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08-24-2005, 06:15 PM #1New Member
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hosts that let you pay by phone?
For privacy reasons I want to make a purchase over the phone but I can't find many reasonable hosts that allow me to do this. I'm interested in paying around $100-120 a year for a host that gives me around 4-5 gigs of storage and around 20 gigs of bandwidth. If anyone knows of a host like this I'd appreciate it if you point it out, thanks.
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08-24-2005, 06:29 PM #2Junior Guru Wannabe
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There are plenty out there that will take a mail in payment, money orders etc.
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08-24-2005, 07:38 PM #3Build It Better!
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What you're asking is not that difficult of a request.
Do the research on your host, when you narrow your list down to 1 or 2 hosts call them up and ask them if they can do billing over the phone.
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08-24-2005, 08:29 PM #4Invented the Internet
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Billing over the phone actually gives the host absolutely no proof that you authorized the charges. You might find better luck asking for hosts that allow order by fax.
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08-29-2005, 03:25 PM #5Web Hosting Master
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The most common reason for this is the merchant services used by most hosts. To explain, most hosts use a third party merchant service. That is, they do not have thier own merchant account. Many use, as example, 2CheckOut, etc. These third party merchants do not allow thier account holders to take orders via phone.
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08-29-2005, 04:46 PM #6WHT Addict
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Originally posted by AH-Tina
Billing over the phone actually gives the host absolutely no proof that you authorized the charges. You might find better luck asking for hosts that allow order by fax.
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In fact, calling a customer on the phone who places an order online is the best method you have of verifying the order was not a fraud. Frauds usually use the address and phone number of the person whose identity they stole. In which case AVS is useless. But they do use their own email address, typically provided by yahoo or gmail.
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08-29-2005, 05:47 PM #7Build It Better!
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Originally posted by AH-Tina
Billing over the phone actually gives the host absolutely no proof that you authorized the charges. You might find better luck asking for hosts that allow order by fax.
--Tina
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08-29-2005, 06:01 PM #8Web Hosting Master
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http://www.hostgator.com/
I believe they allow orders by phone
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08-29-2005, 07:08 PM #9Web Hosting Master
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I would say that phone is not as secure as the internet
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08-29-2005, 07:26 PM #10Web Hosting Master
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The phone is probably the least secure around, at least in my opinion.
You can probably mail in with money orders, which is just as secure I'd think. Or check. You can always cancel that.GenerousWebHosting.com Home of Generous George the Red Monster.
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08-29-2005, 08:17 PM #11Build It Better!
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Come on, the least secure? How do you think Infomercials take all their credit card information? They not only take millions of orders over the phone, they do it in a matter of minutes during the airing of their shows.
Authorize.net is just one company that has MOTO programs specifically for taking telephone orders. The risks are about the same taking a phone order as taking an online order. You just need to have the right tools.
Not everything has to be done on a computer to be secure...