Forum: Website Reviews  May 9th, 2005 |
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| Forum: eCommerce Apr 21st, 2005 |
| Replies: 27 Views: 9,589 Re: Payment processor
Well, the reason I first went with ikobo was precisely because of their p2p money transfer facilities. For more than an year I've received regular payments into my account and never had problems... |
| Forum: Website Reviews Apr 20th, 2005 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 3,214 Re: Opinions about www.bebimi.com
Yeah, perhaps you're right. I'll see what can be done about that...
bebimi.com is right now only a portal affiliated with some respected, we'd like to think, diamond and jewelry vendors. In time... |
| Forum: Website Reviews Apr 18th, 2005 |
| Replies: 11 Views: 3,214 Opinions about www.bebimi.com
I'd like to hear some thoughts and impressions about www.bebimi.com (http://www.bebimi.com/)
I'm aware of the fact that it's nowhere near finished, but it's a work in progress and any input would... |
| Forum: eCommerce Apr 14th, 2005 |
| Replies: 27 Views: 9,589 Re: Payment processor
As I understand it is just a temporary thing with their credid card company or something, or at least that what I've read about ikobo. Not sure what is true and what not... but as you've said, for... |
| Forum: eCommerce Apr 13th, 2005 |
| Replies: 27 Views: 9,589 Re: Payment processor
That long, huh? I only thought it was something like an year or two max. Been using it for quite a while myself and it felt like I was among the ones that were using ikobo the most... guess I was... |
| Forum: eCommerce Apr 12th, 2005 |
| Replies: 27 Views: 9,589 Re: Payment processor
Thanks for the link netgurus, interesting info there. I may consider some of the options if I'm adding a second gateway. So far ikobo is doing the job as payment processor. As I said I am considering... |
| Forum: eCommerce Apr 4th, 2005 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 5,699 Re: OSCommerce with Ikobo payment option
Hehe, well, I don't know if he's a spammer or not. Let's not pass judgment... or something. :twisted:
I for one had a couple of issues with ikobo for that matter, but nothing serious and nothing... |
| Forum: eCommerce Dec 8th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
Well, apparently now they're having some more problems with MasterCard. I guess they're experiencing some sort of "growing pains". I just hope they'll grow up real fast and all of this issues will... |
| Forum: eCommerce Nov 2nd, 2004 |
| Replies: 6 Views: 5,699 Re: OSCommerce with Ikobo payment option
Sounds bad indeed, but considering I've been using them for a while now and never heard of such a thing, as well as you being new here, I can't trust you too much. Anyway, as long as I never had any... |
| Forum: eCommerce Oct 6th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
On a rather different note. I've heard some rumors saying that ikobo has resolved their MasterCard problems and are now able to process them for merchant accounts as well. I was wondering if anyone... |
| Forum: eCommerce Oct 2nd, 2004 |
| Replies: 27 Views: 9,589 Re: Payment processor
Well, first and foremost as a payment processor, but if they also provide a good service for p2p money transfer I suppose it wouldn't hurt using them. Care to share more details? |
| Forum: eCommerce Oct 2nd, 2004 |
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| Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Oct 1st, 2004 |
| Replies: 23 Views: 10,353 Re: Overseas online payment
OK, I see, thanks for letting me know. It's good to see that more and more people are using this with success. I do have a question however, how did you manage to transfer those extra variables with... |
| Forum: eCommerce Sep 29th, 2004 |
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| Forum: eCommerce Sep 24th, 2004 |
| Replies: 27 Views: 9,589 Re: Payment processor
Thanks. I've heard some good things about them as well. I hope they weren't wrong. How long have you been using them, and what kind of problems, if any, have you encountered so far. How do you get... |
| Forum: eCommerce Sep 24th, 2004 |
| Replies: 27 Views: 9,589  Payment processor
What do you suggest for my choice of a good payment processor? It's got to cover many countries, so not paypal :). It would be nice if their fees weren't too high also. What do you think? Is there... |
| Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 23rd, 2004 |
| Replies: 23 Views: 10,353 Re: Overseas online payment
I'm glad to have helped you... I'm not sure whether there are many guys working on this, or just one really smart guy; the end result is what's important and that is that ikobo is catching on. Has... |
| Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Sep 22nd, 2004 |
| Replies: 23 Views: 10,353 Re: Overseas online payment
Well, that's not the only one. There's another one, which is even better. It has a working demo of the ikobo shopping cart and people have starting using it. For example people in this thread... |
| Forum: eCommerce Aug 23rd, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
I suppose you're right, but anyway, I never said I trust them or anything. You're right about paypal, the reports about frauds committed through this system are increasing dangerously these days. So... |
| Forum: eCommerce Aug 9th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
I guess I scared him off and he won't answer anymore :evil: . Anyway, I checked it out and their coverage is pretty good. Remains to be seen if it actually works though, so far it hasn't done... |
| Forum: eCommerce Aug 4th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
OK, most of your post: blah blah... and some more blah blah.
