Larry Kruzan on wed 2 feb 05
If this is too far off the track for this group please let me know.
I'm getting setup to accept credit cards in my gallery and at art
fairs. I am not sure which of these little machines will give me the
most bang for my buck. They are so expensive I do not want to make
mistake. I need wireless and battery power, certainly the ability to
get authorizations immediately is a must. I'm looking at a Nurit 8000
but have not ordered anything yet. Any suggestions? Warnings?
Larry Kruzan
Lost Creek Pottery
joe shaw on thu 3 feb 05
They don't need to be expensive at all. We have a manual swipe
provided free by the company (Retriever). We take the card, do the
appropriate paperwork, swipe, use our cell phone to call for the
approval, that's it. While all fees seem high, Retriever isn't as bad
as a lot of them.
Friends have the electronic wireless one they bought at Cosco. About
$600 I think. It prints a paper receipt after the transaction has
been approved.
Depending upon your needs, either works...
Rita Shaw
>If this is too far off the track for this group please let me know.
>I'm getting setup to accept credit cards in my gallery and at art
>fairs. I am not sure which of these little machines will give me the
>most bang for my buck. They are so expensive I do not want to make
>mistake. I need wireless and battery power, certainly the ability to
>get authorizations immediately is a must. I'm looking at a Nurit 8000
>but have not ordered anything yet. Any suggestions? Warnings?
>
>Larry Kruzan
>Lost Creek Pottery
Bonnie Thompson on thu 3 feb 05
Federal law mandates that any credit card machines that are purchased or
first used on Jan. 1, 2005 or thereafter must produce sales receipts
customer that ONLY show the last five digits of a credit or debit card
number.
Bonnie Thompson
BeardiePaw on fri 4 feb 05
Sorry, I didn't see the rest of hte post about the knucklebusters. My
Bad... Thanks for the information, I was starting to panic, but, do most
people who use credit cards, and the knucklebuster still get ID such as a
driver's license and phone number? I suppose we can still ask for that can't
we? sher
wjskw@BELLSOUTH.NET on fri 4 feb 05
Bonnie:
All, I repeat, ALL credit card machines translate what is sent to
them via the telephone line, and place that information on the paper
they print.
Your information is correct, it is now the law, designed to (help)
prevent identity theft.=20
However, if anyone's machine is still printing the full account
number, a simple call to your merchant provider (whomever it is that
handles your credit card processing) will provide you with someone
that can walk you through a simple, over-the-phone procedure for
reprogramming your machine to accept the new information. It takes
less than 5 minutes to complete.
This (above) does not apply to those manual card swipers (also known
as "knuckle-busters".)
To eliminate the information from appearing on manually imprinted
slips, simply place a small strip of paper atop the appropriate copy
of the slip as you swipe it,(the carbon will imprint on the paper
strip, not on the customer copy) or cut it off with scissors. The
law says that only the copy that you give to the _consumer_ has to
be account number restricted, not YOUR copy. You need that
information, in case of the need for manual re-entry due to
transmission failure, power outage, remote sale (such as craft
fairs) etc.
Some banks and processors are now providing specially designed
manual forms that have no carbon, or are imprint-free, in the area
where the info is to be eliminated. If in doubt, check with your
bank or credit card processor.
Hope that helps,
Wayne Seidl
-----Original Message-----
From: Clayart [mailto:CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG] On Behalf Of Bonnie
Thompson
=20
Federal law mandates that any credit card machines that are
purchased or
first used on Jan. 1, 2005 or thereafter must produce sales receipts
customer that ONLY show the last five digits of a credit or debit
card
number.
Bonnie Thompson
Eleanora Eden on wed 30 mar 05
Hi Larry and all,
I know this thread was awhile back but well anyway. We are just
going through this bigtime. Our analog system that was so reliable
since we got it in '98 is no longer operative. Either our analog
phone or the box that interfaces or something got too loud and it
won't go through.
But the other twist is that US Cellular doesn't want to support the
analog phone. We can't get a national calling plan with the analog
phone and so any call has a roaming charge outside northern new
england. This means that if it disconnects and has to be dialed
again it is another roaming fee.
Fred spent alot of time at the Houston fair walking around talking to
people about their systems. He says the Nurit 8000 is the best
system right now and we will probably be moving to that if our
merchant bank will support it. If not we will wait a bit or move our
merchant account.
For the meantime we are swiping a receipt for the customer, calling
in a verification on the cell phone (which is a regular one and by
dumping the analog phone we were able to get it on a national plan),
and then loading them all into our old Tranz 300 and uploading it all
when we can get to a land line.
Eleanora
>If this is too far off the track for this group please let me know.
>I'm getting setup to accept credit cards in my gallery and at art
>fairs. I am not sure which of these little machines will give me the
>most bang for my buck. They are so expensive I do not want to make
>mistake. I need wireless and battery power, certainly the ability to
>get authorizations immediately is a must. I'm looking at a Nurit 8000
>but have not ordered anything yet. Any suggestions? Warnings?
>
>Larry Kruzan
>Lost Creek Pottery
>
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Barbara Lewis on thu 31 mar 05
Hi guys: I have a Trans 420/440 (can't remember which) that I'd like to get rid of real cheap. It has been used only three times. Would like to find it a good home, before technology makes it totally obsolete. If you're interested, let me know. You would be responsible for getting it programmed. Barbara
-----Original Message-----
From: Eleanora Eden
To: CLAYART@LSV.CERAMICS.ORG
Sent: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 20:54:42 -0500
Subject: Re: Credit card machines
Hi Larry and all,
I know this thread was awhile back but well anyway. We are just
going through this bigtime. Our analog system that was so reliable
since we got it in '98 is no longer operative. Either our analog
phone or the box that interfaces or something got too loud and it
won't go through.
But the other twist is that US Cellular doesn't want to support the
analog phone. We can't get a national calling plan with the analog
phone and so any call has a roaming charge outside northern new
england. This means that if it disconnects and has to be dialed
again it is another roaming fee.
Fred spent alot of time at the Houston fair walking around talking to
people about their systems. He says the Nurit 8000 is the best
system right now and we will probably be moving to that if our
merchant bank will support it. If not we will wait a bit or move our
merchant account.
For the meantime we are swiping a receipt for the customer, calling
in a verification on the cell phone (which is a regular one and by
dumping the analog phone we were able to get it on a national plan),
and then loading them all into our old Tranz 300 and uploading it all
when we can get to a land line.
Eleanora
>If this is too far off the track for this group please let me know.
>I'm getting setup to accept credit cards in my gallery and at art
>fairs. I am not sure which of these little machines will give me the
>most bang for my buck. They are so expensive I do not want to make
>mistake. I need wireless and battery power, certainly the ability to
>get authorizations immediately is a must. I'm looking at a Nurit 8000
>but have not ordered anything yet. Any suggestions? Warnings?
>
>Larry Kruzan
>Lost Creek Pottery
>
>______________________________________________________________________________
>Send postings to clayart@lsv.ceramics.org
>
>You may look at the archives for the list or change your subscription
>settings from http://www.ceramics.org/clayart/
>
>Moderator of the list is Mel Jacobson who may be reached at
>melpots@pclink.com.
______________________________________________________________________________
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