At 03:53 PM 1/9/95, Doug Barnes wrote:

... Also, there is no reason on earth to take FV for payment under such a scheme, if one wishes to preserve anonymity, and not have to deal with the fraud/reversal factors. (The stamp issuer would not know which blind-signed stamps were issued to the turkey who reversed all his credit card transactions two months after buying them -- see various threads on this vis-a-vis using FV to buy blinded digital cash and why it won't work too well.)

... I don't see any reason to get FV involved, unless one were so lame as to be unable to get signed up directly with the credit card companies as a merchant -- a process of appropriate complexity to indicate the posession of at least one (1) clue, which is prob. desirable in someone who's going to be handling remailer finances

MC/Visa require the reversibility of transactions as a condition of their merchant agreements. It's not something peculiar to FV. In fact, under certain conditions it is mandated by federal law. Escort services have a similar problem as far as non-returnability goes, but I don't know how they finesse their way around it. --Paul J. Ste. Marie pstemari@well.sf.ca.us, pstemari@erinet.com