Comments on: New traffic exchange called Traffic Planets

By: peter hobday

peter hobday — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:11:00 +0000

I am a subscriptions marketer so talking from the other side.

If Paypal warned subscribers of a renewal coming up in a few days time, the publisher would lose tons of money, so would Paypal, because customers would cancel in their thousands.

So publishers would move their business out of Paypal to another provider.

It may sound like inertia selling, because customers forget they are paying for something they wanted. But that works two ways. Customers would, believe it or not, suddenly realise their subscription service had stopped and try to correct the ‘mistake’. People forget.

Peter

By: Jens

Jens — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 07:14:00 +0000

Yes I probably should, but I keep forgetting

By: Tim Linden

Tim Linden — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 22:58:00 +0000

Maybe once a month you should do the Paypal history search for subscriptions and review?

By: Jens

Jens — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:59:00 +0000

I would want PayPal to have an optional alert, where you can receive an e-mail a day or a few days before (that would be the users choice) a subscription renewal.

If I had an option like that, I would have kept my $25. It would really have helped me a lot over the years

Maybe PayPal already have alerts, but I have looked for them and I haven’t found any so far.

By: Dawud Miracle

Dawud Miracle — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:16:00 +0000

Me too. I did it once with a gym membership that when on for almost a year – at $45/mo. Auto-billed on my credit card and I never caught it.

By: annalaura

annalaura — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:39:00 +0000

don’t worry, you are not the only one. I’ve done this before as well.