<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>credit cards</TITLE> <STYLE type=text/css></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: none"> <P>I've tuned for the Army (Fort Leonard Wood) for years, now. I used to have a little machine and the whole bit. Cost me about $35 a month PLUS the percentages that they take on the transactions.</P> <P>When my machine died for some reason, I balked at buying another and the Army found a way to pay me by check. Part of the deal is that I don't do it on a one-at-a-time basis. I go in twice a year, do all the tuning and repairs, and present them with one invoice that they can process.</P> <P>It takes longer to get paid and all, but it's a whole heck of a lot cheaper than having a merchant account which, by the way, I never needed for any other client.</P> <P>I investigated the PayPal route and was talking to the Army about it but rather than make a decision on using it, they came up with the invoice system mentioned above, so I've never used it.<BR><BR>Alan Barnard<BR>Salem, MO<BR>Joshua 24:15<BR><BR><BR><BR></P> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 5px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 3px solid; PADDING-TOP: 5px"> <HR> Original message<BR>From: "Dave Doremus" <ALGIERS_PIANO@BELLSOUTH.NET><BR>To: "Pianotech List" <PIANOTECH@PTG.ORG><BR>Received: 07/27/2006 1:48:59 PM<BR>Subject: credit cards<BR><BR> <DIV align=left>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></DIV></BODY></HTML>