So when I heard about gyft, I thought 'yay' and bought a little item for my laptop, only when I checked out I discovered that on their UK site I couldn't use BTC. Same with newegg.
Why is this the case?
1. gyft is an american company, so accept their cards to only work on american sites
2. new egg US branch is expanding bitcoin becaus that is where the demand is,
you will find that UK is about a year or 2 behind america when it comes to bitcoin adoption, not many UK bitcoin users are pushing UK merchants to adopt bitcoin. they just sit on their sofa watching coronation street waiting for others to do the work for them
if your looking for sites in the UK that accept bitcoin(nationally)
aria.co.uk
scan.co.uk
takeaway.com
thats 3 pulled straight from my head.
i think even overstocks UK division has bitcoin payments at the shopping cart end
the list is getting bigger for national coverage sites, and the list of local places is large too.. but the qustion shouldnt be, why hasnt merchants in UK adopted bitcoin.. but instead ask why havnt you asked THEM?