Stratos Card

#1

Post by abbottry » Tue, Mar 03, 2015, 3:14 PM UTC

Re: Stratos Card

#2

Post by DiabloD3 » Tue, Mar 03, 2015, 3:16 PM UTC

This was a great idea until I scrolled down and its a yearly membership and its absurdly expensive for what amounts to be a $10 widget that both Square and Paypal use for remote card capture, and for a card that doesn't seem to be all that special at all.

How about selling the whole thing for either $49.99 one time fee for $9.99/yr, or just don't bother being in business at all because you obviously didn't understand anything about your target market.

/rant

Re: Stratos Card

#3

Post by bio4m » Tue, Mar 03, 2015, 4:55 PM UTC

No support for EMV at the moment on this either. They actually recommend carrying the EMV cards as well which sort of negates the point of having this.

Re: Stratos Card

#4

Post by panopticon » Tue, Mar 03, 2015, 9:25 PM UTC

DiabloD3 wrote: post #2

This was a great idea until I scrolled down and its a yearly membership and its absurdly expensive for what amounts to be a $10 widget that both Square and Paypal use for remote card capture, and for a card that doesn't seem to be all that special at all. How about selling the whole thing for either $49.99 one time fee for $9.99/yr, or just don't bother being in business at all because you obviously didn't understand…

> don't bother being in business at all because you obviously didn't understand anything about your target market

I think their target market is "people who don't feel like carrying a wallet full of credit cards." That seems entirely like a luxury market to me (i.e. a market that garners higher prices). I certainly have better things to spend my money on, but I can understand the angle.