Icing PayPal: How We Did It

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Post by sophmonroe » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 4:51 PM UTC

Icing PayPal: How We Did It
blog.wepay.com

Re: Icing PayPal: How We Did It

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Post by citricsquid » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 6:05 PM UTC

I want to understand why this is good marketing and who has moved from Paypal to Wepay. The services are very different, Wepay seems to cater to a tiny percentage of American Paypal users, it's like Hackernews competing with Reddit. Can anyone clarify if this is a legitimate "move to Wepay from paypal!" thing or if it's just a way to get attention, not necessarily customers?

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Post by pavel_lishin » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 6:06 PM UTC

I wonder what the charge would have been if the police got involved. Littering?

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Post by chunkbot » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 6:10 PM UTC

Does WePay process payments themselves, or do they use a third party payment processor?

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Post by oneplusone » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 6:11 PM UTC

Man I would love to use WePay, but from their website they don't seem to do the same thing as PayPal at all. Can you send any WePay user money via email?

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Post by noodle » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 6:16 PM UTC

citricsquid wrote: post #2

I want to understand why this is good marketing and who has moved from Paypal to Wepay. The services are very different, Wepay seems to cater to a tiny percentage of American Paypal users, it's like Hackernews competing with Reddit. Can anyone clarify if this is a legitimate "move to Wepay from paypal!" thing or if it's just a way to get attention, not necessarily customers?

i think this was more about getting press and making people aware of wepay's existence. most people who fit into their niche are likely not aware of them.

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Post by Nogwater » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 6:17 PM UTC

Can you use WePay to automatically charge for premium usage of a web app (one time and/or subscription)?

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Post by gvb » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 6:20 PM UTC

pavel_lishin wrote: post #3

I wonder what the charge would have been if the police got involved. Littering?

Not likely. The evidence would have evaporated by the time it went to court. :-P

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Post by TamDenholm » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 6:46 PM UTC

oneplusone wrote: post #5

Man I would love to use WePay, but from their website they don't seem to do the same thing as PayPal at all. Can you send any WePay user money via email?

They've stated that they consider themselves a competitor to paypal so i can only imagine that eventually they will start to offer services like this in the future. They are only just getting started.

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Post by FreeRadical » Thu, Oct 28, 2010, 6:51 PM UTC

This approach to business feels a bit amateur and lacking in class to me. I realise there has been a fair amount of publicity after this episode, and maybe I am 'old school' but it just doesn't feel right.