Bitmit - Buy and sell goods with Bitcoin

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by basil • 14 years ago

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ams6110• 14 years ago

Crashed my browser.

rorrr2• 14 years ago

What would stop someone from setting up a bunch of accounts and selling a bunch of non-existent stuff? Is there escrow of some sort?

kiba4• 14 years ago

If you read the FAQ, they did mention an escrow system.

dreamdu5t• 14 years ago

From the FAQ: Because Bitcoin transactions are widely anonymous there is a need for trustbuilding measures like our escrow system. Thereby Bitcoins are only transfered to the vendor if you have set the order as received or have given a positive rating. Thereby potential fraudsters have no chance of success.

More details: http://www.bitmit.net/en/info/13/bitmit-bitcoin-treuhand-die...

mparlane• 14 years ago

Sadly it means the customer is always right. So if the customer says "nope I didn't get it", then they get their money and the product. Similar to how paypal works really.

rorrr2• 14 years ago

So I order the most expensive item and pretend I never received it.

pliny• 14 years ago

Recently added: Bitcoin mining gear, gems hand picked by a thai GIA graduate for sale on bitmit, Nazi paraphernalia and 'The Israel Lobby' on audiobook.

meskyanichi2• 14 years ago

Reminds me of the Real Money Auction House in Diablo 3.

kiba4• 14 years ago

How so?

meskyanichi2• 14 years ago

Trading virtual currency for physical currency. In Diablo 3 you can purchase/sell virtual goods for real currency. Although both have "real value", you can do more with for example "USD/EUR" than with "Diablo 3 Gold".

kiba4• 14 years ago

Even though I am a bitcoiner, I do not understand the curiosty of the HN readership in what is basically an ebay clone for bitcoin.

mxxx• 14 years ago

mmm, it's a little hard to get excited when it's pretty much 99% junk. still, spose ebay started that way too.

michaelbuckbee• 14 years ago

As someone who has only looked at Bitcoin from the outside, it nonetheless hits many of my personal interests: currency arbitrage, encryption, digital ventures, security, etc.

So, I'm interested in outcomes of Bitcoin. Ebay has all sorts of restrictions on what you can post and bid on, will a market emerge for (as others noted) OJ's book, transplant kidneys and illegal publications?

On a less lurid scale the site _has_ to do some serious work and thought around fraud, transactions and reputation in anonymous settings, work I'd like to take lessons from.

lightweb3• 14 years ago

Whoa! http://www.bitmit.net/en/trade/i/2592-o-j-simpson-if-i-did-i...

Someone is selling a copy of the OJ Simpson book.

lightweb3• 14 years ago

From Wikipedia: "According to a Newsweek story, all 400,000 printed copies were recalled for 'pulping', except for one, locked away in a vault at News Corp.[6] One copy did show up on eBay on January 15, 2007, with a starting bid of $1500, and sold for over $65,000 fueling speculation about whether News Corp. was able to destroy all printed copies.[citation needed] James Wolcott of Vanity Fair obtained a "pristine hardcover" copy of the book for a review published in January 2007.[7]"

This is quite an interesting auction here, considering the circumstances.

Gustomaximus• 14 years ago

If real, I wonder if someone is interested in selling via bitcoin for anonymity. Or a marketing stunt...

WayneS• 14 years ago

Did a reverse image search of that picture and I don't find it anywhere else. So it isn't obviously fake.

SkippyZA• 14 years ago

This works well for those who spend their life on /r/girlsgonebitcoin (NSFW)

moondowner2• 14 years ago

"Yes, PHP has a better dependency manager than any other languages."

> Better than Maven or Gradle? I wished someone made a chart with all these tools that covered dependency management and analyzed their features. But in the end, dependency management is only a part of the platform built around the language, it's a good factor in whether to choose or not to choose a language - but not the crucial one.

moondowner2• 14 years ago

How did my comment appeared on a different article..

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