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[_] Micropayments/Billing: How can I allow £1 payments

Steve Roome steve at pepcross.com
Fri Aug 4 13:05:41 BST 2006

I think you should set up a small shop somewhere and have a strange
looking person on the counter and a big "everything is £1" sign outside.

Works for so many others, good example on crow lane in henbury, and
I think there's a few up gloucester road and one down in the shopping
area in bedminster - in case you're in bristol.

But if you really must do it online *groan* you could just use paypal
it's always going to cost you to do it, just how much hassle you want
is how much you'll make in profit - because otherwise you're just
paying someone else to do it.

Steve

P.S. It's Friday. I can't help it.

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:31:03AM +0100, D D Glendinning wrote:

> Morning All,
>
> Right, scenario for you: I have a product/service for which I would
> like to charge £1, and £1 only. May not seem like worth the trouble,
> but its quantity I am after. Now I know they could send me a cheque,
> (although bank fees would probably be more than that), and they could
> "drop in" a coin, but I am wondering what other methods I could offer
> them. I know you can take payments via SMS billing, so for those of
> you who have experience in this, recommend away! Key here is not to be
> charged much at all in exchange for taking the payment as little of
> the £1 may be left in the end!
>
> Thanks
>
> D
>
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