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> By requiring payment by credit card, you'll hopefully eliminate prostitutes, drug users, and homeless people anyway. I'm not sure there's a way to distinguis
by jarek 14y ago
> By requiring payment by credit card, you'll hopefully eliminate prostitutes, drug users, and homeless people anyway.
I'm not sure there's a way to distinguish a "regular" credit card from a prepaid store-bought "credit" card, which are easily obtained by the undesirables.
Maybe you could try putting a thousand-dollar hold on the card for verification. Car rental could also be a good business to study for inspiration.
- dnissley 14y agoIt's usually possible to distinguish between a pre-paid credit card and a non-pre-paid card, depends on your software though. A hold would work much better though -- for example, I don't keep a huge amount of money in my checking account which is what is connected to my debit card, and a $1k hold would fail usually. Mind you I'm in the U.S. where there's not a huge difference between debit/credit cards.