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Grex > Coop11 > #186: Time to terminate "telnet-through"? | |
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scott
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response 39 of 48:
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Sep 27 21:07 UTC 2000 |
Could we decouple the automation from the process?
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mary
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response 40 of 48:
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Sep 28 12:17 UTC 2000 |
This is turning out to be an expensive experiment. I might
be a lone voice here but I'd suggest our organization isn't
the best candidate for online transactions. As expensive as
this problem is it could have been a whole lot worse.
We are putting ourselves at risk for not a whole lot of gain,
if any.
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sno
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response 41 of 48:
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Sep 28 15:53 UTC 2000 |
As I said in agora, 24 - 48 hour lag is certainly reasonable delay.
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other
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response 42 of 48:
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Sep 29 00:12 UTC 2000 |
I think that if we can find a cost-effective way to do credit card
transactions online which allows for the treasurer to approve before charges
are incurred, then that's the way to go.
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birdy
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response 43 of 48:
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Sep 29 01:01 UTC 2000 |
What about PayPal? I don't think they have a charge added, but Grex is
required to have a credit card to create an account. www.x.com would have
the info.
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prp
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response 44 of 48:
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Sep 29 04:15 UTC 2000 |
You do not need a credit card to create a PayPal account.
It does not look like this probem has anything to do with Telnet through.
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krj
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response 45 of 48:
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Sep 29 04:46 UTC 2000 |
No, sorry I brought this up and confused things.
"Never mind."
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don
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response 46 of 48:
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Sep 30 01:34 UTC 2000 |
The problem with paypal (which is why I dropped my advocacy of it before) is
that they don't accept international credit cards, which was what the credit
card system was set up to do in the first place.
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janc
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response 47 of 48:
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Oct 1 02:57 UTC 2000 |
One thing that has been proposed is that we set things up so that the
authorization isn't attempted until Greg approves it. I think this
would completely solve the problem, if Charge Solutions can set things
up that way for us.
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scg
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response 48 of 48:
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Oct 1 03:00 UTC 2000 |
If not, we might want to look at credit card systems that don't assume that
all transactions are happenign through a web browser. We could then have a
web interface that could send the card numbers to a human, who could run them
through the manual system just as somebody taking orders for stuff over the
phone would, thus filtering out unwanted transactions.
I still think, though that we can't be the only ones who have encountered this
problem. There must be some online credit card processing companies that have
come up with a way around it.
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