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Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#51

My immediate thought is that people will use this to sell pirated and/or illegal goods. I’m curious how you plan to address this issue?

Probably the same as any other online service; wait for DMCA takedown requests, prepare for lawsuits and be prepared to pay copyright holders or hand over gains to law enforcement.

Of course, that could be prevented if they manually check and verify ownership of every submission.

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#52

As a creator of digital products: great site, congrats! As a consumer: PayPal only? I’m outta here. I don’t like my money randomly frozen on a whim. Are you folks planning to offer Giropay for the consumer side? That’s pretty much the only payment service I can use nowadays.

Or CreditCard, or iDeal, or AliPay, or crypto, or... or... or...

Of the vast amount of payment options available online, only a handful is used by people in a geographic area. Dutch people have a very strong preference for iDeal, for example, and rarely purchase things with credit cards, while Chinese customers heavily lean on AliPay.

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#56
Immediate feedback on your simple ‘step 1 - 2 - 3’ explanation…

It’s great to reduce the steps down to so few, but I feel like you’re missing an explanation of the follow up steps where a customer pays for a thing, and the money gets to me.

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#58
post #34

Great idea. However, I think you need to be careful in the VAT area not to overpromise: I selected “selling from Switzerland to Switzerland” and your calculator quoted a VAT of 0%, which is of course false (selling stuff in Switzerland requires deducting 7.7% VAT). My guess would be that you only cover VAT within the EU, but of course there are VAT regimes outside of the EU too; so “we also take care of VAT collectio…

> selling stuff in Switzerland requires deducting 7.7% VAT

Only if you're selling more than 100k CHF per year.

Re: Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc

#60
Looks good but upon clicking I thought for over 5 seconds that this was a sideproduct of WeTransfer - at least styling-wise. Serif font for titles, big blue plus sign, split screen of colorful graphic and the info.

Also curious about the name. "Fruits" domains seem to be worth quite a bit. May sound harsh but change the name and sell the costly domain for something that is more explanatory?

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