I have no beef with Chio, I just found issue with his upcoming "payment gateway". Here is what I found.
On December 9 2005 Chio made a thread,
https://gfy.com/fucking-around-and-business-discussion/549978-yargh-business-remake-paypal-epassporte.html, which he states "My paypal system
after a year of solid coding/designing/planning/investing should be complete within the next month."
It still hasnt been released so I decided to find out what it was. With a simple search of "chio the pirate" on google I found BlingBlog,
http://www.bligblog.com/2005/03/28/9/chio-the-pirate/, and on the index,
http://www.bligblog.com/, there is the text link "Bliggle! An excellent alternative to paypal". When you click it to go to Bliggle,
http://www.bliggle.com.
The payment site Bliggle,
http://bliggle.com/, which is registered to the address:
Bliggle.com Inc.
840 SW 28th Terrace, Ste 1752
Cape Coral, FL
33914
US
Has the same address as Chio's site Sharky Farts,
http://www.sharkyfarts.com:
Deck Swabbers Inc.
820 SW 28th Terrace Suite 1752
Cape Coral, FL 33914
US
So I assume that is Chio's payment gateway.
By adding "/images" to bliggle.com you get a listing of its images ->
http://www.bliggle.com/images/ which results in images like:
http://www.bliggle.com/images/selling_tools.gif - contains the word "cuPaid", which is a term used in cuSell,
http://www.cusell.com/cusell/?x=help...a95c 8f69643e
http://www.bliggle.com/images/start_img.gif - which is the same image, except in orange, found at
http://www.cusell.com/members/?x=start&
http://www.bliggle.com/images/fam.gif - which is the same image at
http://www.cusell.com/cusell/?x=home
I can go on with the images...
So it seems that Bliggle, Chio's Payment Gateway, is actually using cuSell,
http://www.cusell.com/order.html, software you buy starting at $150.
The issue I have is security, the security that must be had when you ask for someone's private information like credit card information, and frankly I doubt that a $150 piece of software can offer the security people receive from epassporte and paypal.
If there are issues with my post then I ask Chio to clarify.
* Note: all links worked at time of post