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...qualifying round of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, take out a loan and spend anyway--as though you never even needed a lifeline. Trouble is, many of us do need a lifeline desperately. Consumers are up to their eyeballs in debt, and the strain shows. Personal bankruptcies, credit-card debt in default and installment loans more than 60 days past due are all at record highs...
...AMONG FRIENDS? Nothing's harder than asking friends for money they owe you. Now two websites can help. Both paypal.com and payme.com let you request the cash and conduct the transaction entirely online. With Payme, launched last week, you first register at the site with your bank account or credit-card number. Then you e-mail your deadbeat friends, asking them to enter their credit-card numbers on the Payme site. With Paypal, both parties must register at the site, which will deposit the money into your bank, mail you a check or leave the money in a Paypal account...
...that of finding an easy and safe way for people to spend money online in small amounts. "Right now there isn't really a viable way for consumers to pay for something that costs 50[cents], because that's about how much a credit-card transaction costs the merchant," says Ken Cassar, an analyst with the e-commerce research firm Jupiter Communications. "It's just not economical for online merchants to sell things that cost less than $10 or $20." Early attempts to create a practical alternative to credit cards for conducting financial transactions online have been slow to gain...
...esteem are Excite UK, Dash, FortuneCity and the Motley Fool. Then, once your virtual wallet is bulging, you can spend beenz at any of some 200 e-commerce sites that accept beenz as a form of payment, including Flooz, ishop, Jellybeenz Gifts and MP3.com There are no downloads or credit-card transactions, and Beenz.com keeps track of your account for you. No muss, no fuss...
...leave valuable private papers in unlocked mailboxes along the street. Astonishing! Suburban mail is a vastly easier mark than anything in cyberspace will ever be. But our mailboxes are largely safe because we are largely honest. Some technology pundits have been startled by people's willingness to confide their credit-card numbers to websites. But for years we have been reciting those numbers over the phone. And we have all sorts of other long-standing habits (paying our taxes, for example) that reflect our confidence in the honor of our fellow citizens...