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Amazon Payments

Google Checkout Adjusts Pricing Upward – Matching PayPal

by Scott Loftesness on March 12, 2009

in Amazon Payments, Ecommerce Payments, Google Checkout, PayPal, Scott Loftesness

Yesterday, Google Checkout announced that it was changing its fee structure beginning May 5 – eliminating the previous credit that Google AdWords customers got that reduced their Google Checkout fees.
Instead, the new Google Checkout fee structure essentially parallels that of PayPal’s – a long-standing fee structure that the online payments leader has had [...]

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Re: TwitPay Is Ready For Prime Time

by Russ Jones on March 4, 2009

in Amazon Payments, Russ Jones, TwitPay, Twitter

The headline might say Twitter, but for payments professionals the story here is all about Amazon Payments.
The original version of Twitpay (the one that went into beta in November 2008) was based on PayPal. Consumers funded their Twitpay account by making a PayPal payment to TwitPay. This approach had all sorts of problems, many of [...]

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