Time to go on a spending spree at Overstock!

[Anon136]

I bought this. http://www.overstock.com/Sports-Toys/LaserLyte-Laser-Trainer-Target/7263294/product.html?refccid=5J6BOFOOZNS3TA2CSJJGXA56SA&searchidx=2

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[I_bitcoin]

I bought things!   Going to try to buy more next week.   Sure I will need something.

[Anon136]

I bought things!   Going to try to buy more next week.   Sure I will need something.

you are supposed to tell us about the things you bought.

[T.Stuart]

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? 

Got a few different styles of these.  They will make nice gifts too.  I know most guys won't care though.

http://www.overstock.com/Clothing-Shoes/Handbags/Gigi-Hill,/brand,/111/dept.html

[David M]

I am on a business trip in the US at the moment and thank god for overstock.

I have tried to purchase several items on other online stores with my credit card but gave up due to the billing address and shipping address being in different countries.

Think about that for a moment.

I jumped on to Overstock, bought a watch for myself.

http://www.overstock.com/Jewelry-Watches/Citizen-Mens-Scuba-Fin-Stainless-Steel-Watch/8437727/product.html

And some Lip balm and foot scrubs for my better half back home.

I had all the goods in the Checkout, but then decided to look for a coupon.  I found one that gave me 10% off the total (For new customers only) and that was applied with no questions asked.  That saved $31 US.

The checkout process was trivial (I used the "Check out as Guest" option) and after firing up my Multibit spending wallet, I got confirmation of my transactions instantly.

Go Bitcoin Go!

[David M]

10% off coupon!!! Oh man, I could have really used that!

This is where I got it.

http://www.retailmenot.com/view/overstock.com

It opens the overstock web site with the code embedded in the URL

[empoweoqwj]

I bought a Cold Steel heavy duty sword cane.
 
I was going to buy it on amazon (since I have some amazon credit built up), but they mysteriously stopped selling it there *sigh*
 
I noticed it on Overstock, and at a pretty comparable price to Amazon's, so I bought it there instead
 
I would love if Amazon accepted bitcoins directly instead of having to buy amazon gift cards through gyft.com

One day my friend, one day

[BitChick]

So being the blond that I am I hit "Confirm" twice when I sent funds from Gox to Overstock the other day.  I saw that my payment was received on Overstock.com so I went back to gox and the button still said, "Confirm" so I clicked it thinking it was asking if it had been sent but then it sent my payment twice.

All that said, Overstock.com sent me 0.07 coins (I only sent them 0.06 but I guess the price per BTC went down a bit from when I paid.)

BitChicksHusband said I should post this so you all could see that it passed the "BHT"  or the "Blond Housewife Test."

And if any of you guys want me to beta test any other shopping sites you are more than welcome to send coins my way.     I guess I am good at it! 

[empoweoqwj]

So being the blond that I am I hit "Confirm" twice when I sent funds from Gox to Overstock the other day.  I saw that my payment was received on Overstock.com so I went back to gox and the button still said, "Confirm" so I clicked it thinking it was asking if it had been sent but then it sent my payment twice.

All that said, Overstock.com sent me 0.07 coins (I only sent them 0.06 but I guess the price per BTC went down a bit from when I paid.)

BitChicksHusband said I should post this so you all could see that it passed the "BHT"  or the "Blond Housewife Test."

And if any of you guys want me to beta test any other shopping sites you are more than welcome to send coins my way.     I guess I am good at it! 

You managed a "Double Spend", just not the type we normally talk about here

Good they sent the coins back promptly, and heck, you even made a profit!

[tspacepilot]

Yes.  I never shopped there before, but now maybe I need to take a look.  Just to support the bitcoin community I mean.

[tvbcof]

I went back again to look for something I can use.  I changed my mind about the prices being reasonable.  Lots of them are actually not.  Worse, it's a God-awful mess to try to find things in the native categorization tree.  Plenty of the things (e.g., I was looking for a reasonable sized UPS) were blatant rip-offs.  Then they might have basically the same item multiple times with wildly different prices (and utterly absurd 'compare' readings.)

I always respected Byrne's fights against the naked short/ financial media criminals, but the honest truth is is that the Overstock web-site seems to suck beyond usability and I cannot see any particular value that these guys are bringing to the table.

[BitChick]

I went back again to look for something I can use.  I changed my mind about the prices being reasonable.  Lots of them are actually not.  Worse, it's a God-awful mess to try to find things in the native categorization tree.  Plenty of the things (e.g., I was looking for a reasonable sized UPS) were blatant rip-offs.  Then they might have basically the same item multiple times with wildly different prices (and utterly absurd 'compare' readings.)

