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ferrous, sometimes this option is available. It’s based completely on an algorithm that takes into account your location what you are buying and many other factors.
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I agree CrazyKosters. Any payment method carries risks, we simply choose to use the one that is empirically safer for both parties.
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I would like to make a suggestion for everyone who is concerned about security. Use different passwords on all your important accounts, including your email accounts.
Generally PayPal accounts aren’t hacked through PayPal but by gaining access to your email account and “resetting” the password. Your email account is the key to your digital life, anyone who gains access to your email account can generally gain access to any important online account you may have.
I use a tool called 1Password to maintain a separate password for every account I have. I don’t even know my passwords, 1Password does all the heavy lifting for me.
When you use the same password on multiple online accounts your data is only as secure as the least secure site you use. A traditional strategy used by hackers is to steal user data from low security sites then use bots to test that information against everything from iTunes to Banks to Amazon and the big email providers.
When you use a different password on every site, it doesn’t matter if a hacker gets one password they will not be able to access your other accounts because the login credentials are different on every account you have.
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I’m sorry to hear about your issues CrazyKosters. That sucks that you had so much trouble.
PayPal is not perfect but it is the most secure option for both the purchaser and the merchant. In the end its about exposure.
The fact that PayPal has a fraud department is one of the things that makes them so great. We don’t have the money to staff a fraud department but fraud is a major concern that any merchant who handles payments directly needs to worry about.
PayPal does have many complaints but to put it in perspective, PayPal handles millions of transactions and billions of dollars per day, far more than any cc network. It’s kind of like comparing Amazon to your local electronics store. There will be more registered complaints for Amazon because they are thousands of times larger than your local store.
The list of companies that have had credit card databases stolen in the last ten years reads like a roster of fortune 500s, yet PayPal has not had a broad data-breach in its history. Security and fraud detection is all they do.
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charlenebartlett2723, I can’t stress enough how important the PayPal decision is.
When you pay by credit card at a merchant you are saying “I trust that your company has enough staff and security to protect my financial information”. Unfortunately that is often not the case. Most small e-commerce websites are run by a couple people with just enough knowledge to get a website up and running.
I choose PayPal for nearly all my online transactions because then I am not leaving my financial details all over the internet. Instead PayPal tracks them, a company with millions of dollars dedicated to security staff and technologies along with insurance to protect them should something happen.
We choose PayPal for StudioVeena.Com because it limits our liability for unauthorized payments. We don’t have to store any financial information, or approval numbers or anything else that can be used to initiate a charge against your card. If somebody gets your card number they didn’t get it from us because we have zero financial information regarding you.
If there is anything we have seen its that even companies as large as Target can suffer losses in this area.
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AllysonKendal – I think there is a lot more validity than just as a status symbol, behind your suggestion.
If there was an icon by people’s names it would create some validity for them when they are answering in the forums. You will know that a person is speaking from a common knowledge base and lexicon. Additionally, an icon will help Veena recognize really quickly who has lessons and who doesn’t so it becomes easier for her to know how to answer questions and if she can point them to a lesson or not.
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LOL, if your face is leading your body you are moving forward if your face is bringing up the rear you are traveling backwards 😉
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I’ve been told I may have pricing this week.
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Great to hear 🙂
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I’m working on this right now.
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DVDs are statics, have limited space and limited functionality. Veena is constantly updating her lessons and we utilize related lessons and all kinds of other features that are difficult to do on a DVD.
Just as important these days: it is tough to create a profitable DVD. Producing and pressing a DVD is very expensive, you have to sell thousands of them to cover your expenses because people are much more likely to spend money on online and digital content.
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Yes you can buy just a month.
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Have you considered the lessons here? There are far more moves than the art of pole DVDs, much more complete descriptions and a safer progression to make you more successful in your pole experience.
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OLIVIA, I think as a former business owner you can understand that there is no such thing as “just”. Pricing models have to account for an entire range of business needs. A shift to individual lesson pricing would change our support model entirely, we would experience loss in our other pricing verticals that we would have to account for in the individual lesson pricing in a way that simply doesn’t make sense.
Many people familiar with iTunes might think, a lesson can be a dollar or two and it would work perfectly. However that pricing model is built on a much wider audience. The pole dancing audience lacks the breadth of other audiences so individual lesson pricing would have to be in the five to ten dollar range and only accessible for a set period of time.
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We’ve had many people suggest charging per lesson. That is much more complex and expensive than one might think. Due to the size of the pole community we’d have to charge much more than you would think in order for that to make sense as a support mechanism for the site.