Cute.. Not seeing tremendous need for me to text $20 to my buddy, (heck, if I don’t have the $20 to give to him in cash right there, chances are I need to hit the ATM for me, anyway! ) but could be a nice compliment to mobile text response s…

We’re doing something similar to TextPayMe, but without any charges for P2P payments, and it works for merchant payments as well – both online and via SMS.

(we’re giving away £2 if you’d like to give it a try)

that’s why i didn’t give my cell phone.

>I know you’re sort of may be 1/4th kidding, but just because you have 24,000 readers doesn’t mean you should use the excuse of testing a service to ask for money.

I think the only stupid thing he did is that he didn’t actually give his phone number.

I know you’re sort of may be 1/4th kidding, but just because you have 24,000 readers doesn’t mean you should use the excuse of testing a service to ask for money.

What they actually mean, though, is “go ahead and SEND money to anyone using this service, but since nobody else is using it you will be in effect just sending an ad for our service telling them to sign up, or else they won’t be able to GET the money you SENT them.”

Don’t you have to type a password in the same message?
If not, then this is a very bud idea?

The two are different but potentially complimentary services. TextPayMe is a payments service, like a mobile PayPal. BillMonk does accounting, akin to a social Quicken with a mobile component. BillMonk solves the tracking and math problem: we split your bills, add up the bits and pieces, and generally help friends with money.

Roommates, for instance, love BillMonk because their problem is not paying one another, but tracking debts over time so they know how much to pay.