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It won't let me buy anything from any of the vendors I've tried

It says: "The vendor's server has rejected the purchase request. This may be due to a connection issue. Check your purchase data, such as quantity and Bitcoin refund address, to make sure it is valid. If it is valid, try again in a few seconds. Reason: vendor rejected contract". I've also gotten " Reason: unable to reach vendor"

Has anyone successfully bought anything recently?

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I run the main OB store, and I haven't noted problems selling. One of the difficulties of running a p2p network is that you cannot control how up to date the software is from other peers. We try to keep as much compatibility as possible when making changes, but the network has been live over a year now and never everyone stays updated.

Many of the problems we had with the current version are also alleviated with the 2.0 we are releasing soon.

I get this error when trying to buy stuff from the main OB store (just tried with a t shirt)

I got an error too

OpenBazaar never worked for me either. The only time I actually bought something, the seller laughed me off and didn't post anything. Messages to "moderator" were ignored.

Since using the software is painful (it's an Electron app after all), I gave up.

I think that has been the experience of everyone that actually tried it more than once

Same problem here, with different products from different vendors and several retries. My guess would be some packets blocked by my firewall, but I haven't tried to verify this.

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