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DVTimes 09-03-2010 01:54 AM

http://www.xbiznewswire.com/view.php?id=124842

Quote:

ePassporte said Thursday that its banking partner?s Visa program has been suspended.
EPassport said Visa International put on hold transactions involving St. Kitts Nevis Anguilla National Bank and that it can no longer issue Visa cards and that account holders won?t be able to make point-of-sale purchases and withdraw funds from ATMs.

?At this time we do not know why this drastic action was taken by Visa,? ePassporte owner Christopher Mallick said in a letter. ?To us, it is unconscionable that such action would be taken without the opportunity for ePassporte to fully understand Visa?s reasons and to be able to take all steps necessary to keep our program running the way it has so successfully done for over seven years. But that is what Visa has done.?

Mallick said ePassporte was notified at noon on Thursday of the suspension.

?The ePassporte e-Wallet program continues to be up and running, except funds cannot be transferred between your Visa account and your e-Wallet,? Mallick said.

?As soon as we have more information we will be in contact with you,? he said. ?In the meantime please be assured that your funds are safe.The ePassporte team is working diligently to rectify this situation."

Mallick said customers can contact the company through its call center for queries.

XBIZ was unable to reach Mallick or Visa International for additional information after business hours Thursday night.

Stomped 09-03-2010 01:54 AM

Shit..
I just withdrawn some money yesterday but now all the rest is locked...
This fucking sucks, I hope it gets resolved pretty soon (but I don't think so, I'm pretty sure ePassporte is fucked for good now)

darksoul 09-03-2010 01:55 AM

what happened with WMC ? did they bounced back ?

Mr. Cool Ice 09-03-2010 01:56 AM

SOBV aquires Epass
 
Now they have all your money. :1orglaugh


Just kidding. That would be some shit though.

Loki 09-03-2010 01:56 AM

Don't forget this is a holiday weekend for us in the states, Monday is the 'holiday' so that might effect the 'timely manner' we are all hoping and crossing body parts for :(

And no, at least for me there has been NO emails from Epass about this, HOWEVER when you go to login to your account there is a HUGE letter sitting right there, I figure emails will go out in the morning, or shortly though

-Loki-

bbobby86 09-03-2010 02:00 AM

is this going to be resolve at all... or not...?
and when can we expect it...?

ContentPimp 09-03-2010 02:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DVTimes (Post 17463351)
checks????

What if you are a service provider?

Hosting company, designer, copy writer, grunt worker, and the list goes on, you can't get personal checks from your clients!!!!!!!!!!!!

seeandsee 09-03-2010 02:01 AM

http://img198.imageshack.us/i/koticksucks2.jpg/

I hope this will be done in week :disgust

will76 09-03-2010 02:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Loki (Post 17463360)
Don't forget this is a holiday weekend for us in the states, Monday is the 'holiday' so that might effect the 'timely manner' we are all hoping and crossing body parts for :(

And no, at least for me there has been NO emails from Epass about this, HOWEVER when you go to login to your account there is a HUGE letter sitting right there, I figure emails will go out in the morning, or shortly though

-Loki-

Interesting that this happens on a Thur/Fri before a long holiday weekend.

Quote:

Originally Posted by tinafaye (Post 17463366)
What if you are a service provider?

Hosting company, designer, copy writer, grunt worker, and the list goes on, you can't get personal checks from your clients!!!!!!!!!!!!

wtf are you talking about. How do you think people did it before epass came along ???

Checks and wire transfers for large amounts. I still pay for all my hosting accounts with checks. I pay designers or other smaller things with paypal.

PersianKitty 09-03-2010 02:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by will76 (Post 17463375)
Interesting that this happens on a Thur/Fri before a long holiday weekend

Isn't that always the way...

Vjo 09-03-2010 02:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DVTimes (Post 17463349)
Quick question:

Has this been sent to Epassporte users via email?

Often I get emails from Epassporte, but I do not seem to about this.

To be honest no sponser has at yet seemed to have sent any emails out.

I brought this up as I also received no email.

Guys who got paid lately may be in for a sad awakening the more time that goes by before they login. Not everyone reads GFY.

Email should be sent to alert everyone with Epassporte to switch to Wallet settings.

Whats up with that?

