[Foundation-l] fund drive, and e-gold revisited

Tue Dec 27 18:56:28 UTC 2005

Here is a list of major credit card payment systems
the foundation could directly integrate with from a
discussion on the tech list last month:

http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2005-December/032824.html

I suspect many of them would have much lower
transaction amount % fees than PayPal; however, these
will likely never be lower than 2% due to the fact
that the payee receives the funds immediately while
the card holder has a 20-30 day no-interest grace
period in which to pay back the amount.

> 
> Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 07:56:24 -0800 (PST)
> From: Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] fund drive, and e-gold
> revisited
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> <foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> 
[snip]
> 
> There are dozens, if not hundreds, of other systems
> we could use. While I’m not completely
> satisfied with PayPal (they need to give us a price
> break; fees in the 4 to 5% range are closer in
> value to point-of-sale taxes than normal transaction
> fees) or MoneyBookers (not the easiest
> service to use), I do think that the two together
> fit our current needs. Thus, IMO, there is no
> pressing need to add another payment option at this
> time. 
> 

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