Re: [pgsql-advocacy] PostgreSQL speakers needed for OSCON

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
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>>>>Would this be at all useful?
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>>>Someone mentioned that the 'fees' were relatively high though ... that you
>>>lose a fair amount off the top *to* Sourceforge?
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>>If we were going to do this, I would suggest just going right through
>>paypal.
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>I'd rather pay the high fees and actually have access to the money ...
>Paypal I'm 110% *against* ... they have had *way* too many problems.  In
>fact, there was a time when we ourselves setup the whole paypal account
>and were looking at moving to it, until our clients started telling us
>they wouldn't use it.  We, as a business, have had something like 25 "new
>clients" sign up in the past month that its turning out are cards stolen
>from clients who made purchases through paypal in the recent past ...
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>We (ie. Hub) just went through re-evaluating our online credit card
>services, and are currently in the middle of moving our accounts to a
>company called PaySystems (http://www.paysystems.com) that we've found to
>have some of the better fees, and have yet to any major complaints about
>their services ... we haven't found any major complaints about our current
>one, but we just find we're losing too much money in the way of fees ...
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Agreed. You might also look at http://www.2checkout.com/ - I have heard 
they are OK, and their fees don't look outrageous. I also have a friend 
who runs a web payment service, who might be able to help. I can ask him 
if people are interested.

cheers

andrew