I am going to see the harlem globetrotters this month in austin and naturally I wanted my friends to join me. I sent out an email asking for interest, and to my delight 12 people want to come. That was the easy part. The hard part is getting people to agree on what ticket price to buy (cheaper versus better seats) as well as getting everyone to pay you back. Mind you my friends all have well paying jobs, but remembering to pay someone back isn’t typically high on anyones list.
Instead, what if i could make all the plans, select the tickets and put up a page with a time limit, lets say 48 hours, where people can submit a payment for their own ticket. They have until the end of the limit to back out, and when the clock strikes zero 12 tickets are purchased, and I don’t have to front money for anyone. The value to the initiator is obvious, they don’t have to hunt down deadbeats. It will take the guess work out of all the participants, who can back out of the ticket at any time. Everyone wins. Throw in a link to a google wave, (is it possible to embed those?) and you’ve got a great little app with a mini community. Maybe you could even do this all through facebook. We would have to charge merchant fees to all charges, which would be a down side, but we could charge a small processing fee per payment (think a few cents).
Has anyone done anything like this? What do you think.
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I like it… It would have to be easy and secure. Maybe go through paypal (or at least offer it as an option). Maybe your app would just make an easy way to set up a temporary product on paypal to accept payment. Then once you have all the monies, make the purchase…