A business question about and for ecig suppliers.

[KuroCz]

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[FONT="]….. What am I missing? I know ecigs threaten Big tobacco, is that it? I know they threaten Big Drugs (read Chantix, patches, et al), is that it? Is it Big Government? Someone, just please give me a clue![/FONT]
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Yes, yes, and yes. I would daresay that most people who have seen Wag the Dog, consider it to be a comedy. Too few people, imho, understand it is satire.

Is it surprising that paypal changed polices after being bought by e-bay? Is it surprising that youtube changed policies after getting into bed with google? Have you looked at e-cigs on wikipedia? Do you think all that guarded but anti e-cig information is there just because someone didn't try to add to the page? Do you think the 150+(approximation here) entertainment and news companies the US are independant?

http://www.teachmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Media-Ownership-2011.png

Do you think the media is the only facet of our society where this is true?

Sometimes, I do have fleeting thoughts about days past when I was ignorant of how things were developing. I don't like it, but I prefer to see the bad with the good.

Sorry everyone, didn't mean to spoil your breakfast ~_~;;

 

[Kemosabe]

Zeitgeist, i tell ya. zeitgeist.

 

[oxygen thief]

Meanwhile, a lunatic can buy 6000 rounds of ammunition online. What's screwed up about that?

 

[KuroCz]

Meanwhile, a lunatic can buy 6000 rounds of ammunition online. What's screwed up about that?

Not a thing.

 

[oxygen thief]

Not a thing.

I think it's a bit excessive, I'm not sure what the dead people in Colorado think.

 

[Mac]

Authorize dot net did this to us back in late 2010. No warning, no explanation. They just shut us down. Showed up to work one day and couldn't run cards. To make matters worse it took weeks to retrieve the funds that were pending from the previous night's batch. So they froze thousands of dollars and let it basically sit in their own account to collect interest and blocked us from running cards all at once. It wasn't some mix up. It was a malicious attack. Your friend/vendor was lucky to have a months notice and no funds held. They straight up raped us.

 

[conflator]

I somehow missed it in the OP, that this was a gateway and not a bank. I'm a bit perplexed at why a gateway would be that...arbitrary. Does make one wonder. Bothers me a lot that there are these unaccountable restraints on trade between parties, when that trade hasn't been deemed illegal. "There oughta be a law...."