posted on December 20, 2001 11:42:31 AM new
I had the Amazon Honor Payments logo pasted to my website so that customers could go there click through, pay me, and be done.
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Little did I know that they charged 15% commission. The first and only customer charged $50 and Amazon took $8 commission (15%)
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So I deleted the logo. Looking for something similar and easy, but can't find anything. Tried Yahoo Direct Pay and it is HORRIBLE to send a payment. Yahoo Pay Dir assumes that you the customer are going to set up a YPD account and deposit monies.
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Can anyone recommend a service similar to Amazon Honor Payments. It's a great service, but the comission stinks. From reading these posts PP is the worse, so I won't be going there.
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[ edited by LiW48 on Dec 20, 2001 11:44 AM ]
posted on December 20, 2001 01:30:43 PM new
Paying higher commissions is better than using PayPal. They should not be trusted with anyones money. People using PayPal are just asking for trouble.
posted on December 20, 2001 01:31:39 PM new
15% is a lot,what does amzn deliver??
if it drives traffic to your site and you make money and good money,then i would say they earned it.
you can offer billpoint except i dont believe there is a button you can install,you can send them a billpoint invoice.
other than that,you can always apply for a merchant account
posted on December 20, 2001 04:13:22 PM new
They offer nothing for the 15% charge.
This is how it works. You paste their logo on the website, which is a click through to a payment system. The customer enters the amount they want to pay you; example $10. Then the customer enters their credit card information.
When the charge goes through, you the seller gets an email confirming the amount was charged. Then Amazon sends an email saying that from the $10, 15% or 1.50 was deducted, and your balance is $8.50.
I think for such a simple simple for small, tiny personal business like mine that 15% is outrageous.
Amazon charges 2% for selling books and CDs, why do they charge 15% just to have a customer charge over the internet?
I'm looking for an alternative.
posted on December 20, 2001 10:05:49 PM new
you can tell them you will send them a billpoint invoice and let them troop to billpoint and pay you there.
i think amzn does a better job screening the cards than billpoint,there are complaints about billpoint on this board.
when the other party's cc issuer initiates a chargeback,billpoint will debit your account,it does not have to ask you for proof as it knows in cyberspace you never see the physical card and you never have a copy of the signed slip.
to fight chargeback,merchant must produce evidence of signed receipt and we dont have it.
we are kind of like the sitting ducks of the chargeback world.
