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> At 10:15 AM -0700 4/21/01, Stephen P. Goodman wrote: > > Hi Everybody, As you can tell from the subject this is another > >"funny question" but nonetheless important. Obviously it becomes > >necessary at some point to process some sort of e-commerce via ones web > >site, in our cases mostly to sell CDs. Two methods I've come up with > >have been PayPal (http://www.paypal.com) and TipJar > >(http://www.tipjar.com). As many previously-unknown operators for >credit > >card processing want as much as 30c per transaction I'd like to know >what > >sort of satisfaction you all have had with either of these firms, if >not > >others you're happy with. Frankly, I haven't the resources to get a > >merchant account, so these must then be the options in front. Your > >assistance, is as usual, appreciated. Stephen Goodman I don't know anything about Tipjar, but I would suggest that if people don't need to pay for something, then they probably won't. I would set up a strict system: you want the CD, you pay X amount for it. I'd also strongly recommend having at least two or three seperate ways of ordering the music, and would further recommend a site like cdbaby.com or cdstreet.com to carry the items. Yes, they do take a percentage of sales, but a lot of customers are more comfortable ordering through established retail outlets than directly from someone they've never met. Aside from that, you never know when something might happen to one particular outlet. About two weeks after I released my CD, the sole e-commerce provider I was using at the time went through a bug-ridden server upgrade that left me without any online ordering capabilities for over a month. Not good! I know of some artists who have set up ordering through both paypal and cdbaby, and they get purchases through both outlets. If you're selling a CD, I would definitely say you should have it stocked in at least one or two indie sites. Anyway, --Andre LaFosse http://www.altruistmusic.com