Quote from: logansryche on September 16, 2011, 03:48:05 AM

It's not that, I have the resourses and the stock.. it's the community who thinks that bitcoins are here to be mined and then cashed out for profit. 6 months ago when I started BitCard the idea was fresh and good. Anything card related to be sold in bitcoins instead of dollars. I went through the hassle of creating the site, moving it over to GoDaddy so it was a dot com, made it all professional, and ya know what? No one bought a d**n card. I thought I'd juice things up a bit, so I added gift cards and card only games and games that had card in them.. something to bring in business but then select few decided to undercut my prices and sell those gift cards for less then what they cost. You can't sell a $20 card for $6 and expect to make anything off that. So because of all of that, I have made my decision. It wasn't the rate that bothered me or the money.. I could toss money at the site all day but it was all of you. You made me fail. This community as a whole who overlooked me becuase I was selling at spot price made me fail. You who decided to undercut me so everyone would leave me alone and let me die out, made me fail. Is it alot of anger? You betcha, but it's justifiable. I was even going to go off and add some more games that just came out in the mall for this month but then the fiance reminded me of how I've never sold a single item on the site, leading to this.

I feel bad that your business did not work out as you had expected, but when you say "I went through the hassle of creating the site, moving it over to GoDaddy so it was a dot com, made it all professional" and "I could toss money at the site all day but it was all of you."...

Well, I don't mean to be rude, but it's easy as pie to set up a zencart store, not to mention that it's free. And it doesn't look like you have done much to the out-of-the box configuration. Your main banner is a generic message for goodness sake. Registering a domain name is no big deal whatsoever, that is a moot point, I've bought 2 this week already. And how much money have you tossed at it exactly? Have you advertised it? How much do you pay for hosting? Not much I'd imagine, by the slow speeds of your server. I mean, what significant overheads could you possibly have?

I think you are mainly just angry that nobody was interested in buying your cards. It is a very niche market, and bitcoin does not do well in niches right now. I fully agree with what you are saying about miners cashing out their bitcoin instead of spending them on goods and services, but this is not the right way to react.

You need to compose yourself, let go of the anger, and try and think of another way of earning those darned elusive coins. I agree fully with you, as a fellow bit businessman. It's hard to convince miners and speculators to part with bitcoin for anything other than fiat currency. The bitcoin economy is in terrible shape right now because of this, and in a way, it goes against everything that the bitcoin project was set up to achieve. I hope all you miners and speculators out there are proud of yourselves. This thread is evidence that the bitcoin economy requires people to SPEND their bloody coins, not hoard them or cash them out.

Anyway, rant over. I empathize with you logansryche. But there's not much us service providers can do, other than try and get it though to people that spending bitcoin is the only way to make this project work long term.