credit card batch?


Written on April 7, 2009 – 10:25 pm | by admin

Call me crazy, but I just opened an internet store. I got the merchant account to be able to accept credit/debit. I need someone to explain to me in english what exactly a credit card batch is????

Shaunda
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Should i go into business for myself or keep spliting my money 50/50?


Written on April 7, 2009 – 7:57 pm | by admin

Hello .
I have this situation that i hope you can help me out with. My partner and I own a credit card processing company and been in business for about a year. In the the bank card industry there are two type of business people that are currently accepting all form of non-cash payment Visa, M/C etc.. , and business that are not accepting credit cards or checks these are considered or refered to as (NEW BUSINESS). Now the Exsiting businesses we dont make to much money upfront unless we upgrade there equipment and then we make big buck$$ and we get a residual on the account every month when they start processing with us which is nice, and the NEW Businesses we can either lease or sell them equipment that they need to start accept credit cards and checks now these type of business we make BIG BUCK$ for leasing or sell them the equipment and and like the exsiting business we also make a residual every month from there account. Business is good but it could be better. Latley I have been seriously considering going into business for myself which means i keep 100% of my money. The current agreement between my partner and I is 50/50 split and it’s been working out good but i want to make bigger moves which means i need more money. Now the reason that I even teamed up with my partner was because he was good at numbers and could read statements for exsiting businesses and give them lower rates which is important because we have customer that process anywhere from $200-1,000,000 a month so reading statements for high volume merchant is important and he has the ability to lease or sell equipment but he stronger at getting exsiting business then he is at getting new ones. Now I on the other hand am very good at getting new businesses i rather talk to a new business then an exsiting one.. WHY? if you asked.. it because there is only 24hr in a day and even though im owner of the business i try to work a 8hr shift everyday so i want to make the most money possible in the shortest amount of time …are you following me, I can also analize the statements for exsiting businesses not as good as my partner but good enough to get the job done. Now the agreement that we both have is that whatever deal we get we have to deposit 50% in our account and whoever brought that deal in gets to keep the remaining 50% of that deal and at the end of the month we split 50/50 what in our account. Now having my partner around will definately increase my residual portfolio but he doesnt lease equipment that much. Well to make this short DO YOU THINK THAT I SHOULD GO INTO BUSINESS FOR MY SELF AND KEEP 100% OF MY MONEY OR DO YOU THINK THAT I SHOULD CONTINUE THE AGREEMENT AND SPLIT 50% AND AT THE END OF THE MONTH SPLIT 50% OF OUR ACCOUNT.WHICH WAY DO YOU THINK ILL MAKE THE MOST MONEY.

Jenee
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Why won’t merchants give me an authorization code?


Written on April 7, 2009 – 8:12 am | by admin

A lot of the time some unauthorized payment is made on my account. Sometimes I cancel an order. Unfortunately, this takes three to five days for a ‘pending charge’ to drop off. Well, I have no patience and can’t wait that long. My bank tells me they can drop off a pending charge immediately if they have an authorization code. The merchants refuse to give me an authorization code - some of them even tell me that the bank has the authorization codes! Why won’t these merchants tell me what the stupid code is?

Cameron
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Is this credit card a good choice for me?


Written on April 5, 2009 – 12:55 pm | by admin

I have bad credit… or none, i cant get approved for anything else and dont understand all the red tape! HELP! does anyone have this card? THE ORCHARD BANK CREDIT CARD

200 min security deposit
35 dollar annual fee

Variable Rate Information Your APRs may vary. The rates are determined monthly by adding the Index (described below) and:

6.65% (Spread) for the Customary APR for credit card purchases.
16.90% (Spread) for the Cash APR for cash advances, including balance transfers, if applicable, and cash advances made by credit card check.
22.24% (Spread) for the Default APR.
For each billing cycle, the Index is determined in the month prior to the month in which the billing cycle ends. In that prior month, the highest (U.S.) Prime Rate published in the Money Rates Table of The Wall Street Journal is selected (the Index). If the Index has changed, the new variable rates will take effect with the billing cycle that ends on or after the first day of the month following the Index change.
Grace Period for Repayment of Balances for Purchases You have 25 days from the date of the periodic statement to avoid a Finance Charge on new credit card purchases, provided you paid your previous balance in full.
Method of Computing Balance for Purchases Average Daily Balance (including new purchases).
Annual Fee $35 per year
Minimum Finance Charge $1.00 for each billing cycle in which a Periodic Finance Charge is payable.
Foreign Transaction Fee Finance Charge 1% of the U.S. dollar amount will apply to transactions made in a foreign currency.

