[caseyy]

I like that they let you subscribe with Apple Pay, but I wish I could just pay $0.50 for the one article. I would pay. It’d be much less friction than either finding a proxy to read it for free, or subscribing properly and the dealing with the unsubscribe process which can be very difficult.

[HumblyTossed]

I really think the major credit card companies missed a tremendous opportunity by not figuring out micropayments. They have the infrastructure to be the ones to figure this out, but they didn't.

[erhaetherth]

Just drop the flat fee. Stripe is 2.9% + 30c. If they did 3% and no flat fee, then on $1 you'd get 97 cents instead of less than 70. I assume the CC companies are charging a flat fee too...unless that's just Stripe's own thing.

[wincy]

But if they did that they couldn’t send you to a retention specialist when you want to cancel! And automatically switch to your reissued credit card when the old one expires, counting on you to forget that subscription and be a lifelong customer and maybe even for a few years after if they’re lucky.