Amazon Now Offers IOUs Through Bill Me Later

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Paul Glazowski
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Amazon Now Offers IOUs Through Bill Me Later
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So you’ve got yourself an Amazon addiction, shopping for everything from books to mobile phones to toiletries and myriad other odds and ends. Or maybe you want to shop the retailer, but are no fan of sending credit card information across the Web for phishers to scavenge. Or maybe you don’t have plastic on hand. In any case, you prefer to make your trades IOU-style.

Now you may. Amazon today has introduced to its many millions of annual customers the option to receive an invoice for goods received to be paid post-shipment. The megasite has signed a deal with Bill Me Later to reach the check-writing demographic, a group undoubtedly decreasing in size but still [img src="http://sale-online.click/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/billmelater.png" caption="" credit="" alt=""]adamant in its preference for a more tangible transaction, so to speak. The public’s trust in e-commerce may have grown quite a bit in the last decade or so, but holdouts evidently exist.

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