Cash Advance Fee:$5 or 5% on all cash advances, whichever is greater; unless otherwise disclosed. Finance Charges accrue from the date of transaction. Cash advances will be limited. Your cash advance limit is disclosed on your billing statement. Late Payment Fee: The Late Payment Fee will vary based on the amount of your outstanding balance on your Payment Due Date, and will be: $30 if your balance is more than $0 up to and including $1000; or $35 if your balance is greater than $1000. Overlimit Fee: $30. Accessing the full amount or most of your available credit may result in an overlimit fee. Credit Limit Increase (CLI) Fee: If requested and approved, a CLI fee of up to $50% of the CLI may be charged to your Account, depending on your creditworthiness. Closed Account Service Fee: $3.50 per month on closed accounts with a debit balance.

The variable Customary APR will apply to credit card purchases.
The variable Cash APR will apply to cash advances, including balance transfers, if available, and cash advances made by credit card check.
If at any time your Account is subject to the Customary and/or Cash APRs, and you fail to make at least your Minimum Payment in time to be credited to your Account by the Payment Due Date, or your Account exceeds your credit limit, your entire Account balance will increase to the Default APR.
Note: The Orchard Bank Secured MasterCard requires a minimum deposit of $200 for a minimum $200 line of credit. For more information on the Orchard Bank Secured MasterCard, see our Secured Card FAQs.

At our discretion, payments are generally applied to interest, fees, and then principal balances. We apply your payments to lower APR balances before higher APR balances. The application of payments is subject to change at any time, without notice.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION
There is a maximum of two (2) Accounts issued by HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A. per customer.

If within 90 days of your Account open date, you decide you do not want the account, you can call the customer service number provided on the back of your card to cancel. Any fees, if assessed, will be reversed at no cost to you if you have not used the card.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PROCEDURES FOR OPENING A NEW ACCOUNT
To help the government fight the funding of terrorism and money laundering activities, Federal law requires all financial institutions to obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person who opens an Account. What this means for you: When you open an Account, we will ask you for your name, address, date of birth, and other information that will allow us to identify you. We may also ask to see your driver’s license or other identifying documents.

Notice to California Residents:
Except otherwise limited by applicable law, we may provide credit information about your account to our affiliates from time to time. This information may be used to qualify you for other credit offers. Married persons may apply for a separate account.

Notice to New York Residents:
Consumer reports may be requested in connection with the processing of this application and any resulting account. Upon your request, we will inform you of the names and addresses of any consumer reporting agencies which have provided us with such reports.

Notice to Ohio Residents:
The Ohio laws against discrimination require that all creditors make credit equally available to all creditworthy customers, and that credit reporting agencies maintain separate credit histories on each individual upon request. The Ohio Civil Rights Commission administers compliance with the law.

Notice to Married Wisconsin Residents:
No agreement, court order, or individual statement applying to marital property will adversely affect a creditor’s interests unless prior to the time credit is granted the creditor is furnished with a copy of the agreement, court order, or statement, or has actual knowledge of the adverse provision. You must indicate your marital status for this application to be processed.

INTEREST RATES AND FINANCE CHARGES

Interest Rates
The APRs on your Account are variable rates and are determined by adding a specified amount (Spread) to an Index (described below). The APR is divided by 365 and rounded to the next highest hundred thousandth of a percentage point to determine your Daily Periodic Rate. The Daily Periodic Rate is used to determine the amount of Periodic Finance Charges (see Finance Charges).

