Are Premium Rate Emails the wave of the future? Premium Rate Numbers & Premium Rate SMS Services have been a huge sucess in the UK’s Premium Rate Industry, so is there room for Premium Rate Emails? Well Phonenumbers4u is going to put it to the test! With a new service we’ve launched for 2007 that works in a suprisingly simple way…

A vendor wants to sell a low cost item e.g. an ebook, ecourse, laser pen, mobile unlocking code or voucher etc and so on his website or advertising he advises his customers that they can either pay by the usual methods credit card, Paypal, cheque etc but they can now by their mobile phone! If the customer wishes to pay via mobile they simply text the vendors keyword e.g. EBOOK followed by their email address e.g. test@test123.com and sent it to the vendors shortcode, in this example 88777.

Working in the same way as the Premium SMS world the user receives a reverse billing SMS message back which advises them to check their email account. This message charges the user for the price of the product e.g. £1.50 / £3.00 or whatever the tariff via their mobs phone credit.

Now heres the cool part Phonenumbers4u’s Premium Rate Email System grabs that email address and sends the customer the vendors “thank for for ordering email” in pretty much real time! The email contains the link, ecourse, ebook or what ever they have just purchased! A really simple, fun and to the best of our knowledge EXCLUSIVE Premium Rate Service that’s 100% automated and expected to be a very popular alternative to payment from credit cards, cheque, postal orders etc

Not just because its a much faster way to pay and allows the customer to purchase without trusting the vendor with their personal details but because it is likely to result in additional sales for the vendor as the customer also doesnt need to trust the vendor with his/her credit card details. A HUGE plus in todays world with record credit card and identity fraud crime.

A service with a bright future? Whats your opinion?