PayPal to launch mobile payments service in the UK – News Analysis – Mobile Europe: “Using PayPal Mobile’s ‘Text to Buy’ service, consumers will be able to make instant purchases, such as CDs, DVDs, shoes and clothes, by sending product codes via text message. Items will then be delivered to home addresses already saved in the buyers’ PayPal accounts. Merchants who have signed up to PayPal’s new mobile service will be able to open new direct sales channels to buyers, while consumers will be able to see an advertisement – in a magazine, or on TV for example – and purchase products immediately. PayPal Mobile will also enable users to donate money to charities, instantly.”
Am I still dreaming or isn’t this going to be really popular? You see a poster for a CD, you just buy it straight away. If it catches on, advertising in stations and bus stops is going to get very expensive.
I don’t know if you’ve already mentioned this somewhere else, but you’re right. Outdoor-adverts are going to explode in value, 20,000 people downloaded samples from Coldplay’s X+Y album last summer from London rail terminals.
Not that I just know these these things, I’m just ripping stuff from the Time-magazine April edition, but you’re still right on the money I reckon, people are going to emptying their bank accounts quicker then ever.
Am I the only person in the world who adverts work in a kind of anti-way for? I find myself becoming more and more disillusioned with the ‘I see therefore I must have instantly’ world we live in. No conclusions, just a moan
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Well, you know what they say about a fool and his money. But then, I usually take a painfully long time to reach any decision when it comes to shopping. It’s not that I’m not materialistic; I’m just averse to closure.
Yeah, closure a really bad thing. Shuts off all those options. Your comment re greek brandy has just made Arvo spit his beer over my keyboard. Thanks.
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