If there was a real need for such a market and only one option like openbazaar people would have already flooded it, both sellers and clients, thing which didn't happen


Yeah, and for every guy that complains centralized services has ripped him off and not offered a refund, there is also one that got scammed in a decentralized service.
It's not laziness, it's the natural fear of customers that don't want to buy something from a stranger without the possibility of a refund or customer support, it's a seller paradise but a buyer's nightmare. I for example pay a premium when buying electronics from a shop compared to others and many like me do this because they don't ask any question when you return a product, they have free of charge pick-up on returns or warranty issues and delivery and they are reimbursing you in maximum 24hours. They are more expensive but they also have half of the market share at least.

Oh, and don't start with the escrow and mediator feature.
I am a customer I'm sending you back the product give me back my money, no mediator, no escrow, these are the laws in the EU!


You don't need a bank account to buy from most online platforms here, nor a credit card, all platforms I know, including chain stores are offering cash on delivery payment.

Thought the marketplace had a deal with Bitcoincash few years ago or so?
Anyway, I think for a decentralized marketplace to work well in Crypto space it needs to be built within some sort of VM cryptocurrency ecosystem and made to interact with other decentralized applications/businesses. More like DeFi on Ethereum network.
A Cryptocurrency Network needs to encourage/incentive a thriving and sustainable economy built around it. You could have lots of interdependent Decentralized Applications interacting with one another in their ecosystems rather than hoping to compete with traditional businesses.
 Things will be much easier for cryptocurrency developers once they know/understand how to run a Nation. A Decentralized Crypto Network is more like a Nation.

everyone in the cryptosphere cares so much about OpenBazaar that this tweet received an staggering 200 likes! *sarcasm*

next year there'll be another cry for help & donations 🙄 they should just let it die, it's very clear that after what, 4 years now, no one uses this thing and no one (except that one person who donated) cares about a decentralized marketplace, at least for now. Majority of people nowadays, not just from the general public but also cryptocurrency users, would rather put their trust on centralized services than in things like Bitify or OpenBazaar, and i'm certainly one of those when it comes to spending BTC to buy products.

 

Hey bud I donated what I could, because as a crypto-marketplace owner, I feel your disarray, but I think this has nothing to do with decentralisation.

My best guess is that our industry is still in its "earning & learning & holding" phase, and certainly not the spending phase.



I started a Bitcoin luxury marketplace  back in 2016 when 1 btc was worth $600.
I would have never expected that $20k rally to happen so quickly. Neither its downfall.
A couple of years forward, we do have some users buying and selling art, or even luxury items in crypto, so that aspect of my bet turned out positive.

That being said, our overall numbers are nothing to brag about, and certainly worth walking into a VC with. Otherwise, my concept ( and yours ) would have been replicated a thousand times already, by people with way deeper pockets than ours.

I'm still positive there will be a vast market for crypto-marketplaces once Bitcoin's marketcap hits a certain threshold

I just don't think that threshold has yet been met, but, once that happens,we'll already have seniority, press, and trust, which ( in this industry ) is worth way more than any money you could spend.
There's no questions about it, when we met that threshold, I'll be the first customer of crypto marketplaces ( personally, I'll consider spending when it hits  $100k ) .

Because frankly, let's cut the B.S., even as founders, if we ask ourselves honestly, we'd rather hold onto our crypto than trying to spend it on whatever.



Anyway, I sent you $10 worth of BTC@blockchain.com/btc/tx/be8e3782c1cdda4c340725df5dde1142156e62ca59da4508c9ba69fca8da9c92 because I really believe you are in the right, and that you're doing something important, even though timing is not on our side.
 
That being said, let me know what you think, and I'd like to have a chat with you or whatever, I really like your mission.

I think this is the wrong attitude. Supporting platforms like this means quite a bit to the success of Bitcoin. Designing something like this is also extremely difficult, so it will take them a lot of time. While the argument isn't the same, you could just use similar logic and say "there's no need for Bitcoin with centralized services like the dollar and euro providing great value as it is". It's simply not true or correct.

having a need and doing something about it are different things though. usually people don't like change even if the new thing were better. that is one of the reasons why bitcoin adoption is so slow. but you made a good point about less customer security that i wasn't thinking about.

If Bitcoin ever is to be a currency I think it's going to be the final phase, not near the first. You've got to get through the speculation bit and get well into the store of value and then you might get a currency so they're crazily early.

I applaud the fact that it exists but it's clear there's little to no desire for it. And ultimately I myself can never see the point of a decentralised marketplace for vanilla goods. There's more hassle, more friction and no gain as far as I can tell. A buy is a one time thing I need fulfilling in the most convenient way. There's no philosophy tied to it.

Different for less developed countries so I hope the idea remains alive until its time comes. Could be a wait. Until then someone should be doing dark market stuff which is the true use case for now.

I'd better help the homeless and the likes rather than help the Openbazaar for their interest. It seems that saving humanity is more important than this project. Anyway, if there are people who tries to see the project worth it then you can possibly get donation from them. The last resort that you could do aside from getting donations if there are none who will going to donate and to make the platform come to the next phase then selling it to other individuals who will be interested to fund and develop the platform will do. I think it is not bad either than letting your platform closed due to short of funds or something at least you earn from it by selling the platform.

Of course but they will do their very best to resist and find alternatives to use until the completely necessary moment arrives. That doesn't make for a very vibrant user base. And it also chucks most discretionary purchases out the window. You will simply go without.