Hello Danny, > > Newcomers on your site would be much more reluctant to use e-gold if they didn't see > creditcards accepted too. > I never really thought about it that way. But you do have a point of course. I think we added e-gold sometime in 1999 or 2000 because people with no credit cards kept trying to pay in more adventerous ways [money orders, cash, goods, you name it]. Apart from that I did like the concept of e-gold when I came across it. But nothing much happened until early last year when Asians, Middle Easterners [I konw, technically they are Asians too] and Africans joined the party. Which also coincided with the substantial signs of the outbreak of Bushism of course. I actually believe that Patriot act is the best thing that ever happened to e-gold and by extensions to many of us ;o) From strictly business point of view of course. > > 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... > Unless, as you said yourself, there are other payment options as well - or there is a payment processing service with a good reputation - an intermediary if you will. The problem with that one is of course that most of the people who have tried[and some still are - notably the latest contestante for the tile od Miss DGC] are starting out as being an intermediary, rather than building a reputation in a different online business first and offering proxy services second.
Bananagold is likely to have it done better, but the founder had a reputation only among the below 200000 circle [ie. e-gold users that were early joiners and have account numbers in the low 100000. Point in case, I had no clue who iinterestingsoftware, 1mdc. etc was - and I had been lurking on and off for quite a while. Well and if the the people who trust a proxy service happen to be exchangers, often targing in charge and debit cards, then there is something amiss, innit? Of course, your points are well made and noted [actually copied, pasted and saved]. I'm sure sooner or later someone will finally come up with a way to make it work and attract the broad masses. Well, those in the upper middle class that don't dodge the transfer fees to the exchangers, that is. Cheers, Robert. budget & privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net budget & privacy domain registrations http://www.u2planet.com --- 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.
