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European Lee, no offense, but what you are saying seems to consist of a lot of wishful thinking.
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Of course it does, bacause after three and a half years of constantly working the foreign markets i know shit about them
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However, there are some factors you are forgetting. The European debit cards consist largely of ones using Maestro, not suitable for online payments.
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You might want to head across to one f the largest online European
ADULT billing processors and see
EXACTLY what cards they process i would suggest heading to somewhere like
http://www.2000charge.com ;)
Maestro, as you are no doubt aware is also referred to as 'Euro-Debit' in much the same way 'Visa Plus' is.
These types of payment card take the funds
DIRECTLY out of the account of the card holder in the same way that 'Switch' A Natwest Bank Product (English Banking Corporation) does.
Having been born in England and lived there for oh i dont know 24 years, i think im pretty sure i know what types of cards i can and cant use online ;)
[quote]Besides that, many Europeans are not exactly eager to use their credit cards online, and prefer using dialers.[/b]
Which would explain why the German Government is trying to resrict use of or, maybe even ban dilaers, i guess the millions of complaints they had received each year from German dialer users had nothing to do with this. Yup, sounds like Dialers are preferred in Europe to me.
Not to mention the extortionate cost of monthly telephone bills in and around Europe.
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They simply consider their own markets to be easier to work than the international market.
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in pretty much the same way that i dont know, say, even 1 year ago, nobody in the US was concerned with making money from their international traffic, my how the times have changed ;)
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In my experience, they are right. (did testing with multilingual sites, for me international/US traffic makes about a tenth of what european traffic makes)
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Keep an eye on what some of the large sponsors are going to be doing in the coming weeks/months.
Im pretty sure that they have more room to do 'testing' of sites before they get launched ;)
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I have no idea where you got such odd ideas about the rest of the world, but rest assured: most foreign countries have a fair share of homophobes as well. For instance, a Dutch phenomenon: "potenrammen". That is, stupid young men going out to beat up gay guys.
Although homosexuality may be officially accepted, culturally it most often isn't.
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Your not gay are you
You might wanna try it and actually do some travelling across Europe for a week or two
Regards,
Lee