I need to be able to load points onto the clients card from the internet and then the card can be charged at various locations. Any ideas of a company I can go through?

9/19/2010 7:36:50 PM

i thought this alias was a teacher

9/19/2010 7:42:06 PM

A teacher with a big idea

9/19/2010 7:47:55 PM

most credit card processors offer the gift card/point card/gift certificate cards service. It's usually $1 per plastic card plus a swipe fee plus percentage fee.

9/19/2010 8:38:42 PM

What if it was simply a code and a website instead of cards? Something where they buy the points once and then use them with their code.

9/19/2010 9:41:55 PM

clients and teachers are different things

9/19/2010 10:46:11 PM

Oh god. Does this have something to do with your idiotic idea of getting cashpoints for doing community service? You know, the idiotic one where you think that rewarding people for doing work isn't capitalist as long as you issue them spendable "points" instead of "dollars".

9/19/2010 10:50:46 PM

http://www.rewardforloyalty.com/index.php
I've used this company for gift cards for our retail operation... Only downside is they call regularly to "check in" and we're not a high user (the 1000 cards I ordered will last for years). But s good product at a fair cost.

9/20/2010 11:30:14 AM

Let's be honest ITT.

9/20/2010 11:43:35 AM

I get my commission paid via prepaid Visa every week. The one my company uses is Vision Prepaid. Every Tuesday they load my commissions on it, and the funds are available to use immediately. Pretty sweet, actually.

9/20/2010 12:12:49 PM

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"What if it was simply a code and a website instead of cards? Something where they buy the points once and then use them with their code."

Coding a fake program would be elementary. The hard part comes in when you try to incorporate using real money transactions (you must use a service) and codes that can't be hacked, memorized, reused, or expire and guaranteed unique.
You need a website that tracks users and user information and make them sign up. People are lazy and private with their information, so you have to deal with verification, fraud, and fake accounts. you have to monitor duplicate accounts.

Then you have to design the website around it.

9/20/2010 12:55:50 PM

If you give me 200 dollars for this rock i found on the ground, ill throw in two student tickets as well

9/20/2010 12:56:30 PM

^so you're trying to sell a stolen rock on the internet?

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"Oh god. Does this have something to do with your idiotic idea of getting cashpoints for doing community service? You know, the idiotic one where you think that rewarding people for doing work isn't capitalist as long as you issue them spendable "points" instead of "dollars"."

This has nothing to do with that but I need to address your comments. Rewarding people for doing work isn't evil. Its owning the ability to do work and then "selling" that ability to potential workers that is evil.

9/20/2010 1:57:18 PM

What in God's name are you babbling about?

How is using the skill set that I have built and being compensated for my time and effort evil?

9/20/2010 2:19:28 PM

No one owns "the ability to do work" any more than a skilled carpenter owns the ability to cut wood. My ownership of my factory does not stop others from creating their own factory.

9/20/2010 6:10:26 PM

If I own all the blades and sell usage rights of the blades to you for the majority of money you make from your carpentry work, I have provided nothing to society, have no skill and am evil.

Granted nobody is FORCING me to turn most of my earnings over to you but my other option is to simply not work since you own the ability to do work.

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"My ownership of my factory does not stop others from creating their own factory."

Yes it does because they have no chance of competing with you in the evil system that caters to the biggest fish.

Suppliers will not sell materials to real workers who have small factories for the same unit price that they give you. Basic capitalism bullshit.

[Edited on September 20, 2010 at 7:06 PM. Reason : knowledge showcase]

9/20/2010 7:04:55 PM

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"If I own all the blades and sell usage rights of the blades to you for the majority of money you make from your carpentry work, I have provided nothing to society, have no skill and am evil."

This would be a valid point if no individual carpenters owned their own tools, however, every single one does.

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"Yes it does because they have no chance of competing with you in the evil system that caters to the biggest fish."

Every carpenter that I've ever employed has been a private contractor. They custom make products that are worth much more than any similar mass produced unit and are more skilled and thus paid much more per hour than someone similarly employed in a factory.

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"Suppliers will not sell materials to real workers who have small factories for the same unit price that they give you."

Then why are there independent carpenters and why aren't they starving to death?

This is the same idiotic argument that you've made many times before. It's still just as wrong as it was last time and the time before that.

9/20/2010 9:11:53 PM

wow. mambaman has to be one of the biggest dumbasses alive.

9/20/2010 9:33:24 PM

ANOTHER QUALITY MAMBAMAN THREAD

9/20/2010 10:46:40 PM

What is this thread about again?

9/21/2010 12:59:46 AM

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"This would be a valid point if no individual carpenters owned their own tools, however, every single one does."

That was a hypothetical situation with a world where tools were so expensive, individuals couldn't buy them.

