Sell courses, ebooks etc. online and use one of the many easy to use payment systems for that kind of thing. That is vending machine like.
A vending machine, on the internet
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#13OP is in for a nasty surprise when they discover that the customers who complain the loudest are those that pay the least, and that it is difficult to turn a profit on a low-priced service due to the cost of acquiring customers. Edit: And credit card fraud. A $5 price combined with a Stripe payment process is very attractive to people who want to test stolen credit card numbers.
OP addresses this directly, if you bothered to read the whole thing:
"The stakes should be low. Whatever you’re selling, it’s gotta be cheap. And if things go awry? No one’s going to launch a chargeback crusade. Just like a reliable vending machine, if it jams, it’ll return your coins."
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#14OP is in for a nasty surprise when they discover that the customers who complain the loudest are those that pay the least, and that it is difficult to turn a profit on a low-priced service due to the cost of acquiring customers. Edit: And credit card fraud. A $5 price combined with a Stripe payment process is very attractive to people who want to test stolen credit card numbers.
OP addresses this directly, if you bothered to read the whole thing: "The stakes should be low. Whatever you’re selling, it’s gotta be cheap. And if things go awry? No one’s going to launch a chargeback crusade. Just like a reliable vending machine, if it jams, it’ll return your coins."
I read it all. No need for snark.
Not sure which one of my points you are refuting with that quote.
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#15This vending machine seems jammed indeed on iphone. The select boxes are empty. All three cards show ”whats” as the word.
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#16This vending machine seems jammed indeed on iphone. The select boxes are empty. All three cards show ”whats” as the word.
Same on Android. Cute idea tho.
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#17I thought this was gonna be a story about that collegiate Coke machine from the 90s people could telnet into to see which rows were filled with what, the temperature, etc.
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#18The problem is with our payments infrastructure there isn't a practical way to make a "machine" on the internet that accepts two quarters. OP's machine charges $5. The Stripe minimum charge is $0.50, and their fees on that charge would be almost $0.21.
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#19The problem is with our payments infrastructure there isn't a practical way to make a "machine" on the internet that accepts two quarters. OP's machine charges $5. The Stripe minimum charge is $0.50, and their fees on that charge would be almost $0.21.
How does that $0.21 compare to the cost of maintaining the coin machine on a vending machine and sending someone to collect the cash?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP addresses this directly, if you bothered to read the whole thing: "The stakes should be low. Whatever you’re selling, it’s gotta be cheap. And if things go awry? No one’s going to launch a chargeback crusade. Just like a reliable vending machine, if it jams, it’ll return your coins."
I read it all. No need for snark. Not sure which one of my points you are refuting with that quote.
If you introduce a process susceptible to credit card fraud then you're not keeping it low stakes.