2014 Casascius St. Petersburg Bowl Bitcoin Coin

[cyclops]

First of all, I am a big fan of Mike's work, and this piece is no exclusion, it is beautiful

But the webpage from Strydeathleticis bad, really bad. Was among the first 50 to order with the coupon yesterday, but bitpay failed and my order was eventually canceled, been in contact with support, they have so far not been able to help (proberly because of Christmas).

Now is the bitpay option removed from the page  

Tried with 3 different credit card - I gets an error each time.

Frustrating

Same with me, it seems I won't be able to take profit from the coupon...

[TookDk]

First of all, I am a big fan of Mike's work, and this piece is no exclusion, it is beautiful

But the webpage from Strydeathleticis bad, really bad. Was among the first 50 to order with the coupon yesterday, but bitpay failed and my order was eventually canceled, been in contact with support, they have so far not been able to help (proberly because of Christmas).

Now is the bitpay option removed from the page  

Tried with 3 different credit card - I gets an error each time.

Frustrating

Same with me, it seems I won't be able to take profit from the coupon...

Yeah, the coupon is long gone.
Now, I consider it lucky if you are just able to buy one (somehow) at full price.

[cyclops]

First of all, I am a big fan of Mike's work, and this piece is no exclusion, it is beautiful

But the webpage from Strydeathleticis bad, really bad. Was among the first 50 to order with the coupon yesterday, but bitpay failed and my order was eventually canceled, been in contact with support, they have so far not been able to help (proberly because of Christmas).

Now is the bitpay option removed from the page  

Tried with 3 different credit card - I gets an error each time.

Frustrating

Same with me, it seems I won't be able to take profit from the coupon...

Yeah, the coupon is long gone.
Now, I consider it lucky if you are just able to buy one (somehow) at full price.

As you said Bitpay was and is not working. I only wanted to buy with Bitcoin, not with my f*** credit card.
Come on a Bitcoin coin that can't be bought with bitcoins...

[Anduck]

CC doesn't work for me either.

[cyclops]

CC doesn't work for me either.

Hilarious, people willing to buy your product but the payments gateways are not working. Master in business management...

[Chainsaw]

I used credit card.
An error overlaid the processing screen with some XML output, but the screen beneath showed successful processing, with a confirmation message sent to my email address.
28 are left. Might be worth taking another try at it, if you had errors before.

[Blazed]

I just gave up all together on this..pretty sad sales setup. The whole not being able to buy a Bitcoin piece with Bitcoin is lame..

[TookDk]

I also gave up, tried everything: bitpay (now is the option removed), 3 different CC, 1 debit card, also tried to have a family member to purchase one for me with CC, all attempt failed. Support stopped replying.
How disappointing

Been looking forward for this coin ever since Mike announced it

One more sad smiley for the road:
 

[Chainsaw]

If it helps, I used Chrome version 38.0.2125.101 m
When I ordered, it showed 28 left; it is now 17.

...the difficulty to order, to be honest, was part of what pushed me to pick up a few.
A barrier to entry into a market, while frustrating, will result in a lower number of people holding the coins. No different than an initial run of a Christmas present being undersupplied. The market was willing to show us that demand outpaced supply.

I liken this to the 0.1 BTC silver coins.  For almost their entire mintage, they had an overhead markup - maybe 0.35 BTC for a 0.1 BTC coin, if memory serves. Nobody ordered them for months. When Mike dropped the premium, the limited quantity got snapped up almost overnight.

In hindsight, the market will not care that it was an undesirable purchase for the first 99% of its offering time. It will care how many people have them for sale, relative to the number of people that want them. In both the silver coin case, and again here, the distribution was not to the masses, but to larger-scale purchasers buying with anticipation of favorable future market conditions.  Because of the web page ordering problems, aftermarket buyers will have a smaller set of buyers from whom to choose, which allows for but does not ensure rapidly appreciating prices.

Also - beautiful coin, looking forward to having it in my collection.

[Anduck]

They accept Bitcoin again now.

[Blazed]

They accept Bitcoin again now.

Does it actually work?

[Blazed]

Paid: 0.652444 BTC
This invoice has been paid.

Amazing! I ordered 2 of them and it looks like it works now.

[LitcoinCollector]

Glad I picked a couple up yesterday, Cascasius 2014 coin!

[icey]

I managed to order a coin yesterday using BTC, guess I got lucky and timed it right. Even managed to use the coupon!

[Blazed]

I was half tempted to buy out the rest and offer them here, but he minted 2000 of them. I am sure they will keep adding stock to this.

[TookDk]

Finally I got my order through.

The problem is obvious firefox, worked first time with Chrome.

Merry Christmas to everyone here, and congrats to everyone getting this wonderful coin

[jdebunt]

Glad orders are working again, friend of mine ordered his as well

[cyclops]

Has anyone received an email stating that their order has been shipped?

[eddied316]

Just ordered mine with my Debit card. To those of you who were having issue, I'd say try it again.

[jdebunt]

Has anyone received an email stating that their order has been shipped?

Ships in 1-2 weeks as far as I know so it'll be after New Year's Eve