Comments on: Helio Allows Customers To Use Obopay http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/12/20/helio-allows-customers-to-use-obopay/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:00:46 -0500 hourly 1 By: That Canadian http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/12/20/helio-allows-customers-to-use-obopay/comment-page-1/#comment-44622 That Canadian Thu, 21 Dec 2006 14:18:44 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/12/20/helio-allows-customers-to-use-obopay/#comment-44622 Jon It's a cellphone, not a credit card (and I hope you wouldn't need plastic surgery to carry another one :)) Mastercard's decision to target Helio could be a great way to show the bigger providers why they should adapt. Simply going up to them and saying "we'll take over one of your key markets" probably won't make them very interested. Being able to go "we did that with Helio and they made -very-large-number-" might Jon
It’s a cellphone, not a credit card (and I hope you wouldn’t need plastic surgery to carry another one :))

Mastercard’s decision to target Helio could be a great way to show the bigger providers why they should adapt. Simply going up to them and saying “we’ll take over one of your key markets” probably won’t make them very interested. Being able to go “we did that with Helio and they made -very-large-number-” might

]]> By: Kurt Collins http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/12/20/helio-allows-customers-to-use-obopay/comment-page-1/#comment-43953 Kurt Collins Wed, 20 Dec 2006 22:12:18 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/12/20/helio-allows-customers-to-use-obopay/#comment-43953 I agree with Peter. Rather than focusing on recruiting ways for people to pay, why not actually recruit customers? Helio has a long way to go before they get to the stage where they have to seriously worry about offering a variety of payment options. I agree with Peter. Rather than focusing on recruiting ways for people to pay, why not actually recruit customers? Helio has a long way to go before they get to the stage where they have to seriously worry about offering a variety of payment options.

]]> By: Peter http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/12/20/helio-allows-customers-to-use-obopay/comment-page-1/#comment-43767 Peter Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:37:10 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/12/20/helio-allows-customers-to-use-obopay/#comment-43767 I saw Obopay last year at CES and thought it was a pretty good idea. Although at the time I thought paypal mobile would come up with the same idea and crush them. That hasn't happened, nor has obopay really taken off. Helio is a start, but how many customers does Helio even have? 100,000? Take a small percentage who would use obopay and you are talking about 1k-3k people even using this service. They need to close a large carrier, and I guess this is the first baby step. Look at Google checkout, it is google, and it's taking quite some time to get traction. I saw Obopay last year at CES and thought it was a pretty good idea. Although at the time I thought paypal mobile would come up with the same idea and crush them. That hasn’t happened, nor has obopay really taken off.

Helio is a start, but how many customers does Helio even have? 100,000? Take a small percentage who would use obopay and you are talking about 1k-3k people even using this service.

They need to close a large carrier, and I guess this is the first baby step. Look at Google checkout, it is google, and it’s taking quite some time to get traction.

]]> By: Jon http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/12/20/helio-allows-customers-to-use-obopay/comment-page-1/#comment-43669 Jon Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:09:21 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/12/20/helio-allows-customers-to-use-obopay/#comment-43669 Great... all my pockets are full along with my backpack of other electronics... where the hell am I going to put this now? I might need a sex change to make room to carry yet another electronic device! Let us hope they roll this out on other phone systems via firmware update before I go under the knife! Jon Great… all my pockets are full along with my backpack of other electronics… where the hell am I going to put this now? I might need a sex change to make room to carry yet another electronic device! Let us hope they roll this out on other phone systems via firmware update before I go under the knife!

Jon

]]> By: Jon http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/12/20/helio-allows-customers-to-use-obopay/comment-page-1/#comment-43635 Jon Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:37:32 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/12/20/helio-allows-customers-to-use-obopay/#comment-43635 The last frontier for credit cards companies to get consumers to pay for small things with their cards. Such as jammin' ringtones and sweet wallpapers yo. Smart idea considering the market and age group that Helio caters to rely a lot on their parents for money and still consider hip-hop and pop ringtones to be the coolest things ever ELL OH ELL hee hee!11! Ahem. Anyways, with the way credit card companies such as Visa or MasterCard are gunning to get you and me to buy our trendy salads and bottled waters with our plastic, I wouldn't be surprised to see more marketing schemes like this popping up in most normal providers such as Verizon or Cingular... The last frontier for credit cards companies to get consumers to pay for small things with their cards. Such as jammin’ ringtones and sweet wallpapers yo.

Smart idea considering the market and age group that Helio caters to rely a lot on their parents for money and still consider hip-hop and pop ringtones to be the coolest things ever ELL OH ELL hee hee!11!

Ahem.

Anyways, with the way credit card companies such as Visa or MasterCard are gunning to get you and me to buy our trendy salads and bottled waters with our plastic, I wouldn’t be surprised to see more marketing schemes like this popping up in most normal providers such as Verizon or Cingular…

]]> By: Isaiah http://www.crunchgear.com/2006/12/20/helio-allows-customers-to-use-obopay/comment-page-1/#comment-43632 Isaiah Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:34:50 +0000 http://crunchgear.com/2006/12/20/helio-allows-customers-to-use-obopay/#comment-43632 But Helio said not to call it a phone. OH, THE CONTRADICTIONS. :o Anywho, I probably wouldn't use it if I did get a Helio - Mastercard and I have an uneasy truce because they've been the only card I've ever had that was used for purchases I didn't make. But Helio said not to call it a phone. OH, THE CONTRADICTIONS. :o Anywho, I probably wouldn’t use it if I did get a Helio – Mastercard and I have an uneasy truce because they’ve been the only card I’ve ever had that was used for purchases I didn’t make.

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