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The stopper (or at least one) is probably credit card transaction fees. There is usually a minimum fee of like 15¢ which makes it less feasible to do transactio
by open-paren 2y ago
The stopper (or at least one) is probably credit card transaction fees. There is usually a minimum fee of like 15¢ which makes it less feasible to do transactions under a dollar.
- vidanay 2y agoAccumulate and bill once per month. Or pre-pay.
- catchmeifyoucan 2y agoAgreed - pre-pay. I'd pay $5-10 easy and let it run out slowly over time
- bgilroy26 2y agoThe papers should offer their own card
- crooked-v 2y agoThe fee comes from the payment processor. There's no way to avoid it while providing credit card services without starting your own payment processing company (at which point you're then eating those costs directly). FedNow should help in the longer term as non-credit card payment methods show up that use it, but it's still not going to get to the realm of 10¢ micropayments (the service has a flat $0.045 per transaction fee, and companies still have to then consider their own service cost overheads on top of that).
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- Drew_ 2y agoGood point though I’m personally willing to pay more for articles. For example a big feature article from a reputable publication is easily worth $10+ to me. Smaller reports would be less but still at least $1. Obviously that’s very expensive compared to a subscription but that’s kind of the point.