Monthly Index For each billing cycle, the Index is determined in the month prior to the month in which the billing cycle ends. In that prior month, the highest (U.S.) Prime Rate published in the Money Rates table of The Wall Street Journal is selected (the Index). If the Index has changed, the new variable rates will take effect with the billing cycle that ends on or after the first day of the month following the Index change.

An increase in the Index will increase your applicable Daily Periodic Rates which may increase the Finance Charge due on your Account and may increase the Minimum Payment and Current Payment Due. Each time any APR changes, we will apply it to any existing balances, excluding any fixed rate Promotional or Introductory APR.

Purchase APR Your variable Customary APR applies to credit card purchases. The Daily Periodic Rate is based on 1/365th of the Index plus 6.65% (Spread). For example, for billing cycles ending 5/17/07, the rate of FINANCE CHARGE would have been a Daily Periodic Rate of .04082% (corresponding 14.90% ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE). The minimum rate of FINANCE CHARGE is a Daily Periodic Rate of .04082% (corresponding 14.90% ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE).

Cash APR Your variable Cash APR applies to cash advances, including balance transfers, if available, and cash advances made by credit card check. The Daily Periodic Rate is based on 1/365th of the Index plus 16.90% (Spread). For example, for billing cycles ending 5/17/07, the rate of FINANCE CHARGE would have been a Daily Periodic Rate of .06890% (corresponding 25.15% ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE). The minimum rate of FINANCE CHARGE is a Daily Periodic Rate of .05726% (corresponding 20.90% ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE).

If at any time your Account is subject to the Customary and/or Cash APRs, and you fail to make at least your Minimum Payment in time to be credited to your Account by the Payment Due Date, or your Account exceeds your credit limit, your entire Account balance will increase to the variable Default APR. At our discretion, your Account may return to the Customary APR after five consecutive months of on-time payments of at least the Current Payment Due, without exceeding your credit limit.

Default APR The Daily Periodic Rate for the variable Default APR is based on 1/365th of the Index plus 22.24% (Spread). For example, for billing cycles ending 5/17/07, the rate of FINANCE CHARGE would have been a Daily Periodic Rate of .08353% (corresponding 30.49% ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE). The minimum rate of FINANCE CHARGE is a Daily Periodic Rate of .08079% (corresponding 29.49% ANNUAL PERCENTAGE RATE).

Finance Charges

Finance Charges are the total of the greater of (a) Minimum Finance Charge, or (b) periodic Finance Charges, and any applicable (c) Cash Advance Fee Finance Charges, (d) Foreign Transaction Fee Finance Charge, (e) Credit Limit Increase Fee Finance Charge, (f) Closed Account Service Fee Finance Charges, and (g) Processing Fee Finance Charge.

