internet credit card transactions

DD - Helen Roberts (helen@dowdigital.com.au)
Wed, 3 Jun 1998 14:05:11 +0800

This was sent in an email......
I am more than a little flabergasted at the scuttlebutt...
the implications are unbelievable...
I am wondering what others feel about this?
Are 'we' correct' in percieving a potential block to our nation's ec
development...
Has any one heard anything 'official'...??

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>one thing that is stopping ec dead in oz is the attitude of the banks who
>have just started to disallow merchant status on credit cards unless you
>sign that you will not take credit card info over the net. this will stop
>ec dead in oz. intel can't believe it. oz is the only country where this
>applies. next i will send you my em to the head of internet policy at comm
>bank & his reply. this is a new edict, having only started 4 weeks ago.
>talk about shutting the stable door after the hores has bolted!!!!
<snip>

Totally bemused!!!

Helen : )

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Helen Roberts
Education Co-ordinator

Dow Digital - Building the Online Business
http://www.dowdigital.com.au
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It is all my opinion.......
therefor all my responsibility......