Every cook can't have a restaurant. Every miner can't have a mine. Etica etica...

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" Then why are there independent carpenters and why aren't they starving to death? This is the same idiotic argument that you've made many times before. It's still just as wrong as it was last time and the time before that."

You missed the whole point. There are several sectors in which expensive capital is required to put a skill to use. In these sectors, workers must purchase the ability to work from a rich person.

9/21/2010 12:09:53 PM

People have proven most of them are too dumb to own a HOUSE, and you want to give every one of these winners their own business?!

9/21/2010 2:42:12 PM

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"That was a hypothetical situation with a world where tools were so expensive, individuals couldn't buy them."

Yes, your hypothetical is bullshit. That's my point.

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"Every cook can't have a restaurant. Every miner can't have a mine. Etica etica..."

Owning your own restaurant requires much more than simply knowing how to cook. What the hell does "etica etica" mean?

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"In these sectors, workers must purchase the ability to work from a rich person."

If you have skills to market then you don't purchase anything from anyone. You do work and are compensated for it.

A question for you: were you in some sort of accident at some point where you were technically dead for a few minutes and not breathing? Did they do tests on brain function afterwards?

9/21/2010 3:45:51 PM

ETICA! ETICA!

9/21/2010 3:48:17 PM

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

9/21/2010 4:19:54 PM

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"Owning your own restaurant requires much more than simply knowing how to cook."

which is why most cooks have to purchase the ability to cook from a restaurant.

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"Yes, your hypothetical is bullshit. That's my point."

Every hypothetical is bullshit. Thats why its a hypothetical

Any worker that doesn't buy his ability to work from others is going to be at an overwhelming disadvantage. Potential customers won't trust them, won't want to pay more and will view them as unclean panhandlers. You can't just walk the streets with signs trying to sell things. Even people who work out of their homes with business cards are at a major disadvantage. There is a market for that but its very very small.

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"What the hell does "etica etica" mean?"

Why don't you google it so I won't have to further subsidize your ignorance

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" If you have skills to market then you don't purchase anything from anyone. You do work and are compensated for it."

capital is required to sell goods and even many services. In today's world, there aren't too many things you can do with only your hands.

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"A question for you: were you in some sort of accident at some point where you were technically dead for a few minutes and not breathing? Did they do tests on brain function afterwards?"

I'm not the one who can't comprehend ideas that weren't shoved into my head since childhood.

9/21/2010 4:44:49 PM

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"Why don't you google it so I won't have to further subsidize your ignorance"

Etica doesn't mean anything in English, you obviously meant to write etcetera but are too fucking stupid.

9/21/2010 4:59:00 PM

sigh

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"About Etica Etica promotes sustainability through business. We sell Fair Trade products in order to help artisans build better futures. Through Fair Trade, all of our producers are paid an honest livable wage for their hard work. Etica works with producers from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the United States. The income generated by the producers is used to develop their communities, whether it be building new infrastructure or sending their children to school."

http://www.eticafairtrade.com/aboutEtica/

9/21/2010 5:06:51 PM

haha, nice attempt at saving face, but you wouldn't have posted "Etica etica' with no other exposition if that's what you were referencing.

9/21/2010 5:19:27 PM

and now you see the beauty behind the post. They may seem like endless drivel but an elaborate double usage like that goes over the heads of most but also have intelligent design that can be artistically appreciated by some.

many see it and are like "o, thats dumb, she spelled that completely wrong"

some say it and are like "wow, how cunning to use that word there when its spelled similar to a word that could also be placed there.

9/21/2010 5:26:44 PM

9/21/2010 5:29:37 PM

haha.

blatantly stupid mistake followed by furious googling and pretending that it was a double entendre.

9/21/2010 6:50:07 PM

who is this mysterious "she" we're talking about here? alls I see is dudes posting ITT

9/21/2010 6:51:11 PM

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"some say it and are like "wow, how cunning to use that word there when its spelled similar to a word that could also be placed there."

first off: "see it," not "say it." secondly, who sees it that way? the same people who are supposedly playing your ranked game pick'em but just haven't seen any games they want to pick yet?


i'll take that ruckus pick, amac.

9/21/2010 10:58:27 PM

^ I already made a pick, ass

9/21/2010 11:47:07 PM

DENNIS HORNER WASN'T RANKED THAT WEEK

9/22/2010 12:20:01 AM

You guys just didn't want to let a girl showcase supreme knowledge.

9/22/2010 12:50:50 AM

what girl?

9/22/2010 9:26:08 AM

You guys just didn't want to let a girl showcase supreme knowledge get away with being a fucking retard

9/22/2010 9:19:54 PM

I exist guys!

9/22/2010 9:46:25 PM