While some people were paying attention to Jin Yi's June 1st Gala, some people noticed that the official account of Deep Space Computer posted a new update.
The content of this update is very simple. The electronic payment software PayPal of Deep Space Computer Agent has been officially opened for use. There is also a link attached to the end of this update. At the end of the link is the first tribe of PayPal Payment’s official tribe account.
, the functions and usage of PayPal are introduced above.
Zhou Youcan was one of the first people to see this tribe. When he saw this tribe, his first reaction was surprise.
He was surprised that Deep Space Company, which has always had strong publicity, released their payment software so quietly this time. According to the past style, Deep Space Company should push the payment software to them through Dongdong as soon as possible.
In front of us, this time even the official tribe of the Deep Space Group did not issue an announcement, only a Deep Space Computer issued an announcement.
However, Zhou Youcan didn’t think much about it and immediately learned about PayPal, an electronic payment software.
The software download went smoothly and the account registration was also very simple. The method of using the payment software was not quite what Zhou Youcan expected.
Zhou Youcan knew about Paypal, another payment software owned by Shen Kong Group. In fact, when he saw the name PayPal, he felt that PayPal was probably the Chinese version of Paypal, but the payment method of PayPal is different from that of Paypal.
are different.
PayPal cannot directly deduct money from bank cards. Instead, users need to use their own bank cards to transfer money to their PayPal accounts, and then use PayPal to pay.
Now the PayPal software only has a payment channel in BenQ stores. Zhou Youcan first transferred a few dollars to his PayPal account, then logged into the BenQ store and purchased a few songs in the store. The entire payment process was relatively fast.
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However, for Zhou Youcan, this payment alone is not more convenient than before.
The BenQ store already accepts bank transfer payment, so even without PayPal, Zhou Youcan can still buy songs in the BenQ store. Now he has to take one more step to buy songs in the store.
However, in the long run, there are still advantages to using this payment method.
In the past, when buying songs on the BenQ store, it was always very troublesome to buy them one by one. After all, the entire process of bank transfer is quite cumbersome. Sometimes Zhou Youcan also saved the songs because the payment process was a bit cumbersome.
, wait until a certain amount has been accumulated before making a one-time purchase, and try to reduce the number of payments you make.
But now with PayPal, the situation is a little different. Zhou Youcan can add more money to his PayPal account at one time, making it tens or hundreds. Once he wants to buy a song, he can
Transfer money directly from PayPal.
Using PayPal to transfer money to BenQ stores is much more convenient than using bank cards to transfer money.
After using PayPal once, Zhou Youcan felt that compared to using it on BenQ stores, PayPal is more suitable for use on a person-to-person e-commerce platform.
Zhou Youcan usually goes to e-commerce platforms, but rarely makes purchases because payment is a hassle.
Nowadays, when making payment on domestic e-commerce websites, either the buyer pays the seller first, and then the seller delivers the goods, or the seller ships the goods first, and then the buyer pays after the goods arrive.
Whether it is cash on delivery or payment first and then shipping, there are respective problems. In the former, the seller is afraid that the buyer will cheat his goods, while in the latter, the buyer is afraid that the seller will take the money and run away.
Zhou Youcan saw PayPal's announcement. When the transaction is in progress, PayPal will deduct the money. Only after the buyer confirms that he has received the item, PayPal will transfer the money to the seller's account.
Moreover, PayPal also shouted a very reassuring slogan - If you dare to pay, I dare to compensate.
This function is actually of little use in BenQ stores, because users who use BenQ stores don’t worry about not getting what they paid for.
First of all, BenQ is a big company, endorsed by the Deep Space Group, and has a high credibility. No one believes that it would cheat them out of this small amount of money. If they were really cheated of their money, a company as big as Deep Space would not be able to escape.
Furthermore, in the BenQ store, users buy virtual products such as electronic music, which are shipped quickly. Basically, users can get their own music after the money is transferred.
But on ordinary e-commerce websites, this feature of PayPal payment is more important. Buyers can safely transfer their money to their PayPal account first, and PayPal will pay it after they get the goods.
The money is transferred to the other party's account.
