Thanks for the info. On Jun 16, 2011, at 1:32 PM, Chris Lang <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sure Filipemnoa, be glad to... > > One friend took in $770,000 in a week during a big launch. PayPal held the > entire amount for months as a fraud review. > > You get kicked off merchant accounts all the time for to many returns, or > worse yet charge backs. > > You can get kicked of PayPal fast if you for too much of same. A 20% return > rate is par for the course in digital sales. But that alone is higher than > PayPal OR ANY Merchant account allows. > > So, you get kicked off, and just like that you lose your payment processor. > > My site was blocked globally by Trend Micro in a false positive because I was > using a cart that that Trend Micro did not like all because it used a server > side redirect to PayPal. Blocked me for 3 straight months. I went from making > $5K a week to nothing like that. > > PayPal is awesome even though these things have happened. I take all my > payments there. > > And no, even a merchant account that I pay a few thousand a month does not > notify me when they are down. > > Neither does my cart, usually it is the buyer that alerts me of a payment > issue, in 12 years of making my living online the only time a payment > processor contacts me is when they want something, like money..... > > At least once a month the Circle K by me can only take cash, debt is down > they will say. They don't get a call or email either, it just breaks and they > do way more business than all of us put together. > > Trully, your issues with Google checkout and the issues we all have with > payment processors. And it may not even be their fault, be cause they are > just a gateway, sebmitting the charge, it could easily be the real processor > that actually runs the card that is down. > > Nothing new, waste of time to complain about it, it is simply digital sales > on the web. > > Interesting stuff I hope, but no solutions for you, except make sure there is > an email and phone number for contact all over your sites and products. > > Chris Lang > Founder and CEO at Gadget MVP > http://www.gadgetmvp.com > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Felipemnoa <[email protected]> wrote: > It would be great to learn from one or two of your horror stories in the hope > of avoiding any similar problems in the future. Care to share some of those > with us? > > > On Jun 15, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Chris Lang <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I have been taking payments thru PayPal for the last decade. >> >> They have the same problems. So "throw us under the bus" a bit much. >> >> Same goes for full blown merchant accounts, I have horror stories you won't >> believe, some of you have been around longer then me too and will. >> >> So I agree with you on Google and all payment systems, but don't make it >> seem like they are the only ones who experience outages. >> >> regards, >> >> Chris Lang >> Gadget MVP >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Android Discuss" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. > > > > -- > Chris Lang > Founder and CEO at Gadget MVP > [email protected] > 480 634 5728 > > Want to master Google's tools and get more free traffic than > you know what to do with? You CAN do this and you do NOT > need to be a "geek" to get it done. All you need to do is > master the wave, and that starts right here, right now! > > http://www.gadgetmvp.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Android Discuss" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en.
