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iTunes Accepts PayPal
lemist writes "Apple Computer Inc. on Friday said customers of its iTunes online music store can now use eBay Inc.'s online payment service PayPal to buy songs and audiobooks, becoming the second major online music store to do so. Story here."
So do Credit Cards.
Thats why PayPal does it, they need to make money.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
Debit and prepaid Visa/Mastercard have existed for years, and they work with the iTunes store.
You don't think a business a company as big as Apple with a product as big as iTunes can't negotiate special deal with PayPal? Considering that PayPal wants desperately to be seen as a payment method as legitimate as credit cards, I'd bet they're damn near bending over backwards for Apple.
What I want to know is if Apple is going to have to deal with the craptastic PayPal customer service department.
Does anyone else notice how /. is getting behind the times? This news is 2 days old at best.
Obligatory link ... PayPal Sucks!
http://www.paypalsucks.com/
One should NEVER give their bank account number to PayPal - if forced to give more information, give them a credit card number at most... better yet, skip the PayPal nonsense and pay with a credit card directly at itunes.
Ron Bennett
It would be really neat to see where paypal could take a currency system. For now, many online stores prices are posted in the local currency in use, whether it be American or Canadian Dollar, the Euro, etc. If any form of online trading becomes universal and widely adopted, prices could be posted in paypal dollars; call them Paydols (I dunno... work with me). If prices were posted in Paydols it might transition to the physical world---you could pay for goods at a store with X amount of Paydols instead. If you could buy most things with a Paydol account, people might accept payments. You could transfer money from person to person with cell-phone administration of your paypal account. Obviously, I'm getting carried away, but having a system like iTunes accepting paypal transactions could be a big step on a long-road to a universal currency.
Oh, I get it. Ripping off artists is okay, as long as you're ripping off record execs at the same time. Thanks for the clarification!
Interesting, but you know, most people probably have the opposite perspective: Linux won't do them any good until it's capable of running iTunes. Sorry, just the way it is.
Linux is fine, but use the right tool for the right job. If you want the best of home user need covered, use the OS that was intended for that.
That's not hard to figure out.
Virtually nothing is better than actually nothing.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
allofmp3.com
I am not an itunes user, but I can see its appeal:
1. INSTANT gratification. You want it now, you've got it now.
2. Granularity. You paid 100$, but what if you only wanted those CDs for 40 total songs? In your example, you're buying what I'd call "specialty" CDs and don't follow the traditional model. Most people want a CD for 1-3 songs, which raises your price to about a buck a song, if not more (for the average person buying 30 cds for 100$)
3. Preview. Could you LEGALLY listen to clips of songs off of those 30 cds before buying them?
4. Plays on your IPOD/whatever. It'll take you at least 2-3 hours to rip all those cds if you're just sitting at the computer ripping.
Stuff like ebay, used music stores, hell even a NEW cd off amazon.com is great for expanding your CD collection when you know what you want already, but that's not the itunes use case.
iTunes advantages: instant gratification, a la carte shopping
And don't dismiss those advantages. I buy the song, I listen to the song. No waiting for the CD to arrive. And suppose I only like 3 songs on an album - then the cost difference is negligible.
And I expect there's an addictive quality to iTunes. You listen to a song, you click, its yours. Then you see the songs other people liked, and you listen to them, click: you've bought another. Then you click on related artists, hear a couple of those songs, "click", you've bought another. Your 99 cent impulse buy has just turned into $20 in purchases.
And nothing says you only have to buy music from one source.
It's about cottonpickin' time that other sites besides eBay begin integrating with PayPal. I mean, seriously, how the devil is PayPal to be taken seriously if it's an eBay-only technology?
Either the quality of music has taken a sharp nose dive in ten years, or it must be because I'm now 31 instead of 21. Nah, I don't think my age has anything to do with it as I once knew 40+ something friends that were more 'hip' to the music scene back in the day. Nowadays, nobody my age will even touch the shit. Hell, I don't know anyone in their 20's that want to listen to it, either.
Nah, it must be the kiddies or something. Or maybe it's that those teenage boys just get to masturbating over either those Brittney Spears or Jessica Simpson's CD covers because neither one of those bitches can sing worth a damn.
Maybe I am an old fart. Who know? But that's the only opinion that I have on the subject.
Faithfully submitted,
Douglas C. Neidermayer
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Kinda wished that I knew sooner, but at least now I can put an end to that crap. With my debit card, I can simply tell the bank and say it was unauthorized and fill out a little form. Thanx for the link.