Bitmit - Bitcoin shopping mall - Bitcoin market place - Bitcoin auction house

[Jan]

thx for the feedback Jan. QR-Code issue is fixed.

Thanks for the swift fix.
The next version of BitcoinSpinner will be more lax regarding bitcoin URIs. It will accept blockchain.info's "botcoin://" format (which is wrong) and any casing of "bitcoin:"

[tosaki]

Cool.

Have not checked out your Bitcoin app yet because I have no android device yet :/

Improvements:
- Faster recognition of incoming payments (< 1minute).
- Show only items from your country on the whole Bitmit page: Choose your country from the filter and click "remember"

E.g.
Bitmit Canada: http://bitmit.net/en/soonending/?&f_cfrom=CA&f_save=1
Bitmit Germany: http://bitmit.net/en/soonending/?&f_cfrom=DE&f_save=1
Bitmit USA: http://bitmit.net/en/soonending/?&f_cfrom=US&f_save=1

[tgmarks]

Bitmit is awesome and I enjoy using it, but it needs some growth.  All the hot auction items only have a single bid and a lot of things go without ever being bid on.  I know there is not a demand for everything, but I think some advertising or some real cheap bid promos or something could do a lot to get this site going.  It needs some more action.

[allten]

Bitmit is awesome and I enjoy using it, but it needs some growth.  All the hot auction items only have a single bid and a lot of things go without ever being bid on.  I know there is not a demand for everything, but I think some advertising or some real cheap bid promos or something could do a lot to get this site going.  It needs some more action.

+1

However, we can't expect too much from tosaki for he has already done so much.
I'm doing all I can to put as many items up and at the same time advertising my listings in
non-bitcoin related forums.

It's a grass roots effort and it will take time.

[tgmarks]

Bitmit is awesome and I enjoy using it, but it needs some growth.  All the hot auction items only have a single bid and a lot of things go without ever being bid on.  I know there is not a demand for everything, but I think some advertising or some real cheap bid promos or something could do a lot to get this site going.  It needs some more action.

+1

However, we can't expect too much from tosaki for he has already done so much.
I'm doing all I can to put as many items up and at the same time advertising my listings in
non-bitcoin related forums.

It's a grass roots effort and it will take time.

I like this and valid point.  I should put in some effort to spread the word.  Thanks.

[Global BTC]

I'm already buying advertising space for Bitmit from CoinAd. The ads depict my product, but since I'm selling them through Bitmit I think most of the traffic just goes to the site in general. The conversion rate is not very good.

Is there an ETA for country listings next to the IP's in an ads visitor list?

[teste]

Hi,

Feature request:

1- Implement an option to not sell an item if the price of bitcoin is for example lower than 5 dollars.
2- So the seller could specify a price in dollar. If bitcoin price is = 5 dollar or higher than the item will be listed on bitmit.
3- If the bitcoin price is lower than 5 dollars, the item will be temporarly hide (not listed on bitmit)

[tosaki]

Feature request:

1- Implement an option to not sell an item if the price of bitcoin is for example lower than 5 dollars.
2- So the seller could specify a price in dollar. If bitcoin price is = 5 dollar or higher than the item will be listed on bitmit.
3- If the bitcoin price is lower than 5 dollars, the item will be temporarly hide (not listed on bitmit)

Do you know that you can couple the Bitcoin price of your items to a fix e.g. USD value or are you afraid of rapid price drops?

@GlobalBTC, do you mean from which country the most of our sellers are from? I think your conversation rate will raise as soon the basket and guest order features are available. That will come with the next update.

From today on we are also advertising on bitcointalk. Maybe you have seen the ad already

thx for the support, I really appreciate it!

[Tittiez]

You should add Litecoin as a payment method! It really needs something to get its worth up other then simple BTC/LTC trade. Or you could at least have an auto-conversion based on market sales.

