Live data from Hacker News

Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

techcrunch.com

51–52 of 52 posts

Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

#51

Plurchase uses a neat idea to act as a proxy for shopping sites. They don't seem to be storing passwords before sending them off to the actual sites (which is good). I hope it takes off. Good luck!

Are they still active during the checkout? If they do that with credit card data then Visa is entitled to sue them for violating under PCI DSS at 500k per day of offense.

Re: Online Shop Till You Drop With Your Friends On Plurchase

#52
I'm having difficulty seeing the value in this idea. It seems that Plurchase is going to be relying heavily on retailers to make this idea succeed. But, if I'm Zappos, Amazon, or any other online retailer, I don't want Plurchase -- or any other service -- hijacking my website via their own proxy, for any reason, and/or redefining my customer's experiences in any way.

And when the Plurchase team approaches online retailers and gives them ten reasons why allowing Plurchase to do this will ultimately help the retailer make more money, they are going to be met with a wall of skepticism, and rightly so.

It's always easy to rationalize how your ideas (that primarily benefit you) will benefit others too, but actually getting other people to agree with your passion and sign on with your business model is an entirely different story.

My 2 cents!

Post reply on HN