Quote from: Jonathan Ryan Owens on November 23, 2011, 05:49:41 AM

Quote from: kjlimo on November 21, 2011, 02:21:50 PM

Quote from: Manko on November 21, 2011, 01:43:21 PM

I'd be willing to buy from any major online shop, such as Amazon.

I think you're missing the point of my initiative.... I agree that if Amazon accepted bitcoin, that would be awesome.

I am focusing on brick & mortar stores in Cleveland.

I am going to target sole proprietorships because I doubt I can get a large company to listen to me yet. I don't have enough gray hairs...

Cedar Point - would be tough, but if I had a list of 100 people, I might consider approaching them. They have a lot of online sales as well, so that might have some possibilities of offering a great rate through bitcoin purchase.

Thanks, keep em coming! I also kinda need to know how many people are in Cleveland with bitcoins to spend. If I'm the only one, then merchants have no reason to deal specifically with me. And that might mean that now is not the right time, or I should focus my efforts on another city like New York/ Chicago, etc.

That said, Cedar Point brings people from all over, so that means that I can include neighboring cities/states. So please respond if you are interested in Cedar Point for bitcoins!

Are you planning on introducing them to bit-pay, which makes the barrier to entry much lower for them, or are you supposing that you'll give them all a tutorial on how to mitigate market exposure risks, set up accounts at tradehill and mtgox, etc?

I suggest the former

-Jonathan

To answer your question, yes. I will do one of those two approaches. I'm not affiliated with bit-pay (yet) and I'm not going to make money from a tutorial (yet), so I don't care. I just want them to use bitcoins, period.

I want to understand credit card fees. If bit-pay has a compelling arguement, then I'll recommend that. If these stores are willing to learn something else and/or hold on to bitcoins (possibly try to get their suppliers/employees to accept bitcoins as payment for their opperational expenses), it doesn't matter to me.

Bottom line is no one seems to be in Cleveland with bitcoins (yet) other than myself and my two friends, who obviously don't read these forums...

Anyone in Cleveland???