Darkcrni 09-03-2010 02:09 AM

Damn.....i was using Epass to pay for my hostings.....now what?

Denny 09-03-2010 02:10 AM

DAMN, that sucks!!:Oh crap

DVTimes 09-03-2010 02:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tinafaye (Post 17463366)
What if you are a service provider?

Hosting company, designer, copy writer, grunt worker, and the list goes on, you can't get personal checks from your clients!!!!!!!!!!!!

all the above you can still do paypal.

i bet most people (i do) pay for there hosting via paypal.

Paul Markham 09-03-2010 02:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SleazyBear (Post 17462956)
After 15 years in this biz, I have never seen one company that lost there visa or mastercard ever pay webmasters. Best thing to do, is screen shot your loss and when tax time comes take it as a loss. I just had a sponsor pay me a pretty decent payment I just got it this morning and when I went to pay for dinner tonight and my card was declined, I was like oh well another done went south.

QFT

We don't do much on Epass, but as luck would have it did $800 last week. Spent $400 on "back to school" expenses and was going to use the rest this weekend. Guess that's not going to happen.

A lot of people used Epass and this even if it is cleared up will take months. It will send a few more to the wall. :(

tabasco 09-03-2010 02:11 AM

Hmm curious how ATM limits were decreased to $1,000 24 hours earlier. Only one person in this thread mentioned it. Seems not so "sudden and drastic" no?

Two of my biggest epass sponsors paid me yesterday too! I try and keep as little as possible in there but you can;t take it out quick enough with low limits.

To the people who keep saying stick to wires and checks for sponsor payments. It's very expensive in some countries. A wire can cost me over $40 a pop and checks are $15 each and means me standing at the teller while they do the shitload of paperwork for each one. I use wire for big sponsors like CCBill but it's just not cost effective for the tonnes of smaller programs I use.

DVTimes 09-03-2010 02:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Darkcrni (Post 17463384)
Damn.....i was using Epass to pay for my hostings.....now what?

paypal, vredit card, debit card, checks, cash.

Denny 09-03-2010 02:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by holograph (Post 17462302)
great, i've just renewed my card couple of days ago :-/

same here :disgust

pornstar2fag 09-03-2010 02:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nathan (Post 17463215)
Loki, EVERY big company in adult used all of those services, its ridiculous to think its our fault.

But thank you for saying that you will apologize, we'll see if it happens once its done.

@st0ned, why should it not be?

Obviously we like 95% of the industry uses ePassporte. I right now have no idea how many of our funds are on the virtual visa, but I think its not a lot, at least I hope its not... I am not even sure if we use the virtual visa, but I honestly doubt we do...

fabian - EVERY big company in adult is not being investigated by the Department of Justice. Big DIFFERENCE :321GFY

PersianKitty 09-03-2010 02:16 AM

I have what may be a dumb question regarding what happened (I haven't read all 11 pages)

The statement says "Visa International put on hold transactions involving St. Kitts Nevis Anguilla National Bank"

Now does that mean Visa is taking action against the bank or against Epassporte's account(s) with the bank?

Asking because I know that St. Kitts Nevis Anguilla National Bank along with National Bank of Dominica Ltd. are/were part of a bailout plan for TCI Bank (Turks and Caicos) which involved them depositing $18.5 million.

DavieVegas 09-03-2010 02:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by georgeyw (Post 17463195)
No matter what happens - Michael O deserves to be crowned the king of customer service yet again. Have dealt with him on a couple of occassions and he is always 100% professional and on the ball.

Kudos to you Michael - you're handling this thread like a pro!

You kidding? This is his job to be in this thread. Not one thing has been done yet for anyone on epassportes side to get crowned with great customer service. I feel bad for michael because epass is hanging him out to dry. Let me know if the same tune is being sung once they dont pay.

Nick_Merlot 09-03-2010 02:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Vjo (Post 17463200)
I believe there has been no email on this from Epassporte. I may be wrong. I never got any tho.

I got 3 or 4 epass messages about the movie coming out. However, no emails about this. Odd.

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/m...bagdad_bob.gif

pornstar2fag 09-03-2010 02:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by k0nr4d (Post 17463331)
They probably don't have internet on his flight to <insert name of non extradition treaty country here> :1orglaugh

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

k0nr4d 09-03-2010 02:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavieVegas (Post 17463403)
You kidding? This is his job to be in this thread. Not one thing has been done yet for anyone on epassportes side to get crowned with great customer service. I feel bad for michael because epass is hanging him out to dry. Let me know if the same tune is being sung once they dont pay.

