I remember simpler times of the Web 1.0 age when Epinions would just mail me a check every few months. Outside of the reviews I wrote on their website, I didn't have to lift a finger to get paid.
Everyone is conditioned to pay for things. Either in the form of taxes or directly. Everyone is used to recccurent payments (internet, electricity, water,…). Google, Facebook have been the biggest proponents of software in exchange of your data instead of money.
I uh... think I may have supplied one of those operators with software to automate payments. It was all rather arms-length and I didn't enquire, but it involved paying out interest to hundreds of e-gold accounts. And I got paid well.
This is a little bit outdated. Nowadays you pay with both your money and your data. For example, see Windows telemetry. It even collects the full command line for applications elevated through UAC.
Yeah, even when I was living paycheck-to-paycheck, I used auto-pay.
I'd just had a post-it note stuck to my monitor of the dates and usual amounts for the auto-pays, so I was never caught off guard or surprised amount money moving.
I pay pretty much all of the people whose stuff I use on a regular basis, but I don't pay any of them automatically or monthly. I just drop each of them a one-time $20 payment every so often.
This one is also interesting. I might not be old enough to remember something like this, even old times circa 1990s installments would let you have the item immediately, but be paid over time.
The PoS thing i am talking about was even before ecommerce was common was mostly decentralized through the seller. Overtime, banks started getting into this niche, and when you were paying with credit card, they offered you installments usually at 0% apr for few months. Eventually this moved to e-commerce with websites offering similar payments.
I also sort of remember in the US some credit cards (probably chase?) offered installments after you pay for the item - you'd login into your account, and pick a purchase to pay over time.
Especially when I was doing a lot of traveling, I pretty much switched everything I could to auto-pay. I always found the weekly or biweekly bill paying something of a drudgery. I still periodically look through stuff but it's pretty rare I find a problem I need to deal with (and that's usually something like a charge from some payment processor I just didn't recognize).
Yes, but it's not as weird as it sounds. It says the users are creditors as well so using the users' accounts to pay the users is not particularly strange.
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