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Is anyone else wondering how he knew she posted this here? Seems kind of weird.
Yep! My thoughts exactly. His first post. I wonder.....
Is anyone else wondering how he knew she posted this here? Seems kind of weird.
Is anyone else wondering how he knew she posted this here? Seems kind of weird.
Not so weird in this day & age - you can set up all kinds of alerts - Google will send you alerts on key words you set up - as a business you can see when people are praising you or trashing you & appropriately respond. In today's world of blogging & tweeting - you have to know what is being said about you. The fact that Bryan cares enough to set up these kind of alerts & addresses them right away shows me he is a pretty astute business person.
well.... That was awkward.![]()
Not so weird in this day & age - you can set up all kinds of alerts - Google will send you alerts on key words you set up - as a business you can see when people are praising you or trashing you & appropriately respond. In today's world of blogging & tweeting - you have to know what is being said about you. The fact that Bryan cares enough to set up these kind of alerts & addresses them right away shows me he is a pretty astute business person.
Maybe by "bank" he actually meant his merchant services provider? Of course I am just going out on a limb here, but so has everyone else with their wild speculations, so lets try this on for size. What if he used Quickbooks? He has...lets say QB 2007...and previously used Intuit to process his credit card charges. In May of this year QB pulled all support for things such as Merchant Services (among other things) if you did not upgrade to QB 2010. Perhaps he is in the process of trying to set up a new Merchant Account and it is taking longer than he thought? Maybe he is having trouble getting underwriting because he did not have a sufficient history of transactions yet? Who Knows! But since he told the OP that he was having problems and could not accept credit cards before their contracted services took place, and let her know what the option was (cash at the time of the services) and she agreed to that, then what does speculating on the reasons he is having CC trouble got to do with anything?I work as an accountant for a hotel company and I find Bryan Morris' explanation to be very strange. He said "the bank pulled the rug out from under him and won't allow him to accept manual credit card transactions". I deal with hundreds of credit card transactions per day and yes, sometimes problems happen. But never had I heard of "the bank pulling the rug out from under someone". That alone sounds fishy to me. The only reason I can think that the bank won't allow him to accept manual transactions, would be that he has too many fraudulent transactions or the bank thinks something strange is happening. Just my opinion, but that explanation seems to be lacking.
While most credit cards are processed electronically, there is generally no problem with processing them manually. The biggest problem is manually processed credit cards have a higher risk of fraud (just because the card is not present), so the banks charge the merchant a higher fee. Maybe he just doesn't want to pay the higher fee?Also, does he take American Express or Discover? They are processed differently then Visa or Mastercard and have different rules, the bank has nothing to do with AmEx & Discover cards,. If he gives you the same story about AmEx & Discover cards, then I would say it's definitely a scam.
He also talks about him self in third person, that too is strange. He said "but I'm obliged to inform you that is not the way that Bryan Morris conduct business".
Again, I ask why? What has he done that has in any way been fraudulent towards the OP? She contracted with him for a service, which she, by her own admission, says he performed! It isn't as though he asked for additional funds in excess of what was originally agreed upon. It isn't as though he didn't show up and photograph her family. She even LIKED the pictures!If this isn't a scam I would be totally surprised.
WOW! Jump to conclusions much? Why not just slander this guy's business some more.Next thing you know he'll tell you he charged you too much in your wire transfer, send you a refund check, have you deposit it, but will make the check out for too much money and will want you to wire the difference back, then the check will bounce and you'll be out hundreds.
Easy, most scams always start out with "there has been some type of Problem" with the scammers bank, credit card company or some other reason why scammer cannot possibly do the transaction any way but cash.
Please explain what nefarious scheme he could possibly be up to that would involve him ACTUALLY PERFORMING THE DUTY to which he was contracted and paid for?
For those other posters who would never engage in any CASH transactions, lets hope you never really decide to travel around the world. CC are NOT as accepted everywhere as they are here in the states. Restaurants, inns, shops, small service providers in many many countries either do not have the means of accepting CC or choose not to. By swearing off CASH transactions you may be providing yourself with an extra level of protection (CC), but you may be missing out on places/experiences.
And last but not least. If customer does not have pictures than the service was not performed IMO. Please tell me who gets professional portraits taken only to not have them delivered? You're saying she paid $300 bucks to have pictures posted on the net?
I understood OP's initial post to indicate that the cost of "taking" the pictures was $300. $100 of this was a credit towards whatever prints she decided on. This would lead me to believe that $200 is the net cost that this photographer charges (for whatever contracted amount of time/setting/amount of images taken) for the actual taking of the photographs.
That is no different than any other photographer that you pay for their time of taking the photos (Disney photographers, wedding photographers, child's portraits). You then usually either pay for a digital disc with the reproductive rights to your photos, or you pay for the photographer to actually do the printing.
No where did the OP indicate that she asked the photographer to mail her $100 worth of her prints and he refused. OP said she wanted to make arrangements to order more prints and didn't like the manner in which he was currently able to accept payments.
Do you mind if I use this as a question? I'm really interested in knowing how many people travel and encounter a lot of places that only take cash.
You are right, I generally don't go to small villages in Africa or middle East but those are not places I would go to primarily due to personal safety issues.
I am sure that you didn't mean this offensively, but I find it extremely so. Interestingly, you cite all these dangerous things in Brazil, which you would most likely NEVER have an issue with in a small village in Africa, but that you have deemed "dangerous" while in Rio is is just something to be aware of.
While you may travel a lot, I doubt you have really seen much of the world
Oh for godness sake. I deeply apologize . I did not infere any thing about Brazil. I told you the warnings we recieved before travelling to Brazil. Infere whatever you want.
I don't need to infer anything, you clearly stated that you do not go to small villages in Africa or the middle east because of personal safety.
So tell me, what is so much more dangerous in a small village in Africa than the dangers that you are OK with in Brazil? Or are you just assuming (in ignorance) that there is some great danger there? Are they going to use a cow as a deadly weapon to rob you?
I'm not assuming any thing. I take the information found on travel boards and embassy pages and I use it. I gather state issued travel warnings and use that information accordingly. for example if you go to Rick steves page he will advise you on the pickpockets in Paris or the braclet con artist in front of Cathedrals. you can adjust your behaviour accordingly. If you go to the state departments travel warnings you will see the current warnings. currently Mexico is on the list due to the bombings in Cancun. Does that mean all of mexico is dangerous, NO. does it mean you should take a few more precautions. Yes. Maybe it means due to the drug trafficking in Tijuana I may change plans to visit there.
Just as I use the information on personal safety in NYC or the information of cm's who have stolen information from wdw guest. Does that make all cms thiefs no, does it make me more aware of who handles my credit cards, Yep it absolutely does. If that is offensive to you. those are your issues.