Hi! Is this true? I got an email saying that this morning... It seems that ikobo will not offer any more merchant accounts...
what do you mean? Thay will not accept a new member or thay'll close all merchant accounts on all members?
Yes there are a few posts on the SitePoint and WHT forums about this. This is unfortunate for a lot of people but the reson in which I told people to stay away from them (it was bound to happen)
I don't know if its true but I got blasted for talking about this in the past. Hopefully we get a few more posts to see if this is true.
Well there are a lot Ikobo "supporters" so much that a lot of forums banned that word because they were actually spamming. The same IP from the same user, etc.
Can you post the email mouse? I was with myPaystems last year on one of my sites and they packed up in the middle of the night. Took 6 months to get my money. Ever since then I only use Worldpay. It costs a little bit more but I don't have time to deal with all this crap.
Here is the email message: NOTICE OF TERMINATION OF MERCHANT SERVICES Please be advised that effective immediately iKobo, Inc.is ceasing to provide processing for merchant services in order to comply with a direct request from VISA International under their processing regulations. This request from VISA has no impact on our person-to-person money transfer product. Your merchant account has been changed to not allow for new sales and your current funds will be available to you under the existing terms using your iKard. Please update your web site to remove iKobo as a payment provider. We apologize for the timing of this action. iKobo, Inc.
huh! sad news I use their merchant service because I can't use paypal and they are closing merchant account, but how come I don't received any email from ikobo. I will check this out too.
I thought this was coming a few weeks ago because there was a group of posters claiming to just be "regular ikobo users" posting like mad in every single payment thread over the last few months. Then suddenly they stopped (and not just here at DP). I imagined they were no longer being paid by Ikobo so stopped posting en masse. I won't name names but I thought it was pretty obvious though here.
It was also a great surprise for me. I checked their website - they removed all info as to the merchant services.
I was always against their services - for the customer service issues, to the spamming of message boards. It was apparent that they would probably fail at the merchant account part. That is a very difficult business. I am sure they will try other ways as well to possibly get around it
This was precisely why I didn't use them...I had huge long fights with their reps here because they insisted they were just average people passionate about credit processing Reputation and credibility are crucial assetts for a payment processor and they had neither.
Well at least I was not the only one. A few of the forum admins caught on, a few even went so far to even block the word "ikobo" from their forums.
Yes it seems like it. This is why it seems they are stil working out a way around it to still potentially offer it as a processor. They probably have to do some coding on their system to change a few things around
Ever the optimist Usually once a payment processor packs it up, they never return. At least I can't think of one case of this happening and I have seen a lot come and go. They have never had firm deals in place with the major cards and I suspect this has a lot to do with it. The only thing harder than a Payment Processor launch is a re-launch PS. Doughty - "If everything goes right" - Do you have inside information you would like to share
No, I don't have any information – it was just a thought. I am rather new in this business, so I wanted to hear your opinion.