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Also, Amazon has Cash On Delivery option in India.

• grey-sunshine 9y ago
  That way you don't have to pay service tax to the credit card company for the transaction.
  • Retric 9y ago
    Seems risky for a delivery driver to be walking around with a lot of cash.
    • OJFord 9y ago
      More risky than with the products worth that cash?
      • gerad 9y ago
        Yes. Cash is fungible, has no transaction costs and negligible transportation costs.
        • OJFord 9y ago
          Yes, that's a reasonable argument in its favour; I don't necessarily disagree. It's worth acknowledging though that not-cash has advantages (to a robber) in tax evasion/laundering. Not-cash is probably harder to steal, but I'd have thought it preferable. (To a robber.)
  • _jgdh 9y ago
    Saving the credit card charge isn't a win. Turns out that operating cash-on-delivery has significant overhead due to the cost of handling the cash, accounting for it etc. More than that, returns are much higher when the customer hasn't paid for anything. As a result, almost all ecommerce sites in India incentivise you in one way or another to pay online. I know one that will give you $0.5 off if you pay online, which is approximately what COD would cost them.