Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology

Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by jchw on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @05:36AM (#15591939)

I'd guess it'd eat $0.50 of a $1.00 transaction, maybe a bit less if you're lucky. That's bad, but it's workable if you have low operating costs - it certainly isn't a loss. Most people seem to think $5.00 is when credit transactions start making more sense.

Amusingly, Amazon charges me $0.14 every single month for my usage of Amazon S3. I wonder if they've got some sort of sick deal where they don't pay per-tx.

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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by garblegarble on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @06:17AM (#15592082)

>Amusingly, Amazon charges me $0.14 every single month for my usage of Amazon S3. I wonder if they've got some sort of sick deal where they don't pay per-tx.

Off-topic but I had this (except I have a non-US card, so the foreign transaction fee was larger than the S3 bill). I contacted Amazon and asked if I could prepay $50 and they added a small balance to my account for free that'll cover my tiny S3 usage for the next few years

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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by gruez on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @09:33AM (#15593079)

Aren't foreign exchange fees calculated by %?

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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by garblegarble on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @09:51AM (#15652929)

My bank charges a flat fee of £0.75 per transaction for foreign currency transactions - not a big deal for a normal transaction but pretty significant if you're paying a $0.03 bill every month!

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Re:Letting users skip our paywall if they wrote an apology by unreal37 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @10:43AM (#15593576)

Some credit card companies charge $3 or $5 for transactions made in other currencies, with exchange rate being separate.

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