Charge by SMS?
 

Is there any sponsor out there that can charge the buyer through Cellphone SMS's?

I'm just curious.. :winkwink:

That seems to be big and popular in Europe....

Yeah, it is... that's why i wonder if anyone has thought of it in the states.. Is there anyone who has tried it?

It works well in sweden atleast... but i guess it would be hard to charge big amounts of money.. as no one want's a sms for $30?

It works. It is used widly in scandinavia. But the largest amounth for 1 transaction any provider off theses solution would carge is 30.0 NOK (4$) non recurring. I dont find it worth the time unless you put somthing like this in front off a tgp and charge surfers this to view the tgp for like 1 week. hmm pay tgp did I just give out an idea??? hmm ??? Awwwh I lost it what was I talking about again ?

Sms revenue


we can charge people in the UK, The Netherlands and Spain. You can use our paysites or promote your own.

cya
Dikkechill

I will have it soon. 5?/day's access preview.
if they wanna join then they gotta pull out the CC..
I haven't found a way to do an affiliate way for sms yet though.
:(

I heard there were problems collecting.....especially prepay cards
can't be billed....I don't know if it's true....so please enlighten me.

Oh and while you're at it.....post some cost AND Payout rates

DynaMite

Have them send the affilcode in the smstext?

DynaMite

In sweden there's no problem with prepay cards... no problems at all

Maybe someting like a fee per gallery could be something?
Like "Get these 5 imagesets for only $2!"

Could that possibly work?

At least here in Finland it works

here is one examplelink how it´s done here :)

http://www.sihteeriopisto.net/sivut/...vagalleria.php

There is one problem with prepaid cards. When the credit on the prepaid card is lower then the recurring charge, the phone can't be billed.

Bill rates recurring on a daily basis (all amount are in UK pounds, the $ are off course fluctating on the market)

UK Charged at : £1:50 ($ 2.4 )
Spain charged at £1:04 ($ 1.66)
Netherlands charged at : £1:10 ($ 1.76)


Paid amount to webmaster:

UK
Vodafone : £0.68 ($1.09 )
02 : £0.68 ($1.09 )
T-Mobile : £0.55 ($0.88 )
Orange : £0.54 ($0.86 )

Spain
Telefonica : £0.39 ($0.62
Amena : £0.27 ($0.43)
Vodafone : £0.22 ($0.35)

Netherlands
KPN : £0.35 ($0.56)
Ben : £0.34 ($0.54)
Libertel : £0.17 ($0.27)


This are the rates at this moment

cya
Dikkechill

DynaSpain:

If you have a prepay phone (pay as you go), you can have $0 credit, and still get a membership.

You cannot collect from them if they have a $0 balance.

I believe current programs factor this into their outpayments.

Richard.

Is it your gallery? If it is, does it convert well?
It seems like a great way to charge by SMS!

This is what I meant....how about relaying sms services.....I send
sms to operator by phone/internet and operator is relaying sms?
You can't bill those either.

Another problem I see is collecting the money with all the different
operators.....Really I hope this will get better since I'm for sure
interested in it....but I have heard some horror stories already
from reliable persons....so forgive me my concerns and sceptism.

DynaMite

A few more questions....what's the payout schedule....
Are there any holdbacks....?

DynaMite

August 16th to 31st : October 15th
September 1st to 15th : November 1st
September 16th to 30th : November 15th
October 1st to 15th : December 1st
October 16th to 31st : December 15th
November 1st to 15th : January 1st
November 16th to 30th : January 15th
December 1st to 15th : February 1st
December 16th to 31st : Februrary 15th


this are the payout dates for 2002

cya
Dikkechill

I read somewhere that the % of cell phone users in the USA was way lower then in Asia & Europe.

yeah that's right, in europe is more users with mobile phone like USA, i tried to sms-reverse.com and i've got very good results, i think this could works much better like SU sponsors,
I've got two users and they both tooks membership for 30 days,
there is very hard to collect those members, but if You get one member, this member is worth more than classic signup, i think a lot of sponsors could arrange this opportunity to their paysites, it would be awesome to offer memberships also through this way,
we could earn at least half more...:rasta

You missed. The Spain and Netherlands End User Charge can't be in UK Pounds. It's in EURO.
And Belgium rates are available as well according to volume (SMS messages per month)
If you have a really big website or webmaster program, these rates are subject to change (READ: more money).
Feel free to ask me anything on ICQ: 159325637

Here are my new rates:
UK End User Charge Inc. VAT: £1:50
(£1.00 £1.20 also possible)
Spain End User Charge Inc. VAT: ?1.04
Netherlands End User Charge Inc. VAT: ?1.10


UK Webmaster Payout
Vodafone : £0.69
BTCellnet (O2) : £0.69
One to One (T-Mobile) : £0.56
Orange : £0.55

Spain Webmaster Payout
Telefonica Moviles Movistar : ?0.42
Amena : ?0.31
Airtel Movil (Vodafone) : ?0.26

Netherlands Webmaster Payout
KPN Telecom : ?0.38
Ben : ?0.37
Libertel : ?0.21

At the moment ? and $ are almost equal. Today it's $0.99 for ?1. Tomorrow it can be the other way around.