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fridemar
Jul '08

Dear support at E-Junkie,



thank you for your ecommerce solution. (Since years I am watching the market, and I think

you are the best provider).



Could you please help us on <-> http://www.aboutus.org/SharedEcommerce .



This wiki community happily fosters ecommerce culture (unlike the Wikipedia, who is unfortunately a community, doomed by the Google:"StayPoor Meme"), so I would love to see E-Junkie as the best ecommerce provider established at Aboutus.org. I have many friends in the Aboutus Staff, even the CEO RayKing and they know to appreciate my bold initiatives.



Aboutus.org has meanwhile accumulated a catalogue of over 15 million websites and has the

goal to get' em all. It sees itself as the Facebook of companies, organizations, individuals in the business sphere.

Your company is represented there as http://www.aboutus.org/E-Junkie.com and I have a community page reserved for you : http://www.aboutus.org/E-Junkie .



One of my goals is to help as many as possible children (estimated ca. 200million) of the OLPC (OneLaptopPerChild) project to enter business themselves via a http://www.aboutus.org/PennyBank.biz , that offers micro-credits even under 1 US$.



Ten kids take a credit for 0.80 US$ each to buy a domain together, which they develop with their Laptops (that includes a cam and Internet access).



If ten kids collaborate, they can buy a shared E-Junkie account for 0.50 US$/ month.



Each of those "kids" (6-18years old) publishes their ExtremeOpenBusinessJournal for 0.99 US$ per day. And I am sure, that the philantrophists, want to know, how well they perform.



This journal has the form of a wiki (TiddlyWiki) and normally people will download this

once a week or a month. Of course, sponsors can do it each day :-)



ExtremeOpenBusiness is not only for kids.

CreativeCommons and many others now can have "food on their table" too.



The ideas for ExtremeOpenBusiness came from David Brin's "The transparent Society"

and from ExtremeProgramming.



You might wish to have a look at: http://www.aboutus.org/ExtremeOpenBusiness.



Thank you

Fridemar Pache

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fridemar
Jul '08

Dear Robin,



thank you for appreciating the community work.



You are invited to a (PR-)friendly, constructive community dialogue at

<-> http://aboutus.org/SharedEcommerce.



I prepared a kingsize intro for you with a YouTube video :-)



All we need is a simple PHP-link without further parameters and how we get it.

Although "Paypal account option = YES" is not quite clear.



Later on we need a "one-time", "first-come first served Pay-Button" for selling

domains via an EditGrid or GoogleSpreadsheet in the spirit of http://aboutus.org/SocialDomaining (a special case for http://ExtremeOpenBusiness).



It would be great, if we could have a "OneClickDomainBuyButton", that makes payment and

DomainTransfer one integrated process (including a cooperating DomainRegistrar, that could be E-Junkie.com :-)



All the best to all of us.

Fridemar

PS.: For maximal exposure of these ideas in the context of *****E-Junkie*****, I leave a bilinked copy in your forum, a backup in Aboutus.org and annotate it for the following Diigo groups: CreatingSharedWealth, SocialDomaining, ExtremeOpenBusiness. Besides that, I include it into the public WikiTrails, named "E-Junkie.com", "CreatingAndSharingWealth" and last not least, leave a notice on Twitter.com.

fridemar
Jul '08

Hey Robin, anybody of the support team, or any savvy member of the E-Junkie community:



we have some questions, posed in http://aboutus.org/SharedEcommerce, we ask you here,

because you might have a better feeling here "at home" :slight_smile: although I did my best to prepare a comfortable context in the aboutus.org wiki.



Q1: How can we reduce the high percentage of Paypal-transaction costs, when needing a price <1 US$. Do you allow cumulating small amounts or do you know other micropayment options?



Q2: Do you allow customizing the PayButton... something like | Create More ? | together with your VISA and Mastercard logo?



Q3: Do you allow group accounts for SharedEcommerce (I guess, Paypal has something like

that).



All the best to all of us

Fridemar



Q4: We need a one-time Buy-Now Button for selling domain-names. Is this possible with E-Junkie? (As a small API application for GoogleSpreadsheet and/or EditGrid).

Of course it would be great to integrate at least an Intra Registrar Transfer of the traded domaines.



Q5: What are the typical transaction costs for international sellers with a merchant account?

E-junkie_GuruWebmaster & Support Guru
Jul '08

Our apologies, but we cannot provide support communications outside of our own systems, as it would be unmanageable for us to maintain contact with our Merchants if we had to check into each of their own, various preferred forums/wikis/etc. elsewhere. We are happy to provide support through this forum and via email; see our contact page here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/contact.php



Please note that E-junkie is only a shopping-cart and digital-delivery service; we are not a payment processor like PayPal, so we cannot directly handle any actual payment transactions or funds. Our cart service simply hands-off order data to your choice of processor during checkout for payment arrangements to be made there, independently of our system. Once your payment processor informs us that an order payment has been completed at their end, then we would issue the buyer a thank-you email and any relevant key-codes or download links and optionally transmit the order data to a URL you specify where you would have your own means in place to do with that data whatever you wish.



I cannot respond to any issue in your earlier posts, but to address your more recent, particular questions in order:



A1: Consult PayPal's support staff regarding their transaction fees. We can support splitting micropayments/macropayments based on an order-total threshold, but we would have to set that up manually for your account here. Please send your micro/macro split requirements to us by email:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/contact.php



A2: Please see our help pages on customizing our cart screen here:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.custom-cart.php



A3: I am not sure what you mean, but each of our Merchant accounts are standalone -- there is only one login possible for each account, and different Merchant accounts cannot be grouped into some association or interaction with each other, at least on our end. If PayPal has something on their end that requires no direct support nor special setup from us, well then that wouldn't concern us -- we just pass the order data off to them for payment, and what you or they do with payment funds from there is independent from us.



A4: You can sell whatever you are able to provide, but we would only handle taking the order and sending the order total to a payment processor like PayPal. Everything else, such as domain lookups, transfers, etc. would be up to you. You might find our 3rd party integration instructions useful to send order data to your own system for post-processing:

http://www.e-junkie.com/ej/help.integration.php



A5: We are not a payment processor, so we do not handle any payment funds and thus do not charge any per-transaction fees at our end. Our only fees are the flat-monthly subscription fee that you pay us automatically as a recurring payment from your PayPal account. The payment processor you choose to accept payments (presumably PayPal) would have their own fee structure, so you would need to contact them for info about their fees.

fridemar
Jul '08

Dear E-Junkie team,

we thank you for your answers. Our free test-week is over.



Before subscribing, we need some thinking time.



I don't know, if the free demo automatically extends to a paid service, if we

don't give you notice.



In this case, please cancel the process.



All the best to all of us

Fridemar