OK, read this from the link and see just how much these merchants who presonally, my heart bleeds for, sound like they are up against the same CCHIT we are with the credit card companys that we are with all the carriers. And these guys are bitching about just a two percent loss. Imagine if they had to live with our 15-20% or more loss between forced contracts and fee schedules and billing.
http://www.rr.com/flash/?startView=TECHNOLOGYhttps://www.revolutioncard.com/WebSite/about_us.aspxNotice how they are now asking for the right to bargin collectively against these major hogs, the interlopers on their business.
BRAINSTORM!!! If these guys win congressional relief, first off we can all be part of the same collective group because any of us who accept credit cards would then be joined in and covered under such a collective.
Furthermore, if these merchants win such relief it would then set a bar, a legal precedent that we could probably use to have similar laws and legislation of our own or perhaps we would even be covered by whatever legisilation that comes out of this to then be allowed to bargin collectively aganist the gov't and the carriers for our own financial issues....
We need to get behind and included in this thing and fast. Make the law broad enough to cover any and all industries where small business has to do business with a large controlling industry, be it credit cards or health insurance carriers....
But this just goes to the heart of the matter. When some super larger company starts controlling how an end retailer of services or products can or can not have access to their own end retail customers, it just makes such common sense that such small and medium sized businesses need some form of relief, control, legislation to help level the playing field and open up access to their customers and keep the other side from taking total advantage of the situation. Just makes sense to me. We need to hook-up with these merchant's associations some how. Very cool.
Funny how congress is willing to help these folks out when they are not being squashed nearly as bad as we are, but just can't find it in themselves to create and grant us similar protections. But perhaps that goes back to the fact the many of our largest groups, mentioned in another recent thread, never really wanted to ask for such and even just as recently as a few years ago took a stand against the concept of collective bargining and/or unionization as though they were dirty words from red flags with hammers and cycles on them....
Good Night and Good Luck,
Paul
