Aussies: Pay bills with bitcoins

[Jeremy West spendbitcoins.com]

If you live in Australia (or used to and have bills here) you can now pay your bills in bitcoins!

http://paybills.spendbitcoins.com

Happy spending!

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[Graet]

WOW!!! that is sooo awesome
Hope you are planning to come to Bitcoin AU 2011 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=38867.0

[didgydont]

that is pretty cool 

[payb.tc]

hi jeremy,

as you may remember, a week or so ago I got you to pay a couple of BPAY payments for me (possibly what started this idea).

while i was more than happy about the 'reduced' bitcoin rate, where i felt a bit jipped was in the USD/AUD rate, which you converted at 1.11 at a time when the going mid-rate on xe.com was 1.06.

i think you should either have a 'bad' bitcon/usd rate or a 'bad' usd/aud rate, but not both.

my thoughts.


edit: forget all of the above, i should have clicked your new link before i blurted all that out... i see you give a fixed bitcoin/AUD rate now as part of the deal so at least we can compare it to tradehill's AUD market for example.

thanks!

[Jeremy West spendbitcoins.com]

 

hi jeremy,

as you may remember, a week or so ago I got you to pay a couple of BPAY payments for me (possibly what started this idea).

while i was more than happy about the 'reduced' bitcoin rate, where i felt a bit jipped was in the USD/AUD rate, which you converted at 1.11 at a time when the going mid-rate on xe.com was 1.06.

i think you should either have a 'bad' bitcon/usd rate or a 'bad' usd/aud rate, but not both.

my thoughts.


edit: forget all of the above, i should have clicked your new link before i blurted all that out... i see you give a fixed bitcoin/AUD rate now as part of the deal so at least we can compare it to tradehill's AUD market for example.

thanks!

no problem. I appreciate the critique (although all of the exchange rates were spelled out to you BEFORE you paid, so I do wish you would have brought it up privately before paying .

Allow me to explain the exchange rate you received vs the new bpay exchange rate: The exchange rate you received was on the "buy anything" page, which automatically converts anything other than USD  using the RETAIL rate  (not the bank-to-bank rate you quoted) as that is what I have to pay to convert. As the Aussie bpay page only deals in AUD and I can use AUD without converting, it uses the bank-to-bank rate before adding the fee I would normally receive from affiliates.

If you PM me a bitcoin refund address I'll gladly refund what the difference would have been just as a thank you for giving me this idea. I'll also see if I can figure out the coding to make AUD the bank-to-bank rate on the buy anything page.

Thanks again for a great idea!

[payb.tc]

all of the exchange rates were spelled out to you BEFORE you paid, so I do wish you would have brought it up privately before paying .

sorry i was like a woman in a shoe store at that point, too excited to look at the price, just happy to be able to pay bills with bitcoin, then noticed the usd/aud rate a bit later.

anyway, will PM you, thanks

and i hope aussie miners get on board now and pay their electricity bills through your page.

[Andre Jensen (World Bitcoin Exchange)]

such a good idea......!!! got ta keep my eye on this one.

good on ya jeremy hope this one works out for ya mate.

Trade Well - Andre

[organofcorti]

Sweet! I can pay my huge electricity bills with the very thing that makes them so huge. I like the circularity there.

[Jeremy West spendbitcoins.com]

all of the exchange rates were spelled out to you BEFORE you paid, so I do wish you would have brought it up privately before paying .

sorry i was like a woman in a shoe store at that point, too excited to look at the price, just happy to be able to pay bills with bitcoin, then noticed the usd/aud rate a bit later.

anyway, will PM you, thanks

and i hope aussie miners get on board now and pay their electricity bills through your page.

BTC 4.56 sent. Cheers!

[payb.tc]

all of the exchange rates were spelled out to you BEFORE you paid, so I do wish you would have brought it up privately before paying .

sorry i was like a woman in a shoe store at that point, too excited to look at the price, just happy to be able to pay bills with bitcoin, then noticed the usd/aud rate a bit later.

anyway, will PM you, thanks

and i hope aussie miners get on board now and pay their electricity bills through your page.

BTC 4.56 sent. Cheers!

thanks, you're a legend. just put in a new godaddy order by the way keep up the good work.

[Departure]

does the lower exchange compensate your fee's? or do you apply fee's on top of the shown exchange rate on your site?

current market price 1btc = is around $8, your exchnage rate 1btc = $7.32, which is very good if no extra fee's are included, otherwise what are your fee's?

[Graet]

This is soo cool I just had to double post on gizmodo au
http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2011/08/the-bitcoin-is-dying-whatever/#comment-172412
Someone is saying Bitcoin is dead, I did a shameless plug and thanked them for the publicity

[Jeremy West spendbitcoins.com]

does the lower exchange compensate your fee's? or do you apply fee's on top of the shown exchange rate on your site?

current market price 1btc = is around $8, your exchnage rate 1btc = $7.32, which is very good if no extra fee's are included, otherwise what are your fee's?

Lower exchange rate (aud) compensates my fees. There are no added fees.

[vaderiffic]

Wow, pardon me for diggin up such an old post but I'm curious what happened to this "pay bills with btc" idea.

[braid_guy]

It's still possible! You can pay BPAY bills with bitcoin in Australia at LRoS. Any BPAY bill will work.

https://www.livingroomofsatoshi.com

A great way to support the bitcoin economy!

[SmithsonJim]

I saw similar website on Philippines site i guess.

Whole idea is great for sure and I hope there will be more and bigger. This one should impact flexibility for sure.

[greenteanosugar]

This is so cool! Sure it will become very popular soon