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Re:The First Penny - getting your users to pay you anything ... by immad on Monday March 12, 2007 @05:57PM (#3787)
agreed, clearly the discontinuity in the demand is based on the non-price costs, which is why people like the idea of easy micropayments so much. But the psychological difference between free and not-free is pretty significant.
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Re:The First Penny - getting your users to pay you anything ... by paul on Tuesday March 13, 2007 @02:35PM (#3952)
Exactly. Even with micropayments, I would still have to think about it, and I don't like having to think. This is part of the reason why the most popular micropayment system on the web is Google AdSense.

On the other hand, I regularly send text messages on my phone without much though given to the crazy $0.15 per-message fee.

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