Lemon Obrien inaccurately reported on 1/18/07 (above) that Peppercoin charges $0.45 per transaction. As a Peppercoin employee I can attest that Peppercoin strives to enhance the profitability of small ticket transactions and as such, our list pricing is $0.10 per transaction. Feel free to contact me with any questions, or email our Vice President of Sales for a personalized price quote - mtreco@peppercoin.com.

Best,
Jackie

Jackie Walsh
Marketing Manager
Peppercoin
jwalsh@peppercoin.com

My attention was piqued by your post and it triggered a visit to your website. I cannot make head nor tail or if. I suspect this website content is more geared towards investors than users!

From what I could glean (before I gave up),
 shoppers pay by clickandbuy at the online store
 you then send them a monthly invoice
 they then settle by direct debit, card payment etc.etc.

Questions
1) What “alternative payment methods that provide incremental, non-cannibalized revenue” do you support. e.g. how do you reach the unbanked?
2) How does the 3.9% + 20 cents card funding surcharge sit with the statement “Most services of ClickandBuy are free! There are no registration fees or basic charges”

I really am scratching my head here…..

Nothing you can’t do easier and cheaper with http://www.e-gold.com

Mark
http://www.digitalmoneyworld.com

Knew I had a bit of credit left on my account. But when I logged on there was no money left. They apparently added a fee to accounts that had not been used for 90 days which took away my last $4 just for december… have a feeling they knew the end was near and wanted to cash out from their users, not very fair and a very bad way of doing business…

There is the info about Paypal’s micropayment option. It looks to be good for items up to $12 in value.

No mention of Yaga, the subscription management service that Bitpass acquired. Yaga reportedly spent through $30m of investor money. Looked like a good service but their setup and fee structure probably met with much resistance.

Subs mgt would seem to be an good opensource opportunity that a company like Digital River could/should support - DR holds the credit card info and assures PCI compliance. The community builds out the subscription management features we all need.

hmmm…no mention on their web site of shutting up shop: http://www.bitpass.com/
I assume MA fact checked?

Julia - someone will need to be around to do the reporting.

Seriously though, this is a worrying trend that can’t be ignored anymore.

That’s the good thing about entrepreneurship - if you think something isn’t being implemented the right way, then you can go out and try it yourself. There are plenty of examples where someone has thought “they’re doing this all wrong” and then went on to start a successful competing business. There’s also plenty of examples where people have said “that will never work, only X company can dominate that”, only to be proven wrong (and many times over).

TDavid - I wouldn’t rely on PayPal, Google, or Microsoft. Many innovations are found at a much smaller level than that.

Microsoft is in the best position in the micropayment business already in fact. Some have mocked the Microsoft Points, but wait and see what happens if/when they link this to AdCenter as they should. Then that would open the power of slicing pieces of those points to publishers advertising outside the Live Marketplace and there is gold in them thar hills.

The rest of the small time micropayment players like Bitpass were deadpool bound the day they were introduced because they lacked a base of customers to draw from like Microsoft has through their ever growing Live network (five million plus).

Just learned that the micropayment service Bitpass.com is going out of business. I quickly scrounged up my Bitpass login and checked to see if I had any balance left. I’m sure others will do the same. Nope, zero balance. I then stumbled on the B…