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This is nice, I like it. It's very simple and has a clean design. I'm not sure how they're going to make money with it since the sellers use their own PayPal ac

This is nice, I like it. It's very simple and has a clean design. I'm not sure how they're going to make money with it since the sellers use their own PayPal accounts. Though, how else could you do it without putting your ass on the line? All you'd need is a string of bad sellers to send PayPal running for the hills.

dot 15y ago
you don't release payment to the seller for X days. enough time for the buyer to file a complaint...
- coderdude 15y ago
  Not a bad idea at all. I wonder though, since the buyer can file a complaint directly through PayPal if holding the payment would be enough. It would be sort of like having all credit card-paying customers initiate chargebacks when they want a refund. Admittedly I've only recently begun using PayPal for selling so I'm still a bit unsure about how they handle some scenarios.
fookyong 15y ago
Thanks for the compliment :) The original problem was simply "I want to hook up a photo and my paypal account easily, so I can share the link with friends and sell my (physical) stuff". As you've touched on, I really don't want to get into payment processing myself (messy), even though it would be a simple path to revenue generation. I also don't want to charge people outright for using the service. I think this is way more casual than regular e-commerce, I'm not going to take a % transactional fee and/or a monthly fee just so a girl can sell a pair of shoes she doesn't wear. I figure that with enough mass there will be other opportunities to generate revenue by upselling services to help people extract more value. For example more visibility - if there's something you need to sell urgently, pay $1 and it appears on the top for a given locality / tag. I'm not really concentrating on building mass yet though. It's still very much in the MVP stage - right now all I want to prove is that I can help people sell their stuff. Need to get that right first.
- bobds 15y ago
  "right now all I want to prove is that I can help people sell their stuff" Thanks for the inspiration. I need to do this.

dot 15y ago

you don't release payment to the seller for X days. enough time for the buyer to file a complaint...

coderdude 15y ago
Not a bad idea at all. I wonder though, since the buyer can file a complaint directly through PayPal if holding the payment would be enough. It would be sort of like having all credit card-paying customers initiate chargebacks when they want a refund. Admittedly I've only recently begun using PayPal for selling so I'm still a bit unsure about how they handle some scenarios.

fookyong 15y ago

Thanks for the compliment :) The original problem was simply "I want to hook up a photo and my paypal account easily, so I can share the link with friends and sell my (physical) stuff". As you've touched on, I really don't want to get into payment processing myself (messy), even though it would be a simple path to revenue generation. I also don't want to charge people outright for using the service. I think this is way more casual than regular e-commerce, I'm not going to take a % transactional fee and/or a monthly fee just so a girl can sell a pair of shoes she doesn't wear. I figure that with enough mass there will be other opportunities to generate revenue by upselling services to help people extract more value. For example more visibility - if there's something you need to sell urgently, pay $1 and it appears on the top for a given locality / tag. I'm not really concentrating on building mass yet though. It's still very much in the MVP stage - right now all I want to prove is that I can help people sell their stuff. Need to get that right first.

bobds 15y ago
"right now all I want to prove is that I can help people sell their stuff" Thanks for the inspiration. I need to do this.