trouble paying even if I could find my product

[Kpins007]

I am glad to find a good forum that talks about these issues. Looking at places like indiamart? Anyone try this website for any medication? I am new and would love to get to the senior member section. Just thinking about a darknet market.

 

[10 years after]

@Kpins007 Never tried indiamart. Too many issues with that part of the world for me with this pandemic.

 

[Veejur]

I am glad to find a good forum that talks about these issues. Looking at places like indiamart? Anyone try this website for any medication? I am new and would love to get to the senior member section. Just thinking about a darknet market.

Try to post in lots of sections if you want to become senior faster

 

[Lordy]

So I found a vendor that has xanx. Overpriced but they have it. They only take Bitcoin.
I funded my Bitcoin with enough to make the purchase. I didn't cut it close or anything.
I assumed I would get hit with shipping charges and know that Bitcoin fluctuates.
In just a few days, my Bitcoin dropped--a lot and I barely had enough. I went to vendor site
and price went up-wayyy up. Now I have to start all over again.
I am guessing there is some kind of supply chain issue with at least some manufacturers.
That, combined with vendors disappearing and packages being more closely
scrutinized make this whole process more frustrating than the usual frustration.

Now I need to fund Bitcoin with some more money. Hope it doesn't plummet in the
8 days to 2 weeks that I have to wait for funds to clear and that vendor isn't out of
stock or up the price goes up again. Am I the only one going through this?

I use to find bitcoin such a seemless way to buy ...
re: the flunctuations, once you purchase the bitcoin into your wallet and then buy your product the whole proccess shouldn't take more than 30minutes..but this year the charges have become exorbitant.... so I haven't purchased anything with bitcoin recently...takes 2 weeks now to proccess thats not viable so I see your dilemma ...hopefully things will change ..

 

[heavymetalviolet]

So I found a vendor that has xanx. Overpriced but they have it. They only take Bitcoin.
I funded my Bitcoin with enough to make the purchase. I didn't cut it close or anything.
I assumed I would get hit with shipping charges and know that Bitcoin fluctuates.
In just a few days, my Bitcoin dropped--a lot and I barely had enough. I went to vendor site
and price went up-wayyy up. Now I have to start all over again.
I am guessing there is some kind of supply chain issue with at least some manufacturers.
That, combined with vendors disappearing and packages being more closely
scrutinized make this whole process more frustrating than the usual frustration.

Now I need to fund Bitcoin with some more money. Hope it doesn't plummet in the
8 days to 2 weeks that I have to wait for funds to clear and that vendor isn't out of
stock or up the price goes up again. Am I the only one going through this?

I use to find bitcoin such a seemless way to buy ...
re: the flunctuations, once you purchase the bitcoin into your wallet and then buy your product the whole proccess shouldn't take more than 30minutes..but this year the charges have become exorbitant.... so I haven't purchased anything with bitcoin recently...takes 2 weeks now to proccess thats not viable so I see your dilemma ...hopefully things will change ..

Damn. This is my preferred product but Bitcoin is way out of my realm (I feel like I need a PhD in economics to understand its basics) so that is a no go for me. Problem at the moment is I have a dispute going with Paypal (I got scammed...not by anything like this but by a so-called friend so I filed a complaint with Paypal. I doubt they will do anything though cause they basically said oh well, sorry for your luck). I do have 2 vendors who take Paypal, so there's that. Hoping I can use them to pay even with this drama going on. Wish me luck!

 

[mallaidh]

@heavymetalviolet it’s been a while and I hope you figured out the Bitcoin thing. I haven’t. I have a guy who takes PayPal and is very reliable. I am probably overpaying but there is a value in reliability.

 

[Starling]

@mallaidh I was confused and overwhelmed about Bitcoin myself at first. Mining, wallets and enormously long addresses confounded me. I then learned about Coinbase, which is probably the skill level a noob like me needed. Set up an account and transfer money into it from the bank. No marketplaces and other bitcoin arcanery. I'm not an investor, just want to send money when PP or WU is not accepted. I never keep very much in the account because of the volatility.

 

[suncity]

Im not on the bitcoin train yet, but it is getting trickier. Paypal has gotten stricter, lots of places don`t take credit cards (and it`s risky anyways at times, especially if you are using a new vendor), WU basically sucks and has limit, and other pmt methods work off and on. It`s challenging.

