Open Bazaar is a peer to peer open source grand exchange, multinational e-commerce platform built as a service to provide users a place for buying and selling without fees, does not keep user specific data. In the past young energetic people would flock to using ebay, etsy, amazon, offerup to make a quick buck on used things. Today in 2019 businesses, entrepreneurs, tech geeks, teens, twenty somethings, thirty somethings, even forty somethings year olds have begun migrating in large mass to what "Satoshi Nakamoto" calls Bitcoin.
Two E Commerce platforms had dominated the internet branded as Amazon and Ebay for shipping/ selling every day random items including electronics, furniture, clothing, toys, collectibles, etc. The two companies had made connections with shipping services, shipping fees were lowered for those who sold through their platform (ebay, etsy, amazon, offerup, etc), followed their rules (rules which the company's consistently changed). These companies horded data about what people purchased, who purchased them, who they purchased them for, where the packages were going, what items sold, age, race, gender, they collected everything they could learn about people in the grey market of data collection, used for their own unknown purposes behind the scenes...
People looking for a new platform outside of Ebay, Amazon have found the right place "Open source, No Platform Fees, No Monthly Fees, No Listing Fees, No Bank / CC Required, Live Chat with Customers, Customize Your Store, Peer to Peer (no middleman)" .... a dream coming to fruition for many freedom loving Americans.
Big organized corporate businesses (Good or bad for our economy?) Retail stores have long pushed their own credit cards on people to understand what their customers are buying from them, with a ease of track record purchases, data, rewarding users of their store cards with store points, savings by using the cards, following the rules, paying them off promptly (in the case of credit cards) .... People currently use social media platforms (including myself) the platforms are doing the same thing of collecting data for unknown reasons. I strive to use platforms pushing open source, decentralization, blockchain, especially the first part (open source) something about things being open source is good news among them tech folk.
Open Bazaar, soon to be releasing Haven App for cell phones + Paid.co, Bitbay are fighting to bring crypto into people's everyday purchase lifestyle. Today we can use crypto with the swipe of a card... basically a bank card, without a bank being involved is the difference.. a card where the transaction involves the buyer/ seller, no one else. On Open bazaar things can be purchased with using ones crypto wallet (storage place where one can see how much crypto they own), recently i purchased a coffee mug with litecoin from a openbazaar store myself as a test run, everything went smoothly within around a week i had the mug in my hand filled with coffee, lid on tight.
Open bazaar is pushing for users to use crypto, not fiat, this might be startling away a possible user base of people who currently do not understand. Crypto is more secure, fast, user friendly then their preferred fiat payment method of the past. In marketing terms we would call these people the early majority, late majority, laggards, currently crypto is in the phase of early adopters transitioning to early majority, time of the innovators has come mostly to past. Being a laggard is not something to strive for unless one's goal to be the looser, ask those who got out of the beanie babie bubble late they'll tell ya. Unlike beanie babies crypto can be sent very fast to any person with a crypto wallet in the world without need of a third party interacting in the trade.
The internet has evolved for every day people to being able to host their own servers, online shops without the hassle of paying large fees to centralized corporations setting rules, restrictions on things as simple as paintballguns not being allowed to be sold whereas with Openbazaar one could sell a real gun easily as long as the law is followed in the country of transaction. Amazon + Ebay have lots of money, know of Openbazaars existence, are keeping a unfriendly eye secretly on the open bazaar developers, community.
