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Travel is what enabled CC payments over the net. Airline/train tickets and hotel accomodations and internet payments are a match.

• lotsofpulp 5y ago
  Why would online retail not also be a match? I assume there is are many more online retail transactions than travel related transactions simply because people shop retail more than they travel.
  • thriftwy 5y ago
    People did not shop online that much, 15 years ago (especially outside USA). But they already had travel booking needs, which could be taken fully online with CC payments over the net. You could often pay upon delivery even when shopping online, but there's no need of delivery for tickets.
    • bluedino 5y ago
      Didn't take long for catalogs and mail order to go away
      • thriftwy 5y ago
        A web site which offers payment-upon-delivery goods is a glorified mail order, anyway. It does not transform the experience much apart from removing some friction.