Hi All
I tend to sit back and watch threads like this roll out and giggle from time to time. The backbiting and smart-ass comments flow like always. Pick a subject and someone is going to start pissing.
But it seems we have a fair group of very knowledgeable people in here all talking about much the same thing.
"The future of Billing (Visa and M/Card) in our Porn World".
We have had Clay and Chris from Epoch, who we all know had problems, from all independent reports, Clay and his team have fixed everything and shown they are truly friends of the webmaster community.
And Kimmy (ex CCBill), who I consider a friend and I trust entirely, has a very unique view of both processing and running a proggie. If I needed a question on billing answered, I would indeed start with this lovely lady.
Mitch from NetBilling who is trying to solve the Non 3rd Party options, must be included in the debate, as he would undoubtedly be the contrasting view from Epoch and the other PSP?s
Plus a host of very interested (and rightfully concerned) webmasters that would probably be thinking about billing every day (i.e. ? will I get my check from my PSP this week?)
So let me place this challenge on you all. Can you forget your pissing and back biting for just a little bit, and lets all try and place posts here of important thoughts, such as:
1) The webmasters could give Epoch the feedback they need to develop the free trial model without risk to our industry
2) The Tax implications of registering sub merchants and the obvious abuse of the database of all porn webmasters that goes with it
3) The subtle changes being made by the processors (like iBill asking its webmasters to remove Visa and MasterCard logos from their join pages)
4) A true comparative risk/benefit analysis for owning your own merchant account as opposed to working within a PSP (for both US and Non US entities)
This issue is just too big to sit around and piss guys. Give me your thoughts on this. If I am full of shit, ok, I'll go back to sitting back and having a giggle.
But if you are serious about this, I am happy to set up a website on an unused URL with Zero advertising to do nothing but work on billing issues.
A first step - what do you think?
Give me a holler on icq: 92462894, or spam me at daniel at multibill.com if you want to discuss anything specific with me
Good luck everyone - I think we need it
Daniel Hicks
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