Originally Posted by Easton

I've been doing some research on adding EP as a payment option for my affiliate program... from the EP website, they state: "It's [...] much cheaper than [...] checks"

So i check out the fees and from the page i could find (https://www.epassporte.com/secure/jsp/Fees.jsp) it's 5% to load the card each time and $0.25 per transfer, up to 5 per day, then $1 each after that.

Let's assume someone needs to pay 20 webmasters $500 each for a pay period, a total of $10,000.

With a regular bank check: it's free business checking with my account, the check and envelope cost $0.25 from NEBS and the stamp is $0.37 on average. So to pay 20 WMs $10,000 would cost $12.40 in total, assuming US WMs for all to keep this simple.

To do the same thing with EP would cost: $10,000 x 5% = $500 to load, then $1.25 for the first 5 WMs and $15 for the other 15 WMs, for a huge total of $516.25

So i don't see how they can claim that EP is "much cheaper than checks" when it would cost more than $500 more to do the same transaction each period... am i missing something?

Please tell me i screwed up something, cuz this makes absolutely zero sense.