Be careful Nick, I own a business and I'm contacted by these sales people all the time. Their prices very from almost nothing with used terminal to expensive brand new ones. These services also come with a monthly service fee as well as the card company gets a percentage of the sale.
All this is different with every company and negotiable so like I said be careful. You will have a hard time getting existing businesses to switch from what they are already using based on the fact that you most likely wont be able to save them enough money that it's worth making the switch. It's a real hassle some times to set these up, they are tide to your company bank account and such. I accept my credit card payments using papal, all my customer has to have is a e-mail address. I pay about half a percent more doing this but I still save about thirty dollars a month in terminal fees. DC 4 Liberty ----- Original Message ----- From: Edwin J. Pole II To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 11:32 PM Subject: [Libertarian] Re: Is it unethical to sell credit card machines and service? No more unethical than selling guns. I'd be careful about the opportunity though. I don't know what a "very high commission" is but I would never get involved in any "opportunity" that required my "investing" up front unless I was absolutely sure about it. Ed$ --- In [email protected], "Nicolas Leobold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it unethical to sell credit card machines and service? > > Many libertarians and certainly most Liberty Dollar activists rail against > the current debt-based system, of which credit cards are so much a part. > > Recently I was presented with an opportunity to sell credit card processing > and equipment for a very high commission structure, and as I am looking for > additional income I am moving forward with pursuing this. > > The way I see it is, credit cards are not un-libertarian and anti-liberty > per se. It is possible to have credit cards and credit lending while still > having a silver and gold standard and economic liberty and self-ownership, > although we don't have this right now. > > So what do you in the libertarian community think of this? Is it ok to take > this job or should I feel guilty about perpetuating the credit card economy > house of cards and facilitating more debt and more power for the banking > industry, if in fact that is what I would be doing? > > Thanks for your thoughts, > > Nic Leobold > > www.NicLeobold.com > > www.RonPaulDollar.com > > www.SerfCity.us > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
