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From a British perspective
Beth & I run a reasonably succesful UK website. The problems we have in relation to the "National Territory" issue is that there are NO British aggregators like CCBill, IBill or Verotel, (Dutch company). The option of a Merchant Account is likewise not open to us, since NO british bank will accept adult credit card transactions, as far as I am aware.
So, British websites are completely screwed by this and will have to set up entities in other countries or use the AVS option.
The $750 charge doesn't bother me. It's small percentage of our turn over and as I understand the rules it relates to the company not to URLS so I can put as many urls through the entity as I like for one charge.
I sympathise greatly with CCBill and IBill. To some extent I also understand Visa and their desire, presumably, to create a "more orderly market" in the adult business. The web adult business is maturing and costs and regulations such as these are common problems for other industries.
But for the life of me, I can't understand why Visa take such a hard faced attitude to it when it must be costing them a lot of transactions. Adult content has driven the internet. Words like "goose", "golden egg" and "kill" come to mind.
Ah well, Nevada here I come.
Cheers
Tom
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