Payments 'anywhere'. Was: Re: Payments across the Atlantic [was: Re: Air Wargames?]

From: ThnkTank@cris.com (Eleaticus)

Date: Tue, 04 Jun 1996 00:00:00 +0000

In article <4ob764$1er@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, aforandy@aol.com (Aforandy) wrote:
> In article <caraher-2605960137330001@pm075-21.dialip.mich.net>,
> caraher@umich.edu (John M Caraher) writes:

I've just now first seen this thread,
- here on rgb - so I don't know if it
is relevant.

But,  as any mail to info@fv.com will
show you in the faq it fetches:

(1) any momma-poppa company with a credit
card of their own can set up to do business
internationally and USA-ly for a setup fee
of $10.00 plus $2.00; the entity setting one
up is First Virtual, they do the complete
job of collecting charge monies for you.

(2) anyone who can set up a credit card
account (charge or debit, here and in (1) )
can buy from any outfit set up as a vendor
with First Virtual.

(3) FV does not take credit card numbers
on the 'net, and buyers do not have to
expose their charge numbers on the net.

(4) the hassle for businesses is that
FV doesn't pay till they actually get
the receipts from the credit card com-
panies.

(5) it is very cheap for a business,
and costs only the one-time $2.00 fee
for buyers over and beyond the usual
credit card charges.

I have two tiny (less than momma-poppa)
vendor presences on FV's InfoHaus where
my products are available on ftp/WWW pages,
and they (IH and FV) do all the selling,
collecting of monies, and delivery of the
product.

I began reading this group today in the
mistaken belief it might be the place
to get test players - and ladder/rating
initialization players - for board chase
games and chess variants.

Sorry for any inconvenience.

Eleaticus

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