Reseller account

[SuperBrandables]

AVC, Thanks for the reply. I hope I am not reading into your statement the wrong way. My rating is most excellent not only on this forum, but on eBay as well.
Lots of luck with your venture. If I can help in any way, let me know.
My regards,
yeswedo

 

[adoptabledomains]

I am not an ETP,but have a $6.95 account, however i think I only paid about $100 for it at the time. I have accounts elsewhere with prices from $6.50, $6.75, to $8.99, and weight the cost of higher renewal with features and the ease of not transferring all over. Somtimes it's just easier to pay the $8.99 renewal than go through the hassle of gettign auth codes and doing all the data entry.

There is the risk of Enom ending the grandfathering of non-ETP accounts, so I personally wouldn't invest more than I would benefit in a year or so. There is also some risk of the reseller above you raising your prices,and some tips around to help stop that from happening. The only way to control your own destiny is to be at the top of the food chain and deal directly with Enom. However, there are other alternatives out there without the high initial cost of the ETP. Registerfly has similar pricing for 500 domain packs, but the prices don't stay down forever and you have to keep buying them. comparing an ETPaccount, at least every dollar (except 3% credit fee) goes directly toward domain reg or renewals. With a non-etp acoount, none of what you pay goes toward domain purchases.

 

[AVC]

yeswedo I did not realize any of these are/were your auctions. If they are then pm me with a link to the auction(s) that are yours. Maybe I'll buy one from you. I certainly did not mean to insult you as I did not know any of these auctions were yours.

othellotech Thanks, this is the kind of good info I need to make a decision. I do see the merit in what you are saying. I will consider that route as I can certainly afford the cost of the 8.95 account and will definitely consider going this route. As you said I can upgrade as I reach the levels required for the good prices. The security that would come with a direct enom account would be worth it. Now I think I'll go create an account with the user name I want. Thanks.

Any one out there with advice on a good merchant account provider? I was thinking of cdgcommerce but there fees work out to be more then what I'm paying through paypal and I thought that merchant accounts were supposed to be cheaper then paypal when processing pmnts.

I have damn good credit and should be able to find some company who is good and cheap. I need this to work with modernbill or drams so they will probably need to offer authorize.net as an option.

I'm really getting kind of pissed off at these merchant account providers. None of them post the true cost of doing business with them on their websites. You have to get mostly or all the way through the app process then they show you the real cost and the hiddon crap like big fees for cancelling etc.

I'm going to compile all the knowledge I have had to dig up on this subject and put up a no BS merchant account "how to" website. Save everyone else out there from having to do a months worth of research just to have the damn knowledge to keep from getting taken the freaking cleaners by the wonderful generous upstanding ethical companies who offer these services... &*(*%$#. They will find it a little harder to get away with this crap in about 6 months. Lots of people will know the right questions to ask right up front because I'm putting together a one page questionnaire to print out and use for comparison shopping. non biased information will be available on the site and I will NOT promote a certain company that I'm affiliated with. I'll just put adsense ads on it and leave it at that.

In a few days I'll have something on the site then I'll ask for help from this forum and wht on what should be on my printable questionnaire, It's pretty much complete at this point but I know if I ask there will be lots of people who know more then me about this subject and may want to contribute something I may not have thought of.

Sorry for changing the subject here and ranting about this merchant accnt bs but it's really getting under my skin and I was supposed to have this done by now. Nothing like diving into muddy water and not being able to find the bottom!... line!!!! :angry:

 

[NameRegistration]

Whatever you choose, some advice if you go the sub-acc route...
1. create a DIRECT account free with enom for the username you *ultimately* want to use.
2. PUSH a domain from your sub account into that account so it remains open

This way someone else cant come along in the future and use your chosen login id. When you're ready to be an ETP get them to promote that account, as last I heard they couldn't/wouldn't upgrade sub-accounts to ETP status.

I do not understand why you would like to have a chosen id. If your chosen id is related with your name/company name a person trying to hack your account would have half of the job done. In the other hand your user id will only be used to login and have no other purpose (it is not like choosing for a forum or a chat).

 

[eSology]

There's no guarantee sub-accs less than 8.95 will continue - I remember discussing it with enom management last year, and their *possible* plan to close down the trade in sold sub-accounts.

I was told that last year also by eNom upper mgt. I was offered an opportunity to buy out a well known ETP on WHT and the info I received from eNom made me decline the deal.

This way someone else cant come along in the future and use your chosen login id. When you're ready to be an ETP get them to promote that account, as last I heard they couldn't/wouldn't upgrade sub-accounts to ETP status.

Good advice and very true. I even asked Matt before he left about this and was told they wouldn't move a sub-account or upgrade one. Of course one thing I have learned about eNom...rules are guidelines and can be broken.

 

[GlobalNomad]

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[JeeJee]

do the 1&1 allows free push?

Also, may i ask i'm having the very expensive $29.99 enom account. I have not bought any names yet but how could i get it cheaper? I don't really fancy forking out $495 at this moment but is there another way round rather than paying that to become an ETP or should i create some new $8.95 reseller acct. The reason for using enom is for using their club drop.

Cheers

 

[theparrot]

To get it cheaper just sign up at a resellers site instead of directly from the enom site, so yes, you should just create a new account.

 

[SuperBrandables]

AVC,

You can find the link on my signature.

 

[eSology]

Take your time and look around before you decide.

 

[JeeJee]

take my time and look around? I already has an account with enom. Should ask for an upgrade or do i need to pay them $$ to do so? There is no charge for CC (3%) being an ETP with them i suppose?