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Stripe, Square? What makes Uber different from payment processors with built in fraud protection layers?
by basch 10y ago
Stripe, Square? What makes Uber different from payment processors with built in fraud protection layers?
- madeofpalk 10y agoConsumers never buy anything from Stripe or Square. Consumer buy ride services from Uber.
- briandear 10y agoSo Etsy should be charging GST and every other marketplace app out there. Uber is a broker not a transportation company. Other than their self driving experiments, they don't operate a single car.
- username223 10y agoDoes Etsy tell people which doodads to crochet, then kick them off if they make different ones?
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- madeofpalk 10y agoNo, Uber is not a marketplace. Uber is a consumer product. Uber designs the product and sets prices. Driver's can't compete with each other and I can't 'shop around' on Uber to find a different deal. If Uber switches to (self driving) cars that Uber owns itself, how does that change the sales tax model? The product is still essentially the same, the consumer still pays Uber, tax shouldn't change here. The backend shouldn't dictate whether sales tax is applicable here. Etsy is a general marketplace and should handle sales tax/GST just like Amazon does. Which it does.
- pfarnsworth 10y agoOf course Uber is a marketplace. A marketplace doesn't need the ability to set prices individually. Abiding to pricing standards are the conditions to offer your services on their particular marketplace. Don't make up rules that don't exist.
- madeofpalk 10y agobut I can't "shop around" on Uber. I don't get a choice of who provides me a service. The concept of Uber being a marketplace is utterly ridiculous.
- adrr 10y agoUber controls the cost of goods/service.