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Humble Bundle started offering 'Pay with Amazon' a couple of years ago and it is very slowly expanding, in the UK at least. I looked into it last year and from
by dingaling 13y ago
Humble Bundle started offering 'Pay with Amazon' a couple of years ago and it is very slowly expanding, in the UK at least.
I looked into it last year and from the merchant perspective you have to try do the maths up front. There is a trade-off between micropayments and 'standard' amounts, with the fee and per centage varying. There are discounts for higher volumes but not automatically applied. All in all it reminded me of trying to calculate AWS bills up-front; not trivial and prone to assumptions.
I'd say it targets an interesting niche the folk whom I know use it prefer Amazon's name to Paypal, and they are mostly higher-than-average salaried. I wonder what the comparison with other payment methods' demographics is?
- etler 13y agoI've seen it some other places too. Was Amazon Payments not open to everyone before? I just assumed it was.
- cbhl 13y agoIt looks like the distinction for this new service is that you get an API and can keep them on your site (without redirecting to amazon.com), so I'm thinking this is closer to Stripe than to PayPal. Apparently sellers get your name, email address, and postal code as soon as you log in.
- Semaphor 13y agoKickstarter US uses it as well. But before it was a pure payment processor, I assume this is now a more complete service.