(a) Minimum Finance Charge. A Finance Charge that is assessed in lieu of a lesser periodic Finance Charge in any billing cycle in which a periodic Finance Charge is payable. This fee is $1.00.
(b) Periodic Finance Charges. Periodic Finance Charges are computed by multiplying the Average Daily Balance for each category of transactions shown on your statement (e.g., purchases, balance transfers, cash advances) by the applicable Daily Periodic Rate and then multiplying the result by the number of days in the billing cycle. To calculate the Daily Balances, we take the beginning debit balance for each category of transactions each day, add any new transactions, any previous day’s periodic Finance Charges, any assessed fees and charges, and subtract any payments and/or credits. If a debit transaction posts after the beginning of your billing cycle, but the transaction occurred prior to the beginning of your billing cycle, the applicable Daily Balance will be adjusted to include the transaction amount and any previous day’s periodic Finance Charges for each day the transaction amount was outstanding prior to the beginning of the current billing cycle. Then, for each transaction category, we add the Daily Balances for the billing cycle together and divide the total by the number of days in the billing cycle. This is the Average Daily Balance for each transaction category. (1) Credit Card Purchases. Periodic Finance Charges begin to accrue on the date of the transaction and continue to accrue until payment in full is credited to your Account. However, there is a 25 day Grace Period on new credit card purchases. That means, if the New Balance shown on your last statement is paid in full by the Payment Due Date for that statement, periodic Finance Charges will not be imposed on new credit card purchases, provided the New Balance for the current billing cycle is paid in full by the Payment Due Date for that billing cycle. If, however, the New Balance is not paid in full by the Payment Due Date for the immediately preceding billing cycle, periodic Finance Charges will be incurred on new credit card purchases (i.e., purchases appearing for the first time in the current cycle) from the date of the transaction and on the previously billed but unpaid credit card purchases form the first day of the current cycle.
(2) Cash Advances (including balance transfer and credit card checks). Periodic Finance Charges begin to accrue on the date of the transaction and continue to accrue until payment in full is credited to your Account. There is no Grace Period on cash advances.
Periodic Finance Charges will be calculated using the Daily Periodic Rate in effect on the statement closing date.
(c) Cash Advance Fee Finance Charges. Cash advances include all advances to get cash over the counter, through an ATM, balance transfers (if available), credit card checks, or other cash-like transactions (such as purchasing a money order, traveler’s check, casino or betting chip, or a lottery ticket) as determined by us. A Finance Charge will be computed on the amount of each cash advance as of the date of the transaction. The Cash Advance Fee FINANCE CHARGE for all cash advances is 5%, subject to a minimum FINANCE CHARGE of $5, unless otherwise disclosed.
(d) Foreign Transaction Fee Finance Charge. A Foreign Transaction Fee FINANCE CHARGE equal to 1% of the U.S. dollar amount is assessed on transactions made in a foreign currency, as of the transaction date.
(e) Credit Limit Increase Fee Finance Charge. If you request and are approved for a credit limit increase (CLI), a CLI Fee FINANCE CHARGE of up to 50% of the CLI may be assessed to your Account, depending on your creditworthiness.
(f) Closed Account Service Fee Finance Charge. A $3.50 per month FINANCE CHARGE is assessed to the Account for each billing cycle whenever that Account is closed with a debit balance.

The application of any Finance Charge other than a periodic Finance Charge may cause the APR on the billing statement on which this Finance Charge first appears to exceed the Nominal APR.

ACCOUNT FEES

Annual Fee/Periodic Membership Fee
Your Account is subject to a $35 Annual Fee for each year your Account is open or closed with a balance. If you close your Account within the first 90 days your Account is open, the Annual Fee is refundable so long as you have not used the Account.

Late Payment Fee
A Late Payment Fee is assessed for each billing cycle in which at least the Minimum Payment, and any amount past due, is not paid in time to be credited to the Account by the Payment Due Date. The Late Payment Fee will vary based on the amount of your outstanding balance on your Payment Due Date, or during the period up to 5 days after your Payment Due Date, as determined by us, and will be: $30 if your balance is more than $0 up to and including $1000; or $35 if your balance is greater than $1000.

Overlimit Fee
An Overlimit Fee is assessed if your Account balance exceeds the applicable credit limit at any time during a billing cycle. We may impose this fee even if we authorize or impose any charges that cause your balance to exceed the credit limit. This fee is $30.

Other Fees and Charges

Returned Payment Fee
A Returned Payment Fee is assessed to your Account each time a payment check, automatic payment deduction, or other payment method is not honored or is returned unsatisfied by the bank or other financial institution. Any payment returned unsatisfied for any reason may be reposted to any type of transaction (i.e. cash advance, purchases, etc.) and Finance Charges may be reinstated back to the payment date at the APR being charged for that transaction. This fee is $30.

Returned Check Fee
A Returned Check Fee is assessed to the Account each time a credit card check, balance transfer check (if available), electronic check or other Account access device is returned unsatisfied by us for any reason. This fee is $30.

Check by Phone
A Check by Phone Fee may be assessed to the Account each time a payment is made by telephone, even if the payment is made by someone other than you. The amount of this fee will be disclosed at the time such payment is requested.

