Re: [Slightly OT] Shareware donation collection
Re: [Slightly OT] Shareware donation collection
- Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] Shareware donation collection
- From: Mark Eissler <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 18:20:10 -0500
These are good points Finlay.
Another method is to establish your own merchant account and just
handle all of this yourself from your own website. But I guess then you
have to be concerned with collecting taxes such as VAT; sales tax AFAIK
in the U.S. doesn't need to be collected on intangible products. In
fact, I think that unless you're doing a huge volume (but more than a
small volume) you could even just process transactions offline and bite
the bullet on some losses due to bogus credit card numbers.
-mark
On Feb 15, 2004, at 5:47 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
On 15 Feb 2004, at 21:31, Mike Brinkman wrote:
eSellerate looks very cool, but I'm not at the point of selling
anything
I've developed yet. All my stuff is "freeware." I'd simply like to
make it
possible for people to make a donation if they feel so inclined.
Donationware never really works.
Does anybody here use Amazon.com to collect donations? I thought you
used to
be able to send money through Amazon.com, but I can't find a link.
I've got
PayPal right now, but the links below make me a little wary.
PayPal suffered from growing far quicker than it could cope with,
they're now a lot better and more responsive, and freely advertise
support numbers on their site etc.
On the downside of eSellerate, their SN generation thing is *very*
easy to crack and they were being complicated when I asked about
implementing my own (they have to compile your algorithm as a DLL and
link it into their server - I mean, wtf?! Can you say, "bad
architectural decision" - anyway, since it takes manpower & effort
their end they don't do it unless you're a high volume seller).
eSellerate are also not terribly cheap, and the lag thing is very
annoying and stupid.
-- Finlay
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