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BNMedia · 03-11-2013, 05:09 PM

I haven't voted yes or no because I haven't made my mind up.

As soon as I had the email from Epoch I contacted both my account rep at Epoch and CCBill. CCbill informed me that they have no current plans to bill EU customers $500 for the privilege of using Mastercard and Epoch informed me that as an existing customer I have the option to opt out of accepting Mastercard should I wish to do so.
Now the beauty of Epochstats is that I can view who has signed up with Visa and who joined up with Mastercard and I was quite surprised as to how many people actually do use Mastercard, so by cutting it off would definitely leave a significant sum of money on the table.
In the grand scheme of things $500 isn't a huge chunk of money to worry about. However, I am asking myself the question do I really want to keep processing with Epoch for $500 per year when I have CCBill and Verotel in my cascade who do not currently require any Visa or Mastercard fee. It's purely a business decision of why should I pay someone for a service that is free elsewhere.
Epoch has always been my number one choice biller, but at the same time their ethics has also frustrated me and caused some strong exchanges of words!

I'm on the fence at the moment, although probably falling more on the side of just paying the fee. I have a few weeks to decide but I'm also interested in other peoples stand on this.

03-11-2013, 05:09 PM
BNMedia Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 433	I haven't voted yes or no because I haven't made my mind up. As soon as I had the email from Epoch I contacted both my account rep at Epoch and CCBill. CCbill informed me that they have no current plans to bill EU customers $500 for the privilege of using Mastercard and Epoch informed me that as an existing customer I have the option to opt out of accepting Mastercard should I wish to do so. Now the beauty of Epochstats is that I can view who has signed up with Visa and who joined up with Mastercard and I was quite surprised as to how many people actually do use Mastercard, so by cutting it off would definitely leave a significant sum of money on the table. In the grand scheme of things $500 isn't a huge chunk of money to worry about. However, I am asking myself the question do I really want to keep processing with Epoch for $500 per year when I have CCBill and Verotel in my cascade who do not currently require any Visa or Mastercard fee. It's purely a business decision of why should I pay someone for a service that is free elsewhere. Epoch has always been my number one choice biller, but at the same time their ethics has also frustrated me and caused some strong exchanges of words! I'm on the fence at the moment, although probably falling more on the side of just paying the fee. I have a few weeks to decide but I'm also interested in other peoples stand on this. __________________ --------------------------------------------------------- Webmaster of www.kinkykicks.net - Your 1 stop resource for ballbusting and cruel sexual femdom. Join our affiliate program at www.cash4kicks.com Last edited by BNMedia; 03-11-2013 at 05:13 PM..