On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 06:08:47AM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
Dorn Hetzel wrote:
There is a really huge difference in the ease with which payment from a credit card can be reversed if fraudulent, and the amount of effort necessary to reverse a wire transfer. I won't go so far as to say that reversing a wire transfer is impossible, but I would claim it's many orders of magnitude harder than the credit card reversal.
To paraphrase one of my colleagues from the user interaction world:
"The key to offering a compelling service is minimising transaction hassles."
I encourage all my competitors to implement inconvenient hard to use payment methods....
I do too. If all of your competitors uniformly make it just enough harder for Bad Actors to rent servers from which to Act Bad, then we'll *know* where it's coming from, and what to do about it -- and why (you wanted to make more money). See also "Tragedy Of The Commons". Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer +-Internetworking------+---------+ RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates | Best Practices Wiki | | '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA +-http://bestpractices.wikia.com-+ +1 727 647 1274 If you can read this... thank a system administrator. Or two. --me