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Originally Posted by mainstreammix
Exactly what % of traffic do you think would drop off from that insane process?
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Upwards of 90%. It will kill most companies/websites in terms of traffic and signups if they push the cost onto the surfer.
No, there has to be either:
1. A reasonably-priced solution for webmasters (say $1 per 10,000 verified)
2. A solution webmasters can host on their own servers with a one-time cost (can be high but will be considered the cost of doing business, in the $1-5K range)
3. AVS adopted by the major processors (CCBill, Epoch, etc) who would pass along that cost to account holders, either in a yearly fee or taking a higher %. This would include merchant accounts with banks.*
Anything that costs a surfer money to visit a theoretically FREE site will simply not work.
* I will take any reasonable cost-effective solution but I am hoping the processors and banks will be the ones who will implement AVS systems for their account holders. Because if suddenly thousands of accounts close then the CC processors will be equally damaged so they have a vested interest in getting involved here.