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« on: August 29, 2008, 07:02:11 AM »

If so, check your friggin' email!

Is there some advantage for indie developers to sell with a system that requires the author to manually register your payment and send out a key to each individual customer personally instead of the services that automatically spit out an activation code immediately upon the credit card clearing?
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« Reply #1 on: August 29, 2008, 12:47:07 PM »

Is there some advantage for indie developers to sell with a system that requires the author to manually register your payment and send out a key to each individual customer personally instead of the services that automatically spit out an activation code immediately upon the credit card clearing?
No middle man. I imagine the advantage is entirely on the side of the developer. For the user there is no advantage. Of course if there is no advantage for the user there will eventually be no advantage for the developer, but whatever.
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« Reply #2 on: August 29, 2008, 01:20:36 PM »

Really?  I assume since he's doing credit card payments through paypal that they'll take a cut anyway.  Maybe it's a smaller cut than Plimus.
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« Reply #3 on: August 29, 2008, 02:07:25 PM »

For the user there is no advantage.

If there's no middle man taking a cut, he can charge less. That's an advantage to the user.
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« Reply #4 on: August 29, 2008, 03:27:26 PM »

It sounds very indie to do it like that. Very very.

For whatever it's worth, I think the creator of AtomHex frequents that YakYak place, going by the handle "MarkInc".
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« Reply #5 on: August 29, 2008, 03:40:41 PM »

Thanks!  Now he will learn that no matter how indie he is he cannot hide from his customers!!!
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« Reply #6 on: August 29, 2008, 04:14:38 PM »

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No middle man. I imagine the advantage is entirely on the side of the developer. For the user there is no advantage. Of course if there is no advantage for the user there will eventually be no advantage for the developer, but whatever.
Is being tied up to your email and wasting loads of time an advantage? C'mon, e-commerce fees are all around 10%. It's really nothing for so much convinience on both sides.
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