This is a an email I go from someone that is dying to join one of our sites. Surfers are more savy than you think they are and this is a sad testimonial to the state of 3rd party billing:
From: Polo [mailto:*****69_99@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 8:36 PM
To:
jayq2@comcast.net
Subject: I got a "Q" for you...
... do you know of any sites that accepts debit cards (by Mastercard or Visa) besides the Sales/Billing companies like Paynet.com and CCbill.com? I keep getting declined by these bastards and I have more than enough money on my card. It's not my issuing bank, because they told me that my card was working properly.
I even bought some books online and didn't have any trouble. These two companies are going to lose some serious business if they don't cut some slack to people who either don't want credit cards but is paying actual money (Like the checking account).
Let me know something.
-Marco