Verotel wanting $673.60 Cdn for Visa/MC reg - AND PASSPORT COPY?!! What the fuck?

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  • SilentKnight
    Megan Fox's fluffer
    • Oct 2005
    • 24818

    #1

    Verotel wanting $673.60 Cdn for Visa/MC reg - AND PASSPORT COPY?!! What the fuck?

    Just received this from Verotel:

    Hi (omitted),

    My name is Thomas and I am your account manager for Verotel. I wanted to let you know that there will be some new compliance procedures for 2013 with Verotel. For your account to be registered with Visa and Mastercard on June 1st 2013 , there will be a 500 EURO registration and compliance monitoring fee, we must pay to register each company with the credit card companies, however we handle the registration process for you.

    This is for accounts with a lower sales volume that 100 EUR/week, should you have more websites to add or if you wish to add us to a primary biller , this is one way to increase the volumes and waive the fee , as well as we can discuss lower rates if the volume is large enough that is additionally brought in.

    This is a standard annual fee, that is waived at the year anniversary if you process over 100 EURO/week for the year with Verotel. This can be either wired to us directly or by credit card through your Verotel Control Center. This will take effect on June 1st , however before this time we need to have a an official copy of a notarized passport mailed to our address as well as some information forms filled out about your personal information. If you wish to move forward with the Process, feel free to let me know and then we can move on to the next step of the process which involves registering your account as en entity at our Holland office. If you do not wish to either bring in more sales volume or to pay the registration fee please let me know within the next week.

    Regards,

    Thomas
    Verotel Merchant Support
    Now they want notorizied copies of my passport?! What for? So you can provide my info to identity thieves?

    All I can say is - WHAT THE FUCK?!!

    Verotel - you can kiss my ass.

    After SIX years of doing business with you - we're finished.

    Go fuck yourselves.
  • SomeCreep
    :glugglug
    • Mar 2003
    • 26118

    #2
    If you aint got nothing to hide, just give it to them. Don't be so paranoid.

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    • SilentKnight
      Megan Fox's fluffer
      • Oct 2005
      • 24818

      #3
      Originally posted by SomeCreep
      If you aint got nothing to hide, just give it to them. Don't be so paranoid.
      Not going to happen.

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      • Sly
        Let's do some business!
        • Sep 2004
        • 31375

        #4
        Are you going to shut down your sites?

        Epoch/CCBill require similar money/documents. Merchant accounts require bank statements.
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        • SilentKnight
          Megan Fox's fluffer
          • Oct 2005
          • 24818

          #5
          Originally posted by Sly
          Are you going to shut down your sites?

          Epoch/CCBill require similar money/documents. Merchant accounts require bank statements.
          Not sure at this point. We're lookin' at our options. We've known about the Visa/MC deadline and charges for quite some time obviously - but it's the request for a copy of our passport that really has me mystified...and pissed.

          Our sites have been in recycle/archive mode for the last while - basically winding them down and not actively promoting them.

          We'll see what happens I guess...

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          • Vendzilla
            Biker Gnome
            • Mar 2004
            • 23200

            #6
            It's all part of the KYC (Know Your Customer) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) requirements that everyone is having to adhere to
            Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
            think about that

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            • sandman!
              Icq: 14420613
              • Mar 2001
              • 15431

              #7
              good luck not paying a fee for processing.
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              • SilentKnight
                Megan Fox's fluffer
                • Oct 2005
                • 24818

                #8
                Originally posted by Vendzilla
                It's all part of the KY


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                • Vendzilla
                  Biker Gnome
                  • Mar 2004
                  • 23200

                  #9
                  Originally posted by SilentKnight


                  LOL, I here you.
                  Carbon is not the problem, it makes up 0.041% of our atmosphere , 95% of that is from Volcanos and decomposing plants and stuff. So people in the US are responsible for 13% of the carbon in the atmosphere which 95% is not from Humans, like cars and trucks and stuff and they want to spend trillions to fix it while Solar Panel plants are powered by coal plants
                  think about that

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                  • beemk
                    CLICK HERE
                    • Jan 2002
                    • 20829

                    #10
                    You can always go back to becoming a useless meter maid. Not sure why anyone would expect a company to require you to jump through all kinds of hoops to accept credit cards.
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                    • SilentKnight
                      Megan Fox's fluffer
                      • Oct 2005
                      • 24818

                      #11
                      Originally posted by beemk
                      You can always go back to becoming a useless meter maid. Not sure why anyone would expect a company to require you to jump through all kinds of hoops to accept credit cards.
                      Talk to me nicely - I'll let you go back to sucking my dick.

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                      • Fat Panda
                        Porn is Dead. Move along.
                        • Aug 2006
                        • 13296

                        #12
                        I say FUCK EM ALL and start accepting BITCOINS

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                        • BFT3K
                          Too lazy to set a custom title
                          • Dec 2005
                          • 10764

                          #13
                          If processors insist on intrusive IDs, then perhaps alternative currencies really will be the answer soon.

                          Social security numbers, copies of driver's licenses, passports - fuck that shit. Nobody needs that much information, especially faceless people across the ocean.
                          Last edited by BFT3K; 04-16-2013, 06:26 PM.

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                          • SilentKnight
                            Megan Fox's fluffer
                            • Oct 2005
                            • 24818

                            #14
                            Originally posted by BFT3K
                            If processors insist on intrusive IDs, then perhaps alternative currencies really will be the answer soon.

                            Social security numbers, copies of driver's licenses, passports - fuck that shit. Nobody needs that much information, especially faceless people across the ocean.
                            Exactly my thoughts!

                            Thank you.

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                            • BFT3K
                              Too lazy to set a custom title
                              • Dec 2005
                              • 10764

                              #15
                              I would have been using Zombio (or whatever) years ago, until they wanted ID. At that point I was out - same with ClickPay (or whatever - I forget the names).

                              I was seriously planning to reinstate my Verotel account very soon for 500 Euros, but if they want my passport now, no way Jose!

                              Thanks for the heads-up SilentKnight
                              Last edited by BFT3K; 04-16-2013, 06:34 PM.

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