It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.

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Typo Boy - Jun 11, 2012 4:30:34 pm PDT #924 of 1418
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Square looks like it is for accepting card in person, not on-line.


Stephanie - Jun 11, 2012 4:51:43 pm PDT #925 of 1418
Trust my rage

We do it over the phone with no card all the time, but I'm not sure about through a website.


Typo Boy - Jun 11, 2012 9:36:10 pm PDT #926 of 1418
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

I checked Square's site and they have a grid which specifically shows that you can't accept credit cards on-line with them.


Stephanie - Jun 11, 2012 11:13:56 pm PDT #927 of 1418
Trust my rage

That's too bad because they are otherwise excellent.


Liese S. - Jun 12, 2012 2:43:43 pm PDT #928 of 1418
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Yeah, Square is great. What about Intuit's credit card processing?


Typo Boy - Jun 13, 2012 9:15:26 am PDT #929 of 1418
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Intuit offer a merchant account I think - one with one of the lowest terminal fees I've seen, but still a merchant account. I queried Wepay and they told me they have stopped using "contact the customer" as a way to verify charges. Which I guess is good. It worries me a bit that they used to do this. On the other hand, they actually answered my question.


Typo Boy - Jun 13, 2012 9:15:59 am PDT #930 of 1418
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

So now I'm thinking WePay for on-line, and Square for in person.


Ginger - Jun 13, 2012 9:27:52 am PDT #931 of 1418
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

Costco is supposed to have low merchant fees.


Ginger - Jun 13, 2012 12:46:30 pm PDT #932 of 1418
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

I have something I want to do that may or may not be a business or a book or both. I have a fascination with kudzu, both as metaphor and invasive plant. There hasn't been a decent book on kudzu since the 70s and that was more a hippy-dippy book on eating and crafting with kudzu. I have thought about pitching it as a book, but I'm not sure that's the best approach today. What I am pondering is a blog and/or Tumblr in which I collect research on kudzu and write various articles about it. My goal would be a book and becoming the person people call when they want a quote about kudzu.

I own the url kudzuthebook.com, but I don't think that exactly covers this first phase. What are your feelings about ProjectKudzu.com, KudzuProject.com or LikeKudzu.com?

I hate to open up the question of whether I am crazy, but is this a workable concept? Should I also pose the question in the writing thread?


amych - Jun 13, 2012 12:48:29 pm PDT #933 of 1418
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

I would be all over that. Umm. Like Kudzu. (which is also incidentally my name vote.)