Skunk wrote: > Not sure what if > anything this changes, but paypal seems to play by their own rules
Yes, PayPal was designed to make it possible to do money things without having the 'merchant agreement' that Sean mentions. Sean talked about normal credit card processing, which has strictly defined rules. And PayPal was designed to be more flexible and handle small amounts. A real Visa/Mastercard merchant account charges the merchant too much money to make small payment amounts financially feasible. OT: Visa and/or Mastercard could change this if they wanted. There is no reason that an all electronic transaction should cost large portions of a dollar, when it is just bits moving from one computer to another. But as long as they face no real competition, the merchants, and the consumers have no choice but to pay. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
