[mythtv-users] Supporting schedulesdirect.org
William Munson
william_munson at bellsouth.net
Tue Aug 7 23:29:18 UTC 2007
David Brodbeck wrote:
> <snip>
> Well, if you're a big enough company, presumably the risk is
> outweighed by the extra business you can do, and you can pay people
> to do nothing but make sure you don't get ripped off.
>
>
You guys are missing the point here. The scene you describe is not valid
for this sort of situation. What we have here is an account system where
you have to set up an account in order to access the listing just like
datadirect. This should require confirming a email address. Then once
the account is active you can enter your CC info and again confirm with
an email to prove its you who made the change. To limit abuse limit the
number of CC changes to 2 or 3 per month. This is the end of bad credit
card problems since you have all the address info to be able to confirm
with the CC issuer. Can be done with a simple pre-authorization
transaction, the return code will confirm if the address info given
matches the issuer's account info. With this system there is a very low
rate of bad transactions, most will be from NSF bounces when the charge
is processed. Another option is to drop the pre-auth and just set up the
CC acceptance rules to deny any mismatched billing address attempts.
Thats a standard feature of all merchant accounts and actually saves you
transaction fees since the risk is lower.
I have accepted CC online for a long time now and yes there are expenses
associated with it but if you work with a decent processor then you can
limit the damage pretty well. The rest you just build into the charges
for service.
Bill
PS - I have been a PayPal merchant for years and they have always done
right for me. They are expensive but do a good job when your volumes are
small. Not the best choice for an operation the size this one will end up.
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