> > I would disagree with this statement as we have a decent amount of orders > > coming in from all countries using e-gold to pay for our hosting services. > > > Same here. We are getting about 30% of new business from people paying > with e-gold. Last year it was 10%, the year before that next to nothing. > In fact we have had the first clients who used to pay with card change > over and pay with e-gold. > > So, if your statistics are similar, then we are likely to be looking at an > actual trend developping towards e-gold?
There are a couple of factors we should look at here. As an established company your existing customers of course will have no problem to use non repudiable payment, because they already know your company is for real and they trust you. Things would be rather different if you are just starting out. Secondly, when you also accept creditcards besides e-gold, people more readily assume that your company is ok. In that case you are banking on the trust the customers already have in the creditcard system. Newcomers on your site would be much more reluctant to use e-gold if they didn't see creditcards accepted too. Thirdly, as a hosting service provider you would be a fool to cheat your customers and not deliver, because many clients are likely to pay again next year if the service is allright. The value of their future business is more than the one year payment. In these cases it is relatively safe to use non repudiable payment. Online casinos are in the same situation for example. If you are selling products that are typically bought only once by the same customer, it will be much more difficult to have them trust you and use non repudiable payment on the very first order... That's where repudiable payments are needed to have the customer push that 'buy' button. By the way, I don't use creditcards myself (like most people in Europe). Ciao Danny --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use e-gold's Secure Randomized Keyboard (SRK) when accessing your e-gold account(s) via the web and shopping cart interfaces to help thwart keystroke loggers and common viruses.