Lets just hope they aren't paying him his salary via epass :thumbsup

DavieVegas 09-03-2010 02:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by phonesex (Post 17463288)
From what I can see the money should have automatically been sent to the wallet to protect us.

Amen brutha...Should of been the only option

rublerum 09-03-2010 02:22 AM

I hope it will be fix by tomorrow or by monday :(

pornstar2fag 09-03-2010 02:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tabasco (Post 17463392)
Hmm curious how ATM limits were decreased to $1,000 24 hours earlier. Only one person in this thread mentioned it. Seems not so "sudden and drastic" no?

I mentioned it a few pages back :winkwink:

DVTimes 09-03-2010 02:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rublerum (Post 17463415)
I hope it will be fix by tomorrow or by monday :(

i hope i will be king of england.

which do you think most likley?

blofer80 09-03-2010 02:24 AM

11.5k views. Oh my god. I hope it gets resolved ASAP!

DVTimes 09-03-2010 02:24 AM

I wonder how many big firms know about this?

Icy 09-03-2010 02:28 AM

Wow luckily i had the settings changed and all my money was in my wallet and not the visa, now it's out of epass and safe.

But now... time to visit hundreds of sponsors and change my settings to be paid by check or wire... i was paid by most sponsors by epass and are a few thousands that i won't feel safe having in epass for a while, even if it's in the wallet.

cam_girls 09-03-2010 02:29 AM

OMG OMG OMG

FIRST thanks to Michael for handling the situation here.

SECOND I'm so fucked.

I just put everything into CamAffiliate.com and have been eating a sausage
on a slice of bread for 5 days.

I have $1.50 in 5 cent pieces.
I literally have a cup of rice and half a bottle of tomato sauce, 1 cup milk and some coffee which was to make it to payday in 6 hours from now.

Lucky I read this in time to switch to Wallet.

WORSE TIMING EVER

I'm going to CRUCIFY VISA for this.

Please give my wire request priority - already starving here. (cam_girls)

Chosen 09-03-2010 02:30 AM

Icy, how did you withdraw them?

ilbb 09-03-2010 02:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rublerum (Post 17463415)
I hope it will be fix by tomorrow or by monday :(

You are big optimist

hawkadu 09-03-2010 02:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ilbb (Post 17463442)
You are big optimist

This is the only thing we can do atm

Godsmack 09-03-2010 02:34 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick_Merlot (Post 17463405)
I got 3 or 4 epass messages about the movie coming out. However, no emails about this. Odd.

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/m...bagdad_bob.gif

Maybe they are working on a cool sequel to that movie :disgust

Mr. Cool Ice 09-03-2010 02:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick_Merlot (Post 17463405)
I got 3 or 4 epass messages about the movie coming out. However, no emails about this. Odd.

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/m...bagdad_bob.gif

Quote:

Originally Posted by tabasco (Post 17463392)
Hmm curious how ATM limits were decreased to $1,000 24 hours earlier. Only one person in this thread mentioned it. Seems not so "sudden and drastic" no?

Two of my biggest epass sponsors paid me yesterday too! I try and keep as little as possible in there but you can;t take it out quick enough with low limits.

To the people who keep saying stick to wires and checks for sponsor payments. It's very expensive in some countries. A wire can cost me over $40 a pop and checks are $15 each and means me standing at the teller while they do the shitload of paperwork for each one. I use wire for big sponsors like CCBill but it's just not cost effective for the tonnes of smaller programs I use.

There was another GFY poster who said epass was in trouble. Anyone remember this? About a month ago and everyone jumped his ass. Maybe he was banned for it, I don't recall. Epass denied they were in any trouble. Fast forward a month, the poster was correct.

A problem like this does not happen over night.

quiet 09-03-2010 02:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cam_girls (Post 17463437)
OMG OMG OMG

FIRST thanks to Michael for handling the situation here.

SECOND I'm so fucked.

I just put everything into CamAffiliate.com and have been eating a sausage
on a slice of bread for 5 days.

