An interesting point came up in Paxum's latest thread where they excitedly told us all that the cards that would cost us $45 to get are ready to be sent to us (like OMG, sooo exciting!!!1). I got an early joke in, half-joke half-truth given the absurdity of these vulture companies capitalizing on people's Epass woes: "Can you send them to us with money already on them? That would REALLY show your confidence." The Paxum employee laughed it off.
Then wot brought up a great point and one all these companies, especially the brand new ones, should consider:
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Originally Posted by woj
yea, I know that sounds amusing, but that's exactly how paypal got started...
you could invest for example $20k, give 1000 webmasters $20 for signing up, verifying account and receiving a payment within 30 days... and do something similar for sponsors, give them $100 bonus if they try out paxum for payments... or something along those lines...
obviously you will need tight fraud controls in place, but it will be 10x more effective than whoring every epass thread on gfy...  |
Seriously - yes people need a new online payment option and because of that, many will just start diving in with one or more of the 5+ options now staring us in the face. Consider this though:
- Many people just got fucked by Epass...some of them big time.
- For many of these places, we need to pay out money to even get the functionality we want (i.e. $45 for Paxum's card)
- Many of these new options are exactly that - NEW. No history to judge by, nothing.
- Some of these new options look/smell/taste/feel very much like Epass, which means somewhere down the line they, their bank, or their card provider could fuck all of us. None of them are even saying why that would never happen with them, and that would be one of the very FIRST things I would tell people - what things are put into place to prevent an Epass situation from occurring.
- Banks like Chase give money for people to start accounts there, poker sites match deposits and make money on the rake (fees) afterwards, etc. Why isn't a single one of these new places doing this to get business? Thus far it's been 100% spamming the boards to get new business, and doing so after most of us just got fucked by our last main option. Simply vultures.
It doesn't have to be giving us money even...how about something like waiving fees for the first 90 days including new card fees? Or something...DO something FOR us so that we choose you - don't just blast "pick me! pick me!" at us all day long. It's working on some people but isn't going to work on most.