 

[mallaidh]

@Starling I used bitcoin once. Think it was Coinbase too. I opened the account just for my overseas vendor. It took x days to get the funds into coinbase. I didn't trust the system so I only put enough in there for the transaction plus a little more for fees etc. Wasn't stingy-just wasn't going to hand a big chunk over to a racket. In the short time that I funded the account and went back to send the bitcoin to my guy-the bitcoin price plummeted. Again, I put enough in there for a fluctuation but the fluctuation was way more than even the stock markets dips that we've seen in the past few months. Love the anonymity of bitcoin--just don't like the difficulty in using it. Also don't trust that whenever we hear bitcoin in the news, we never hear a name. In every other industry we always here names like Gates, Bezos, Musk etc. Even in banking we hear about who the big CEOs are and who the bad guys are. Not in bitcoin. Whoever is in running the bigger system or even the individual entities like Coinbase, no one hears a name. I think this fad will go away at some point and take a lot of money with them.

 

[Violets]

The whole idea of bit coin is intimidating! Where is the best place to get started with it? I almost feel like it's way out of my league.

 

[Veejur]

The whole idea of bit coin is intimidating! Where is the best place to get started with it? I almost feel like it's way out of my league.

There's a whole thread on getting started. I'll try to find it

 

[jaders]

The whole idea of bit coin is intimidating! Where is the best place to get started with it? I almost feel like it's way out of my league.

As @Veejur said - it’s been “taught” again and again in various thread here on PR.

Easiest way is thru cashapp, from what I can tell. Pretty much everyone says once you get the method down a bit, it’s extremely easy. I’m not there yet either. But I WANT to be…

 

[somuchforthat22]

the few times i paid with bitcoin(due to vendor only acccepting that) i ended up losing money. even though i’m not that old, i’m old school, and don’t care about crypto.

 

[jaders]

the few times i paid with bitcoin(due to vendor only acccepting that) i ended up losing money. even though i’m not that old, i’m old school, and don’t care about crypto.

Well I can’t say i care about crypto either. But I DO care about getting my meds so if that’s the game - I’m willing to play…

 

[Veejur]

the few times i paid with bitcoin(due to vendor only acccepting that) i ended up losing money. even though i’m not that old, i’m old school, and don’t care about crypto.

Well I can’t say i care about crypto either. But I DO care about getting my meds so if that’s the game - I’m willing to play…

It sure seems like that's the way all vendors are going but I personally hate it. No matter how many times I read posts on how to do it, it seems complicated

 

[tycho]

It’s way more complicated than a credit card or stripe, but totally do-able, and far less personally intrusive than giving information to a WU or MG window clerk…

 

[jaders]

It’s way more complicated than a credit card or stripe, but totally do-able, and far less personally intrusive than giving information to a WU or MG window clerk…

Do you mind saying which “platform” you use for purchasing it?

 

[tycho]

It’s way more complicated than a credit card or stripe, but totally do-able, and far less personally intrusive than giving information to a WU or MG window clerk…

Do you mind saying which “platform” you use for purchasing it?

I have made a couple of posts in various locations in the forum about my experiences with crypto, so go check them out. What I am most recently using is this: I take cash to a “Coinstar” kiosk machine. I put the cash in and get a voucher for bitcoin. Then I go home and get on my computer and type the voucher number into my “Coinme” account, where I have a wallet. That process gets me a little exercise from the walk to the grocery store where I find the kiosk, I have no other holding period, and I can then use the bitcoin in my Coinme account to make a purchase from my vendor without much risk of coin value fluctuation over time. I only purchase when I am going to make a buy that same day.

 

[jaders]

It’s way more complicated than a credit card or stripe, but totally do-able, and far less personally intrusive than giving information to a WU or MG window clerk…

Do you mind saying which “platform” you use for purchasing it?

I have made a couple of posts in various locations in the forum about my experiences with crypto, so go check them out. What I am most recently using is this: I take cash to a “Coinstar” kiosk machine. I put the cash in and get a voucher for bitcoin. Then I go home and get on my computer and type the voucher number into my “Coinme” account, where I have a wallet. That process gets me a little exercise from the walk to the grocery store where I find the kiosk, I have no other holding period, and I can then use the bitcoin in my Coinme account to make a purchase from my vendor without much risk of coin value fluctuation over time. I only purchase when I am going to make a buy that same day.

I did that once and it was extremely expensive if I recall. I was just experimenting and bought $20 worth. After I entered it in my coinme account I transferred it to an electrum wallet (for more “practice”) and it then showed that I had $13 left. So I gave up on that. It definitely didn’t help my confidence…

But thanks for the description!

Just wondering what folks use. I know I just need to do it a few times and it’ll be fine. Haven’t been forced to yet and that’s really the only thing stopping me I suppose.

 

[tycho]

@jaders I believe the charges are in percentages, not dollar amounts, and no way you should have lost $7 out of $20 (35%). I do $200-300 at a time and lose maybe 13% (wild-ass guess) total for all the different fees and transaction costs, end-to-end. Hugely annoying of course, but it’s the cost of doing business.

All the costs are listed on the machine. Some are initial kiosk conversion costs; then some to put in a wallet; then some to transfer. The later items are only disclosed when you do those things. Or you can look ‘em up.