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Introducing Buy now, pay later in Microsoft Edge
Looks like you neglected to mention the $4 flat fee in the article?
On a $35 purchase, that's 11% of the purchase cost spread over one month. Annualized, that's an astounding 250% APY. Even the most predatory credit cards top out at around 40% APY.
All you've done is just baked predatory loans into your browser. Honestly, you should be ashamed.
- jordanspringerNov 17, 2021Iron ContributorYup, mehua (the original poster from Microsoft) responded in here earlier saying there was no cash grab here, and was trying to defend the initial negative comments, then she deleted all of her comments!
- BioTurboNickNov 17, 2021Iron Contributor
jordanspringer To be fair, I'd suspect she isn't responsible for the business side of things, just given the job of making the feature happen. The revenue stream is probably at the corporate level. I don't know where in the chain the decision to make this feature happen arose from, but they should be the ones taking the heat.
- DeletedNov 30, 2021Maybe Zip will partner with Chrome next to integrate it, have you ever used BNPL?
- josh_bodnerNov 17, 2021Microsoft
jordanspringer The original poster's comments were removed because responses to those violated our community guidelines: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/articles/microsoft-edge-insiders-community-guidelines/m-p/2214637.