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    Feel free to move this if it's in the wrong place. I've heard about mobile merchants who carry wireless credit card processing machines and thought it might be a good idea for some dancers. My club only has an atm machine with a max. withdrawal of $60 (and often times the thing is not working anyway) and no credit card machine at the bar or door. So customers need to have cash or they're out of luck. Many have run short of money before they wanted to stop getting dances, and that's frustrating for both of us! So I'm seriously considering getting one of these. Here's a link to one site I've been looking at. Apparently the machine runs off your cellular phone.

    http://www.aircharge.com/

    Does anyone have experience or opinions about this?

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    It sounds like a good idea in therory but I'd be careful. Depending on your club they might want a cut of it. And if the custy wants a cash advance you'd have to have that cashon hand. It might work though.

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    Not sure how the club can insist on taking a cut of a dancer's own private $$ transaction. How do they prove that you made a transaction and for how much?

    The only HUGE downside is that a customer can wake up the next day and call the CC company and report his card stolen. All of the money that was transferred to you would be removed from your account and put back in his.

    Paypal mobile would be easier, but isn't as widely used as credit cards.


    Promote yourself and earn more money! This is a business that is owned by strippers for strippers. Let's make that money!


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    It's very easy to charge back nontangible items. I'd stick to cash if I were you.

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    Charge backs are easy to do on Credit card transactions. How it basically works is you dispute the charge. The cards financial institution sends the charge back from where it came. The company has thirty days to prove the ligitamacy of the transaction or they eat the loss.

    There are so many issues with merchant card processing from making sure the information is batched (meaning sent to the financial institution every day), fees, and the laws about how to handle the information you are given that I would think for a stripper it would be more a hassle than anything else.

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    I am astounded. You work in a club in which the ownership of the club does not have the ability to do on line credit card screening of credit card accounts?

    For all the valid complaints that dancers have about bad management, bad customers, unsafe conditions you have one of the most serious complaints against the owners.

    They obviously have a death wish for their business to not have credit card account
    screening on line. This very poor management decision means you should leave there immediately because this is really cutting into your income.

    The strip club business (for all the concerns of the IRS) is certainly not an all cash business and is really becoming a credit card business.

    I've never heard of such a poor operating procedure by a club ownership in the 21st century. Please explain in greater detail, but make plans to leave and leave fast.

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    Yeah, the club is very poorly run, to put it mildly. And I know pretty much for a fact that the financial aspects are pretty shady as far as IRS reporting is concerned. The thing is, I live in southwest Va and there are no other clubs around for hours. My club has a monopoly on the whole area. I actually make really good money there, which is why I stay. But not accepting credit cards is a terrible inconvenience when we entertain out-of-towners who are accustomed to more professional service. Sure, my regulars know better, but I'm always looking for an edge - something to appeal to a target that isn't being reached. Talking to the management is useless. They won't even hire a DJ (we use a jukebox) or buy new couches for the private dance area (ratty, old, mismatched goodwill couches). Anyway, it's really not feasible for me to change clubs. The closest one is over 3 hours away and I just moved into a new house here. Every now and then I could travel, but I won't make a regular thing of it. But I can see how the credit card machine might be more trouble then it's worth.

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