Sellers can also ship goods with confidence because the money is already in their PayPal account.
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On the morning of June 2, the official account of Deep Space Group released a new tribe.
The content is also very simple. Yu Dong's new book "District 9" will be released simultaneously in 44 countries around the world on July 13th.
Compared with the low-key launch of the PayPal payment software, Deep Space Company's promotion of "District 9" is much greater.
Although the news about the release of the new book was not sent directly to everyone's account through Dongdong, most of the corporate accounts of Deep Space Company forwarded this blog.
In addition, artists and writers affiliated with Deep Space Company, whether from China or Europe and the United States, also spontaneously forwarded this blog, and the news of the new book's release also spread throughout the entire online world at a rapid speed.
【Finally waiting for "District 9".】
[Haha, I’m so happy to see the new book before the Galaxy Awards.]
[I just took a look and found that July 13th is a Friday. Wasn’t it always a Saturday before every publication? Why is it a Friday this time? What’s the point? 】
[July 14th is the Galaxy Awards, so maybe I want to release it before the Galaxy Awards, or so I think.]
[No, why not just put it on the same day as the Galaxy Awards? It would be more of a gimmick.]
[Don’t you know, the International Olympic Committee will hold a meeting in Moscow on July 13th to vote on the city to host the 2008 Olympic Games. Yanjing is one of the candidate cities, and Yu Dong is the Olympic bid ambassador. ]
[Oh, yes, I forgot about that. It seems that the release date of the new book is aimed at this day. 】
[If the Olympic bid is successful, will it be twice as happy? 】
[There should be no problem if the Olympic bid is successful. Yanjing has done a good job in the Olympic bid in the past two years. Last time it was just a narrow defeat. This time with Yu Dong’s participation, there will definitely be no problem.]
[You still can’t be too optimistic, otherwise you will be very disappointed if your bid for the Olympics is not successful.]
[Just wait, the results will be out in more than a month.]
[Haha, if the bid for the Olympics is successful, there will be no books given away or more signings at the conference. 】
[I think we should just make an Olympic Collector’s Edition, I’ll be the first to buy it.]
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When Zhou Youcan saw that the whole Internet was discussing Yu Dong's new book the next day, he remembered the PayPal payment software that had been quietly launched the night before. In comparison, PayPal was so neglected that he didn't even visit it for a long time today.
I saw a few people talking about this software.
But if you think about it carefully, there is a reason why Deep Space Group did not promote this payment software with great fanfare.
The situation in China is different from that in foreign countries. There has never been a transparent and fair credit payment system. Domestic online payments have only slowly appeared in the past few years, and they are all done by major banks.
Many people are aware of the benefits of third-party payment platforms, but they also know that it is not easy to do so.
If you want to be a third-party payment platform, you have to face three major obstacles.
First, there is the legal risk. Private enterprises do not have payment licenses, and PayPal payment can be said to be in a gray area of ​​the law. There is no legal provision that cannot be done, but there is also no provision that can be done.
Some people say that you can do whatever is not prohibited by law, but this is obviously a bit radical and idealistic, and wandering in a gray area is still very risky.
Second, there are technical difficulties. Currently, domestic banks do not provide standardized excuses to the outside world. If you want to support the transactions of various banks, you have to negotiate one by one, which is very troublesome.
The third issue is the cost. Most of the domestic e-commerce transactions are small transactions, sometimes only three to five yuan per transaction. The profit is too small, and the money earned may not be enough to cover the cost.
The reason why Deep Space Company did not promote PayPal with great fanfare was mainly because of the first reason.
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However, Zhou Youcan obviously guessed wrong. The reason why Deep Space Company did not promote PayPal in a big way was not because of legal issues, but because the time was not right.
Just on the tenth day after "District 9" was announced for sale, that is, on June 12, Deep Space Group announced another big news. The group established a new website called Haibei.
This new website will be officially launched on July 1st.
After the announcement that Haibei.com was about to go online, the promotion of PayPal payments also started.
On June 13, Haibei.com held a small-scale offline press conference in the Deep Sky Park. The main content of this press conference was to announce the website’s first merchant, Eslite Bookstore.
