3rd party processors
 

It comes down to customer support find a 3rd party processor who can handle your customer support and keep your credits and chargebacks down.

Join differant sites using each processor and see how easy they credit or charge you back. If there customer support is lacking move on to the next.

Give the surfers what they pay for and give them a good deal to join and stick around without the pressure to cancel.

All I know is Epoch has done a great job with us
Do your own research check out who all the large sponsors are using there is a reason for it.
And see who the best fit is for you.

You just better hope you never leave Epoch and then try to come back. Apparently they wont be very friendly to you if you do.

We have left them once before and tried other processors.

Just keep a good relationship with people and don't burn your bridges. we realized that they were the best fit for us and they work with us.
They had no problem with us leaving and coming back.

I can't speak for them but I think they just have problems with webmasters bashing them then trying to come back.
We all encounter problems every now and then its a never ending battle

Same goes with everything else keep an open mind and work with the people you have a business relationship with you will go alot further.

Nobody really knows whats gonna happen just hold on tight and stick around people who are in it for the long run while the shake down unravels the same thing happend in audiotext.
The strong will survive

I might as well post this here look at what a third party can offer you on top of handling your merchant acount.
If done right you can increase your bottom line up to 40% if not more.
http://www.epochsystems.com/premiumfeatures/

Look at everything before you choose what to do:2 cents:

I mean no disrespect to anyone, but for god sakes get out while you can..... every red flag is staring at you.

Where does one signup for a Merchant account?

at a merchant bank perhaps.... give bank of omaha a shot a see what happens:1orglaugh

i meant for those $300 accounts because my bank wont do it for that cheap..

they are good people the fact that I don't use em does not mean I dont think they are a bunch of great guys.