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A comment on Show HN: Mashup of Amazon.com's wish list and Balanced Payments.

Re:Show HN: Mashup of Amazon.com's wish list and Balanced Pa... by chavesn on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @05:54PM (#6811752)
The $1 transaction fee seems crazy wasteful to me on purchases under $50 or so. I would consider just buying the whole item for a friend (through Amazon, letting Amazon eat the transaction fee) before I'd give anywhere from 5-10% extra to a third party.

If the average item was $20 and the average contribution was $5, banks would also be making 10% or more per wishlist item when they would normally make 3% or less.

That just rubs my cost-effectiveness sensitivities the wrong way.

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Re:Show HN: Mashup of Amazon.com's wish list and Balanced Pa... by peterbe on Friday November 29, 2013 @10:00AM (#6819595)
If you want to buy the whole item, bypass Wish List Granted and go straight to Amazon Wish List and buy it there. It gets cheaper.

But if spending $20 on every friend you have, my site is a better alternative.

Also, the reason I add the $1 transaction fee is to cover the cost of the shipping.

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