On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 at 18:26:25, John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
(Ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
>This may be of interest to Tony, Roy, Jochen, Darren and anyone else who
>wants to make or receive international payments. It is hoped that
>overseas members of Quanta may pay their subscriptions this way as it means
>that Quanta can then dispense with the very uneconomic 'Merchant Account'
>
>What is it? It is PayPal.
I have discussed this a few months back.
I found it impossible to get one file from their site that listed _all_
the details.
In any case I don't like the idea of someone in the US accepting
payments for me.
I want to deal direct with the customer - most of whom I know anyway.
I have decided to go for the following:
1) cash by registered post (preferred and probably cheapest for
customer)
2) International money order.
My volume of mail order overseas sales has been so low in the last n
years, it is not even worth considering internet credit card handlers.
If they were based in the UK, then they would be outlawed by the bank.
Roy got stung like this recently.
I will only take up credit cards again if I can find a UK based bank
that allows me to enter details on-line (ie a web site) or uses paper.
I find it incredible that no merchant services use a direct web
interface - most of banks have such access for bank accounts now.
Other than setup costs, it would be very cheap to maintain.
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