Stop Payment Fee
A Stop Payment Fee is added to the cash advance balance when a payment of a credit card check is stopped at your request. Payment may be stopped on a credit card check by notifying us in writing or by calling us at the telephone number listed on the Account billing statement, so long as such check has not already been processed. A stop payment request must include the check number, payee, amount and date of the credit card check on which payment is to be stopped. If a stop payment is requested by telephone, the call must be confirmed in writing within 14 days. A written stop payment will remain in effect for six months unless renewed in writing. This fee is $29.

Send stop payment requests to P.O. Box 81622, Salinas, CA 93912-1622.

Research Fee
A $7 Research Fee is assessed to the Account for each sales slip copy, $3 for each statement copy, and $10 for each application copy upon request.

ADDITIONAL TERMS

Arbitration
The Cardmember Agreement and Disclosure Statement (Agreement) that you will receive with your card, if you are approved for credit, provides that certain disputes are subject to binding arbitration. Arbitration replaces the right to go to court, including the right to a jury and the right to participate in a class action or similar proceeding. Please read the Arbitration section of the Agreement carefully.

YOUR BILLING RIGHTS
What To Do If There’s An Error In Your Bill

YOUR BILLING RIGHTS - KEEP THIS NOTICE FOR FUTURE USE
This notice contains important information about your rights and our responsibilities under the Fair Credit Billing Act.

NOTIFY US IN CASE OF ERRORS OR QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR BILL
If you think your bill is wrong, or if you need more information about a transaction on your bill, write to us (on a separate sheet) at the address listed on your billing statement. Write us as soon as possible. We must hear from you no later than 60 days after we sent you the first bill on which the error or problem appeared. You can telephone us, but doing so will not preserve your rights.

Please include the following information in your letter:

Your name, account number and signature;
The dollar amount of the suspected error; and
Describe the error and explain, if you can, why you believe there is an error.
If you need more information, describe the item you are not sure about. If you have authorized us to pay your Account bill automatically from your savings or checking account, you can stop the payment on any amount you think is wrong. To stop the payment, your letter must reach us three business days before the automatic payment is scheduled to occur.

YOUR RIGHTS AND OUR RESPONSIBILITIES AFTER WE RECEIVE YOUR WRITTEN NOTICE:
We must acknowledge your letter within 30 days, unless we have corrected the error by then. Within 90 days, we must either correct the error or explain why we believe the bill was correct.

After we receive your letter, we cannot try to collect any amount you question, or report you as delinquent. We can continue to bill you for the amount you question, including Finance Charges, and we can apply any unpaid amount against your Credit Limit. You do not have to pay any questioned amount while we are investigating, but you are still obligated to pay the parts of your bill that are not in question.

If we find that we made a mistake on your bill, you will not have to pay any Finance Charges related to any questioned amount. If we didn’t make a mistake, you may have to pay Finance Charges, and you will have to make up any missed payments on the questioned amount. In either case, we will send you a statement of the amount you owe and the date it is due.

If you fail to pay the amount we think you owe, we may report you as delinquent. However, if our explanation does not satisfy you, and you write to us within ten days telling us you still refuse to pay, we must tell anyone we report you to that you have a question about your bill. And, we must tell you the name of anyone we reported you to. Upon settlement of the dispute, we must tell everyone we report you to that the matter has been settled.

If we don’t follow these rules, we can’t collect the first $50 of the questioned amount, even if your bill was correct.

SPECIAL RULES FOR CREDIT CARD PURCHASES
If you have a problem with the quality of property or services you purchased with a credit card, and you have tried in good faith to correct the problem with the merchant, you may have the right not to pay the remaining amount due on the property or services.

There are two limitations on this right: (a) You must have made the purchase in your home state or if not, within 100 miles of your current mailing address.
(b) The purchase price must have been more than $50.

These limitations do not apply if we own or operate the merchant, or if we mailed you the advertisement for the property or services. HSBC Card Services Inc. and/or HSBC Card Services (II) Inc. provide processing services for HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A. You may write to us at the address shown on your billing statement or HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A., 1111 Town Center Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada 89144.

