Comments on: Amazon’s big mistake http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/08/07/amazons-big-mistake/ Wii, iPod, DVD, TV, and So Much More Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:13:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Rick H http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/08/07/amazons-big-mistake/#comment-178105 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:43:14 +0000 http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/08/07/amazons-big-mistake/#comment-178105 I know you're an Amazon fan, but Buy.com takes Paypal as a payment method. At least you'd be able to keep your eBay-to-new-product conversions strictly online... I know you’re an Amazon fan, but Buy.com takes Paypal as a payment method. At least you’d be able to keep your eBay-to-new-product conversions strictly online…

]]> by: Augie De Blieck Jr. http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/08/07/amazons-big-mistake/#comment-175657 Fri, 08 Aug 2008 02:57:43 +0000 http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/08/07/amazons-big-mistake/#comment-175657 Trip - Yeah, if I let the money go to the bank account and then pay for an Amazon order directly from the bank account with the same money that was just deposited in there --- well, it wouldn't go over so well. It's the same exact thing, but once the wife sees it, kiss it goodbye. (Or, well, let it pay for diapers or something. I suppose she has a point there, but we've always held that the hobby pays for itself.) Laura - Give it time. It's a coming. The thing I don't get is WHY. Wouldn't it be easier to avoid all that money transferring and keep it in house at Amazon? It must be an accounting thing somewhere along the way. I bet it's to make sure seller pay taxes on it or something, but it's stupid. I miss the old internet, when everyone really was an outlaw. This serious internet sucks. Trip - Yeah, if I let the money go to the bank account and then pay for an Amazon order directly from the bank account with the same money that was just deposited in there — well, it wouldn’t go over so well. It’s the same exact thing, but once the wife sees it, kiss it goodbye. (Or, well, let it pay for diapers or something. I suppose she has a point there, but we’ve always held that the hobby pays for itself.)

Laura - Give it time. It’s a coming. The thing I don’t get is WHY. Wouldn’t it be easier to avoid all that money transferring and keep it in house at Amazon? It must be an accounting thing somewhere along the way. I bet it’s to make sure seller pay taxes on it or something, but it’s stupid.

I miss the old internet, when everyone really was an outlaw. This serious internet sucks.

]]> by: Laura G http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/08/07/amazons-big-mistake/#comment-175595 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 18:32:32 +0000 http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/08/07/amazons-big-mistake/#comment-175595 Holy crap that sucks! I wonder if I'm getting the same notice... urg. Holy crap that sucks! I wonder if I’m getting the same notice… urg.

]]> by: Trip Bakun http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/08/07/amazons-big-mistake/#comment-175589 Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:20:19 +0000 http://www.variousandsundry.com/2008/08/07/amazons-big-mistake/#comment-175589 "It’s a great way to budget my money and a nice way to hide it from my wife. ;-)" Isn't married life wonderful? I do the exact same thing with my Amazon credit card and the gift certs I receive from it. Anything used on Amazon is out of sight out of mind for her so it doesn't get added into my monthly comics buying budget! :-) “It’s a great way to budget my money and a nice way to hide it from my wife. ;-)”

Isn’t married life wonderful? I do the exact same thing with my Amazon credit card and the gift certs I receive from it. Anything used on Amazon is out of sight out of mind for her so it doesn’t get added into my monthly comics buying budget! :-)

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