infamous for fraud. For example we don't accept credit card orders from
Indonesia no matter what. There is a big industry there in ordering
merchandise by credit card, then after it's shipped disputing the
transaction. That reverses the transaction so you've lost the merchandise
as well as the money and getting it back again is extremely difficult in the
Indonesian banking system. A friend of mine got ripped off for several
multi-thousand dollar musical instruments that way. My advice, at least
for Indonesian addresses is to insist on bank drafts or irrevocable letters
of credit. You wont lose legitimate customers, because they are used to
being told their credit cards are no good. This kind of fraud is a plague
there.
There are probably other countries with similar issues too.
To bring that back to CF, if you're shipping goods, you probably want to
build in a system that will let you screen the orders for various
destinations so that those destinations are handled manually.
Cheers
Mike Kear
Windsor, NSW, Australia
AFP Webworks
http://afpwebworks.com
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From: Haggerty, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, 17 March 2004 2:11 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: OT: International Payment Processing
A client of mine is looking to set up an ecommerce site that accepts
orders from outside the United States. More specifically, he has a large
number of clients in places like Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, etc.
and is trying to avoid the large fees and wait times that go along with
using cashiers checks.
I have built numerous ecommerce sites for U.S. and Canadian consumers,
but have never set up a site aimed at international offices and would
like to know what kinds of issues we are going to run into. We are
planning on using Verisign for the payment processing and will be
offering users the ability to pay with credit cards but not checks or
debit cards. Outside the technology, I am concerned about things like
taxes, tariffs, actually collecting address information, etc. - all of
his orders will be for amounts in excess of $1000.
Any advice would be appreciated.
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