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I love the idea, and the execution, but just one nit -- you say "no hidden fees", but I think bundling the fee into the total price is the definition of a hidden fee . If your examples itemized the fee it would be a different story. Other comments here express a similar anxiety, e.g. how much [extra] am I actually paying for this? Also, I know you're busy, but FYI CA state law requires you have a Privacy Policy. I wo…
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Why are you posting here? Send them a text and ask.
Hmm...Because I can't send a text from India from my phone at least.
There must be other services that let you text internationally, or pretend to have a US number.
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uhm they are not. The text is just a link to a site that uses stripe to collect your CC data.
I wonder how they are able to pay for 3rd party transactions with Stripe? Charging the customer's credit card with Stripe then paying with your own payment method incurs a transaction fee and potentially chargebacks (Disclaimer: co-founder of Perssist, a tech-enhanced virtual assistant service)
Just want to point out that such a service wouldn't work in India. The Reserve Bank of India has stipulated that all "card-not-present" transactions (such as online purchases) require a secondary authentication (Verified by VISA password or a grid printed on the back of card). This improves the security but also pushes the liability to the consumer, given that he is not supposed to share this secondary password with…
And plastic cash isn't as prelevant in India as it is in the western world. You wouldn't really miss out on anything because of 2FA imposed by RBI.
I'm curious to know how they can cover the entire US. Obviously, I realize they can't, I just wonder how often their answer to the query is "Sorry, we can't do this". Overall, I think it's a great idea but the fact that it's bottlenecked by humans will make it very, very hard to scale (and you can already see this as the web site has a big banner saying the service is currently restricted due to high demand). Still,…
> I'm curious to know how they can cover the entire US. Because they're just using other services to get you what you want.. i.e. flowers, groceries, pizza, etc. - they just call a florist/supermarket/pizza joint/etc. local to the requester. What examples of requests can you think of that can't be served anywhere in the US?
s/pizza place/supermarkets that deliver/florists that are either currently open for calls or have a website/etc
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But how can you disrupt without parallax? ... And thanks. I thought I was the only one who thought the video fad was dumb. Now it's just a toll booth for getting a product presented, and I never watch them. How about others? Do you find videos actually useful or are they just glitz?
I hardly ever watch product videos. I'm usually in locations where It would be rude and I don't want to put in earphones just to find out what's going on. But I'm a curmudgeon, and may be an outlier.
Besides questions about revenue and such, can I just say that I absolutely love the landing page. No gimmicks, no parallax, no videos, no fake testimonials, no hero images, no marquees. Just good copy. Not sure if this is because of how quickly this blew up, but well done.
But how can you disrupt without parallax? ... And thanks. I thought I was the only one who thought the video fad was dumb. Now it's just a toll booth for getting a product presented, and I never watch them. How about others? Do you find videos actually useful or are they just glitz?
There is now a profusion of heritage (like http://www.1240.it, http://www.892424.it, etc).
I need Magic in my life. I hate ordering, filling out forms, etc. Pease scale this thing hard and fast. This is Uber-level fantastic. Better than that, even.
This is exactly what Siri should be. Apple has 800m credit cards on file (1) In one fell swoop Apple could own the local delivery market, shocking how perfect of a concept / execution this is. (1) http://www.businessinsider.com/credit-cards-on-file-apple-vs...
The very fact that Apple has 800M credit cards on file is the reason why they know better than offering a service like this. Even if 10% of their users started using their service to require "magic", there is no way in hell even a company like Apple could scale an operation like this that's bottlenecked by humans.