Talk:Micropayment
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it seems like an article on this has been due for some time...
topics to add maybe, why micropayment implementations seem to have failed so far, links to articles in micropayment history (case for/against micropayments)
and lordy, if somebody could clean up the clumsiness of my writing
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kowey: okay, I added some more text, but it sure ain't a swan yet... another thing is deciding how far we want to go into the debate. Seems the mpayment debate isn't *really* the point of the article but we still want reader to somewhat informed?
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I am looking at adding some more information.
I don't see the debate issue as any big deal. It's not that people are against micropayments, it's that they don't expect micropayments to be very successful.
Morris 03:21, Nov 16, 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Good work
I like how the external links are layed out in this article, I'm not sure why they aren't that great in other articles, perhaps because they are numbered? --ShaunMacPherson 00:48, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
[edit] micropayment system: pre internet
I added some introductory paragraphs to clarify that micropayment systems existed before the internet, and don't necessarily have to be related to the internet. Morris 03:17, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Providers
The list of providers contains spam. Brz7
[edit] Recent?
I wouldn't call micropayments a recent innovation, even on the web. They've been around since at least 1994. Though the earlier systems didn't catch on at the time, the modern systems don't really innovate over what was available in the mid to late 90's. Honus
[edit] Weeding out spam
I have visited the sites that are listed at the bottom and verified that they are indeed working micropayment companies.
I have removed the ones that are not.
[edit] The youth market
Just an observation: on several occasions, the text seems to take it as read that the youth market might feel shut out of paying online because of its inability to use credit cards. There are now prepaid credit cards, and where I live (Britain) it's very common indeed for under-18s to own debit cards, and for debit cards to be accepted for online transactions. 86.132.141.139 (talk) 21:48, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
