Boosting the Signal: Propay, the Internet's Chastity Belt

[valarltd]

http://literaryunderworld.blogspot.com/2010/04/propay-internets-chastity-belt.html

In which a Utah based credit card company decides I and a few other authors are pornography.

Fuck 'em.
Sideways.
With a Chainsaw.

Comments

[mecurtin.livejournal.com]

I tried posting over at her blog, but failed.

I would be very surprised if this isn't (Mormon) religion-motivated.

[jess-faraday.livejournal.com]

Oh, good grief. No, bad grief. That's ridiculous.

[sidewinder.livejournal.com]

I signal-boosted myself tonight and already have a troll. In less than two hours! Whee!

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

He, I'm assuming a he from the mansplaining tone, is wrong. We DO take paypal. The problem is, Paypal is NOT portable to conventions. That's why we needed a credit card company.

They said we were a porn shop. And porn shops are high fraud risk. Apparently they do (or ProPay thinks they do) a lot of identity theft.

[sidewinder.livejournal.com]

Has paypal ever given you guys trouble over content? Because I know RockFic had to switch to Amazon Payments from Paypay b/c of adult content (one person apparently ratted out the site and we got booted from PayPal).

If PayPal has no issues w/TLU, that's just more fuel to how screwed up this decision by ProPay is.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

In the two years the site has been up, no trouble at all.

[reannon.livejournal.com]

NO ONE has ever given us trouble over our content, not our site hosting (GoDaddy) or PayPal, which has been our primary payment venue since we opened the web store. Propay made it clear their objection was to our content, not our business model. And of course we had the SSL certificate purchased through our hosting service to ensure secure transmission.

[sidewinder.livejournal.com]

Which just makes it all the more bizarre and suspicious, doesn't it? Thanks for the further info.