YES,
but you'll have to research that, I'm confused and they seem to change.

BITCOIN AS VIRTUAL Currency and all virtual currency; ebay RULES SAY may NOT be sold in their regular formats as auction OR fixed price listing. Must be handled in the far less popular "Classified ad" section.
 
YES I know, you're gonna point out that there are some bitcoin COINS listed,
This is because they are listed as "coins" or  "mining contracts".

when I talked to their customer service they just plain did not know how to handle a bitcoin COIN.  I chose to list under "mining contract" because mine was still loaded with a BTC value. IF it were a spent one I would choose "coins".

Yes
Rarity and Market and Collectible are the major factors.

BUT ALSO, collectibility on these first Casascius coins is dramatically better than most.
FIRST of a kind of money that may very well take over the world and be the future of money.

and it IS important to note these have value not dependent on the internet being available to USE - only to ultimately later redeem. IF the holder at that time so chooses.

and while others are now putting digital internet money on physical coin form. Casascius was the first to figure out how AND more importantly, I think his system was different and more anonymous than any current one is. and therefore more valuable in any local SHTF scenario.

as the seller of this coin, I'd like to add:

IF you're looking to see if it gets relisted, I hope you saved the public key code to verify a "relist".

For I do have another one to list later - same other than code.

Buyer did pay me for it just fine,

I've sold a number over the years and have never been stiffed - YET!
I have seen ones I've sold get sold again later by someone else (some times not the buyer interestingly).
while we can't leave negative feedback, ebay WILL put a black mark in their history for winning a bid and not paying. They can be suspended or barred from ebay if it repeats.

I don't see this as a "falsehood"!

The Govt does NOT auction off pot, counterfeits, forgeries, fake goods, ETC.

They ONLY auction articles that ARE LEGAL.

so IF they do auction any BTC's they ARE setting up a precedent for recognizing them AS a LEGAL product (by their existence, not necessarily ever use of them)

only in the same sense that if someone tried to pass off ROCKS to you AS Legal Tender it would be a crime of FRAUD (it would NOT be a crime of using illegal tender).

OTOH if you traded ROCKS for good or services without  the fraud/lie of claiming it was Legal Tender, it would NOT BE A CRIME.


now go back to above and substitute "BTC" for "ROCKS" and may be you're get the idea.

IOW we can trade ANY item for any other item - legally.

TRUE


They did NOT say it was "illegal" by ANY stretch of the imagination.
contrary to what some people who can't use simple English, believe.

Language makes a big difference,

BTC  IS Still LEGAL TO TENDER, (tender simply means to offer)

"Legal Tender" is a designation of how Government recognizes money simply for taxes and such as mentioned where it's offer MUST BE accepted.



That said, most people aren't smart enough to understand this simple concept and will shy away from BTC some times.

I'd bet he doesn't even know he has the bitcoins.   would'vt been that memorable for a busy retauranteer.

OR  lost the code/key for them and/or the wallet some time after getting them.

OR sold them for a few dollars just after getting them.





anyone else curious how many bitcoins are now "orphans" from people forgetting losing passwords???

Fully loaded Casascius 10 btc one troy ounce of silver mint condition with hologram intact - I'm original owner

I sold it at a much higher price last week JUST before China's anti bitcoin announcements so he backed out of paying. Back on at a lower price as a numismatic.

I only go into BTC by accident.
I started out accepting norfed silver at my restaurant www.GilliesConeyisland.com so I became interested in alternative currencies, but an intangible like btc didn't interest me until I heard about Casascius and had to buy a few from his very first announcements for keepsakes which I forgot about till the recent craze run up in price.



Once coin forms of BTC become common place, history should look back to "WHERE did this all start" and Casascius originals, may be a hit with numismatics.

THANKS Much everyone, good advice.

AND more importantly, I think I have it now.

adding one thing, a tablet with just Bitcoin info on it (blockchain, prices, etc)

Can wait to get my first BTC now!!





ooooooooooohhhh, ONE more question
WHICH exchange rate will customers expect to use? seems like everyone is quoting different, sometimes dramatically different, rates at the same time.


I plan on holding them as BTC for future btc purchases rather than turning to cash daily.

Hello!
Been fishing in Port Huron and driven thru many times, back when I used to travel to Canada


it'd be great to have you as a customers,

I'd even buy you a meal if you can show me how to accept those bitcoin in a manner my Cashiers can fairly easily understand, that doesn't require me to give out my security to all of them.

