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kane · 03-31-2011, 06:20 PM

Here are a couple of real hurdles you will have to overcome for this to work. There have been many sites that have tried something like this and as far as I know none of them worked very well.

1. you will have to get a lot of different sites that will be willing to take these credits as currency.

2. you will have to give some type of added value to the credit. For example if $1 gets me 1 credit and an item costs me 10 credits to buy or I could just buy it for $10 from Amazon I have no reason to use the credit system, I can just buy with my card and save the trouble of getting credits. So I would have to be able to buy the item for less, say 7-8 credits. Or those credits would have to be able to be used somewhere that only those are acceptable currency and they have a monopoly on the product/service.

3. Fraud. It will only be a matter of time until people figure out how to defraud your system so you will have to invest in security.

Just a few thoughts, but honestly the hardest part is going to be getting enough sites to use the credits that it makes them worth buying.

03-31-2011, 06:20 PM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	Here are a couple of real hurdles you will have to overcome for this to work. There have been many sites that have tried something like this and as far as I know none of them worked very well. 1. you will have to get a lot of different sites that will be willing to take these credits as currency. 2. you will have to give some type of added value to the credit. For example if $1 gets me 1 credit and an item costs me 10 credits to buy or I could just buy it for $10 from Amazon I have no reason to use the credit system, I can just buy with my card and save the trouble of getting credits. So I would have to be able to buy the item for less, say 7-8 credits. Or those credits would have to be able to be used somewhere that only those are acceptable currency and they have a monopoly on the product/service. 3. Fraud. It will only be a matter of time until people figure out how to defraud your system so you will have to invest in security. Just a few thoughts, but honestly the hardest part is going to be getting enough sites to use the credits that it makes them worth buying.