Why can't I find anyone to take a credit card anymore?

[Timphilips12]

Just feel western union is more linked to you? I have a pre paid credit card and can't use it anywhere.

 

[Luxferro]

Crypto is much more secure. Xpeptides does take CC for peptides though.

 

[superawesomename]

Even if you manage to get a credit anonymously the source still needs to accept that payment somehow. With a credit card of any kind you need what's called a payment processor to go out and do the transaction, and any CC processing company is going to be heavily involved with the government or IRS and is going to have a more vested interest in shutting down/finding out if people are doing illegal things (and making them complicit).

With crypto you don't really need a processor, you can just send money wallet to wallet and use exchanges to get funds in and out. Some sources opt to use a payment processor like Coin Payments for crypto (they charges fees just like the CC payment processors do) to give people a chance to get the funds transferred, automate the process, and help 'lock in' the price (since crypto fluctuates).

At the end of the day it comes down to opsec for the sources.

 

[tejascardinal]

Because it puts us at risk and that puts our customers at risk.

We have a system that works so why fix something that isn't broken because you don't want to learn something new?

 

[FredFlinstone85]

Bro check out Coinbase. I'm "old" and figured it out. I hadn't ordered anything in 12 years, until last week, and used crypto for the first time. Back in the day, I was using Moneygram and WU. It honestly was nerve-racking sitting in a grocery store filling out information. I remember one time I was questioned on why I was sending money to China and had to pull a BS answer about sourcing car parts from China for a Datson. Crypto, once you figure it out, is super simple. It's safer.

Someone should build a how-to for the board on this because honestly, it did take me a second to figure this shit out. Luckily I'm a planner so I had time to figure it out before needing to use it. Probably still better ways than the way I did it.

 

[Musclechemist7]

Just hang up the CC payments good lord .... dude is spamming the board with this shit

 

[chimpanzee19]

4 of you 5 posts are about this same topic and the other 1 is you taking someone serious who was joking about taking credit cards as payment.

Take an hour out of life, watch a 30 minute how-to video on purchasing and sending crypto, spending 15 minutes downloading and setting up an app for it, and use the other 15 minutes to look back on this and reflect.

 

[Musclechemist7]

Or just give me your credit card info