Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card • Hacker News Board

Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card

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Post by joelrunyon » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:52 PM UTC

freeman478 wrote: post #5

owenfi wrote: post #2

Anyone know what the fees are? Standard would be a bit cheaper than Venmo for credit card, will they offer free from a bank account in a similar manner?

It's 50c by transfer (payed by the sender).

So the same thing as Dwolla?

Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card

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Post by joelrunyon » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:53 PM UTC

secabeen wrote: post #4

So, essentially, it's the same as Paypal's free personal transfers, just done through email with a after-the-fact confirmation. Shrug. I'm doing fine with the paypal app today.

Not to be sarcastic, but this is the first time I've ever seen anyone on Hacker News say that "they're doing fine" with Paypal.

Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card

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Post by by_Seeing » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:54 PM UTC

aaronpk wrote: post #6

Is it just me or did anyone else see a crazy guy run across the street in front of the car in the video.

skateboarder?

Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card

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Post by by_Seeing » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:55 PM UTC

freeman478 wrote: post #5

owenfi wrote: post #2

Anyone know what the fees are? Standard would be a bit cheaper than Venmo for credit card, will they offer free from a bank account in a similar manner?

It's 50c by transfer (payed by the sender).

Really? I wonder how they're justifying that when Paypal transfers are free.

Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card

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Post by orangethirty » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:55 PM UTC

wiredfool wrote: post #3

The page feels like the closest thing I've seen to a TV ad spot on the web.

I opened the tab and missed the intro completely. Had to reload to see it again. They could include a "replay" option.

Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card

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Post by wiredfool » Mon, May 20, 2013, 8:57 PM UTC

lukifer wrote: post #10

fixxer wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, I'm super impressed.

I honestly can't tell if the commenter intended their statement as a compliment, an insult, both, or value-neutral.

It's an observation. It looked and felt Different.

Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card

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Post by mikeevans » Mon, May 20, 2013, 9:03 PM UTC

Interesting timing with Google launching the "send money with Gmail" at IO last week.

Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card

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Post by lotso » Mon, May 20, 2013, 9:09 PM UTC

joelrunyon wrote: post #12

secabeen wrote: post #4

So, essentially, it's the same as Paypal's free personal transfers, just done through email with a after-the-fact confirmation. Shrug. I'm doing fine with the paypal app today.

Not to be sarcastic, but this is the first time I've ever seen anyone on Hacker News say that "they're doing fine" with Paypal.

I've been using PayPal for 8 years now. Never have had a problem. I'm well aware of their actions with freezing accounts, but I think it's a hard problem when you deal with money and millions of users across the globe.

Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card

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Post by pbreit » Mon, May 20, 2013, 9:10 PM UTC

Wow, does it literally work by cc-ing square on a regular ole email?

Re: Square Cash - Email money to anyone’s debit card

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Post by patrickaljord » Mon, May 20, 2013, 9:14 PM UTC

orangethirty wrote: post #15

wiredfool wrote: post #3

The page feels like the closest thing I've seen to a TV ad spot on the web.

I opened the tab and missed the intro completely. Had to reload to see it again. They could include a "replay" option.

They should be using the page visibility api and not play the animation until you're actually looking at the tab http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/pagevisibility/intro/