Accepting Penske\'s credit card

[gold star wsr]

Watch out for the companies that are 'evergreen' ... they offer you a good rate if you will take their lease agreement on their equipment... usually sign you for about 3 years, but then after that you are month to month forever and ever... you wind up paying about 5 times what the equipment is worth. By the time the contract is up, then they tell you that that equipment is obsolete, and they will replace it if you sign a new conract, and it goes on and on and on....

I used to take credit cards, but they never generated enough to pay for themselves, so I stopped. That was more than 2 years ago that I stopped, and have not missed them. Most of my clients go through insurance, those that dont, I take their checks or cash. Works out fine for me. I have never had a problem with anyone's check, even if they were from out of state. My hubby scolds me about them, but I prefer to trust people until they show me they cant be trusted.

Sorta in the same line... I did a repair a couple of weeks ago, and the guy asked if I wanted to see his ID to prove he really owned the car.... "I said I dont think it's needed. I have never met anyone who wanted to repair the windshield on a stolen car." He thought that was very funny

[thedentdude]

I would have to agree with you on the contracts. That is why this one works for mobile techs. There are no contracts. I search high and low. Talked to many other techs and service people and no one had the answer. Went to my bank and they had someone trying to sell me a 4 years contract with $60 a month payments plus service fees. That is when I really started looking for something that would work for my services. Now I do both PDR and windshield repair and an occassional bumper repair, but it has helped close sales.

I look at it as a way to offer my clients options. I take checks as well, but have heard more and more stories of people getting burned. And when I am doing $200-300 dent repairs I don't need a check to bounce.

JMO

[nwglasspros]

I've read on here somewhere about people having success with propay.com I believe they have some online interface where you sign in and run the credit cards. No machines to buy other then your home computer. Its like $35/month.

Here are the details:
http://propay.com/account_details.html

[nwglasspros]

Not sure which one would be cheaper chargeamerica or propay. Just throwing out another solution. =)