Re:Ask HN: Simplest way to start paying people?
by F00b4r on Saturday March 19, 2011 @01:28PM
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The best answer depends on the magnitude of the payments. Are we talking about penny/dollar payments or O($100) or O($1000) payments?
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Re:Ask HN: Simplest way to start paying people?
by robinwarren on Saturday March 19, 2011 @01:44PM
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I'd be interested in your recommendation for dollar amounts as it's actually likely to be 100s at a maximum really. Thanks
Re:Ask HN: Simplest way to start paying people?
by F00b4r on Saturday March 19, 2011 @01:47PM
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With small payouts, a significant percentage of the payments will be taken by the middlemen.
With large payouts, people will have to wait a long while before the first payment, and may end up believing its a scam.
If you dont mind can you describe what you are doing?
Re:Ask HN: Simplest way to start paying people?
by robinwarren on Saturday March 19, 2011 @02:05PM
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Hi, sorry for the secrecy. Without going into too much detail, i'd be taking larger payments from businesses and paying chunks of multiple of those payments each to individuals. Similar perhaps to adsense. Ie a single individual wouldn't just get say 10% of a single payment but of several.
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Re:Ask HN: Simplest way to start paying people?
by F00b4r on Saturday March 19, 2011 @01:45PM
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It sounds like you are looking for something like Obopay [where you can send money to their bank account if they give routing information].
I would check with your bank. IIRC Bank of America provides this service.
Re:Ask HN: Simplest way to start paying people?
by robinwarren on Saturday March 19, 2011 @02:06PM
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Thanks, i'll look into that