I greatly appreciate trying to help,

Problem is, I still have no idea where to find this "unique transaction ID that is posted to the block"

LIKE I said those numbers on that block just go flying by super fast and even if they didn't, I've no idea what they mean nor which one is mine, or the transaction that just happened.

sorry to be so ignorant on this, but I have not ever done this and everyone always answers me like I know SOME thing.

again, My thought was, I could post my wallet address or QR code for it,
without a quantity requested (cause it's always different for each customer), letting the customer enter how many btc
then a Customer will send to that address, from their smart phone or from one of the many notebooks many of them bring in to use my WIFI.

so you're telling me there is a "unique transaction ID", that part I get,
HOW and WHERE DO I GET TO BE ABLE TO SEE IT??? to then enter it into the BlockChain,
THIS I NEED TO KNOW. 

Look at the customers phone and write down all those numbers?
give cashier access to my computer while I'm not here, with it's password and the password to my wallet so she can see it come in there?

HELP PLEASE

THANKS, that is my next question............

you say "check a site blockexplorer" Like I've any idea how.

I've been to them, but it seems to be lots of irrelevant numbers, often flying by.

is the waitress supposed to get some number, or address from the customer once they pay???
is does MY wallet have some kind of identifier that she punches in to see what has just transpired?

THANKS!!

I have a lot of questions,   mainly because I won't be the Cashier handling the transaction each time. (we're open 24 hours). www.GilliesConeyisland.com

but to handle them one at a time:

1. I keep hearing that you should change your receiving address but don't have to if anonymity is not a concern, and considering I'm pretty well known business -report things properly and pay taxes etc, being anonymous doesn't serve me much advantage I don't figure.

SO I figure I can just have a printed address and/or QRcode by the cash register for customers to pay to BUT half the time I hear you just need let customer have your address so they can send BTC to you YET the other half of the time I hear the receiving address has to be made up to be for a SPECIFIC Dollar/btc AMOUNT.


So I'm confused, does this mean my receiving address may or may not? have a dollar amount requested OR demanded? as part of it??

CAN the customer just scan or type it and then enter the dollar amount???

I know I'm missing something here and need to understand it before I go to the next step

HELP

I was planning on starting to accept BTC at my restaurant  www.GilliesConeyisland.com
once I figured it out more,

reading this thread helped me out a LOT.
I WAS thinking about accepting them if paying in advance - to help get them confirmed, but now realize, that's silly - risk of double pay has to be much less than Credit Card cost even without the back charges!!


NOW, if someone can explain how I can have ALL the Cashiers trained to handle the RARE BTC transaction PROPERLY.
I'm not worried about it while I'm there, but when I'm not, some cashier has to have access first, to my computer (our POS doesn't touch the internet) and then on my computer, they'll need to see it accepted in my account?? with a password??

I was thinking more protection from other GOVERNMENTS.

UN or USA being the most dangerous to any Libertarian style community.

and wasn't thinking just "guns" as a method of protection, negotiations treaties various weapons, support from the "right country", laws ETC.

a Nuclear aircraft carrier might be a good initial base to expand from.

of course, a way to flag it, or protect it is the critical question.
but all questions have answers, just some are super complicated.


Flagged by a any Nation initially, then.........
anybody read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress?"
the Moon began as an Earth colony,  then found out how to protect itself,

some things just take a long time to evolve,
the nay sayers on this subject, would have been the same nay sayers decades ago telling us that there can be no such thing as a FREE CURRENCY internationally used not controlled by any Government................

http://oceania.org/images/old.3.jpg

sorta like this at oceania.org ??

I think instead of working hard for one name here and there (which won't work most of time),

JUST change your SYSTEM for selling bitcoin on ebay.

The whole problem stems from ebay's requirement/need for proof of physical delivery of a physical good. Some sellers have overcome this by selling a cute related nick nack that offers a free bonus of X number of bitcoin - once the items shows as delivered, then send the bitcoin. This way the buyer can NOT (successfully) claim non receipt and ask for refund.  
iow ebay and paypal protection plan will side with you instead of them.

it will need much more than speculators or investors, like most people here seem to be.

the BASE Element for it's value will be growing EASY acceptance for things of true VALUE.

IOW, if you want to see it grow then help local bricks and mortar businesses accept it. and then YOU seek them out and tell others about them.