Welcome!

Update 1: We've received our first order! 

Update 2: Chocolate Dash Coins now available for 25 cents including shipping. Legacy Logo. While Supplies Last. 

Update 3: We've made a few pricing changes. All items are now priced exactly at cost without any markup whatsoever. Shipping is now weight based and not included in the price. Instead of "free shipping" we now include a chocolate dash coin free with any purchase. Enjoy and keep the excellent feedback coming. 

Site is in beta, v 0.0.1 so go easy on us :)  Still, it functions 100% and allows the sale of hundreds of items in Dash with free shipping. 

This is not a request for money from Treasury. Only a request to reimburse the submission fee to make the announcement. 

Last weekend I spent $100 and two days building DashFair.com . It offers hundreds of the most basic household items, all for sale in Dash only, and all with free two day shipping. Pens, pencils, SD cards, snacks, band aids, notebooks, razors, you get the idea. 

My hope is that lots of proposals try lots of things to help people earn and spend dash. This is one model that can be rapidly deployed anywhere. Dashfair can only service the USA because shipping "everyday items" internationally just doesn't make sense, the shipping would be too expensive and delivery would take too long. 


Budget (paid out of pocket, not requested from Treasury):

• Domain registration: $15
• SSL: $50
• Fancy bubble mailers for awesome customer experience: $35

Reimbursement of submission (requested from treasury): 

• 5 dash

Tech:

• Wordpress (free)
• Woocommerce (free - Storefront theme)
• Gocoin (free to set up - flat 1% processing fee)
• Endicia / Dazzle / USPS online (For shipping labels)
• Zebra label printer 

How it works:
Dashfair.com essentially utilizes the instacart model. For those unfamiliar, instacart allows someone to just go shopping for you and bring your items to your door. Instacart doesn't stock any product, but they'll send a driver to your favorite grocery store, etc. and bring your item to your door.

As you may or may not know, Feedbands ships about a thousand or two vinyl records each month out of our main distribution center. This distribution center happens to be right next to a CVS, so any time we receive an order on Dashfair, a member from our staff will go to CVS, pick up the item, and mail it out same day. Unfortunately for now that means the prices are high, but it's an experiment and a model that we hope others build upon. 

All orders come with free two day shipping, and all orders ship within one business day. 

Why are we doing this? Don't we have enough on our plate?
I've talked about my history a little bit in the forums and on Discord. In 2007 I founded a digital currency and closed loop digital economy that quickly grew to doing hundreds of thousands of transactions per day. It was called "Entrecard" and from the moment we launched it, everyone had a simple and easy way to earn our currency (visiting other blogs and selling ads on their own blogs) and everyone had things to spend the currency on (ads for their blog). We grew it to include a shop where people could buy anything they wanted with entrecard credits and people could also sell whatever they wanted. We were used by over 40,000 bloggers at our peak before things tragically collapsed due to a lack of funding. But yes, we were doing hundreds of thousands of transactions per day. Although Entrecard failed, it's failure was due to its success. I've spent the last decade waiting for another chance to take all the lessons I've learned to help make a digital currency really work. 

Entrecard had something Dash needs: A simple and easy way for lots and lots of people to *earn* small amounts of the currency. And ways for everyone to *spend* their currency that tapped into their real needs. 

Thought experiment #1: When is the last time you bought some cash to spend? You probably never have, because in an economy, cash is not something people buy, it is something people earn. 

Thought experiment #2: If someone gets some dash from a giveaway or an airdrop, how do they become regular, long term users of Dash? Realistically, they probably don't because they don't have any more ways to earn it and they don't have super easy ways to spend it on the things they need. They'll likely cash it out and that's that. 

Thought experiment #3: How many treasury proposals are directly resulting in either A.) more ways for people to become regular earners of dash or B.) more ways for people to spend the dash they earn? There is a lot of wonderful work being done by a lot of wonderful people here, and I want to sincerely applaud everyone's efforts. And yet, I have a nagging feeling that if, month over month, the number of transactions that Dash is doing is not going up, than the treasury is not doing it's job. And beyond that, if Dash is to succeed, it must be used for things. Bitcoin is a store of value. Perhaps it will never be used for transactions. From my perspective, we really need to focus on getting Dash in people's hands who then actually use it for things. 

Thought experiment #4: What is one reason someone might shop on Dashfair when there are plenty of other places to shop? Because we're the only place on earth where you can buy Chocolate Dash Coins with the Legacy Logo. 25 cents each including shipping. Go ahead and try to buy them with fiat anywhere, see how far you get :)

At entrecard, we created things people could spend their credits on that they all needed. And that's why we are launching Dashfair with hundreds of basic items like toothbrushes and toilet paper and snack bars and batteries and SD cards. These are the most basic things everyone needs. We're going to ship these items fast, because we're already in the office shipping things five days a week and all these items are always in stock right next door to us. 

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