Facebook Tests Service Letting Users Pay for E-Mail Delivery
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Facebook Inc. is testing a tool that will let users pay to send an e-mail message to another member, even if they aren’t connected as friends on the world’s largest social network.
Facebook said the test will start with a “small number of people” and will charge an unspecified fee to ensure a message gets sent to the main inbox -- rather than a lower-priority queue -- of another user, even a stranger. Facebook will test different fees, starting initially at about $1 per e-mail, according to a person with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified because pricing is private.