Payment Via Mobiles

[Alex]

It's dawned on me that a lot of people are using mobiles to access the web these days....

A lot of people are now using text as a means to communicate........

A lot of people SHOP via their mobile!!!

I wonder if people would be willing to make a payment via their mobile?? Like they can with British Gas or Argos and other places....

Your views???

[Alex]

Here is something I quickly knocked up 5 minutes ago .... this is for the iphone! This is the sort of thing I mean...

http://www.alexentertainment.co.uk/m/index.html <--- try viewing it on your smart phone for the real feel

Do you think customers would use something like this? Think about how many customers use their phones to read emails.

[Steve the DJ]

I think the amount of people who would use such a service will be none to zero!

The thing is, a DJ is not an impulse purchase or the kind of last minute present that you need to buy in a hurry, which are the only reasons I could think of to ever use my phone to make a payment.

Paying a DJ could always wait until you get home IMHO.

[Vectis]

There's PayPal mobile and emerging technologies such as Bump that've already done the hard work.

Why reinvent the wheel?

I've had several payments via PayPal mobile by the way... and I've done some preliminary work with a local taxi firm on Bump.