[giszmo]

You should add Litecoin as a payment method! It really needs something to get its worth up other then simple BTC/LTC trade. Or you could at least have an auto-conversion based on market sales.

Yeah! And please add CosbyCoin, too.

[tgmarks]

I can understand the desire to build litecoin (cosbycoin seems like a waste of a post to even mention), but I think the focus should be on the site, it functionality, and especially on building the audience.  Worry about other currencies later.  Bitmit could make way more money just sticking with bitcoin and focusing in the other areas.

[giszmo]

guys what's up with you? global conspiracy to ignore any irony in my posts today?
in the other thread i put myself in a cook's position who wants to use the service for his cooking lessons and get called an egoist for only thinking of my cooking show and here I try to ridicule Litecoin by suggesting CosbyCoin and get taken serious again.
Maybe I should try <irony>-tags when I want to be taken serious next time. yeah … guess that would work.

[teste]

Tosaki,

1- Yes, I'm afraid of rapid price drops
2- I just would like to receive bitcoins if it's valuable compared to dollar. (Valuable is an individual opinion, for me is = 5 dollar or higher
3- What about let the seller choose receive dollar instead of bitcoin? using a system like bit-pay to convert it

[barbarousrelic]

Tosaki,

1- Yes, I'm afraid of rapid price drops
2- I just would like to receive bitcoins if it's valuable compared to dollar. (Valuable is an individual opinion, for me is = 5 dollar or higher
3- What about let the seller choose receive dollar instead of bitcoin? using a system like bit-pay to convert it

Is it really a significant difference to you whether you receive X bitcoins worth Y dollars, or 2X bitcoins worth Y dollars? I would prefer the latter, really. It's like buying Bitcoins on sale.

[Global BTC]

@GlobalBTC, do you mean from which country the most of our sellers are from? I think your conversation rate will raise as soon the basket and guest order features are available. That will come with the next update.

From today on we are also advertising on bitcointalk. Maybe you have seen the ad already

thx for the support, I really appreciate it!

Never mind that question. I was tired yesterday. I mean to ask CoinAd when they add that feature. I'm glad to hear about the basket and guest order features, they sound like something worth looking forward to. When is the next update due?

Have you considered an "external" basket function? Say I have a blog, and I want to sell some knick-nacks, but I don't want to set up a whole webshop for myself. It would be useful if I could put up things for sale on bitmit and then ad something like an iframe to my blog, that would work like a mini-store on its own, without any need for the visitor to leave the blog.

[Elwar]

Great site, I just checked it out and listed something today.

Quick typo fix: Should be Clothes & Accessories


One suggestion.

Import products via a database.

You have a good site, you just need it filled with product. If someone could upload dozens or hundreds of items at once it could fill things up.

A spreadsheet delimited like so could work:

condition,name,type,duration,shippingto,category,description,pictures,misc


The pictures thing may have some difficulty but the others could work out well.

I uploaded about 100 prom dresses to my wife's website using an import. It saved a lot of hassle. I was able to just edit the spreadsheet before uploading.

[tgmarks]

I really like the spreadsheet idea.  I would definitely take the time to put more product up on the site if that was there.

Also, I have seen a few ads in the forum. Thanks!!! Those are awesome and I am really glad to see the increased publicity.

[Global BTC]

+1 for the spreadsheet idea, or some other way to speed up batch-adding of items.

[tosaki]

Okay, I think I will implement a CSV import function soon.

Improvements:
- Better time zone & language detection

[barbarousrelic]

The auctions are listed with the bids at $X USD  (printed large) and the smaller Bitcoin price below that.

But the "Buy now" price is written with the larger Bitcoin price and the smaller USD price below that. The two entires should have the two prices listed in the same order.

Can you make it so that the link to messages lights up when you have an unread message?


I really like your site. A good quality online auction site is imo one of the most important things in the Bitcoin world. I thought that Biddingpond was good, but they mysteriously disappeared. You don't plan on going anywhere, I hope?