I hate PayPal with a passion. We've been using it for 3 years as our online payment processing and every 3 months or so they do something that causes us hassle like an auto refund for no valid reason.
I've considered changing - but then just think other payment processors are probably just as bad? Or are there really good guys out there?
Icing PayPal: How We Did It
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#12I wonder what the charge would have been if the police got involved. Littering?
Perhaps they would be charged with disturbing the peace or disorderly conduct. Most localities have catch-all ordinances that police can use in these situations.
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#13The idea is excellent, but the execution could have been better. I don't want a financial company I use to have a plan revolving around running away from a security guard. Had they done some social engineering or even obtained some sort of permit through their lawyers to leave the ice there, I would have been much more impressed. After all, who can say no to an up and coming ice sculptor wanting to display his work outside a hotel for a day? Still though, great idea.
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#14What I've learned from this: Calculated publicity stunts done by massive corporations are no less endearing to me than calculated publicity stunts done by small y-combinator startups.
I look at this publicity stunt with the same yawn+rolleyes as when Richard Branson takes his clothes off or Donald Trump insults Rosie O'Donnel.
It's good business, I guess, but it's ham-handed and doesn't move me.
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#15Man 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?
WePay lets you collect money (people can pay you with credit card or bank account) and then you can send money that you've collected to whoever you want. So you could, if you wanted, put money in your group and then send it easily to whoever.
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#16I know This A dumb question but, Did they really use real money?
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#17What image did the one dollar bills form inside of the ice? I feel like there is something there I'm missing.
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#18This 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.
I'm probably not old school but I agree. This kind of thing may be cute for a business in a...lesser(?) market but I don't think it sends to right money for someone dealing with my money, credit cards, revenue to do so.
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#19This 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.
P. T. Barnum, now he was old school! He never shied away from using ridiculous stunts like this to get attention. He would write newspapers under pseudonyms railing at his own products to get noticed. He once hired a begger to place 4 bricks at various points on the sidewalk outside his famous museum. The begger would take a 5th brick and walk around on a circuit, replacing each brick with the brick in his hand. Every hour, he would brandish a ticket and walk through all the galleries of the museum. Soon, he'd generated enough curiosity that people were buying tickets to the museum just to follow him around. Some were even staying inside, captivated by what they found on display.
Foolish stunts are as old school as it gets.
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#20This 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.
I'm probably not old school but I agree. This kind of thing may be cute for a business in a...lesser(?) market but I don't think it sends to right money for someone dealing with my money, credit cards, revenue to do so.