Need Some Information On Credit Card Services?
Credit cards have gained so much popularity amongst the masses that no business can be termed as complete and efficient if it doesn’t use credit card services. Really, without credit card services, most of the businesses would end up losing a significant chunk of business opportunities. Some people go to the extent of classifying such businesses (which don’t use credit card services) as non-serious businesses.
So what are these credit card services that we are talking about?
In simple words, by credit card services we mean the ability to accept credit cards as a mode of payment. Well, we can also term the use of credit cards as a credit card service. However, generally, credit card services will include the services that enable acceptance of credit card by a merchant. So, for a shopkeeper, use of credit card processing machines to accept credit card payments, is a credit card service that he is providing to his customers (and he himself is receiving this credit card service from the provider of credit card processing machine and others involved in making this process so smooth).
Since carrying cash is no more a common practice, any shop that doesn’t use/provide such credit card services would end up losing a lot of customers because customers can’t pay with anything other than a credit card. So, for most merchants, providing credit card services (or credit card processing services) to their customers, has become very essential part of business.
With the internet boom, came a lot of online businesses. These businesses were in the form of virtual shops (or e-shops) that existed either only on the internet or were a virtual extension of physical shops. All these businesses (some selling goods, some selling services), needed a way to accept payments from their customers. This gave birth to online credit card services.
The simplest use of these online credit card services is in the form of a simple webpage/web-form that asks you to provide your credit card details. These details are then verified and processed to debit the amount from your credit card and credit it to the merchant’s accounts. Since credit card details are sensitive information, these websites started implementing mechanisms/technology to secure it and prevent it from getting in the hands of fraudsters. Such sites are now called secured websites and form the backbone of e-commerce.
Besides these basic ways of implementing credit card services, the credit card services are provided in some other forms too e.g. over-the-phone payments using credit cards, use of third party online credit card service providers who provide you with an interface to accept credit card payments.
So, there are a lot of different ways in which credit card services are implemented and as the time goes by, the expanse of these credit card services are sure to increase.
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My Credit Card Company has stopped providing credit card services. Can they still charge interest?They are not providing this service anymore to all of their customers, but do I still have to pay interest?
The account isn't closed, nor did the company sell their credit card accounts to another company. They basically decided to discontinue this product.
July 28th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Sounds pretty suspicious to me. You shouldnt have given them the information.
July 28th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
If you use a secure site and a reliable one (like Amazon) you can use credit card.
There are sites using PayPal, which is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers be made through the Internet. It serves an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders. PayPal performs payment processing for online vendors, auction sites, and other corporate users, for which it charges a fee. As of October 2002, PayPal became an eBay company, a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay. Their corporate headquarters are in San Jose, California.
Finally there are sites let you pay through phone, when – of course – you have to provide a credit card, but maybe they allow sending checks. But, if you mail a check, the merchandise will be sent out only after receiving the check and getting the money. So you can just go into a store and purchase the item you want.
I suggest using credit card, but selecting the site and not giving it to every site asking for it.
Good surfing!
July 28th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
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July 28th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
http://www.freeannualcreditreport.com
this will give you your report from all 3 leading credit reporting companies.
print your results because you can only access it once a year.
and as a side bar, your credit report isnt based on your credit cards.. it is based on your social security number..
July 29th, 2009 at 7:20 am
I don't think you can do that. That information is stored on their server. You can cancel all your pay for services, but, your CC info will remain on there server.
The only for sure way I know of is to cancel that credit card "you can report it lost or stolen" and request a new account and CC be issued.
July 30th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
they require your social security number by law, that's why. Or..
it is the law that requires them to ask for your SSN and yes it is safe to give, provided your PC is virus free, you are at their website and not at a phisher's website and other common place security things that have nothing whatsoever to do with your prepaid card.
I think that illegal immigrants don't have SSN so that's one way to make it difficult to be illegal?
July 30th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
I would not ever email my entire credit card number: maybe you could email a couple numbers at a time in several different emails? That way, if one was intercepted, they wouldn't have the whole number.
There's no way you can call them and give them the number that way?
July 31st, 2009 at 4:10 pm
sounds like ur getting fished … ive never heard anything about needing a credit card for yahoo nothin …
July 31st, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Before you decide to do business with the company, check with the Better Business Bureau, to see if there are any complaints about the company. http://bbb.org
July 31st, 2009 at 11:08 pm
If they had a secure website for the transaction for paypal they are probably legit. If you do give it out, write down the name (full) of the person taking your information and the date you gave it! Keep this in a secure place (like on a Word file or write it on your receipt when you receive it). Also, make sure the paypal payment doesn't process afterwards.