Earn 0BTC for getting shops/organisations to accept Bitcoin!

[Funkypala]

I just wrote to the german amazon, if they already accept Bitcoins and what they answered was nice in my opinion.

They said something in the sense of: We are not accepting Bitcoins now, but we are keeping an eye on new currencys. And the person that answered me sent a copy of my request to the right department of amazon.

I guess if people ask often enough, they will really consider it. But please be carefull to not appear as spammers



Also i wrote to some other companys where i was thinking about purchasing goods. Thats something we all can do.
If you want to buy something, then ask first if they already accept Bitcoins.
When enough people have asked, the shops will consider it, since it might give them more customers.


Keep on the good work

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[SmokeAndMirrors]

I have contacted a customer service agent at blizzard's World of Warcraft's billing department trying to convince them to start accepting bitcoins as an alternate method of payment for people who have no credit card and are not entirely interested in going out to buy time cards. The agent I talked to didn't seem to know about bitcoins, so I'm not sure if blizzard may have already been considering or not. He told me that he would bring it up when he talks to his boss, who will have to talk to his boss, etc etc. I think I am going to try to contact someone a little bit higher up so that I can get more info on whether or not they've heard about/considered this payment option.

Just imagine if blizzard actually goes through with this.. I wouldn't be surprised if bitcoins userbase doubles or triples.

[r00tbeer]

I am going to start trying to convince www.hakshop.com AKA hak5.org/shop
Hak5 is a popular hacker podcast and might consider adding bitcoins to their storefront.

Question: Do we need to add ourselves to the spreadsheet or does someone else do that for us?

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[Leon]

Guys, just to let you know I am not paying any pledges any more and also, I haven't been maintaining the spreadsheet for a long while. For the third time I am looking for some trusted person here to take over from me. Please PM me if interested.

Looks like lots keep overlooking your post lol.

Thanks for everything you've done.

[Dudedude]

im trying to see if i can get grasscity.com to accept btc

[Dusty]

I think that it's completely ineffective to try to "convince" a site to accept payments in btc.

The only effective way would be to coordinate everybody to ask them to do so, and then buying something.

For example I'm sure that a chinese shop like http://www.dealextreme.com/ or http://www.tinydeal.com/ would be interested in bitcoins if some hundred of customers ask to support it.

But how many of us is ready to do so?
(I would be one of them, btw)

[Dusty]

Hello BitMole,
I live in Italy, and our bitcoin community is really small, for now.
General people is very conservative and most of them if very suspicious about bitcoin.
Still, they trust the Euro and governments, go figure :-)

Anyway, I can try to organize a group, we have a forum, we have a facebook page and we know almost all of the italian bloggers, so we can try.

My goal with my previous post was to suggest a thread to coordinate activities toward some goal, as to make a site accept bitcoins.
I suppose that the first major site that accepts them will pave the road for the others.

If we move in a coordinate way some lobbying should be effective, I guess.

[andrepcg]

make www.freelancer.com accept bitcoins would be cool!

[fabianhjr]

FSF now accepts Bitcoin, I would like to reclaim the pledge.
"Donate via Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer virtual currency. The FSF's Bitcoin address is "1PC9aZC4hNX2rmmrt7uHTfYAS3hRbph4UN". Note that since we are using a single address for receiving all contributions, we are not providing full anonymity. Further, we support the idea of people being able to donate anonymously, but we can't speak to the security or soundness of Bitcoin in the long-term."

Under: https://my.fsf.org/donate ->: Other ways to donate.

GeoHot didn't show interest plus lost my support after settling with Sony. D:<

New aim: Think geek!

[Dusty]

http://Uploaded.to now accepts bitcoins:
Besides additional, useful changes such as the newly designed Download Page with a Facebook-like button, we have taken the decision, as the first file hosting service worldwide, to accept bitcoins. You will receive more information on this in the next few weeks.

[BTCurious]

FSF now accepts Bitcoin, I would like to reclaim the pledge.

Guys, just to let you know I am not paying any pledges any more and also, I haven't been maintaining the spreadsheet for a long while. For the third time I am looking for some trusted person here to take over from me. Please PM me if interested.

[Dusty]

Not knowing if there is a thread dedicated on gather information about new merchants accepting bitcoins I write here just to let others know, I hope this is not a problem otherwise please point me to the correct thread.

JonDo, a site selling proxy and anonimizer tools, started accepting bitcoins.

[molecular]

http://Uploaded.to now accepts bitcoins:
Besides additional, useful changes such as the newly designed Download Page with a Facebook-like button, we have taken the decision, as the first file hosting service worldwide, to accept bitcoins. You will receive more information on this in the next few weeks.

awesome, this is good. been waiting for a file-hoster...

[timbudtwo]

I am trying to get a small local soap company called Soap Wreck to accept bitcoins. They might be interested in this payment option.

edit: Their website is Soapwreck.com, also edited to "trying" because I spoke with them about a week ago, this was the reason I registered.

[timbudtwo]

Okay,
So soapwreck is going to "tentativley accept" bitcoins. They are noticed the price fluctuates so they are going to try it out and see how they can do with exchanges. But looks like it was a success!

How do I go about collecting my reward :D?

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[MelMan2002]

I'm going to try to get www.entropiauniverse.com to accept bitcoins.  I'm not sure if someone else has already signed up for this as I'm unable to bring up the spreadsheet but in any case - I'll give it a go.

[jtimon]

Hi, I've suggested the following to freeforums.org:

Hi, I'm interested in purchasing a domain for my forum, but I want to pay for it with bitcoins. If you want to be paid in dollars, there's a service that can make both parties happy:

https://bit-pay.com/

If you start to accept bitcoins, I promise I will advertise your services in the bitcoin forum (with a lot of potential customers).
Let me know what you decide.

cheers

Thay give you the forum for free and then charge you for upgrades.
Let's see what they answer.

[jtimon]

I've just read there's no bounty anymore. Never mind, I really want to pay for this with bitcoins.
You should change the title of the thread though.

Anyway, if someone wants to thank me for this: 1N9u8az3nkztXP3xUcYFhoFsNAvARxBowq

[russ]

I'm going to pledge 2 BTC per shop that delivers physical goods to the mainland UK, up to a total of 10 BTC (5 shops) to start.

[Xenland]

I'm going to pledge 2 BTC per shop that delivers physical goods to the mainland UK, up to a total of 10 BTC (5 shops) to start.

Mind saving that 2BTC for me, I'm going to integrate UK addresses right into my cheaperinbitcoins.com system, right now I do manual international shipping scince the input forum only accepts USA addresses. If I know it will be waiting for me I can get all this integrated in about a day or two?