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9 commentsMonday, June 22, 2009

PayPal Wants You to Pay Your Friends for Favors

Make Them Offers on Facebook

PayPal has launched a new site called "Do Stuff For Money," which the company describes as a way to get people to do stuff...for money. Mind blowing isn't it?

"Need your roommate Susie to handle your laundry this week? Sweeten the deal by offering $20 to make sure she does it right," says PayPal Director of Product Marketing Heinz Waelchi. "Want your boyfriend to give you a foot massage after a long day at work? He may hate your feet, but it might be worth the extra $40."

Stuff for Money

The site can be used for legitimate transactions using PayPal's send money feature, but Waelchi also encourages "prank" offers. Here are a few examples of what people have already used it for:

Stuff for Money

PayPal is also playing up the site's integration with Facebook. You can send offers via Facebook (or email), and the offer will appear on the recipient's wall (or in their inbox with email). Their acceptance or refusal of the offer will also be posted on the wall.

PayPal should be able to avoid any Craiglist-like Attorney General static. In the site’s legal section, it forbids users to “encourage illegal activity.” I assume that includes prostitution.

About the author:
Chris Crum has been a part of the WebProNews team and the iEntry Network of B2B Publications since 2003. Twitter: @CCrum237

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Hi Chris,

This service has both good and bad points. On one hand it could be helpful to many users but on the other hand it could be vulnerable to internet fraud and scams. So Paypal needs to be very careful with this new service.

Thanks for the great post.

Mani Raj
Havoc Marketing

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