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$2? Is this a joke? Honestly if someone offered me $2 a month to do absolutely nothing, I would still be offended by it.
by mtlmtlmtlmtl 4y ago
$2? Is this a joke? Honestly if someone offered me $2 a month to do absolutely nothing, I would still be offended by it.
- hammock 4y agoAmazon does a lot of these "micropayments" - e.g. $2 digital reward for receiving your order on Saturday instead of Tuesday. The micropayments must work for it
- ceejayoz 4y agoThose don't really have a downside, if you don't mind getting your package on Saturday. It's up to $4 now (presumably so they can plan out Christmas shipping) so my Kindle books are pretty much all free right now.
- jxramos 4y agoit's an interesting strategy to monitize digital products in a different way. I wonder if the royalties work the same way under this scheme, they must right?
- ceejayoz 4y agoI would hope it comes out of Amazon's (substantial) cut.
- AussieWog93 4y agoFor what it's worth, I run an eBay store and this is how their promotions work. If you use a coupon (with a few exceptions, where the seller must explicitly opt-in), that comes off of eBay's bottom line. Same with eBay plus - we'll get an additional credit (usually AU$4) to cover the difference between regular and express shipping. Of course, they more than make up for this by taking a 10% cut off everything you sell through their site.
- deadbunny 4y agoI assume they mean they take the $4 credits and spend it on Kindle purchases.
- Scoundreller 4y agoBack when they were trying to promote it's A9 Search Engine, Amazon gave you a pi/2 percent (~1.57%) discount.
- Mistletoe 4y agoI can get like a $1 credit for slower shipping so they consider monitoring me 24/7 to be worth doing that twice.
- AussieWog93 4y ago>Honestly if someone offered me $2 a month to do absolutely nothing, I would still be offended by it. $2 a month is $24 a year. So basically on par with a company giving you a free steak dinner on your birthday. Not life changing, but still pretty cool.