Comments on: Cell Phone Payment: A Cash Machine in your Pocket

By: sillygirl

sillygirl — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:29:11 +0000

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By: anon

anon — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 13:25:32 +0000

You must be joking. I love new technologies, but the abandonment of cash for a technology is not going to be one I adopt. And if businesses want money off me, they had better accept what I have (the real reason “the customer is always right” is that the customer wants to give you money).

Where is the anonymity? I do not use store cards, nor credit[1]/debit cards in physical shops anymore, because I don’t feel the stores and banks trending is worth anything to me. What happens when your battery dies? Even a credit card doesn’t have that problem! What will the tranaction fees be, or what will be the cost overhead to run a system like this? Because debt cards exist only for convenience, and not to make profits for Visa etc.!!

[1] I recommend people call credit cards what they actually are: debt cards. And by using the correct adjective in the name, you’ll be less inclined to use the thing, saving you money.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:39:22 +0000

Something I forgot to mention. Paypal mobile can also withdraw the money directly from your regular bank account. You don’t need to have the money sitting around in an account dedicated specifically to mobile payments.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:18:12 +0000

As far as the transfer via text messages service offered by Obopay, a similar service is offered through Paypal. The Paypal service is free for the sender and receiving money to a personal account is free as well. Only premier/business account holders are charged for receiving money.