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Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal

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Re: Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal

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Post by mwilcox »

ricardo_ramirez wrote: post #19

The % transaction fee is a turndown. I have been looking for a solution to distribute digital goods, and I try to stay away from anything that is a percentage, it does not scale once you have hundreds of sales. They are not absorbing the Paypal transaction fee, which means that on top of the 5% I would still be charged the 2.6% that Paypal wants (amount vary). So, unless the service provides a payment gateway, where…

https://gumroad.com/ is another that uses 5% (+ 25c per transaction) but doesn't go through paypal or Dropbox. The ease of use and customisability provides a lot of value in itself.

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Post by monkeyspaw »

snoonan wrote: post #15
umsm wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, you're paying for the middle man. They setup and main the infrastructure for persons that are not technically inclined and for whom it's not feasible to hire a coder to do it for them.

No argument! They should charge for the service, but not a % of the value I create. It costs them the same to deliver a $5 file as it does a $50, apart from the transaction fees claimed by their upstream payment processor.

This sounds pretty much exactly the opposite of what I hear from pricing experts. Charge based on the value you provide to the person using your service, not based on your costs.

An easy system to post ebooks and charge for them is probably worth more to a person selling $200 ebooks rather than $100 ebooks.

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

eli wrote: post #35
daniula wrote: post #34

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Dropbox and Google Drive made uploading file super easy. You just drag&drop file on your hard drive and they take care about the rest. In addition to that, whenever you are going to update the file, you don't have to login. Again just drag&drop and Dropbox + Sellbox do the magic.

I agree it's convenient, but I'm having a hard time imagining people who would be selling digital content, if only they didn't have to upload it to a storefront...

Are there any generic examples of a digital storefront that you can easily self-publish files (preferably up to 25MB or so)? I'm not currently aware of any (although I haven't actually tried to search them out).

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Post by eli »

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #44
eli wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree it's convenient, but I'm having a hard time imagining people who would be selling digital content, if only they didn't have to upload it to a storefront...

Are there any generic examples of a digital storefront that you can easily self-publish files (preferably up to 25MB or so)? I'm not currently aware of any (although I haven't actually tried to search them out).

I've used http://www.e-junkie.com/ before

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

zrail wrote: post #40
ricardo_ramirez wrote: post #19

The % transaction fee is a turndown. I have been looking for a solution to distribute digital goods, and I try to stay away from anything that is a percentage, it does not scale once you have hundreds of sales. They are not absorbing the Paypal transaction fee, which means that on top of the 5% I would still be charged the 2.6% that Paypal wants (amount vary). So, unless the service provides a payment gateway, where…

I ended up writing my own app to sell my ebook and it wasn't all that hard using Stripe. Deploying to Heroku is free if you're ok with their wildcard https certificate. The book is called Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails. It's a guide to integrating Stripe with your Rails app and includes a bunch of goodies that help make your integration robust in the face of failure. http://www.petekeen.net/master…

Yo dawg!??

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Post by zrail »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #46
zrail wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I ended up writing my own app to sell my ebook and it wasn't all that hard using Stripe. Deploying to Heroku is free if you're ok with their wildcard https certificate. The book is called Mastering Modern Payments: Using Stripe with Rails. It's a guide to integrating Stripe with your Rails app and includes a bunch of goodies that help make your integration robust in the face of failure. http://www.petekeen.net/master…

Yo dawg!??

Yeah!

Re: Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal

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Post by voltagex_ »

eberfreitas wrote: post #2

This is really useful for artists like musicians and so on... How do you plan to market it? What is the core audience?

bandcamp.com does this far, far better. Sorry - I won't trust most musicians to encode their own files properly.
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