[UnoriginalGuy]

May I ask: How large is the markup on that?

I mean if the flowers cost $60 (from the florist), how much would they cost the client via your service? I mean outside of the normal cost for using the service.

Essentially what I'm asking is if there is a "service fee" on purchases?

[tedroden]

Nope, at this point, we don't take any percentage or fee. We even pass along any discounts we receive (we get up to 15% off flower some purchases for example and we pass that along to you).

[tych0]

Hi, looks like an interesting service! I've already sent it to a bunch of my friends who I think can get a lot of value out of it.

Unfortunately, I don't think I could extract $25/mo out of the service myself. Do you have any plans for alternative pricing structures? I would definitely pay $100 for a block of 20 requests that I could use over the course of a year, say.

[tijs]

I was thinking along the same lines. I'd much rather 'pre pay' for tasks than have a monthly limit. Else i'll have to think if a task is worthwhile enough to use up one of my 5 tasks. And i would hate to run out of task slots some months but just not often enough to warrant an upgrade.

[Wintamute]

I doubt they would implement something like this. Their business model is likely built on a) having regular income and b) many users not using all their tasks per month (i.e. paying for something they aren't using). It's the same reason services like Dropbox don't offer a pay-for-what-you-use plan - the majority of their income comes from people paying the set monthly fees but not using anywhere near the maximum storage/bandwidth.

[tych0]

Sure, but there's no reason you can't offer a non-monthly plan at the true operating cost * 1.(your markup). It might be slightly (or vastly) more expensive per request than the monthly plan, but guys like me would still buy 20 or 30, instead of having no revenue from us at all...

[intended]

Its actually very funny, to me, that you suggested this.

In my previous job, this was precisely the structure the firm evolved to give to certain customers who were on the fence about the service. (B2B - financial Services)

We had one tweak to it, and once people used it, they never got out.

[nikhilalmeida]

+1 ted. A feature request right here.

[justin0469]

I'd like something like that too

[joonix]

Aren't you losing 2-3% of the transaction every time this occurs (because of your CC fees billing me)?