Checkout by Amazon now works without leaving your site

This comes without the bogus $30/mo Pro membership fee PayPal charges for checkout on your site. I have limited experience with both, but sounds like a score for Amazon to me.

Interesting development. The fees look to be identical to PayPal and Checkout, but calculated on a three month average. There seems to still be room for another competitor here, given the problems with both PayPal and Checkout.

It would be nice if they accepted credit cards without having an Amazon account. Like Paypal Website Payments Pro.

Is this flash based or is it an iframe? How are they mitigating the risk of malicious sites that steal a users credentials as they are entered into an observable DOM hierarchy?<p>Edit: Looks like authentication is entered into a pop-up window, but still I'm not convinced that it's secure.

I like the Windows XP themed popup at second 16: <a href="https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business/cba/CBAvideo" rel="nofollow">https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business/cba/CBAvideo</a>

somebody's gonna get SUPER RICH implementing a "copy and paste" javascript snippet that allows you to accept payment from paypal, amazon, moneybookers, credit cards, SMS, and whatever else is fashionable in the local region.