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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
Actually, I think this does make your situation kind of different from the average one. On the one hand, I understand a compliance department doing a spot check for age and it would seem negligent for CCBill to roll with someone Epoch was concerned about, after such a big public thread. But I'm honestly stunned that the GF sites flourish and get standard processing because, as mentioned elsewhere in this thread, they would surely fail such a spot check, so why hassle a legit producer instead?
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I produce DVDs for pro DVD companies. If they buy the scenes from me or if they distribute the movies for me, THEY get a copy of the 2257 docs. We do not give them to the stores that sell the movies, or the mail order catalog who sells the movies, or to our merchant account for when we sell them on our own. We list a custodian of records address and if someone wants to inspect those records, they can come to the address listed and inspect them, during normal business hours. This is the way is is supposed it be.
To be honest with you, I
would send them to CCbill to one person and one person only, as I know someone there I trust enough to send them to. I don't know ANYONE at Epoch, thus the issue.
Where Epoch really fucked up was sending their request from "support" rather than someone higher up the food chain. If the mail came from someone there who I know is accountable and carries weight there, it maybe a different story. But DUDE from SUPPORT, ain't gonna fly.
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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
On the other hand, I've sent my own ID to more than one billing company just to get set up and more than one affiliate program who claimed they needed it for 1099 and most of those companies have hit me up a second time for ID. Which means to me that none of them are all that careful with how they file and protect that information. I like Epoch, but there are definitely some other companies I wish I had not sent my info to because it does appear to have been misused.
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Yea, that sucks. I can't tell you how many times companies like Epoch, CCbill, Epass, have said they didn't get the fax I sent them, though my fax says they got it. That is dangerous if it is sensitive data.