Cell minutes: a small items e-Payment Method?

[aletheuo]

I am looking a buying a few things from a fellow CGNer but he doesn't take EMT so since I hate snail mail my mind has been going over ways to send money and I think I came up with one while I was buying my daughter minutes for her virgin cellphone... What if they were a pay and talk phone client - you could buy them a pin # and they could add it to their phone before shipping the stuff. As I understand it, phone pins are very secure now as the pin only gets validated at the til so very little chance of bogus pins. And, unlike a gift card, the card doesn't actually have to be there.

I'd like to know if ppl think it would work for small stuff <$50 or so... is this an inspired idea or is it just the effects of a pizza-induced coma from last night?

 

[curtmg]

If someone isn't techy enough for an EMT, cell minutes ain't gonna cut it. If you find someone agreeable to those terms, good for you, but seriously, I don't see it catching on. Most folk are selling their stuff to raise $$$ to pay bills, and useful as cell minutes might be to some, most would rather have the $$$.

You're thinking outside the box though