{"id":42511,"date":"2014-06-11T17:29:25","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T23:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/amazon-takes-on-paypal-huzzah.html"},"modified":"2014-06-11T23:13:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T05:13:18","slug":"amazon-takes-on-paypal-huzzah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/amazon-takes-on-paypal-huzzah.html","title":{"rendered":"Amazon takes on PayPal, huzzah"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">I&#39;m fairly deeply embedded in the Amazon world, and I&#39;ve never been a huge fan of PayPal for a variety of reasons. So, yes, I&#39;d love to be able to make use of an Amazon Payment system in lieu of (or offered in parallel to) PayPal.\ufeff<\/div>\n<p class='gpb-article' style='clear:both;'>\n<div style='overflow:hidden;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n                                                    <img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/Qrmt7fBc9ksY7sTUopOW86C1Jn0PewmCRUzWL3QUQmVDNtBbtYLSjn9MbRAwjuwV2vRR3YdZTGIdGev20aW5t3yZZfzw_04oQjyIPDbA-W_0EIVDRzgm=w506-h303' border='0' \/>\n                                                <\/div>\n<p>                                                <a href='http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2014\/06\/09\/amazon-launches-paypal-like-payment-system-for-consumers-businesses\/'>Amazon Launches PayPal-Like Payment System For Consumers, Businesses<\/a><br \/>\n                                                Amazon is quickly turning itself into an online one-stop-shop for consumers. Next up for the e-tail giant? Entering the e-commerce fold with a new payment product system that puts it in direct comp&#8230;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/gsQoXMRZRbj' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m fairly deeply embedded in the Amazon world, and I&#39;ve never been a huge fan of PayPal for a variety of reasons. So, yes, I&#39;d love to be able to make use of an Amazon Payment system in lieu of (or offered in parallel to) PayPal.\ufeff Amazon Launches PayPal-Like Payment System For Consumers, Businesses Amazon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/11\/amazon-takes-on-paypal-huzzah.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Amazon takes on PayPal, huzzah&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,3],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-blogging","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8693,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/06\/take_a_number.html","url_meta":{"origin":42511,"position":0},"title":"Take a number","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Sep-05 12:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Amazon, eBay, and PayPal don't publish their customer service phone numbers online. 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