Checkout.org ?

kenlovesmoney shared a link said Mon, Jun 1st 2015 at 11:36pm ET

I noticed this sale (or one like it) promoted on Gizmodo earlier today:

https://checkout.org/deals/toccs-snap-cables-2-pack

Anyone seen sales like these before?

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Thumperchick said Mon, Jun 1st 2015 at 11:47pm ET:

We got some info on this a while back over on mediocre's forums.

Here's the gist from @shawn:

shawn said Thu, Dec 4th 2014 at 10:52pm eastern: If you look back on the homepage of mediocre.com there's a "need a b2b solution" button that points to middling.com. We've been doing third-party fulfillment for other websites through middling.com for a while now. We ran into a couple of sites that don't have a checkout process, so we took the one we built for meh.com and put it up at checkout.org to handle some smaller batches of orders. We didn’t bother to announce it since it’s more infrastructure than anything else. What's nice is someone else is doing the promoting, so we can sit back, sip our margaritas and, uh, box up everything and ship it out.

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- @shawn @Thumperchick tl:dr they outsourced the part that they did well and hung on to the part that... isn't that backward?
  
  marklog said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 1:45pm ET
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phatmass said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 12:11am ET:

All this fancy talk confuses me. Anybody want to translate?

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- @phatmass meh.com sells 1 disappointment a day. meanwhile mehs overlords(miedocore corp.) have other websites like checkout.org that sell more disappointments at higher markups for other people)
  
  communist said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 12:51am ET
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- @communist except I don't see that they have a products we sell page...
  
  Kidsandliz said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 12:57am ET
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- @Kidsandliz "They" don't sell them, other companies do, "They" just fulfill the orders.
  
  Ignorant said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 12:59am ET
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- @phatmass Someone else sells something on their website, checkout and fulfillment are by checkout.org. It is kinda like how you can by stuff from "Phatmass Store fulfilled by Amazon", but in this case the logo on the webpage would be yours.
  
  Pamtha said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 5:02am ET
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- @phatmass "goonie goo goo"
  
  TerriblyHuang said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 5:04am ET
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- @phatmass
  
  ACraigL said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 8:42am ET
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- @ACraigL Thank you for the video break.
  
  TaRDy said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 2:47pm ET
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connorbush said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 12:08pm ET:

This is the coolest thing of all time.

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- @connorbush Yeah; but try of all time.
  
  connorbush said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 12:08pm ET
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- @connorbush Pshh--how about of all time?
  
  connorbush said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 12:08pm ET
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- Did @connorbush just have a conversation with himself?
  
  Willijs3 said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 2:19pm ET
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- @Willijs3 It looks that way, I'm still not entirely sure what about either…
  
  JonT said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 2:28pm ET
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- @Willijs3
  
  connorbush said Tue, Jun 2nd 2015 at 2:38pm ET
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