I have $1.50 in 5 cent pieces.
I literally have a cup of rice and half a bottle of tomato sauce, 1 cup milk and some coffee which was to make it to payday in 6 hours from now.

Lucky I read this in time to switch to Wallet.

WORSE TIMING EVER

I'm going to CRUCIFY VISA for this.

Please give my wire request priority - already starving here. (cam_girls)

you're the crazy guy who thinks he's on the truman show, right?

DVTimes 09-03-2010 02:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Godsmack (Post 17463452)
Maybe they are working on a cool sequel to that movie :disgust

that could be were the cash has gone.

DavieVegas 09-03-2010 02:36 AM

We wont see our money....I took a screen shot and im going to write it off as a loss....That is exactly what it is is a loss and they robbed us. Quick come up if you ask me..

andrej_NDC 09-03-2010 02:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Brent 3dSexCash (Post 17462511)
The difference is that Paypal IS a USA company so you have means to get your money back if they screw you... big difference

And Ibill isn't an USA company? Your naivity is sweet, though.

DavieVegas 09-03-2010 02:37 AM

Just as K0nrad said in the other thread below:

"The money is in someone's personal offshore account right now.

Lets take a look at the trail of events leading up to this.
- Porn industry takes a dive, sponsors disappear, less money loaded on epass. They can no longer be used for gambling too, so their income must have taken a hit on this. Every day a new program closes up shop, and that is one less that will load up money every month to pay affiliates. Over the past few months, I have noticed a very strong migration to clients using paypal and wires and away from epass.
- 1 or 2 days before this happens, many people's limits are lowered to $1k withdrawl
- Their visa accounts are "abruptly suspended" with no warning and with no explaination given. Conveniently at the start of the month just before a long weekend, when the most money is on the epass system as programs are loading up their accounts to pay affiliates. As it is a long weekend, no one can get in touch with visa or anyone to confirm anything.

Yeah...I can definately see this all ending well."

cam_girls 09-03-2010 02:40 AM

I am the Truman.

Graham Cooper = groom computer = wife finder = sex machine = genesis Adam

Like BOLT = runner, BILL = billionaire, WOODS = golfer

http://hercshome.com/genesisproof180.gif

Proof if you think about it

seeandsee 09-03-2010 02:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hawkadu (Post 17463450)
This is the only thing we can do atm

We can't do anything at "ATM" , all visa cards are blocked :1orglaugh /jk

quiet 09-03-2010 02:42 AM

your a fat stupid aussie socialpath. back to the topic at hand. lots of you guys are fucked, damn.

Vjo 09-03-2010 02:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick_Merlot (Post 17463405)
I got 3 or 4 epass messages about the movie coming out. However, no emails about this. Odd.

Yeah, skip the movie announcements just please let me know when my incoming money is being frozen when there is something I can do about it.

How many thousands of $$$ per hour into the "frozen Virtual Visa account"?

http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/m...bagdad_bob.gif

mrxxl 09-03-2010 02:44 AM

Fucking bad news!:mad:

andrej_NDC 09-03-2010 02:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Agent 488 (Post 17462648)
same anyone want to buy a network hit me up.

What are you selling?

ContentPimp 09-03-2010 02:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DavieVegas (Post 17463462)
Just as K0nrad said in the other thread below:

"The money is in someone's personal offshore account right now.

Lets take a look at the trail of events leading up to this.
- Porn industry takes a dive, sponsors disappear, less money loaded on epass. They can no longer be used for gambling too, so their income must have taken a hit on this. Every day a new program closes up shop, and that is one less that will load up money every month to pay affiliates. Over the past few months, I have noticed a very strong migration to clients using paypal and wires and away from epass.
- 1 or 2 days before this happens, many people's limits are lowered to $1k withdrawl
- Their visa accounts are "abruptly suspended" with no warning and with no explaination given. Conveniently at the start of the month just before a long weekend, when the most money is on the epass system as programs are loading up their accounts to pay affiliates. As it is a long weekend, no one can get in touch with visa or anyone to confirm anything.

Yeah...I can definately see this all ending well."


Konrad is a smart cookie!

TeenCat 09-03-2010 02:44 AM

i love you smart asses. everyone is taking his statement and in future one of you will have truth, oh you are as smart as a god, i love you! :error


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