Blippy Already Showing Off $1 Million Worth Of Your Credit Card Purchases

[The Straight Story]

Blippy Already Showing Off $1 Million Worth Of Your Credit Card Purchases (More Invites)


Yesterday, Blippy opened its doors beyond a private group of users it had been testing with. Their invites went quickly (we have more below), and despite the obviously controversial idea of opening your credit card purchasing data to your social graph, a lot of users jumped in and started sharing data. So many, in fact, that Blippy is already tracking well over $1 million in sales, we’re told.

Obviously, that’s a big difference from Blippy actually making $1 million, but eventually, that’s the idea. Still, the fact that users are willing to show off about 25,000 different purchases on the service shows that not everyone is so opposed to the idea.

“We are blown away! Yesterday was the first day that we invited people — who we didn’t personally know — into the site. We never imagined that we would hit $1 million in purchases in the first few months, much less the first day,” co-founder Philip Kaplan tells us.

He also tells us that the average purchase price being shared on the site is just over $46, but this figure is dropping as more purchases are being shared.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/23/blippy-1-million/

[gmoney]

1. so, will this lead pinheads to make purchases just to show up on this site?

"Oh, I think I'll buy shit I don't need and can't afford and pay for it with my 29.99% APR credit card so some strangers can see my clever username next to a bunch of purchases!"

[Ikonoklast]

2. I dunno, their sandwiches are ok, nothing to write home about.

[enlightenment]

3. Is this some sort of sociological experiment to

prove that people are idiots? WHY would anyone want to do this? Because it's cool (awesome, sweet, tight, chill, dope . . . whatever the popular term is these days)?

If their friends were jumping off cliffs, would they want to do that, too?

[tkmorris]

4. "It says here you bought a dozen roses"

"I don't remember getting flowers. Who were the roses for Dave?"

This cannot end well. What a horrifying idea.

[The Straight Story]

5. watch for spouses to secretly sign up one another without telling their partner

:)