Apparently, Digital River has bought eSellerate, their largest competitor in the shareware e-commerce space.
I cannot find a press release about this. Digital River is a public company and if they are making an aquisition of this magnitude there should be a press release.
This is going to cause lots of shareware companies to once again try to find another ecommerce provider to get away from Digital River.
I'm not concerned about Digital River developing a monopoly because I don't think it can happen. The barrier to entry in the business is just too low and there are so many other options. You can always choose to set up your own system and not use an ecommerce provider at all (that is probably Digital River's biggest competition). PayPal and some other more general payment systems are always available as well. Plus new shareware ecommerce providers are starting up all the time - it's just too profitable a business for people to ignore.
Don't discount GBuy, googles new payment system coming soon. If the API is better than Paypals, it presents a whole new opportunity for folks like you.
Posted by: Max | June 15, 2006 at 08:34 PM
I'm starting to think a good business plan is to start a credit card/payment processing company and just wait to get bought out by Digital River.
Posted by: svero | June 16, 2006 at 09:14 AM
Don't underestimate RegNow's affiliate scheme.
I am hooked on it, can't give it up for another provider.
+ they are only 7%, cmon, just one more hit, aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh
Posted by: James | June 16, 2006 at 08:41 PM
eSellerate's rocket crashes:
http://www.sellme.ru/pics/dr_esellerate.png
:)
Posted by: Dmitry Chestnykh | June 17, 2006 at 08:00 AM
Only 7%? I refuse to have RegNow as my only service which means that i get less than 50% of the $19.95 for a 30%-commission affiliate sale. $9.88 that is.
Posted by: lakibuk | June 19, 2006 at 05:13 AM
agreed. im suprised that regnow affiliate policy isnt anticompetitive and illegal
Posted by: Cliff Harris | June 21, 2006 at 02:02 PM
I have found you have changed your payment service back to Regnow. Are different payment services really affect sales? I changed my payment service from Regnow to Plimus a while ago and did not notice any sales decrease but it's just my feeling and I did not do any strict test.
Posted by: Tom | June 23, 2006 at 10:40 PM
Bah affiliation is dead anyway... regnow is useless. Future is pay per listing.
Posted by: winter wolves | July 02, 2006 at 11:14 AM