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[Marc Balmer]

Bill Maas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this one's FAR off-topic, but I'm going to post it anyway. It's about
> making payments rather than about technology. However, I came across it
> while ordering a net5501, so it does have _something_ to do with
> Soekris.
> 
> The problem is that I don't like having my credit card nos. all over the
> place, so I asked Wim Vandeputte from soekris.kd85.com if I could pay
> through an escrow like Paypal, but Soekris Engineering doesn't do Paypal
> (which is probably a horribly expensive service anyway).

that sound unneccessarily complicated to me ;)  every company will treat
your credit card data confidentially, if they store it all.  On our
webshop, https://www.msys.ch/shop/ we do not store any such data, it is
all handled by Telekurs Multipay, a credit card processing company.
> 
> 
> I don't really like Paypal because they pay the seller immediately, and
> if I don't like the product, I'll have to contact and try to come to
> terms with seller directly. A company named Escrow.com (www.escrow.com)
> have a better formula, as their "How it works" explains:
> 
> "
> How does it work?
> 
>    1. Buyer and Seller Agree to Terms
>    2. Buyer Pays Escrow.com
>    3. Seller Ships Merchandise
>    4. Buyer Accepts the Merchandise
>    5. Escrow.com Pays the Seller
> 
> What are the benefits?
> Escrow.com, an accredited escrow company, acts as a secure third party
> to protect the Buyer and Seller.
> 
> How Buyers are protected:
> - Escrow.com tracks the shipped merchandise and verifies it was
> delivered.
> - The Seller isn't paid until the Buyer accepts the merchandise, or
>   the inspection period expires. 
> 
> How Sellers are protected:
> - Escrow.com confirms when the Buyer receives merchandise.
> - The Seller is authorized to ship only after Escrow.com verifies
>   good funds.
> "
> 
> 
> I don't intend to advertise for this or any particular company here. It
> just occurred to me that this way of making payments should be fairly
> easy to implement in a collective, Open Source environment. The key
> issue is trust, the financial side should be much less of a problem
> (basically all that is required is a computer and a bank account).
> 
> Anyway, I hope I'll be forgiven for raising this issue on the
> soekris-tech list. It's intended as a hint for the Open source
> community, ans since The Open Source Community doesn't have an email
> adress, why not start here:)
> 
> And I still feel that any host any of my my CC-nos. sits on is one too
> many (they're not even on any of my computers).
> 
> Bill
> 
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