Official line
Service discontinued.
Amazon · Commerce · Product
Amazon WebPay
Discontinued
2011–2014 · 3 years in market
Launched
Jan 1, 2011
Discontinued
Jan 1, 2014
Cause of death
Low usage
Evidence
Unsourced
What was it?
Person-to-person payments inside Amazon, killed before Venmo became a verb.
Why it died
Editorial reading
P2P needs a social graph or a bank app. Amazon had receipts.
Founder takeaway
Do not launch payments where your users do not already talk to each other.
Sources
Unsourced — editorial reading
No primary source is attached yet. Treat the interpretation as editorial, not a citation.
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