[10821] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Billing on the net (was Re: Internet vs Minitel)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russell Nelson)
Thu Mar 10 23:57:19 1994
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 11:36 EST
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
To: brad@looking.clarinet.com
Cc: com-priv@psi.com
In-Reply-To: <9403100110.aa10995@looking.clarinet.com> (message from Brad Templeton on Thu, 10 Mar 94 1:10:20 PST)
Newsgroups: compriv
Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 94 1:10:20 PST
From: Brad Templeton <brad@looking.clarinet.com>
All credit card merchant agreements, with a few special exceptions,
forbid you making charges on behalf of another party. All it takes
is one complaint to get caught.
And when you do, you're blacklisted.
I got merchant accounts with no storefront and no history in the USA at
all, but that was 2 years ago and I'm told it's a bit harder now.
I had one three years ago, but there was so much fraud (they lost $6 million
to just *one* party) that the bank dropped ALL their phone-order customers.
But if it turns out that my TinyPay scheme turns out to be legal (re Sean's
post), you-all'll hear about it.
-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> ftp.msen.com:pub/vendor/crynwr/crynwr.wav
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