This was inspired by a thread in HH....I'm kinda grossed out by the amount that clubs charge us and custys to use funny money.
I used to work for a friend of mine who owned a payment processing company. I helped him make sales. I also learned a little bit about how credit card payments are processed in small businesses. Essentially, anybody with a business license and business bank account can process credit cards. The amount a merchant pays for this processing depends on their business credit score and the amount of volume they plan to process (the higher the volume, the lower the percentage). Online and adult businesses are considered "high risk" and therefore the percentages are a bit higher.
When I was working in merchant services, I actually called a few escort businesses to try and set up service with them (my boss was totally cool with it). I was told that there is a terminal that is portable, so that means you can swipe cards no matter where you are. My boss thought it would be good for escorts to take the terminal on outcalls!
Couldn't we, as dancers do the same if we had a business license? Instead of relying on clubs to process our CC payments, we could be doing it ourselves. We could keep our portable terminals in our lockers until we had a custy who wanted to process a CC. Otherwise we'd just push for cash payments. There is always the issue of charge backs, which I think is what would make it risky. Does anyone know how common it is for custys to charge back their CC payments at the club? Would this ever work in a club setting?


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It's not worth risking the money you have in there to see if it works. They will take all of it and freeze your account indefinitely. I boycott Paypal just on principle and this keeps me off of Ebay as well so it has a doubly positive effect.
You're right.

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