Re: Pre-sale leftovers

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Jochen Küpper <jochen@jochen-kuepper.de> writes:

> In that case the money really arrives I'd say it worked. But it took
> quite a few minutes...

Yes, it's certainly not ideal.  *sigh*

> What again where the alternatives, and why don't you use them?
> I.e. what is the problem with simply accepting credit cards?

To take Visa I have to do the following:

1) Fill in the Visa slip manually with name, number, expiration,
date, and amount
2) *Phone* Visa and beep at them (which I've written a program to do,
but it still requires me to sit there hittin RET for 30 seconds
3) Fill in the auth code
4) Send it all off to Visa by mail

Now, all of this is OK except the 2) bit, which is really boring
after you've done it a hundred times.

And Visa doesn't seem to offer any on-line (or scriptable) interface
to the auth stuff for smaller entities.

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