Comments on: Amazon Rents Out Its Checkout Cart

By: dRaddissoclab

dRaddissoclab — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 12:33:21 +0000

By: Shipwire order fulfillment

Shipwire order fulfillment — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:13:58 +0000

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By: kent

kent — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:31:54 +0000

Funny that so many people complained about the misuse of “outsourcing”, but good suggestions were lacking. I’m not even sure there is a perfect term for this. Anyone?

My personal suggestion would be “Amazon _syndicates_ its shopping cart” — although that is typically used for content…

By: amazon payments — award tour

amazon payments — award tour — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:00:15 +0000

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By: Amazon Lets Others Use Its Checkout

Amazon Lets Others Use Its Checkout — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:24:58 +0000

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By: Erick Schonfeld

Erick Schonfeld — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:07:38 +0000

Title changed. You are all such nitpickers.

By: Nels Wadycki » Amazon Universal Wish List

Nels Wadycki » Amazon Universal Wish List — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:19:36 +0000

[...] not sure how long this has been around, but it’s great! Not as newsworthy as Amazon’s new Checkout and Simple Pay… but useful to an entirely different segment of the e-commerce market. I am seriously [...]

By: pwb

pwb — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:36:12 +0000

I’m surprised no one has pointed out yet that the author has confused the meaning of “outsource”.

By: JP

JP — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:56:53 +0000

Limits $ transfers to only $2k/mth. No good. Now they are a bank working a “carry trade”.

By: Nijik Atok

Nijik Atok — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:30:34 +0000

Kevin,

Where are you getting your numbers from.

I’m finding number that show different amounts for Amazon and Paypal.

Fee wise the system seem to be on par from what I can see if you look at the charts on the respective websites.

By: Steven

Steven — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:29:04 +0000

They have the best product. Glad to see them put the heat on Paypal. Hopefully they can arrange the system for international currency ~ and end around paypal’s dominance of eBay.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:43:01 +0000

Terrible title. Better luck next time.

By: Kevin Kris

Kevin Kris — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:40:26 +0000

The transaction fee are way expensive than paypal and google checkout.
As per price the following comes in order:
Google Checkout
Paypal
Amazon

As per users the following come in order:
Paypal (170 million)
Amazon (70 million members)
Google Checkout (??)

By: AMAZONSHOPPINGCARTREVEALED

AMAZONSHOPPINGCARTREVEALED — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:33:37 +0000

Ad Manager, I just updated the article to answer your question about recurring payments

http://tinyurl....INGCARTREVEALED

By: AMAZONSHOPPINGCARTREVEALED

AMAZONSHOPPINGCARTREVEALED — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:22:36 +0000

The article below has a much more in depth review of the new shopping cart features and details on the 1 click integration

http://tinyurl....INGCARTREVEALED

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Amazon決済カートが、他のeコマースサイトでも使えるように

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Amazon決済カートが、他のeコマースサイトでも使えるように — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:31:48 +0000

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By: Ad Manager

Ad Manager — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:55:04 +0000

That merchant rates are the same as PayPal. Does it support recurring subscriptions though?

By: Dann

Dann — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:46:00 +0000

Would someone take out paypal already. We are all sick of that fraud of a company.

By: techdude

techdude — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:43:19 +0000

Good idea, let’s them work on what they need to for the products on the site.

http://blabtech.blogspot.com

By: Decyfer

Decyfer — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:35:30 +0000

Who cares about the title? Damn

I think this is a good idea from Amazon, and hopefully I can use it in a few upcoming sites.

By: non American

non American — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:03:02 +0000

I agree headline tells a different story, how about:

Amazon Checkout Cart released to third party stores

By: Clayton

Clayton — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:00:51 +0000

garr, TC commenters, get over it!

I’m glad to see some real competition here. This is the only way we’ll see the prices of these services finally start to become reasonable. Of course, there is some friction–for instance, paypal might do better to drop its price, but since it’s got a monopoly on instant payments for eBay, it is more profitable to gouge us. Ah well.

What’s with the cloud term that keeps popping up? TC–a tutorial?

By: Mogilny

Mogilny — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:49:48 +0000

I wouldn’t give amazon a cut for this, unless my merchandise also appears on their site.

By: Mogilny

Mogilny — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:45:11 +0000

If you tell him to outsource his writing, he will just change his on screen name.

By: .

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:44:41 +0000

sorry to repeat, but yes, the title is totally misleading. As to the offering itself, it’s great to have more competition to Paypal (Google Checkout never really succeeded and Google’s losing tons of money on it). With Amazon’s 80M customers, this can be one heck of a useful service for smaller merchants.