Hello Danny > > 1) Option to have email notification whenever somebody logs in to my account > and whenever a transaction is done. > You do have a point there. Of course, there is the issue about privacy. Emails are not exactly secure and I can think of several reasons why someone wouldn't want an email sent out each time. On the other hand there could be a PGP option. That would then require that people have PGP installed and it would make things more complicated for normal consumers. Someone said that Pecunix's weakness is the difficulty to set up an account, or somesuch and I have to say that our inhouse kid genius tech improvisario had to look three times at the instructions and then shook his head and said that (L)users will never take to it - his words. It appears to be the old story were people give up saftety for perceived comfort. And I think if e-gold was more sophisticated and more difficult to use, people would look for easier alternatives. Remember, the majority of the herd is stricty ignorant and often violently argue their right to ignorance ;o) > > 2) Option to set an automatic 'payment delay' on all payments attempted from > an account. > Actually, you'd be on very thin ice with delaying payments. I think most merchants would be up in arms and vote with their feet. I know that we would. We accept e-gold payments because the market wants us to - and because I personally believe that it is a great thing and the natural way of free-market development. But if that belief, as many others I hold dear, would give me economic disadvantages, then i would not let it influence my business decissions. Meaning, if people can change their minds within 24 hours, most of the commercial activity outside mere exchangers would come to a grinding halt - for 24 hours. TGC would not let you wager gold until 24 hours later, we wouldn't register domain names until 24 hours after we received the order, proxy shops wouldn't pass orders on for a day...
Like so often, when something works - and 1,000,000 accounts say it does - it is best to leave it alone - or to add optional prime services, but not force changes. When it comes to keeping larger amounts in an e-gold acount, well, why not use 1MDC.com ? After all, there is a delay in bailing e-gold out of 1MDC and that means means between 1MDC and e-gold you actually can have it both ways. You said that people are not willing to trust e-gold as an investment, which I wholeheartedly agree with. But my reason for agreeing is different than yours is likely to be. e-gold is not a good investment because I loose gold, the longer I hold it. I know, the amounts I loose are minute. but at 1MDC i win minute amounts rather than loosing them. Many Asians are likely to think the same way. Of course, most people have no idea about 1MDC. Maybe they should start an affiliate program, or advertise more ;o) To sum up, you think that people are concerned about security, but I don't think that that holds true for Asians once they started using the system. For them it's often the only way to conduct transactions online. And these are the same people who empty the cash register in their shop four times a day and put the money into their pocket. Some of these people were writing down the serial numbers of bank notes they deposited into their bank account to make sure that the bank gave them back 'their' money, as recently as 25 years ago (Provincial Indonesia). I am not trying to make fun of anyone or sound patronizing, but for all their mercantile savvy, non-urban Asians think differently. But the do have money and they will trade online - if things are kept straight forward. Just for the record, these are the same people who get a decent size credit limit on their plastic and then proceed to prepay the expenses of the next three months. Cheers, Robert. budget & privacy website hosting http://www.cyberica.net start a profitable online business http://www.cyberfrontier.biz budget 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.
