At 01:35 PM 2/11/2001 +1100, Michael Moore wrote: >I would like however, to introduce new blood into the business. 250,000 >new people coming into the business each day would boost and make egold >known world wide. > >But to have 2000 traders or merchants using the system and demanding payment >in gold would be even better! > >Has there ever been a concerted effort to promote e-gold to merchants as a >safter and more sevcure alternative to credit cards. Not sure about e-Gold, but SR is making a concentrated effort to do so. We just signed a deal with a new agent who has contracted to bring in thousands of new Instant Anywhere accounts worldwide through a network of approx 35,000 sales folks. In addition, we made a separate deal with them to focus on merchants, with the goal to have 1,000 merchants on this year. And I had lunch with another group this week who has over 100,000 retail (merchant) clients worldwide. Since we have a debit card, their feeling is we can start with merchants taking the debit card and wean them over to Net-based account processing. There was a large retail trade show in Las Vegas two weeks ago, and the question came up "Why do merchants have to use the Visa/MC network to accept cards? Why can't they go directly to the Internet?" To which one of our agents in attendance, said "Talk to Standard Reserve." Hence the meeting. We're hoping. We have a couple of other similar arrangements in the works. It's a Catch 22 situation - merchants need customers; account holders need customers. George ______________________________________ George Matyjewicz, President Standard Reserve Corp. -- Atlanta, GA World Wide Currency for the World Wide Web http://www.standardreserve.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
