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Yea - at least the answers are on the page. Quora is 100% filtered cannot view. They should be banned from the index.

I wish google would block quora if theyre going to pull this crap like expertsexchange does... it adds no value

Then how do you expect YC companies to write a job ad on HN???

I'm surprised Groupon hasn't made their own social games.

Chase Paymentech - ~1.9% + $0.15 <---- WINNER!

This community can't handle the truth. Instead it idolizes dumbass ideas.

It's business 100 to not waste money. If 1% is not a lot to save you have a hobby, not a business. I do see you enjoy using every service imaginable. I imagine you are building your dumb idea on top of Amazon SES or sendgrid. And you even used some other dumbass start up to make an email submit form for new startups. You're a pro.

Sorry for being honest. Would you prefer:

Stripe is an amazing service and their founders are amazing people. I wish I could blow them, but they probably wouldn't even let me b/c the VCs are already all over that. On the other hand, for people who enjoy saving money, becoming PCI compliant and saving 1% + trans fees is another alternative and there are numerous tutorials available to help anyone do that within a few hours even if you are severely autistic.

Will you do any CPA deals?

Yep - I'd use the service all day long then.

There's tons of risk. Did you know a TON of email servers and spam blockers click all the links in emails and analyze what is linked as well? How do you know you won't be charged for those?

There's about 5 million tutorials online how to do everything properly. < 1 day work for 1% of sales... HMMMMMMMMM. tough decision, not.

You can negotiate all those BS fees to $0. For example.. I pay 0.1% + interchange. $0.05 per transaction gateway fee and $0.10 cc trans fee (includes AVS). $5/mo base fee. NOTHING ELSE (well chargeback fees, everywhere has that).

You have no clue what you're talking about. I guarantee Stripe will charge you CB fees too.

Only way Stripe is worth the time and % they jack it up is if you do LOW volume.

edit: 5 seconds in google and Stripe charges $15 for a chargeback, same as Chase. Basically paying Stripe 1% + another $0.15 or so per transaction. NO THANKS! No one doing any type of CC volume would be dumb enough to give that $ away.

This is how it goes... you call Chase Paymentech and sign an app and 24 hours later you have an account. WOW, tough!

If 1% of your revenue is worth not spending a few hours to figure out BS PCI stuff I suggest you rethink your priorities or you're doing really low volume where 1% is like $5.

No clue about UK

Uhhh, what do you mean? Go through Chase paymentech is like 1.9% or so for card not present.

Or spend a few hours, get a merchant account through a bank and authorize.net with much lower fees and a pretty standard API. Tons of classes to use authorize.net with and super simple... no point of adding ANOTHER layer... charging with a merchant account is trivial.

Just what everyone wants - ads in email! I predict spam filters will start blocking must of their crap.

What is this fluff piece doing here?

Avoid CC fees.

Tons! Charge their competitors to run out of budget and/or give up advertising on FB.

A lot of people also have bots to see who/what is advertising on FB to see what is working, what ad text people are trying, etc. Mostly aff marketers trying to stay ahead of the game. There are also SaaS companies scraping ads and landing pages and selling that data.

I'm sure there are other reasons as well...

$7 stock. Their growth was less than google's %-wise, and google does what... 25X the revenue? Fundamentals say $7ish.

A few more OMGPOPs and they'll get there faster!

They have an estimated 70-80% margins... maybe I should have said drowning in money!

Just like they try to keep the facade up that CL barely makes money. They are swimming in so much $ it's insane.

Yahoo would probably make a lot more $ too because AdCenter is a joke.