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		chadmalik on March 9, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How did the web lose faith in charging for stuff? For your consideration, PayPal subscriptions service: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=p/xcl/rec/subscr-i... It works just fine and no need to get the thousands of ISPs that exist involved, which is incredibly messy.

axod on March 9, 2009 [–]

Sure, but the user still has to have paypal setup, credit card, etc.

Going the ISP route is far cleaner, since they already have a billing relationship with the customer.

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