This matter was led by Eslite Bookstore. Wu Qingyou, the owner of Eslite Bookstore, came to Jinling to inspect their branch in Jinling and paid a visit to Yu Dong. During the conversation, he heard about Haibei.com.
Wu Qingyou's business acumen is quite keen, and he immediately proposed to be the first merchant to sign a contract with the website.
At that time, the website was being built, and the business matters had not yet been discussed. Previously, Yu Dong wanted to make the official flagship store of BenQ Mobile the first store to enter Haibei.com. However, since Wu Qingyou took the initiative to propose this suggestion, Yu Dong took it seriously.
Considered.
The key is that Wu Qingyou is very sincere about this cooperation and is willing to hold a very strong discount event to attract customers to the website when the website is launched.
In addition, Yu Dong's new book "District 9" happened to be released this time, making Eslite Bookstore the first merchant to settle in, which also helped the sales of "District 9".
Although Haibei.com’s first store is definitely Eslite Bookstore, in fact, what the website wants to attract in the short term is not these big companies and big brands, because big companies and big brands will settle in sooner or later, and the website now wants to attract the most
The most important ones are individual merchants and self-employed people. Only when a large number of individual merchants and self-employed people settle in can Haibei grow rapidly.
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When Hu Weiping saw the news on Haibei.com, the first thing that came to his mind was the Nikon digital camera he had previously listed for sale online.
He had bought that camera when he was studying abroad. After using it for a while, he bought a better one, and naturally put the original one on hold.
He thought it would be a waste to store things, so he happened to see someone posting a second-hand transaction on the deep space forum, so he tried to do it himself, but the items never sold.
The reason why it was not sold was not because the product was not good. In fact, after the camera was hung up, many people asked about the price, and two of them were quite satisfied with the price.
It's just that these two "intended customers" are either in Yanjing or Yangcheng, which are far away from Luzhou where Hu Weiping is located, and there is no way to do face-to-face transactions.
Since face-to-face transactions are not possible, there is a question: should we pay first and then deliver the goods, or should we deliver the goods first and then pay? Hu Weiping doesn’t believe others, and others don’t believe him. After all, the transaction volume is as high as 800 yuan. Who can
I dare not trust the other party gullibly.
The second-hand trading posts on the Deep Space Forum are basically cheap items, and many of them are face-to-face transactions in the same city.
Hu Weiping also tried to hang things on other websites, but either the procedures were complicated and the things could not be posted, or there was a problem with the Deep Space Forum.
However, Haibei.com, which is about to go online, has launched a guaranteed transaction service in order to solve the trust problem in transactions.
This guaranteed transaction service is realized through PayPal payment. During the transaction, the buyer first transfers the money to PayPal payment, which is in a state of pending deduction. After the goods arrive, it is confirmed that there is no problem and then the money is deducted to the seller's account.
among.
After carefully reading the details of the guaranteed transaction service several times, Hu Weiping logged into his own Dongdong, and then contacted the netizen who had previously intended to buy his camera and told him that the transaction could be completed on Haibei.com. The two parties hit it off and decided to wait until Haibei.com
Once online, transactions can be conducted on the website.
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In order to sell the camera as soon as possible, Hu Weiping and the other party had already made preparations. When Haibei.com was officially launched at nine o'clock on July 1st, the two of them entered the website immediately.
Because both of them had registered PayPal payment accounts before, they could directly log in to Haibei.com using their PayPal payment accounts. Hu Weiping then activated the sales function according to the website's user manual, and quickly connected the camera.
After he posted it, the other party was able to quickly search for the product and make payment quickly.
Hu Weiping confirmed the order in the background, and then took the camera to find the express delivery.
After sending the goods, Hu Weiping breathed a long sigh of relief. Because the two had made full preparations before, the transaction was very smooth, there were no variables in the process, and the entire transaction process was very much in line with their expectations.
What Hu Weiping didn't expect was that just because the two were so eager to complete the transaction, their transaction turned out to be the first transaction on the entire Haibei.com. Even the first transaction of Eslite Bookstore had not yet completed payment.
Chapter completed!