Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal
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Re: Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal
#2This is really useful for artists like musicians and so on... How do you plan to market it? What is the core audience?
Re: Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal
#3High risk service for a business.
From T&C: "Sellbox does not pre-screen Content, but Sellbox has the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or remove any Content that is available via the Service."
Then add in Paypal account freezes on top of that.
I wouldn't want to depend on a combo like that for my company's cashflow.
Re: Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal
#4I don't have a PayPal account, so I couldn't really try out the integration. Do the files remain in Dropbox/Drive, or do they get copied to Sellbox's storage?
This might be a good candidate for the Dropbox Chooser: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/dropins/chooser/js, which gives nice UI for picking files and then only grants the app access to those specific files.
(I work at Dropbox and am happy to answer questions. Email: smarx@dropbox.com)
Re: Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal
#5I don't have a PayPal account, so I couldn't really try out the integration. Do the files remain in Dropbox/Drive, or do they get copied to Sellbox's storage? This might be a good candidate for the Dropbox Chooser: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/dropins/chooser/js , which gives nice UI for picking files and then only grants the app access to those specific files. (I work at Dropbox and am happy to answer question…
> Do the files remain in Dropbox/Drive, or do they get copied to Sellbox's storage?
Good question.
Re: Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal
#6This is really useful for artists like musicians and so on... How do you plan to market it? What is the core audience?
Completely agreed. This is a genius way to bypass the iTunes Store and Kindle Book Store.
Re: Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal
#7High risk service for a business. From T&C: "Sellbox does not pre-screen Content, but Sellbox has the right (but not the obligation) in their sole discretion to refuse or remove any Content that is available via the Service." Then add in Paypal account freezes on top of that. I wouldn't want to depend on a combo like that for my company's cashflow.
It's a great option for low budget projects. I could see it working well for hobby or MVP projects.
Re: Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal
#8The 5% cut is a big problem. It's inherently not fair.
They aren't making a market (like an App store), promoting my files, creating my content, or otherwise providing value that scales with the growth of the success of my product. Why are they entitled to $5 on my $100 or $10 on my $200 if that's the price I choose? Charging a fixed price per sale is more fair + any %fees you might incur from payment processing.
Clearly many businesses are based on the same % transaction fee, but it's not really fair if you look closely.
Re: Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal
#9What would be interesting would be a) ability to sell entire folders and b) ability to automatically generate sell links for files. Combined, you could create an instataneous online storefront automatically.
I am a currently planning a project that might be able to make good use of Sellbox. :) we'll see how that works.
Re: Sellbox – Sell your files from Dropbox and Google Drive with Paypal
#10I've used them for selling a couple of Mac apps[1] (along with Gumroad, for credit card buyers), and it's turned out just fine.
I'm not too worried about the 5% fee because the apps were ~$5, and it's nice to get an instant deposit into my PayPal account. I could pretty easily build my own system for payments to eliminate their fee, but it isn't worth it to me for lower volume stuff, which this is targeted towards.
That being said, I still prefer Gumroad. It's all about the user experience, and Sellbox's isn't very good at all. The dashboard kind of sucks (though, it's usable).