I always respected Byrne's fights against the naked short/ financial media criminals, but the honest truth is is that the Overstock web-site seems to suck beyond usability and I cannot see any particular value that these guys are bringing to the table.

Some of you programmers should offer to make the site easier to browse for payment in BTC.   

[tvbcof]

I went back again to look for something I can use.  I changed my mind about the prices being reasonable.  Lots of them are actually not.  Worse, it's a God-awful mess to try to find things in the native categorization tree.  Plenty of the things (e.g., I was looking for a reasonable sized UPS) were blatant rip-offs.  Then they might have basically the same item multiple times with wildly different prices (and utterly absurd 'compare' readings.)

I always respected Byrne's fights against the naked short/ financial media criminals, but the honest truth is is that the Overstock web-site seems to suck beyond usability and I cannot see any particular value that these guys are bringing to the table.

Some of you programmers should offer to make the site easier to browse for payment in BTC.   

Ironically I worked for a company once who had them as a customer for certain services, but that's probably about all I should say about it.  Thankfully my job didn't involve trying to clean up messes like the one under discussion.

The messes I had to clean up involved security and could be handled in one of several ways.  1) Either not have security problems, or 2) have such lame monitoring that what intrusions might exist go undetected and thus don't take a lot of one's energy.  I employed a combination of both strategies

[rick2718]

I bought some shoes to do my bit to help promote, though I had never purchased
from them before.  I have to wonder though what the ongoing btc revenue rate will be
for them after the one-shot first time response of people like me.

I guess the general question is

A merchant can save the ~3% and shed risk, but what is the incentive
for joe consumer to bother with bitcoin?

Even if they pass on some
of the savings, $89.95  becoming $89.05  would not be enough to
make me bother.  Maybe it helps a lot with micro-payments, but
do you think it will ever attain widespread, consistent use?

It seems like the big value of it are the things (avoiding taxation, inflation,  litigation, tracking)
that will cause great friction with the powers that be.

[tonto]

A merchant can save the ~3% and shed risk, but what is the incentive
for joe consumer to bother with bitcoin?

You do not have to use a credit card. Not every one has credit. Not everyone will use their credit card online cuz hackors...

If a guy goes to a BTC ATM he does not even need a bank to buy stuff online.

Edit: Also with credit cards you can only have stuff shipped to your address. With BTC you can ship to where ever you happen to be.

I'm sure there are more advantages.

Actually, when I pay with my credit card, I have stuff shipped to my work address, which is different than my billing address.

[David M]

Actually, when I pay with my credit card, I have stuff shipped to my work address, which is different than my billing address.

That works for me when the billing and shipping address are in the same country.

That failed for me when I go OS. (Australian Billing address, US Shipping address)

[Atruk]

I went back again to look for something I can use.  I changed my mind about the prices being reasonable.  Lots of them are actually not.  Worse, it's a God-awful mess to try to find things in the native categorization tree.  Plenty of the things (e.g., I was looking for a reasonable sized UPS) were blatant rip-offs.  Then they might have basically the same item multiple times with wildly different prices (and utterly absurd 'compare' readings.)

I always respected Byrne's fights against the naked short/ financial media criminals, but the honest truth is is that the Overstock web-site seems to suck beyond usability and I cannot see any particular value that these guys are bringing to the table.

There site is a bit of a mess. I did however find some deals but I'm sure I was looking at different stuff than you. Also some of the stuff they sell just looks like complete crap, very low quality. But then again they have high end high quality stuff too.

I also noticed that they have repeat listings of the same product at different prices. I'm pretty sure the way overstock works is that they let others sell goods on their sites. I have had items ship from all over and never directly from "overstock". The shipping is no where near as fast as amazon.com but I will use overstock for some stuff as I want to support sites that support BTC.

When/if I get a house we will consider buying a bunch of furniture and what not from them.

In my first flirtation with Overstock last week I found they shipped my chosen timekeeping instrument faster than Amazon had shipped anything to me recently. Thanks to the multiple sellers situation they do have some good deals. Probably just not good enough deals to pay for with BTC.

[tspacepilot]

So what were the top items purchased?  I wonder.  I think I saw some sort of list recently on a news aggregator.  Wish I could pull that up ....

[David M]

I also bought a watch. Pretty happy with it.

May I ask which one?

I have completed another 3 orders with Overstock all with coupons and each item was within a couple of percent price-wise compared to the other online retailers.

[MoonShadow]

I've found that paying with bitcoin to overstock.com isn't cheap.  The value converter in my Mycelium client consistantly quotes the bitcoin price about 10% higher than what Overstock says it is.