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So? If the payment is less than $10 or less than $50, who cares? The best you can do is warn other people and that sends a stronger message than just getting yo
by omouse 11y ago
So? If the payment is less than $10 or less than $50, who cares? The best you can do is warn other people and that sends a stronger message than just getting your money back.
Reputation is what counts and you can see this on Amazon and ebay where a poor rep means no future earnings. Good rep means higher potential future earnings.
IF someone rips you off you have multiple forums in which to vent your frustration and lower the seller's potential future earnings. That's a lot of power. That's more power than most corporations and countries have when they over-pay for a costly piece of shit system. Hell this is more power than you have when it comes to taxes! When your tax dollars are misspent there's absolutely no chance for a refund and you have an election every 4 years but you ain't getting a dollar back.
- Paul-ish 11y agoThere may be short lived websites that exist only scam a large number of people out of small amounts of money. What makes this worse is that most people would (rationally) not consider it worth pursuing the website operator unless recourse were very easy. Is it really worth your time to chase down $0.25 from a scammy website, other than perhaps doing it on principle? Any mircropayment protocol design should take this into account.
- Tinyyy 11y agoYea but even looking at an aggregate score of a site before deciding to pay to read an article adds a lot of friction to the process.