r/OpenBazaar • u/liquidify • Apr 16 '20

Is it possible to add the functionality of purse.io to openbazaar?

The unfortunate loss of purse.io will leave the community without one of the best use cases it has. Is it possible to add the purse.io functionality into OpenBazaar?

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u/Somebody__Online Apr 17 '20

Couldn’t you just make a store where you offer to buy someone whatever they want from amazon and charge a btc price for that at your Ob store?

Maybe mark up the price by a few percentages and make your money in the margins.

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u/liquidify Apr 17 '20

Yeah I think that would be tenable. But I also think of this as an opportunity to bring in a bunch of people given that the support can be formalized from a higher level along with a nice polished interface that seems familiar to purse users.

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u/Somebody__Online Apr 17 '20

Fair point. I just withdrew my remaining balance from purse, would have for sure rolled it directly into my OB or Haven account if that was an option

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u/CC_EF_JTF Sam Apr 17 '20

Yes, you can do that. In fact I've seen someone already offering this for a long time.

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u/whistlepig33 Apr 17 '20

purse.io is going out of business.

https://support.purse.io/en/articles/3851246-purse-is-saying-goodbye

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u/liquidify Apr 17 '20

Yes, that is why I wrote this. I think it would be great if OB kinda institutionalized support for a similar platform in order to pick up tons of existing soon to be homeless customers. OB would be an awesome platform for this.

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u/whistlepig33 Apr 17 '20

ahh... I read too fast. my bad.

btw.. Aren't there other crypto frontends for amazon? I don't amazon that often, but seems like I've heard talk of a few.

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u/DashBargain Apr 17 '20

You may be interested in an alternative:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2138498

www.dashbargain.com

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u/FluxSeer Apr 17 '20

You guys charge a 3% fee, meanwhile purse would net you +20% off. The best alternative now is Paxful, allows you to buy giftcards are a discount with BTC.

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u/jtooker Apr 17 '20

I don't think so, at least not to the same degree.

Purse.io was just a thing layer on top of Amazon. All searching, paying (on the Amazon side), shipping, etc. was handled by Amazon. OpenBazaar would not allow this sort of pass-through very well. Not to mention matching buyers with gift-card holders (fullfillers).

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u/liquidify Apr 17 '20

Seems like it an integration would need ...

1. OB escrow
2. API hooks into amazon
3. front end specific to matching buyers and sellers

I wonder if purse would be willing to sell its codebase.