[drawkbox]

It appears they are killing of the person to person payments much like PayPal.

It is good for Amazon because Amazon Payments was not the best service from Amazon, probably had the most non Amazon like experiences within it mainly bad customer service and worse than Paypal fraud false positives. For doing such a good job in all other areas they enter usually, here they made a worse PayPal, exactly the thing they were trying to better.

Stripe is such a better alternative to Amazon (and paypal which Amazon payments was supposed to rival). Amazon payments is now more business to business or person to business and no more person to person payments.

[ericd]

I'm not sure if it's related, but a lot of people used to use Amazon's person to person payments to churn credit card offers. If that was as prevalent as it seemed, then they may have been losing a tidy bundle to it.