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The black friday deal is active through Monday by the way

It's officially Friday local time, so we're starting the Black Friday sale of this year at Bitlasers.com. 20% off all orders over $100!

Use code BLACK in shopping cart.

BitLasers.com

Some examples of prices after the discount:

1300mW 445nm Blue: $95
4500mW 465nm Light Blue: $263
800mW 520nm Forest Green: $263

We're a little low on stock for some items actually but FYI even if it should run out at some point, it's possible to check out and get the lower price anyway, if so the product will ship as soon as it's ready.

It will be similar to the last few years which were sitewide sales of around 15-25%

We will again be participating in the bitcoin black friday event on Nov 25th: http://www.bitcoinblackfriday.com/

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One day left of the July sale! See above post

Sale going on now: For all of July, use coupon code SUMMER in the cart to get 15% off anything in the store!

Hehe, no suit unfortunately.

Just a small announcement, a few days ago we just released two new high-end models over at Bitlasers.com:

Green 800mW
800mW Rare Green 520nm Laser Parts Bundle

Light Blue 4500mW
http://bitlasers.com/opencart/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=85

After trying it for a week or two I think the concept is good but that it is not quite ready.

Biggest complaints:

1. The need for the program to stay open for people to access your store. This is a big hurdle, paying for and setting up a VPS is a PITA. Specialized hosting services will become available for cheap eventually I suppose, but that kind of defeats the purpose in a way too.

2. I don't like the window UI at all. It might look ok for a Mac user, but for me it took far too long to even figure out that the weird red, yellow and green dots were the buttons to manipulate the window, and even now that I have used them a lot I still think they are awful, way too small and placed strangely. On the client for Windows I would want and expect the standard Windows GUI.
It is also highly annoying that the window can not minimize to system tray rather than task bar.

3. It's very buggy. The most breaking bug is that I find that sometimes the server seem to shut down without warning even when the window is open, and I don't notice it until hours later when I try to refresh randomly. But there are also plenty of smaller bugs, like some messages refuse to go away when I click "clear conversation", and at first it was impossible to type the symbol @ on some keyboards (this is fixed now).

One day left of bidding

The 2800mW model should be back in stock in about one week.

I can't speak for the laws in India, but I try to make it legal to import to most countries by screwing two parts of the laser apart so that it can be classified as electronic parts rather than a complete laser, and almost no packages have been reported confiscated, maybe 1%.

I backed the kickstarter so I got it. I ordered a DIY barebones kit but it got upgraded to a normal developer kit but outside some tinkering I'm not really a proper developer. If someone is interested it may be possible to transfer the developer license too. So I only have one, I'm not a reseller.

If you want it directly outside of ebay you can have it for $250 directly which is a discount from the ebay buy it now price. Or $180 plus shipping after the ebay auction runs out and no higher bids are placed.

See http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/262370915548

If no one has bid on the auction we can do the sale directly. If someone have bid on the ebay listing, please bid yourself and we can arrange bitcoin payment if you win.

Yes, I have definitely thought about that and I will probably do it, but I haven't looked into the details of running such a store yet.

Bump, most lasers back in stock!

Just a warning. I just asked a question in the eligius thread, and the owner of seems completely out of touch with the current happenings in bitcoin, namely the forking issues. He refuses to answer questions on whether he would follow the most popular chain in the event that a hardfork occurs, and banned me from his thread after I pressed him, because it's a very simple yet extremely important question to answer. Very worrisome behavior. I fear he is liable to mine on the original chain even if the majority switches, out of spite at what he adamantly calls "altcoins", jeopardizing his user's money. If you value your money I wouldn't mine there, especially if a hardfork begins to seem likely in the near future.

Price reductions on all lasers, up to 30% off depending on the model