Orchard Bank, Household MasterCard and HSBC credit cards are issued by HSBC Bank Nevada, N.A. in Las Vegas, Nevada and serviced by its affiliates HSBC Card Services Inc. and/or HSBC Card Services (II) Inc. Not available to those consumers residing outside the United States. Offer void for all existing Household Bank and Orchard Bank MasterCard Cardmembers.

Important Information

To receive, view, and save disclosures and Account Information electronically, you must have a personal computer equipped with Netscape 4.0, Microsoft Explorer 4.0 or AOL 5.0 or later, and either a printer, a hard drive, or other storage device. You must also have a valid email address.
As paperless communication options become available, our cardholders will be able to choose which communications to receive electronically, and which to receive via standard mail. We will notify you in advance of sending such electronic disclosures and Account Information.
You must notify us if your email address changes in order to continue receiving disclosures and Account Information electronically.
You may withdraw your consent to receive disclosures and Account Information electronically at any time. However, if you withdraw your consent, future disclosures and Account Information will be sent via U.S. mail.
You have the option to request any information that we have provided electronically in paper form.
To notify us of your new email address, withdraw your consent, or to request a disclosure or Account Information in paper form, please contact us by calling the phone number on the back of your credit card or write us at Bankcard Services, P.O. Box 80084, Salinas, CA 93912-0084.

Electronic Agreement:

I agree to receive disclosures and other Account Information electronically. I confirm that I have the software and computer equipment that satisfies the requirement above and that I will download or print the disclosures and other card related communications for my records. Additionally, by clicking the YES button, I acknowledge that I am providing my consent to receive electronic communications
Terms and ConditionsAnnual Percentage Rate (APR) for Purchases Variable Customary APR: 14.90%1 will apply.

Minimum Customary APR: 14.90%
Other APR’s Variable Cash APR: 25.15%2 (Minimum Cash APR: 20.90%)
Variable Default APR: 30.49% (Minimum Default APR: 29.49%)
Variable Rate Information Your APRs may vary. The rates are determined

Basil

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How can I delete an account on Merchant Circle.com?


Written on April 5, 2009 – 10:53 am | by admin

I belong to merhcnat circle.com and I would like my account and name to be deleted from their site..how do I do that? Please help.

Rosella
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Buyer has Paypal + I have Google Checkout = Recieving Payment?


Written on April 5, 2009 – 10:40 am | by admin

I am an ebay merchant. I have used paypal before, but I’m encountering huge problems with it so I’m switching to google checkout. CAN SOMEONE PAY ME FROM THEIR PAYPAL ACCOUNT DIRECTLY TO ME THROUGH GOOGLE CHECKOUT?

Ursula
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What’s the best way to process orders for an E-Business?


Written on April 3, 2009 – 11:45 pm | by admin

I run a small family owned company. Over this last year it’s grown considerably and I need a more efficient way to process orders from my shopping cart and get them on quick books. Or a program that I can use to integrate my shopping cart with my merchant account. Or any other advice on streamlining this process would be awesome!

I’m not married to quick books, so if there is a software solution here please let me know!

Marvella

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From the Messenger of Allah: To the followers of the Islam I say.?


Written on April 3, 2009 – 4:40 pm | by admin

God has told me in a vision what to do, and I confirm His command by giving my solemn promise to keep this agreement.

To the followers of the Islam I say: Carry out my command, protect and help the Nazarene nation in this country of ours in their own land. Leave their places of worship in peace; help and assist their chief and their priests when in need of help, be it in the mountains, in the desert, on the sea, or at home. Leave all their possessions alone, be it houses or other property, do not destroy anything of their belongings, the followers of Islam shall not harm or molest any of this nation, because the Nazarenes are my subjects, pay tribute to me and will help the Muslims. No tribute, but what is agreed upon, shall be collected from them, their church buildings shall be left as they are, they shall not be altered, their priests shall be permitted to teach and worship in their own way-the Nazarenes have full liberty of worship in their churches and homes. None of their churches shall be torn down, or altered into a mosque, except by the consent and free will of the Nazarenes. If any one disobeys this command, the anger of God and His Prophet shall be upon him.

