It appears they are killing of the person to person payments much like PayPal.
It is good for Amazon because Amazon Payments was not the best service from Amazon, probably had the most non Amazon like experiences within it mainly bad customer service and worse than Paypal fraud false positives. For doing such a good job in all other areas they enter usually, here they made a worse PayPal, exactly the thing they were trying to better.
Stripe is such a better alternative to Amazon (and paypal which Amazon payments was supposed to rival). Amazon payments is now more business to business or person to business and no more person to person payments.
I'm not sure if it's related, but a lot of people used to use Amazon's person to person payments to churn credit card offers. If that was as prevalent as it seemed, then they may have been losing a tidy bundle to it.
"Late last year Amazon decided to discontinue the payments product that we have used."
I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, I'm just not sure what else that could mean. When I see a button to pay with Amazon, the button says "Amazon Payments" on it, which I, as a layman, would call the Amazon Payments product if I had to call it anything.
Of course, Kickstarter may have just misspoke. Or, like you said, it's a specific product that only applied to Kickstarter. Either way, it's quite confusing from where I'm sitting.
I think the specific "product" they are referring to is Amazon's willingness to accept the authorization at a certain point and then only actually charge the card later when Kickstarter signaled that the project was funded.
I remember hearing a long time ago that Amazon wasn't particularly happy with this arrangement, and had specifically declined to offer it to Kickstarter competitors.
drawkbox|11 years ago
It is good for Amazon because Amazon Payments was not the best service from Amazon, probably had the most non Amazon like experiences within it mainly bad customer service and worse than Paypal fraud false positives. For doing such a good job in all other areas they enter usually, here they made a worse PayPal, exactly the thing they were trying to better.
Stripe is such a better alternative to Amazon (and paypal which Amazon payments was supposed to rival). Amazon payments is now more business to business or person to business and no more person to person payments.
ericd|11 years ago
fooqux|11 years ago
I'm not necessarily saying you're wrong, I'm just not sure what else that could mean. When I see a button to pay with Amazon, the button says "Amazon Payments" on it, which I, as a layman, would call the Amazon Payments product if I had to call it anything.
Of course, Kickstarter may have just misspoke. Or, like you said, it's a specific product that only applied to Kickstarter. Either way, it's quite confusing from where I'm sitting.
audiodude|11 years ago
I remember hearing a long time ago that Amazon wasn't particularly happy with this arrangement, and had specifically declined to offer it to Kickstarter competitors.
skuhn|11 years ago
https://payments.amazon.com/help/201626250
They still have other payment products, but I couldn't tell you what the differences are.