Re: card to verify merchant account?
My business card has my real address, but my real address isn't banned because I've moved since my restriction. Regardless though AVS will only check the zip code and state when you do the test charge. So you can use your real debit card with a different street address than your own, and it will pass no problems.
Correct. Like I said the other day they aren't trying to verify you in any way. They're just trying to make sure your Auth.net account is setup to properly communicate with your eBay account. They don't even settle the test charge, it just shows us as a pending authorization in your merchant account for weeks (unless you void it yourself).
Yes your prepaid card will work fine.
Using a merchant account has been the worst thing to ever happen to my best eBay account. We literally went from 120+ daily sales with Paypal to maybe 10 daily sales with a merchant account. Eventually I plan to integrate a new Paypal account but I've been focusing on other accounts lately. The one upside is I have almost total control over card payments on that account - but it's not even close to being worth the loss of sales vs. Paypal.
Yeah, I know. I sell a lot of electronics. Still though using a merchant account sucks hardcore. It's not compatible with eBay on mobile platforms (app or browser), it doesn't always update sales records when customers DO pay, the majority of customers refuse to give their CC # directly to a seller (even if they're not really giving it to me, but to Auth.net which most have never heard of)
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