“The tribute paid the Nazarenes shall be used to promote the teachings of Islam and shall be deposited at the treasury of Beth Almal. A common man shall pay one denar (piece of money), but the merchants and people who own mines of gold and silver and are rich shall pay twelve denars. Strangers and people who have no houses or other settled property shall not have taxes levied upon them. If a man inherits property he shall pay a settled sum to the Baitulmal treasury. The Christians are not obliged to make war on the enemies of Islam, but if an enemy attacks the Christians, the Muslims shall not deny their help, but give them horses and weapons, if they need them, and protect them from evils from outside and keep the peace with them. The Christians are not obliged to turn Muslims, until God’s will makes them believers.

“The Muslims shall not force Christian women to accept Islam, but if they themselves wish to embrace it, the Muslims shall be kind to them.

“If a Christian woman is married to a Muslim and does not want to embrace Islam, she has liberty to worship at her own church according to her own religious belief, and her husband must not treat her unkindly on account of her religion. If any one disobeys this command, he disobeys God and his prophet and will be guilty of a great offense.

“If the Nazarenes wish to build a church, their Muslim neighbors shall help them. This shall be done, because the Christians have obeyed us and have come to us and pleaded for peace and mercy.

“If there be among the Christians a great and learned man the Muslims shall honor him and not be envious of his greatness.

“If any one is unjust and unkind to the Christians he will be guilty of disobeying the Prophet of God.

“The Christians should not shelter an enemy of Islam or give him horse, weapon or any other help. If a Muslim is in need the Christian shall for three days and nights be his host and shelter him from his enemies. The Christians shall, furthermore, protect the Mohammedan women and children and not deliver them up to the enemy or expose them to view. If the Nazarenes fail to fulfil these conditions, they have forfeited their right to protection, and the agreement is null and void.

“This document shall be entrusted to the Christian chief and head of their church for safe keeping.”

The peace of God be over them all! This agreement is written by Moavijah Ben Sofian, according to the dictates of Muhammad, the Messenger of God, in the 4th year of the Hegira in the city of Medina.

Al Qur`an says:

“And abuse not those whom they call upon besides
Allah, lest exceeding the limits, they abuse Allah through ignorance.
Thus to every people have We made their deeds fair-seeming; then to
their Lord is their return so he will inform them of what they did”
(6:109)

Al Qur’an says: “Those who restrain their anger and pardon men. And Allah loves the doer of good (to others)” (3: 133)

-The Messenger of God Muhammad peace be upon him and his pure progeny

What do you know about this letter?

Teena

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Can I run A E-commerce shop at YAHOO?


Written on April 1, 2009 – 11:34 pm | by admin

I am a Chinese.I have got a Maestro card and a paypal account.Can I run A E-commerce shop at YAHOO?I got my Master card at Bank of China which can receive USD and pay in USD. Am I QUALIFIED to be a merchant at YAHOO?

Lindsy
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HELP! Someonee who knows about judgement collection?


Written on April 1, 2009 – 4:41 pm | by admin

My company is being sued for a large amount of money. Even though I am working with attorneys I’m having a hard time understanding how this whole judgement thing works. It appears my company ONLY will be sued according to threats from the collector and a copy of the suit. Also, I signed no personal guarantee. Even if they do sue me, I’ve been told by at least one attorney that I could fight that on grounds of being wrong or incorrect. At any rate, I want to know what the REAL process of collection is like in the worst case. Say they get a judgement against my company. Small business. I have no assets other than a corporate checking and a merchant account. I have some other savings that have been in my name personally for a long time and unfortunately haven’t been added to in years. Bottom line, what and how can these guys go after my only money to my name? Can they take my house? Can they somehow freeze my checking accounts? Wages aren’t an issue since I’m self-employed. Thanks .
Forgot to add there is rarely much money in the checking and merchant accounts as I wind up spending MOST of everything I make in business expenses and my basic living expenses (mortgage, etc.) I KNOW I don’t do perfect accounting but my biz is fairly new and I seriously doubt any small biz corporation could do it any other way in order to make a living.

Lanelle
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