Agora Commodities review from an actual purchase 2014-09-21

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From an actual purchase of 21st September 2014, a review is posted.
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I made a test purchase from Agora Commodities on Sunday night, September 21, 2014 at 9:11pm.

Results: Agora Commodities review Sep 21 2014

Spot Price Silver	Store Price	Shipping (Calif to Florida)	Add'l Fees	Total Cost Above Spot	Total Cost Delivered	Days to Ship	Total Days Order-to- Delivery
$17.44 21sep14	$19.52	Priority Mail Flat Rate®: $5.60	No fees	$2.85 delivered	$20.29	1	4

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Step-by-step review

Here is a walk-through of the purchasing experience on the Agora Commodities shopping cart. This will be a very detailed review of the buying experience at Agora Commodities, to include any quirks or weirdness I may have encountered during the process.

This time I’m purchasing a 1 Ounce Canadian Maple Leaf Coin, one of the most popular choices for investing in .9999 pure silver.

 

To make this purchase, I started from the Agora Commodities link on the home page of BuyGoldWithBitcoin. I arrived at the Agora Commodities home page, where I navigated to Products, then Silver and located the Canadian Silver Maple Leaf Coin.

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Clicking the Add To Cart button under the coin, a red checkmark appears.

When the View Cart button is clicked it shows one Canadian Silver Maple Leaf Coin in the cart for $19.52 with $5.60 added for Priority Mail Flat Rate.

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At the top right of the page, you can change the currency selector to “Display product prices in Bitcoins.”

The amount changes to B⃦0.0490.

(That’s a bitcoin symbol. In case you can’t see it, it looks like the capital S on the dollar sign with vertical bars, but uses a capital B instead. It may not display correctly on your computer and appear, as in this screenshot,  like a square coded symbol.)

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Once on the cart page, you can check that your purchase items and quantities are correct.

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While you’re on the cart page, you can use the selector to switch between displaying the amount in dollars or bitcoin.

Here I clicked Proceed To Checkout.

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I filled out the Billing Address.

On this page you can log in if you are a returning customer.

I left the box checked that says, “Ship to billing address.”

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At the bottom, I checked the box to choose Pay With Bitcoin.

The Priority Mail Flat Rate® was showing B⃦0.0140 in bitcoin.

(That’s the bitcoin symbol again. It doesn’t display correctly on these screenshots.)

The order total was B⃦0.0500.

I continued through the checkout.

I checked the box that said, “I have read and accept the terms & conditions.”

Then I clicked the Place Order button.

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I was shown the BitPay purchase widget, which was showing a total for my order of B⃦0.0500 bitcoin.

I noted the place to copy the payment amount just below the Pay With Bitcoin button.

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In another window, I opened my bitcoin wallet that I have on Blockchain.info.

Once at the home page, I clicked on Wallet in the main menu at top.

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The next page allows you to log in with your secure identifier and password combination.

I entered my password and clicked Open Wallet.

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The wallet is open showing the amount of bitcoin in the account.

I clicked the Send Money tab.

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We’re now on the Send Money page.

In the Quick Send form, you can send a payment to a bitcoin address.

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Back on the Agora Commodities BitPay purchase widget, I clicked on View Address to get the bitcoin address I would send payment to.

I selected the entire bitcoin payment address, and copied it to my clipboard with Ctrl+C.

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In my wallet, I pasted (Ctrl+V) the address into the To: box,

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Returning to the BitPay module, I copied Ctrl+C the payment amount in bitcoin.

I pasted Ctrl+V the bitcoin payment amount of 0.0500 into the left hand Amount: box.

The dollar equivalent of $44.88 was showing on the right, but I hadn’t noticed it was way too high.

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I clicked the green Send Payment button, and the progress indicator quickly moved to the right and completed.

I heard one beep.

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The Address: and To: boxes reset to blank after completion, but the dollar total remained.

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Returning to the Agora Commodities BitPay widget, there is now a green box in the middle that says,

“This invoice has been paid.”

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I clicked the button just below this labeled PAYMENT DONE, CLOSE THE ORDER.

The next page reviews the order details, and says, “Thank you. Your order has been received.”

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The Agora Commodities cart now displays this page which says,

“Thank you. Your order has been received.”

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Something unusual. I noticed that once the transaction was complete, I was unable to display the order in dollars. The currency selector seems disabled at this point.

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Looking in my email, the first one received was the welcome notification for creating a customer account. “Thanks for creating an account at Agora Commodities.”

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In my blockchain.info wallet, I can see the transaction showing in dollars as $20.29 at time 22:44:48, and currently showing 34 confirmations from the bitcoin network.

The same transaction when switched to bitcoin shows as 0.05 BTC.

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A few minutes later on Monday, September 22nd at 12:43AM, the confirmation email arrived saying, “Thank you for your order! Your order has been received and is now being processed.”‘

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The next day on Tuesday, September 23rd at 3:05PM, I received this order completion notification. “Hi there. Your recent order on Agora Commodities has been completed.”

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On a previous order I received a USPS tracking email. There was no tracking email sent this time.

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The order was delivered at 3:28 PM on Thursday, September 25 2014 by USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate®.

With the order being placed on Sunday night, it would be received on Monday morning. My coin was delivered to my door on Thursday, just 4 business days after the order was received by Agora Commodities.

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Here is the coin as it arrived shipped in a clear vinyl flip sleeve inside the folded packing slip within a yellow padded USPS Priority Mail Flat Rate® shipping envelope. There was nothing on the outside of the envelope to indicate its contents.

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The packing slip was discrete, and did not indicate the price of the items. The cost of the order was shown as $0.05.

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Here is a better scan of the actual coin. You can enlarge it to see the closeup detail on both sides.

This is an enjoyably pristine Canadian Maple Leaf 2013 issue. A beautiful coin.

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There was no customer satisfaction follow up or further communication from Agora Commodities.

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Spot Price Silver	Store Price	Shipping (Calif to Florida)	Add'l Fees	Total Cost Above Spot	Total Cost Delivered	Days to Ship	Total Days Order-to- Delivery
$17.44 21sep14	$19.52	Priority Mail Flat Rate®: $5.60	No fees	$2.85 delivered	$20.29	1	4

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