You may remember the Humble Indie Bundle from May, which was a sort of experiment in payment, trends, and distribution.
Crowdtilt API evangelist Marc St . Raymondsaid on Hacker News that the startup was looking to experiment with payment flow and "different shipping scenarios".
Compared to other contingent valuation methods such as discrete choice experiment and payment card method, the OE questionnaire method is generally reported to yield lower (conservative) WTP values [ 31, 43, 44] and may have a better construct validity.
Specifically, a random subset of 10 trials per block would be selected after the experiment for payment: If subjects had successfully reported the cue-location within time, the corresponding money would be paid out.
Other sites are also experimenting with payment models.
It's been almost two years since the Department for International Development (DfID) experimented with payment by results (PbR) contracts.
From gas stations to grocery stores to fast-food chains, merchants are experimenting with payment systems for a harried marketplace.
The ad-blocking web browser Brave, co-founded by Mozilla's former CEO Brendan Eich, is today rolling out its grand experiment "Brave Payments," which will encourage web users to reward their favorite sites by automatically and anonymously sending them Bitcoin-based micropayments.
Particularly noteworthy is an innovative experiment with payments based on clinical outcomes, the so-called fee-for-outcomes (FFO) approach in Taiwan.
After all, sometimes a social payments experiment is just a social payments experiment.
