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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
It allows for the sale of content that otherwise wouldn't be reasonable to sell (50 cent theme packs for instance) because of credit card processing fees.
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iTunes, Amazon.com, Walmart etc. seem to be able survive charging me 89 or 99 cents for a music single. iTunes even lets you pay using PayPal instead of a credit card if you so wish.
Of course Microsoft wants you to buy that $50 card and get their money up front with no guarantee that you'll ever even use it. True, Apple hopes for the same thing when it sells you a $50 iTunes gift card (as does every business that sells gift cards), but with iTunes you don't
have to pay that way if you don't want to and can just pay as you go.
I know iTunes tries to batch purchases together. i.e. it won't actually charge you that $0.99 immediately but wait a few days to see if you buy anything else and try to combine purchases into a single charge. But that's fine by me.
I don't like prepaying- I'd rather keep my money in my account earning interest for me for as long as possible.
And as you mentioned, I like knowing how much something costs without having to run a currency calculator.