On: California sues Amazon for preventing 3rd-party se...

[dominotw]

> I decided to cut out the middleman. I speculate that Amazon would otherwise take a percentage and I'd prefer to support the small business.

Do you really want to give out your financial information on some shady overseas websites though?

[ThatPlayer → dominotw]

Yes. Credit cards have fraud protection.

Plenty of stores also support Google Pay, or Apple Pay. PayPal or Amazon Pay. Or are clearly basic Shopify stores. What is the alternative, only using "big name" payments? That's how you get monopolies rent-seeking.

[pas → dominotw]

yes. it takes 2 seconds to create a new virtual bank card. also most things on a non-centralized marketplace are cheap compared to the premium of Amazon's total hegemony

[dominotw → pas]

> it takes 2 seconds to create a new virtual bank card.

how do you do this? My bank used to have this back in the day but they yanked it.

[pas → dominotw]

Revolut offers this. They are available in the EU.

It seems Wise (ex TransferWise) offers this in the USA.