gakouri Posted October 9, 2013 Share Posted October 9, 2013 Not sure where this topic would go, so mods feel free to place this thread where it needs to be. This questions is directed to e-commerce based shisha/tobacco vendors. I work for a payment processor but unfortunately my company doesn't allow me to sign up e-commerce sites for shisha vendors because they consider them high risk. Being Lebanese, I come across a great deal of these merchants. Some are even family! I want to hook them up or send them to the right people but every company that says they manage high risk will not do tobacco sales within the US. soo how the hell are you guys doing it??! I have spoken to several high risk processors and they all give me the same response. I got one company to do it then they terminated the merchant's account within a month.. Feedbackkk, please and thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newjacksm Posted October 11, 2013 Share Posted October 11, 2013 when you say high risk, you mean of being hacked with SQL injections/Cross site scripting or some other form of hacking to get credit card information? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gakouri Posted October 11, 2013 Author Share Posted October 11, 2013 when you say high risk, you mean of being hacked with SQL injections/Cross site scripting or some other form of hacking to get credit card information? high risk is just the terminology used to identify companies that operate within a high-risk industry or have a risk of financial failure. high risk industry is things like porn, gambling, tobacco, etc.. it doesn't have anything to do with programming or server related issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavo21 Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 idk i might be stupid or just really new to this lingo but i dont realy get what you are wanting to know? do you wanna know how whole salers make business? or how things become import export etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud-Hookah Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 No he's basically asking who vendors use for credit card processing that sell shisha on there store. My awnser... I'd like to know to. lol Currently I don't list tobacco just herbal shisha, I'm looking into this as well but haven't found one with a decent interest rate that I'd actually like to try and pull the trigger on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gakouri Posted October 14, 2013 Author Share Posted October 14, 2013 No he's basically asking who vendors use for credit card processing that sell shisha on there store. My awnser... I'd like to know to. lol Currently I don't list tobacco just herbal shisha, I'm looking into this as well but haven't found one with a decent interest rate that I'd actually like to try and pull the trigger on. what he said.. but its in regards to online stores, retail is something i can handle already. I'm looking for a company that can handle online tobacco sales. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pavo21 Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 well at the lougne we go through the square which is a pretty good percent and just goes right into our bank account, not sure about other online stores, why dont you call them and try to push ur product onto them, but dont seem like a a-hole lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud-Hookah Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 (edited) well at the lougne we go through the square which is a pretty good percent and just goes right into our bank account, not sure about other online stores, why dont you call them and try to push ur product onto them, but dont seem like a a-hole lol. Square doesn't officially accept tobacco sales, so be warned they may shutdown the account if they do a review on the account or any customers call in for a chargeback. Square also doesn't have an online merchant system for use on ecommerce sites. (that I know of) Currently I'm using stripe.com for processing but like I said I'm not selling tobacco... yet. I'm looking into cdkpay[dot]com/tobacco-merchant-account/ - but I haven't heard anything about them and haven't researched them enough to put any sort of endorsement on them. Edited October 14, 2013 by claud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gakouri Posted October 14, 2013 Author Share Posted October 14, 2013 well at the lougne we go through the square which is a pretty good percent and just goes right into our bank account, not sure about other online stores, why dont you call them and try to push ur product onto them, but dont seem like a a-hole lol. highly recommend not using square. you're losing money. but like Claud said, square doesn't handle ecommerce merchants. @Claud, called CDKpay and they don't handle online tobacco merchants any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gakouri Posted October 14, 2013 Author Share Posted October 14, 2013 @claud, stripe is like the e-commerce version of square. they actually charge even more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted October 22, 2013 Share Posted October 22, 2013 https://www.google.com/search?q=righ+risk+cc+processing&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gakouri Posted December 10, 2013 Author Share Posted December 10, 2013 not as easy as you think https://www.google.com/search?q=righ+risk+cc+processing&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cloud-Hookah Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 I've called like 20 domestic processors and all of them declined any online tobacco sales including some of the ones that show in the google results for high risk processors (I guess they only allow cigars or accessories or some garbage like that) Looks like you have to go with an offshores merchant and pay the ridicoulous offshore rates... If you find a domestic processor hit me up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chreees Posted December 11, 2013 Share Posted December 11, 2013 MURICA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gakouri Posted December 12, 2013 Author Share Posted December 12, 2013 I've called like 20 domestic processors and all of them declined any online tobacco sales including some of the ones that show in the google results for high risk processors (I guess they only allow cigars or accessories or some garbage like that) Looks like you have to go with an offshores merchant and pay the ridicoulous offshore rates... If you find a domestic processor hit me up there's a workaround if you have a brick and mortar location, but the FDA is putting their foot down on this. A website that sells tobacco accessories is fine but if you want to sell tobacco, its nearly impossible. Another option could be bitcoins now. They might put me out of business for internet accounts :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mushrat Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 so the big retail sites are using offshore processors...lovely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chreees Posted December 13, 2013 Share Posted December 13, 2013 America... All the jobs are overseas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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