<VV> Shopping Card was/ Membership

[Secular]

  Hello Tim:

  At the risk of sounding melodramatic, I'm reminded of a phrase 
  by Julius Caesar:

    It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find 
    those who are willing to endure pain with patience...

  I'm certain Harry has enough on his plate, if I could be of help with 
  incorporating/testing/enduring pain and patience with Paypal or any 
  other avenue which opens new doors of revenue for CORSA,  
  including a swimsuit [or g-rated calendar as a dear colleague put it], 
  do please call upon me. 

  Regards,


  Tony Irani

  p.s. I do not work nor am I associated in anyway with paypal :)

  p.p.s. The increased revenue and the convenience of using 
  paypal as opposed to -print form-fill out form-mail out form, 
  far exceeds the 1.99% vs. 2.9% argument. 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: tim mahler 
  To: Secular ; Virtual Vairs 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 7:39 PM
  Subject: Re: <VV>Shopping Card was/ Membership 


  Nothing is Free

  PayPal offers code snippets,  to their site.    Their merchant transactions 
  fees pay for the "free" code snippets.

  Someone still has to take the code snippets and properly  -- stress on the 
  word properly -- incorporate the code into their own site.  Add their 
  product(s).   Testing takes time. Testing well takes a lot more time.

  CORSA has a shopping cart -- It just does not have all the products -- YET. 
  When I let Harry breath (rare, that takes time GGGG),  Harry will be able to 
  finish the shopping cart -- I figured the Tech Guide project was more 
  important.  I would volunteer,  but currently have too many projects myself. 
  My poor cars are suffering. ( I have spent many evenings and weekends the 
  last 2-3 months reading and responding to correspondence.)

  Free part -- CORSA credit card processing company charges a lot less then 
  Paypal.  paypal would cost us up to 50% more in processing fees than our 
  current clearinghouse vendor.  (1.99% vs 2.9% trans fee,  27cents vs 30cents 
  per transaction fee).  paypal lowest rate is for the really big companies, 
  which is not us.

  Adding a link to use Paypal will be added to the list of things to discuss.

  The Merchandise chairperson volunteer does not need to be a board member or 
  a board member's spouse.  Just an energetic person, with some business 
  sense.  Debbie Pleau fit the bill very well.  Jerry Brown and spouse are 
  doing quite well today.

  tim mahler
  Likes paypal too,  but knows there are other options