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recommendation: fulfillment service for $1-5 digital downloads?![[silentway]](/webx/?30@@1) silentway - 05:34am Oct 17, 2007 PSTI'm curious if others have shopped around for a digital delivery service. Ie, a service which sells your digital product, delivers it to the customer as a download, and sends you the money. For example, selling an unprotected pdf book (no DRM) in the price range of $1-$5. I've been using Payloadz.com. Payloadz is somewhat janky (kludgy) but it has a free account if you sell less than $100/month. < http://www.payloadz.com/rs/go.asp?rs_id=11801> The other decision is a payment service. Paypal has a special (unpromoted/hidden) 5% + $0.05 "micropayment" pricing structure, the best I've found for items of less than $11: < https://www.paypal.com/IntegrationCenter/ic_micropayments.html> I'd be interested in hearing of other options that tie into Paypal, or alternatives to Paypal. * Google Checkout is not very conducive to selling small items. A $1 item would incur 22 cents in fees, or 22%. * Esellerate charges 10%. How's their service? * How about Zen Cart? My server's got that already. Any reviews?
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Re: recommendation: fulfillment service for $1-5 digital downloads?
silentway wrote:
> I'm curious if others have shopped around for a digital delivery service. Ie, a service which sells your digital product, delivers it to the customer as a download, and sends you the money. For example, selling an unprotected pdf book (no DRM) in the price range of $1-$5.
I have never used such a service but will be doing the same research
soon for a product-in-planning, and so I was curious that you had not
looked at (or at least did not mention) Kagi and began my own research.
Kagi's fee structure for low-priced products:
*$12.50 and under:* 2.5% + $0.15
see < http://kagi.com/kagisolutions/index.php?page=pricing_dg>
... which compares very favorably vis-a-vis the others you note, and
also vis-a-vis Digital River (another notable player I just looked at
out of curiosity).
kazar
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kazar (apparently)
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Oct 20, 2007 5:45 am
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Re: recommendation: fulfillment service for $1-5 digital downloads?
robink wrote:
> you can use < http://www.e-junkie.com/> with no transaction limit for $5/mo
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but then you also need to either maintain an expensive merchant account
so that you can accept credit cards (and build your own transaction
programming, to boot) or use another payment processor like paypal or
google checkout
so it ends up being more expensive than just using, for example, paypal.
kazar
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Adam Engst
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>* Esellerate charges 10%. How's their service?
Very good, and their cart provides a lot of capabilities like coupons
and cross-sells and affiliates. We've had very few problems over the
years and they've always responded to reports quickly and effectively.
cheers... -Adam
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Re: recommendation: fulfillment service for $1-5 digital downloads?
I think that < http://Lulu.com/> does something like what you are
looking for - and they could also make it available in physical print
format. I don't know if their overhead charges make them too expensive for
your tastes. I seem to recall that if you do not charge any author profit
on an item, the downloads are hosted for free.
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* Johann Beda - contact link: < http://xri.net/=j-beda> *
* Johann's MostlyMac Computer Consulting - < http://mmcc.beda.ca/> *
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hanineal (apparently)
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Nov 6, 2007 6:16 am
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Re: recommendation: fulfillment service for $1-5 digital downloads?
On Oct 17, 2007, at 7:34 AM, silentway wrote:
> I'm curious if others have shopped around for a digital delivery
> service. Ie, a service which sells your digital product, delivers it
> to the customer as a download, and sends you the money. For example,
> selling an unprotected pdf book (no DRM) in the price range of $1-$5.
You might be interested in the new Amazon Flexible Payments Service.
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sc_fe_c_1_3435361_1/104-9066604-5529567?ie=UTF8&node=342430011&no=3435361
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070803-amazons-flexible-payments-service-to-compete-with-google-checkout-paypal.html
Supposedly, it allows you to accumulate charges to a certain level
before processing, allowing you you to pay just one processing charge
on multiple items rather than individual charges on each item.
Dan
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