billpay is pretty easy actually: for a coop of 20 or so folks I used paypal subscription payment. real easy. you pay ~3 percent, but it's totally worth it. all you have to worry about is if everyone you are servicing is signed up. I made people pay quarterly. that's it. paypal even gives you an easy top read web page so you can track everything. also: if you ever decomission: make sure they cancel. those refund charges can get annoying.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Straight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wirless Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 12:44 PM Subject: Re: [BAWUG] WISP headaches > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday January 15 2004 10:10 am, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 07:48:20AM -0700, Matt Gaston wrote: > > > If I get a T1 and share it with 20 or so of my neighbors to help pay > > > for it, what am I getting myself into? I really want to do it, but I > > > fear I need the better part of wisdom to balance out my desire. > > > > Have you ever *done* end-user helpdesk? > > > > It's mostly a case of expectation management: if you're charging them > > *anything*, then you have to precisely define what you will and won't > > do for them before they sign up, so they don't feel like you're selling > > them a pig in a poke. > > > > The smarter a neighborhood (technically) that you live in, the > > easier it will be. If you *know* who the geeks are, start their. > > > > And look into books on forming co-ops, which is essentially what you're > > doing. They're a legal entity, and you can get breaks on some stuff. > > > > Cheers, > > -- jra > > > Yes, consider all that - plus - how many of them will really pay their bills > reliably? > > > - -- > Jason Straight > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SkyCon Networks > phone: (231)627-3528 > http://www.skycon.net/ > ICQ: 1796276 > pgp: http://www.jeetkunedomaster.net/~junfan/pgp.key > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iQCVAwUBQAbRlhFHZPcobeHxAQLfwQP8DfrtMyzT8fsP1AgjwpxZLnhY5dE/A/pl > OGTX0Gd+7wcLnvwAZdU2lvUeUXsmA2bVFyqljEv1qfuX438LQZxqzBy72Hx9wxDj > eOCeWRpR+TU3JgujV4fN8eDnAoyAPTP4HYbIq7itYK6CPOVgJey5PJzwcCGYN+XG > imQpebU3dKU= > =Qsmi > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
