<HEAD><TITLE>credit cards</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1555" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>Dave:</DIV> <DIV>The easiest thing to do is to get a Paypal account.  If you get one of the business accounts, which is free, you can email a request for funds.  (At least it's free until they take out a percentage).  Paypal sends the customer the necessary information, processes the transaction, takes out their cut, and deposits the bulk of the payment in your Paypal account.   The fee was less than 3%.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I started doing this last year when I got a request from out of town to inspect a piano someone found on Pianomart.  Since, I have had local businesses want to pay by credit card, and this has been a convenient way to do business.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Roy Peters<BR><BR><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid">-----Original Message----- <BR>From: Dave Doremus <ALGIERS_PIANO@BELLSOUTH.NET><BR>Sent: Jul 27, 2006 2:48 PM <BR>To: Pianotech List <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Subject: credit cards <BR><BR><ZZZHTML><ZZZHEAD> <STYLE type=text/css><ZZZ!-- blockquote, dl, ul, ol, li { padding-top: 0 ; padding-bottom: 0 } --></STYLE> </ZZZHEAD><ZZZBODY> <DIV>Do any of  you very small business guys take credit cards? I just got a request from a Navy base for a decent amount of work but they can<U> only</U> pay by govt credit card. The inflexibility of a bureaucracy.... Any advice on how you all do it would be appreciated.</DIV><X-SIGSEP><PRE>-- </PRE></X-SIGSEP> <DIV>----Dave<BR><BR><BR>-----------------------------<BR>Dave Doremus, RPT<BR>New Orleans<BR>------------------------------</DIV></ZZZBODY></ZZZHTML></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY><PRE> </PRE>