>From Tomalak's Realm at http://www.tomalak.org MSNBC: Credit-card fraud has become a nightmare for e-merchants. But in the world of Internet retailing, the customers are always right. As a result, whether customers are ripping off merchants or have been victimized themselves by credit-card thieves, it's the merchants who almost always end up losing money. http://www.msnbc.com/news/462835.asp "Some retailers have devised clever schemes to get around the chargeback issue. GetPlugged.com, a Westlake, Calif., electronics retailer, asks customers who want their wares shipped to a different address to call American Express and ask to have the alternate address added to their account. “Once they do that, then we as an e-tailer are not liable for the charges,” says Sunil Mehrotra, the site’s founder and chairman. But an American Express spokeswoman says, “That is not our policy and we don’t want to encourage that” because of the high cost of implementing such changes." --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
