[pianotech] accepting credit card for service calls

[Jim Moy]

A tip for those of you offering PayPal: something that surprised me is how
many customers also use Amazon Payments and Google Checkout. I put the
badges for all three on my website:

  http://www.moypiano.com/payment/

I figured that PayPal would be the one that got used most often because
they're the biggest and most widely known, but I've found it's almost an
even split. People have even told me they were going to use PayPal, but then
said when they saw my web page, they preferred Amazon because they were
familiar with it and used it for online purchases, etc. And now, with the
Android based phones out there, more people are familiar with the Google
Checkout system as well.

Jim

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:30 PM, James Grebe <jamesgrebe at charter.net> wrote:

> I use PayPal for my online caster cup business and it has worked fine for
> 1.5 years so far.  I do not use it for piano tunings at all..
> James
> James Grebe Est. 1962
> Piano Tuner-Technician
> Creator of Custom Caster Cups
> Creator of Fine Writing Instruments
> Piano benches
> Theatre and Theatre Organ Historian
> www.grebepiano.com
> 1526 Raspberry Lane
> Arnold, MO 63010
> (314) 608-4137
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Driscoll" <tomtuner at verizon.net>
> To: <pianotech at ptg.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2011 8:33 AM
> Subject: [pianotech] accepting credit card for service calls
>
>
>
>  List,
>>  Of late I've been asked more often if I accept credit cards for service
>> call payment .
>> I have set up  up a paypal merchant account for my tuning lever sales and
>> yesterday used the account  to send an invoice from the clients  home to her
>> email . She paid whilst I was still reassembling the piano . The fee from
>> paypal is  3%  with immediate access to the funds through a debit card.
>> So my question dear list friends is about your experiences either way with
>> credit card payments - fees etc .
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Tom Driscoll
>>
>>
>> http://www.tomdriscollpianoservice.com/tools.html
>>
>>
>
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