sahibinden.com provides mobile payment option with Turkcell

Sept. 7, 2010 - PRLog -- With its motto “The Address for Classifieds and Shopping”, sahibinden.com continues to deliver new products and services that make its users’ life easier. sahibinden.com offers free of charge listings to its users, and now enables the purchase of its Booster service through mobile phones by using Turkcell Mobile Payment.
“As mobile penetration is reaching %90 in Turkey, the mobile phone is also becoming a payment tool. We launched mobile payment for our Booster services with Turkcell in order to have our users also benefit from this secure and easy way of payment. We will continue to deliver best of breed applications and new services for sahibinden.com users.” said Burak Ertas, CEO of sahibinden.com.
Ali Salcı, Head of Turkcell Mobile Finance Department also commented on this brand new application and said that “Mobile payment is being used by over 1 million Turkcell subscribers and it enables them to make payment to more than 300 companies with a single SMS. We are delighted that now sahibinden.com users will also enjoy and benefit from this fast, easy and secure service.”
The amount of the purchase done through Turkcell Mobile Payment is reflected to the bill for the postpaid subscribers, and deducted from Turkish Lira (TRY) credits for the prepaid subscribers. The charge of the each single SMS is 0.50 TRY for this service which will let subscribers to make payments up to 35 TRY in one attempt.

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Founded in 2000 by Aksoy Group, sahibinden.com hosts over 1.6 million active listings and has 14,5 million unique visitors that generate 1.2 billion page views per month. sahibinden.com is #9 in Alexa listing for Turkey, being the only e-commerce platform in Turkey top 10.