasons. Tweet and email them, see what comes back. I see that they answered: "International is in the works! We'll make an announcement when it's live." And I replied that I'm waiting with an item in my shopping cart. |
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January 09, 2014, 09:17:00 PM |
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It's certainly good news and a good start, but I'm not a fan of Overstock.com lol
I'll be much more excited when Amazon or Newegg begin to accept btc
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RandyMagnum
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January 09, 2014, 09:20:02 PM |
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Is there anything on there of good value? From what I recalled before, they only shipped to the the US.
They ship internationally, however only us-customers can use btc. Does not make to much sense imho, probably legal reasons. Tweet and email them, see what comes back. I see that they answered: "International is in the works! We'll make an announcement when it's live." And I replied that I'm waiting with an item in my shopping cart. |
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January 09, 2014, 09:24:50 PM
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For those living outside the US, DHL offers a US shipping address: www.borderlinx.comIts free and very convenient,.I use them often and get delivered at my doorstep after 3-4 days. |
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January 09, 2014, 09:25:51 PM |
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T.Stuart (OP)
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January 09, 2014, 09:38:16 PM |
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I will be buying! Be back later with what I bought!
Great! Thanks! |
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T.Stuart (OP)
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January 09, 2014, 09:39:02 PM |
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Never have enough computer gear! he he  Thanks! |
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January 09, 2014, 10:09:38 PM |
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I bought several handbags! So excited! They were on sale 90% off too! And I used the small amount of coin I still had on Gox. That is one way to get rid of coins left there!  |
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January 09, 2014, 11:02:46 PM |
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I will be buying! Be back later with what I bought!
That's pretty much how I expected this to go down. |
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January 09, 2014, 11:18:11 PM |
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FYI, I was trying to get rid of the very small amount of coin I have on GOX so I used my account there to make the purchase on Overstock and I sent about 0.06 twice. I hit the "confirm" button after it was already sent. Why does gox even have the "confirm" button after it is sent? That makes it hard for blonds like me.  Oh well, I called overstock and they are taking care of it though. They just sent me an email asking for my wallet address and they will send back the extra amount. If I had used Coinbase though it would have been easier though. But at least we know Overstocks customers service is pretty good. The guy I talked to said that "he was really excited about Bitcoin!" They have been busy! |
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T.Stuart (OP)
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January 09, 2014, 11:31:13 PM |
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I bought several handbags! So excited! They were on sale 90% off too! And I used the small amount of coin I still had on Gox. That is one way to get rid of coins left there! Please could you post a picture of those handbags when you can? |
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