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Hi,

I wanted to sell my online courses (PHP and MySQL tutorials) via
2Checkout as a CC-Processor. They told me that "IT Certification Test
Exams and Study Aids" are forbidden, even if I don't issue an offical
grade or certificate.

I wonder, why this may be the case. I have seen other sites
like www.gameversity.com/Courses.html
or http://www.searchenginecollege.com/s...on-courses.htm
who are using 2Checkout to sell their courses.

Is there any official regulation in the USA that I may have overseen
or is it just 2Co policy? Maybe I'm not allowed to offer online
tutorials at all? They told me no reason, just gave me a refund and
told me that the site has been thoroughly reviewed and is not
acceptable.

If anybody can help me to shed more light on this, I would really
appreciate it. I don't want to start something illegal just because
the lack of knowledge.

Thanks in advance

Marian

On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 19:21:13 +0100, Marian Heddesheimer
<271205.8.nolink@spamgourmet.com> wrote:

Howdy Marian,

Every hosting company has their own ideas as to how they want to do things.

There are no laws and no sheriffs on the Internet or a way to enforce any
laws that might happen to get written. It is the Wild Wild West (www) and
without a good wagon master you are at the bandits mercy.

There is nothing illegal about what you want to do. You just need to get
set up with good hosting company that will look after you.

Thanks, Chris www.bizynet.com and www.bizycart.com
BIZynet Coordinator cgunn@bizynet.com - (505) 586-1225
Moderator of biz.ecommerce, biz.general, biz.marketplace.discussion,
biz.marketplace.web-design, biz.marketplace.international & others

On Wed, 04 Jan 2006 13:43:22 -0700, Chris Gunn wrote:

thanks, I got another reply who tried an explanation: The company may
have found that there are many chargebacks with these types of
service. I think this a reasonable explanation why they don't want
online courses.

oops, I thought that I have to observe the law even on the www ;-)

I believe, I know what you mean.

Thanks for the advice. The courses are already set up and I am using
PayPal for the payment processing right now. Unfortunately, PayPal is
not accessible (for blind people for example). This is important for
me, because I have a lot of blind people enrolling in my courses.

Marian

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On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:37:24 +0100, Marian Heddesheimer
<271205.8.nolink@spamgourmet.com> wrote:

Howdy Marian,

This sounds like they are doing some factoring and their card company
threatened to yank their Merchant Card Account. Otherwise, any charge backs
are a problem for the site owner and the hosting company isn't aware of it.

Amazon and eBay can get away with factoring but smaller companies can't.
I'd need to know more before going further.

It's a very good idea to run an ethical business site. I'm quite sure you
don't have any complications.

I wasn't aware PayPal was that difficult to use with a screen reader. Try
http://www.bizynet.biz/Splash.htm and see if looks like blind people would
be able to make purchases okay. BIZyCart uses template pages that can be
coded to make screen readers work easier.

Be fun to work with you. BIZyCart's data base has field options so that
Yes/No questions will take people to an appropriate paragraph for multi-path
courses. Each course can be in it's own data base. I've got my own book
going together on-line on the http://cohesiveliving.com site. The whole
book is in the data base and searchable.

Thanks, Chris www.bizynet.com and www.bizycart.com
BIZynet Coordinator cgunn@bizynet.com - (505) 586-1225

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 17:38:02 -0700, Chris Gunn wrote:

maybe there is a misunderstanding. 2Checout is not a hosting company,
they just offer CC processing.

The screen reader ist not the problem. They are using a graphical
CAPTCHA when new users want to create an account. The graphics cannot
be heard by an appropriate option (like MSN do this for new
registrations), so blind people don't have a chance to pay via PayPal
if they don't have an account yet.

Maybe this problem is true only in Europe, because I found that for
the German PayPal payments. Maybe in the US, PayPal do offer other
screens for non-PayPal customers.

Here in Germany, you must be PayPal member to send payment. I believe
it is different somewhere else in the world.

Marian

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