Kickstarter launches in the UK with hundreds of new projects ready for funding

Re:Kickstarter launches in the UK with hundreds of new proje... by groktor on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @05:26AM (#4721924)

so who is the mystery "third party payment provider"?

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Re:Kickstarter launches in the UK with hundreds of new proje... by thisone on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @06:58AM (#4722208)

I wish I knew. I was hoping that this signaled Amazon was opening payment processing in £'s.

The only reason I don't use S3 is because, as a very small time user, I don't want my foreign transaction fees to be larger than the S3 fees.

However, brilliant news for people who weren't able to circumvent the system. Still surprised (and happy) it came to the UK before Canada.

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Re:Kickstarter launches in the UK with hundreds of new proje... by xxpor on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @09:57AM (#4722801)

How bad are foreign transaction fees in the UK? For me in the US, it's just 1% flat rate (which I get back in cash back anyway).

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Re:Kickstarter launches in the UK with hundreds of new proje... by citricsquid on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @07:35AM (#4722299)

After sleuthing I located the provider: http://www.cybersource.com/ which people here will know as authorize.net!

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Re:Kickstarter launches in the UK with hundreds of new proje... by samwillis on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @05:46AM (#4721989)

I'm hoping they are the first test of Stripe in the UK..... Maybe....

I will admit I checked to see if they were using stripe.js but they're not.

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