Bill Maas wrote: > Hi, > > this one's FAR off-topic, but I'm going to post it anyway. It's about > making payments rather than about technology. However, I came across it > while ordering a net5501, so it does have _something_ to do with > Soekris. > > The problem is that I don't like having my credit card nos. all over the > place, so I asked Wim Vandeputte from soekris.kd85.com if I could pay > through an escrow like Paypal, but Soekris Engineering doesn't do Paypal > (which is probably a horribly expensive service anyway).
that sound unneccessarily complicated to me ;) every company will treat your credit card data confidentially, if they store it all. On our webshop, https://www.msys.ch/shop/ we do not store any such data, it is all handled by Telekurs Multipay, a credit card processing company. > > > I don't really like Paypal because they pay the seller immediately, and > if I don't like the product, I'll have to contact and try to come to > terms with seller directly. A company named Escrow.com (www.escrow.com) > have a better formula, as their "How it works" explains: > > " > How does it work? > > 1. Buyer and Seller Agree to Terms > 2. Buyer Pays Escrow.com > 3. Seller Ships Merchandise > 4. Buyer Accepts the Merchandise > 5. Escrow.com Pays the Seller > > What are the benefits? > Escrow.com, an accredited escrow company, acts as a secure third party > to protect the Buyer and Seller. > > How Buyers are protected: > - Escrow.com tracks the shipped merchandise and verifies it was > delivered. > - The Seller isn't paid until the Buyer accepts the merchandise, or > the inspection period expires. > > How Sellers are protected: > - Escrow.com confirms when the Buyer receives merchandise. > - The Seller is authorized to ship only after Escrow.com verifies > good funds. > " > > > I don't intend to advertise for this or any particular company here. It > just occurred to me that this way of making payments should be fairly > easy to implement in a collective, Open Source environment. The key > issue is trust, the financial side should be much less of a problem > (basically all that is required is a computer and a bank account). > > Anyway, I hope I'll be forgiven for raising this issue on the > soekris-tech list. It's intended as a hint for the Open source > community, ans since The Open Source Community doesn't have an email > adress, why not start here:) > > And I still feel that any host any of my my CC-nos. sits on is one too > many (they're not even on any of my computers). > > Bill > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Soekris-tech mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
