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Originally posted by Amputate Your Head
3rd party processing is going down fast... and that sucks big time.
I think Visa may continue to just get tougher.
Acacia... who knows... would love to see them defeated, but there's just no way to really tell how that's gonna come out yet.
overall and in general, it's getting tougher every day... 2004 I think will see some massive streamlining and refining of the biz as a whole. The gold rush is over. Now it's sink or swim.
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I think 3rd party will be around but not in the same capacity. It seems Visa is heading in the direction of forcing each webmaster or company to use their OWN merchant account rather than a 3rd party merchant account. It's a lot easier for them to monitor and shut down when not in compliance. Nowhere to hide type thing.
I think many are willing to do this. 3rd party will still be around to provide a lot of gateway services and possibly to continue processing for large reliable clients with no history of chargeback problems?