All Posts Tagged With: "american express"

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Why AVS Is Bad for Merchants

AVS, otherwise known as Address Verification Service, just doesn’t work. Banks know it, merchant service providers know it, and merchants should know it. Too often, AVS misleads merchants into thinking an order may be valid when it’s not. I’ve heard merchant after merchant say the same thing “but AVS said it was valid!” only to […]

28Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 4 comments | Continued
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Are Alternative Payments causing an Alternative mess?

Anyone in ecommerce for more than a few years will tell you that adding more payment options will increase your user base. However, there isn’t one specific payment solution, short of accepting credit cards, that will dramatically increase your revenue stream. Typically, depending on the site itself, adding American Express (NYSE AXP) will increase your processing by […]

15Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 5 comments | Continued
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Why Online Merchants WILL NOT accept American Express

I love American Express, I know a lot of people out there don’t, but I think it’s a great company. They do a lot of good stuff for small businesses and they are very good at what they do overall. However, sometimes even the best of them screw up and hopefully by me pointing this […]

2Jan2008 | Riley Poole | 2 comments | Continued
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Facebook just lost as much as 30% of its advertiser base

Facebook is no longer accepting American Express. In another major blow to the Facebook platform, it seems they have been terminated from accepting American Express. For those not familiar with American Express TMF(Terminated Merchant File), AMEX can be relentless with merchants regardless of size, shape or volume. The bigger question is what does this do […]

31Dec2007 | Riley Poole | 9 comments | Continued

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