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The whole concept reminds me a bit of the "bagel guy" in Freakonomics. If I remember correctly, he had an ~85% payment rate when it was strictly on the honour s
by andrewcross 15y ago
The whole concept reminds me a bit of the "bagel guy" in Freakonomics. If I remember correctly, he had an ~85% payment rate when it was strictly on the honour system.
I'd be curious to know their payment rate. On one hand you'd expect it to go up since they actually have the name and e-mail address of the buyer (the bagel guy had nothing). But on the other hand, the whole impersonal nature of the internet might increase fraud. Could go either way.
(for those who haven't read Freakonomics, the "bagel" guy would drop off a box of bagels in an office and pick up the remaining bagels and the proceeds at the end of the day)
- DCoder 15y agoI implemented Klarna as a payment option in one e-shop recently. Said e-shop operates in Denmark, Sweden and (as of this week) Norway, but the Klarna option is only available in Sweden. The owner said that without this option it wasn't worth even opening the Swedish version. Klarna also requires your Social Security Number, in those countries which use it, as well as other information: http://integration.klarna.com/en/testing/test-persons http://integration.klarna.com/en/testing/test-persons .