Tag Archives: merchant

Credit Cards and Identity Theft

I just received a very disturbing email from a friend of mine. There was a link to a video showing a man carrying a small handheld device that can read a person’s credit cards or bank debit cards that he’s carrying in his wallet, purse, briefcase, or hand if they have the RFID (radio frequency identification) microchip symbol on it. This RFID technology is called blink technology, or contactless technology because it allows a person to use their card without …

The Fountain of Youth

So many times in a person’s life, we think if we had it to do over again, we would have done it differently. But, would we have? Dr. Heideggar’s Experiment, a short story by Nathaniel Hawthorne, explores the premise that, given the opportunity to roll back the years and become better humans, we would not do so. As we were in our youth, we would revert to type and repeat our mistakes, not having learned a single thing. Dr. Heideggar …

Do They Really Want Your Honest Feedback?

Nowadays, if you want to sell a product or sell your services, you will notice that nearly all the sites have a Comments section and you are asked to rate it. But do they really want your honest feedback? I don’t have an eBay account but my client does and, from time to time I ask her to buy something for me that’s advertised on their site and then I send her my check as soon as I receive it. …

Cash or Credit?

In the old days, if you didn’t have good credit or your new business didn’t have a credit history, you didn’t stand a prayer of a chance for being able to accept credit cards. If you were eventually able to show a high degree of creditworthiness, you were then allowed to set up a merchant account. The merchant’s problems, far from being over now that he was given the green light for accepting credit cards, particularly for catalog orders where …