Tracy gone MIA?

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I don't love that when buying with crypto the exchange rates, fees, etc. all add a decent amount more to the price than what you see.

Spent a few thousand on AAS orders to stockpile since raws seem to be in short supply, particularly for primo, and all that added maybe 10% to the 'in the cart' cost.

transaction fees on $1000 of USDT-sol cost me $8 to buy, convert, and send it... If your spending 10% you should consider a different process.

 

[brentm]

I don't love that when buying with crypto the exchange rates, fees, etc. all add a decent amount more to the price than what you see.

Spent a few thousand on AAS orders to stockpile since raws seem to be in short supply, particularly for primo, and all that added maybe 10% to the 'in the cart' cost.

Nah... 10 percent increase just for using crypto as opposed to legacy networks is a bad estimation. It isn't 10 percent and if it is, you're doing it wrong.

There are fees. I'm not saying there aren't fees. But the fees are competitive with other network fees as well.

I don't really pay attention to them, but I think to send Solana to PGB cost me 8 cents. My cost basis for Solana was 40 bucks a coin.

Spend and replace is one thing, but even most formerly staunchly opposed wealth managers are saying that you should have some portion of your wealth in crypto. For me, that's only Bitcoin. My other bags are not part of that mental math for me.

It gets a bit fucky with who takes which currency on what network, I agree. I don’t need to make crypto another hobby along with my pep obsession, and quite honestly don’t have the memory to remember all this shit

Not really. I mean Tether is issued on several networks. But usually if you keep native Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, you can make something work without having to convert to Tether or USDC.

Trading fees can sometimes be reduced if you post them as limit orders. Depending on your exchange... you just have to wait for the market to come to you. It always does.

I didn't want to hijack this conversation about why or why not crypto. I just think that people who oppose crypto for various reasons usually have hidden objections like "I don't want to learn new tricks". But they'll say things like "I can't remember all this crypto shit". Which really isn't the reason. It's quite simple. You deposit fiat on exchange. You "trade" it for a coin, hopefully Bitcoin and not a shitcoin... You hold it as long as you can... aka HODL.

There's Bitcoin. And then there's everything else.... Bitcoin was not premined and was distributed fairly. Most every other coin on exchange with a few exceptions were premined, meaning people or entities were "airdropped" large allocations of the coin before it ever was available to be mined. There will only ever be 21 million Bitcoins. It will never be diluted on you devaluing your holdings.

Price will fluctuate... It can be hard to hold. But to date, everyone who's bought and held up to now has enjoyed its appreciation.

You're not late.

 

[Peptoidian]

BTW, Happy Chinese New Year everyone!! The year of the Snake starts today. May it involve many vials of peptides slithering into our hands.

My vote for when Tracy reappears is Feb17, although it could be the the week before if he really misses us. CNY officially ends Feb12.

 

[chmuse]

BTW, Happy Chinese New Year everyone!! The year of the Snake starts today. May it involve many vials of peptides slithering into our hands.

My vote for when Tracy reappears is Feb17, although it could be the the week before if he really misses us. CNY officially ends Feb12.

Tracy isn't in CN so I don't think he's going to take any longer than necessary to clean up the mess, unless there's actually something else going on.

 

[raw_oyster_eater]

My vote for when Tracy reappears is Feb17,

he best get his ass back way before that. i need my pills.

 

[ktg123]

I ordered from PGB Monday. Paid with USDT-sol. Fee was under $2. Got the order today. 2 days ain't bad.

 

[RighteousCrone]

Yeah, I was nervous when it had been in NY customs for 2.5 weeks (arrived 12/20) with no update. I reached out to QSC a few days before they went dark and they said to give it more time, and they’d reship if it hadn’t been delivered after extended time (from forums it sounds like a month is the timeframe they reship after). Then a few days ago tracking updated to say as of 1/16 the package is in customs detention…which I assume means bye bye package.

Overall pretty bummed about it. I made purchase during the Black Friday promo, but my order was delayed because they sold out of the domestic warehouse supply before filling my order (after I paid) and offered to send from international warehouse. So I wasn’t even intending on making the full international shipping jump for my first international vendor order…but went with it and got burned anyway. So I need Tracy to rise from the ashes lol

Try putting your tracking # through https://postal.ninja/en . It gave more information on my package that was stuck in customs (Chicago) and then went into "arriving" limbo than even the USPS tracking info that was not able? to update.

 

[hexagonal]

transaction fees on $1000 of USDT-sol cost me $8 to buy, convert, and send it... If your spending 10% you should consider a different process.

Not all vendors take USDT or use sol even if they are, the conversion rate they're seeing isn't necessarily the same as the conversion rate that I'm getting on my end, etc.

 

[hexagonal]

Nah... 10 percent increase just for using crypto as opposed to legacy networks is a bad estimation. It isn't 10 percent and if it is, you're doing it wrong.

There are fees. I'm not saying there aren't fees. But the fees are competitive with other network fees as well.

I don't really pay attention to them, but I think to send Solana to PGB cost me 8 cents. My cost basis for Solana was 40 bucks a coin.

Spend and replace is one thing, but even most formerly staunchly opposed wealth managers are saying that you should have some portion of your wealth in crypto. For me, that's only Bitcoin. My other bags are not part of that mental math for me.

~1.1k order 'in the cart' ended up being ~1.25k due to differences in conversion rates between what the vendor was pulling and what I was getting via exodus on eth on a purchase last week, plus a bit from fees, etc.

Solana is also way up after the Trump/Melania coin stuff, $240 now.

 

[keangkong]

I’ve lowered my QSC flag to half-staff where it will fly till Feb 5th after which it will lay to rest at the local dog park for final desecration.

You'll likely end up ordering from Tracy again. However, this type the vendor might be named "Ryan." You'll never know that the person you're ordering from is Tracy or one of "her" minions.