In 2014, ticket bots scooped up more than 1,000 seats for a U2 concert. They were then resold way above their original value. In fact, the same broker amassed over 15,000 tickets for U2’s North American Tour that year. A similar thing happened last February when bots scooped up thousands of seats for a Bruce Springsteen…
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High Risk Credit Card Processing Solutions Found Here
We often scour social media sites to see what merchants are saying about payment processing, their acquiring banks and merchant services providers. It is alarming how the feedback is overwhelmingly negative and wrought with claims about how merchants were shut down by large banks for little or no reason. Familiarity is a popular reason merchants…
What is Means to be a Merchant Account Manager
Want to help someone launch their business? How about three, four, five or even 10 businesses each month? Of course, the job description doesn’t read this way word-for-word, but in its purest form, merchant account managers at Instabill not only help merchants launch their businesses, they help them thrive and broaden their online presence. And…
How Merchants Can (and Will) Benefit From Pokemon Go
‘I wish I’d thought of that.’ We say it so often when we hear of brilliant marketing ideas, and Pokemon Go is one of them. According to Forbes, it is about to overtake Twitter for the most active app on Android mobile phones. People young and old are hooked. It has barely been a full…
What are Fictional Currencies Worth?
What is a Galleon, from the Harry Potter series, worth compared to the US dollar? What about a Credit (Star Wars), or a Space Buck (Spaceballs)? How many Gold Dragons (Game of Thrones) can purchase an automobile? Instabill is a global payment solutions provider (not intergalactic…yet) based in Portsmouth, NH, and its mega-talented web administrator, Stephanie…
Instabill Offers Merchants Payouts in Bitcoin
Would you prefer your payouts in bitcoin? Instabill can do that for you. A provider of payment processing solutions for e-commerce, MOTO and POS businesses, Instabill Founder and CEO Jason Field announced Monday that Instabill can begin depositing payouts into the bitcoin accounts of its merchant partners. “It has long been a goal of Instabill…
Why We Decline Merchant Accounts
Sometimes, we decline merchant accounts. We just can’t take the risk. As a high risk payment processor, we’ve just about seen it all. And when we admit that we’ve seen it all, a new referral comes along and leaves us shaking our collective heads. Some referral examples we’ve seen (and turned down) include: An international…
A Message to High Risk Payment Processors and the Feds
Remember that episode of The Office… …when Dwight is named interim regional manager of Dunder Mifflin’s Scranton branch while Michael interviews for a position at the corporate offices in New York? Dwight wastes no time in strong-arming and alienating the staff in the Scranton office. The U.S. Department of Justice made a similar, not-so-great impression…
5 Essentials to Open a CBD Merchant Account
Health experts are finding the benefits of cannabidiol are extraordinary. CBD is a promising treatment for epilepsy, forms of cancer and depression, among other ailments. We at Instabill think the future is unlimited for the CBD industry, and we’re hardly alone. Since it is manufactured from the hemp plant, however, it is considered a high…
European Merchant Accounts and Brexit: One Thing You Need to Know
The United Kingdom is leaving the European Union. Over the past 36 hours, the announcement has UK citizens and ex-pats divided for a multitude of reasons. European and Asian stock markets have sputtered. The Great Britain pound’s value is down to a 31-year low. Prime Minister David Cameron is stepping down. People are on edge,…