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At 30%, unless my product is pure profit I'm going to look elsewhere. A Paypal (or WePay!) buy now button isn't that hard to create after all...

• kmfrk 16y ago
  Yeah - I'd rather try my luck at Kickstarter and pay their 5% fee and PayPal's 2.7%. You'd have to write up some very specific usage scenarios that make that cut viable. Apple's cut makes sense so far that you get some tangible advantages in terms of such things as exposure. You'll have to explain people what they get for the 30% cut. Right now, I'm unconvinced that you get 30%'s worth. But, on another note, it's probably always better to start at a high price and dial it down than to launch a product and increase the prices over time. People will be crying bait and switch - justifiably.
• caseyf 16y ago
  Or eJunkie - it lacks the (apparent) simplicity for but for $5 a month you can make an unlimited number of sales for up to 10 digital items and then you've got PayPal/processor fees on top of that. PayPal's micropayments pricing is 5 cents plus 5% per transaction so this combination can be a big money saver. We created a service for a niche market that was mostly using eJunkie at the time (lowest cost, word of mouth travels fast among groups of sellers) and we had to compete with them on price and features.