> Hi Gordon, > > Katz Global Media wrote: > > I would be more inclined to make use of something like this (Gold-Cart) if I > > could install it on our servers rather than running all our transactions > > over a third party server. > > How would you suggest that could work? Would you then facilitate the > exchange of currencies as well? There is more to it than meets the eye.
I suggest that it work by allowing the software to be installed onto a server and when the company using it needs to dump the currency, they just click send from the admin area and it does what yours does now. I would not be willing to move our registration process to a third party. The data is much too important and furthermore it completely breakes the unbroken chain of privacy we are respected for having. Of course we are a special case. I have a ton of other sites/businesses that could make use of something like this where the protection of the order process would not need to be so high. If you give it some though Robert, I don't think you would appreciate anyone having your client list for the next year. Would you? > I wonder why you say that? Have you visited gold-cart and clicked the > link to buy a funny story? It's so easy its laughable. I bought one and I still feel the same way after. Don't get me wrong, I appreciate what you have created, it is just not practical for the hosting business in particular. Also I see an oversight in the return email. There is no address field on the form yet it is spitting it out in the email. There are a couple fields like that. > You have misunderstood Gold-Cart Gordon. Each customer only uses the > currency he is comfortable with, and never even has to know that > Pecunix exists. Merchants who are interested in accepting money are > ever willing to find new ways of doing it, and to tell the truth, the > stories about Pecunix being too complicated are grossly exaggerated. Yes, I see that now. > > I don't see how it could ever be more than a money tool for the techies, but > > I am willing to be proven wrong. > > Indeed, time will tell... so far it seems like a tool for the masses, > the techies are the ones having the problem ;) A long time ago I used to work for Kinkos Inc. and daily people would come into a store holding a floppy disk reaching their hand out with a look of a doe on the freeway. After a while you just know what is about to be said. I came to the point that I would just say "Windows?" and the reply "Yes, how did you know?" It is something about the way they hold the disk. In the beginning I would ask, "what kind of file do you have?" and the reply "Windows". Then I moved onto to asking if it is word and that was always the case. The moral of my story is that you can't teach a old paypal user new tricks. You can't use pecunix if you can't even send an email. And you will never even find e-gold.com if you call a word file a windows file. This is what you are up against for mass acceptance. AOL had it right. Google has it licked. Ebay is pretty close. Microsoft are masters of it. If one could put together a plan that follows the market implementation of these companies and their products and build them to suit their target market, only then will anything resembling mass acceptance be possible. For now we are all niche businesses. Everyone here is, at least for this moment in time. Of course things can change ;-) Gordon www.katzglobal.com Anonymous Hosting(tm) Solutions --- 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.
