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Wow, the marketplaces out there that allow people to sell things for bitcoin totally suck.

The vast majority of them have gone under, and the only one that is still around (bitify.com) would lump my cipherpunk hardware in with scammy things like "give you 10 Minute Workday Program cost ($2,500.00)"

That item costs $64 USD, for anyone wgo was wondering. You can't make this stuff up!
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Dr. Hax 2y ago

Meanwhile, ebay now charges 13.25% per sale (and still doesn't accept bitcoin)!

Newegg does accept Bitcoin, but to get on there you have to have a company registered with the government, which is way more overhead than I want selling some open source hardware that I handmade.

So we're back to posting a note on a bulletin board system and then manually sorting out orders, shipping addresses, payments, etc.

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Dr. Hax 2y ago

Are any of you entrepreneurs out there listening? I am giving you a killer idea right now.

- Set up an online marketplace

- Allow people to sell stuff for BTC

- Filter out the scammers

- Take a cut of each sale (like 5%)

- Advertise to the circular economy crowd

You'll have basically zero competition. Sellers would be happy to pay you that fee if you deal with just connecting orders, payments and shipping addresses. You'll be even more popular with sellers if you advertise your site, because we want to offer goods for sale, not run marketing campaigns.

I want to focus on open source hardware & software, not run an e-commerce website.

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