[10826] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Billing on the net
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Fri Mar 11 06:45:16 1994
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 1994 0:47:43 -0600 (CST)
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@sdg.dra.com>
To: com-priv@psi.com
>But if it turns out that my TinyPay scheme turns out to be legal (re Sean's
>post), you-all'll hear about it.
Well, I don't want to give legal advice (I'll start getting nasty phone
calls from the card associations' legal departments again) but you might
consider debit cards instead. The rules are different, and in a very
strange twist, you can use a credit card to "fill up" a debit card.
No, I don't really understand it. And since the card associations consider
their operating regulations "confidential and proprietary" you can't
even find out what the rules are. But you have to sign a contract
saying you will be bound by them anyway.
If you need help setting up a merchant account, these people supposedly
sell (expensive) how-to manuals on doing it. You can contact them for more
information.
National Association of Credit Card Merchants
217 N. Seacrest Blvd.
P.O. Box 400
Boynton Beach, FL 33425
(407) 737-7500
They claimed to have been the ones that showed Prodigy how to do their
on-line credit card ordering. If you call them, ask them whatever
happened to that information they promised to send me last year.
Good luck, you'll need it. The technical stuff is a piece of cake
compared to the minefield you're about to enter. I believe it is
doable, but you might end up having to do what Sears did; and buy
a small bank.
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Domain: sean@dra.com, Voice: (Work) +1 314-432-1100