What I can't seem to understand is why would someone be spamming in your name and you're saying you don't allow that and terminate his... |
| Forum: eCommerce Jul 30th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
:mrgreen: yeah, as in that little "ing" thingy at the end of a verb.
Truth is spammers often have this type of bad grammar. I suppose spammer school doesn't have English classes, or they're from... |
| Forum: eCommerce Jul 30th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
All I know about yowcow is I found a guy who was spamming for them (wasn't that good either) and when I clicked on his referral link (out of pure curiosity) his account was terminated. That doesn't... |
| Forum: eCommerce Jul 27th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966  Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
Well, here are alternatives:
iKobo, Epassporte, e-gold, authorize.net, PayPal, Yahoo! PayDirect, 2Checkout, iBill, Kagi, ClickBank, DigiBuy, VeriSign Payflow Pro® and Payflow Link®, Affero,... |
| Forum: eCommerce Jul 23rd, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
Hmm, I wasn't aware of the fact that they've been banned in some states. I guess this indeed comes to prove how trustworthy they really are, but regardless of that people will still use them, until... |
| Forum: eCommerce Jul 22nd, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
Maybe you're right, maybe paypal should look out for their customers more. I'm not sure about them becoming history, but now there are more and more alternatives to them which should provide some... |
| Forum: eCommerce Jul 21st, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
That site is an interesting one indeed. I know that not all of those stories are the result of paypal's lack of professionalism or lack of customer care or whatever. A certain amount of them is the... |
| Forum: eCommerce Jul 20th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
The ikard is in fact a visa electron debit card that you receive as soon as there are money into your ikobo account ( I don't think the sum is important). You receive this card for free and in my... |
| Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 14th, 2004 |
| Replies: 23 Views: 10,353 Re: Overseas online payment
A money request means that someone wants you to send them money. You are not forced to perform this transaction, really, you don't have to pay if you don't want to. However, if you would like to make... |
| Forum: eCommerce Jul 13th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
Well, it's actually a visa electron debit card which you receive (free of charge) as soon as someone transfers money into your ikobo account. It takes about 5 to 6 days to arrive (my case) and you... |
| Forum: eCommerce Jul 13th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
Well, if you're out in town (preferably with a girl, or two ;) ) you can indeed go to an ATM and check your balance. It used to cost $1.50 or something like that, but that was a long time ago, now... |
| Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 12th, 2004 |
| Replies: 23 Views: 10,353 Re: Overseas online payment
Of course I am. I always do my homework when it comes to my money. If anyone else has any related questions feel free to post them. As you can see I'm doing my best to answer them, what can I say,... |
| Forum: eCommerce Jul 10th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal? - vs. other online escrow services
Well, your funds will appear immediately in the account. You can log in at www.ikobo.com (http://www.ikobo.com/) to check your account balance.
You also receive an e-mail notification when the... |
| Forum: IT Professionals' Lounge Jul 10th, 2004 |
| Replies: 23 Views: 10,353 Re: Overseas online payment
Yeah, sure hasn't been helpful. Maybe this will help:All transactions are processed and held in USD. The initial exchange is made to USD by applying the daily Visa rate. The money is then held in USD... |
| Forum: eCommerce May 26th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal?
Well, all over the world is the key-word here, since paypal doesn't cover all the world, actually they cover a very small portion of it. Very very small. |
| Forum: eCommerce May 26th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: Ikobo
Yes, that's right. ikobo's scripts will create it for you.
Sorry cscgal, that's my last post in this thread. Whoever has any further questions please create a new thread. |
| Forum: eCommerce May 25th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966  Re: iKobo.com
Well, you are welcome, but I'm not that good a programmer myself. Only basic stuff. Truth is ikobo makes it quite easy so you don't have to be that good of a programmer in order to integrate IPN into... |
| Forum: eCommerce May 24th, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal?
OK, since I myself am using ikobo's IPN (actually not me personally, the company I work for uses it), I'm going to give a helping hand to fellow businessman.
This is the way IPN works: a customer... |
| Forum: eCommerce May 22nd, 2004 |
| Replies: 122 Views: 49,966 Re: PayPal?
ikobo's IPN system will post a notification to your server at the URL you specified, at the time the payment is made. All of your customer’s payment information and a piece of encrypted code will... |
