E-commerce is all speed– getting you your product fast and taking your money faster. What if there was an online service that would give you some of the immediate consumer therapy of making a purchase but actually held yor money for a self imposed period of days before it actually made the purchase? It would work like this, you still get to shop at the store of your choice, you get to use your credit card and the store responds as if your just a regular shopper.Behind the sceens the whole process is managed by the online financial proxy and payement and of course shipment of the goods is held until say 5 days later. You then get an email from the online escrow service asking if you still want to go through with purchase and if you do it releases the money to the vendor. If not, no harm no foul. The online escrow could give you a chance to cool your heels a bit before realizing that there is no shortage of flat screeen t.v.’s in the world or countless other online “deals”.

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Posted: August 31st, 2007 under consumer therapy, control, money.
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