Stripe and Pinterest • Hacker News Board

Re: Stripe and Pinterest

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Post by hrayr » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 7:18 PM UTC

jonlucc wrote: post #16

hrayr wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where traditional retailers can thrive, is in the H2H (human-to-human) market. Make traditional retail be a destination for the local community by organizing events related to their business, and make the actual business (retail) be the side affect of it. It may not be as profitable as they used to be, but they can remain relevant and even thrive. Radioshack comes to mind, they could have reclaimed their #1 destinati…

I think this is why bookstores even still exist. I know they've reduced greatly in number, but every time I'm in one, I see people sitting with friends, drinking coffee, browsing books.

Fewer stores, stronger community, larger profits :) It's like email newsletter marketing... give away your content free to the 98%, the other 2% will buy your premium priced items and more than make up for the rest.

Re: Stripe and Pinterest

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Post by walterbell » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 7:20 PM UTC

More details about Pinterest's Buy Button: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/02/pinterest-unveils-buyable-p...

"There is no fee for buyers and merchants .. Users can pay with a credit card or with Apple Pay."

Yesterday's article: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/01/pinterest-buy-button/

"big brands pass [Pinterest] pieces of data such as price that are shown on their Pins of products which they hope users will repin ... partners could soon push more data into the API, which could “enable pretty sophisticated experiences” like multi-product Buy buttons ..

.. With a single tap, you could buy all [recipe] ingredients at once, have them delivered, and start cooking what you discovered on Pinterest 45 minutes later ... you could find a lamp on Pinterest and instantly add it to your Amazon Wish List thanks to a “Wish List” button powered by data Amazon sends to the Pinterest API."

Re: Stripe and Pinterest

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Post by brentm » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 7:21 PM UTC

Stripe is just killing it with these large public partnerships.

Re: Stripe and Pinterest

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Post by xasos » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 8:07 PM UTC

brentm wrote: post #23

Stripe is just killing it with these large public partnerships.

They have some huge names under their belt - Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Alipay, etc.

Re: Stripe and Pinterest

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Post by tehwebguy » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 8:12 PM UTC

I'm surprised there isn't more talk about how Pinterest stopped allowing any links with affiliate codes and started treating anyone that used them like a spammer.

This new integration is cool, it's what they need, but the attack on people using affiliate links is pretty lame.

Re: Stripe and Pinterest

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Post by throwaway12357 » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 8:18 PM UTC

walterbell wrote: post #22

More details about Pinterest's Buy Button: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/02/pinterest-unveils-buyable-p... "There is no fee for buyers and merchants .. Users can pay with a credit card or with Apple Pay." Yesterday's article: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/01/pinterest-buy-button/ "big brands pass [Pinterest] pieces of data such as price that are shown on their Pins of products which they hope users will repin ... par…

> "There is no fee for buyers and merchants .. Users can pay with a credit card or with Apple Pay."

So only a Stripe fee, if you use Stripe.

So how does Pinterest make money on this?

Re: Stripe and Pinterest

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Post by dangrossman » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 8:38 PM UTC

tehwebguy wrote: post #25

I'm surprised there isn't more talk about how Pinterest stopped allowing any links with affiliate codes and started treating anyone that used them like a spammer. This new integration is cool, it's what they need, but the attack on people using affiliate links is pretty lame.

Affiliate marketers are so good at destroying the web for everyone else (e-mail spam, forum spam, blog comment spam, facebook spam, ...) that I'd not want them on my social platform either.

Re: Stripe and Pinterest

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Post by james33 » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 8:47 PM UTC

xasos wrote: post #24

brentm wrote: post #23

Stripe is just killing it with these large public partnerships.

They have some huge names under their belt - Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Alipay, etc.

Don't forget to add Kickstarter to that list.

Re: Stripe and Pinterest

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Post by adventured » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 9:06 PM UTC

throwaway12357 wrote: post #26

walterbell wrote: post #22

More details about Pinterest's Buy Button: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/02/pinterest-unveils-buyable-p... "There is no fee for buyers and merchants .. Users can pay with a credit card or with Apple Pay." Yesterday's article: http://techcrunch.com/2015/06/01/pinterest-buy-button/ "big brands pass [Pinterest] pieces of data such as price that are shown on their Pins of products which they hope users will repin ... par…

> "There is no fee for buyers and merchants .. Users can pay with a credit card or with Apple Pay." So only a Stripe fee, if you use Stripe. So how does Pinterest make money on this?

Perhaps they'll split the fee with Stripe in exchange for being the processor.

Re: Stripe and Pinterest

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Post by makeitsuckless » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 9:24 PM UTC

projectileboy wrote: post #2

Between stuff like this and the juggernaught that is Amazon, it's hard for me to see how traditional retailers are going to survive outside of certain small niche markets.

Depends what you mean by "traditional". Traditionally, retailers have always been about niche markets in one form or the other, originally simply geographically.

The massive chains are going to get buried, but I wouldn't call those traditional. And I won't miss them polluting the high streets either.