More Internet Bans Enhance Vialls Credibility
The mighty '2CheckOut.com" jumps on board the censorship train...
For those readers who followed the saga of Vialls Investigations being banned and/or defamed by Yahoo, PayPal, Rumor Mill, Rense and others, the blatant censorship seems far from over. Obviously needing to find an alternative donation mechanism to be able to stay on the Internet at all, I finally dug deep into my savings and opened an account with the mighty 2CheckOut.com, one of the biggest credit card processing companies online, which turned over about $73 million in sales last year.
For the truly awesome sum of $150.00, I was granted an approved 2CheckOut account and also sold software to load into my website in order to receive donations by credit card. Or so I thought... Just ten days later I received the following email: "Dear Vialls, The following notes have been added to your account. Please review this information and take corrective action as soon as possible. 2checkout chooses not to be a reseller for this site. The account has been closed and the signup fee refunded to the credit card used to open the account."
This was only partly correct. 2CheckOut certainly closed the account without warning, refunded a total of $49.00, but then pocketed the rest. So once again, and following in the giant indelible footprints of Yahoo! and PayPal, I was deliberately defrauded by yet another large American multinational corporation. Clearly the First Amendment is so dead now that it wouldn't get up again if you prodded it with a sharp stick.
In the same way that I was forced to move my email address outside the reach of the Draconian American "Department of Homeland Security", I was thus driven to look for an alternative donation provider outside the continental United States, finally settling for a small provider located in Lille, Europe. The most interesting thing about new provider "Yaskifo" is that if this company stays the course, its ingenious approach and vastly superior software might one day allow Yaskifo to become a viable alternative to PayPal, which would be a very good thing, because PayPal badly needs taking down a peg or two.
To quote from its own advertising, Yaskifo is "fully international oriented; is open to everyone (individuals or companies); online store web pages can be viewed by customers in 9 different languages (English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, Turkish, Japanese and Esperanto), and we accept international payments in more than 16 foreign currencies."
Not bad for starters, and the process is fully automatic. If you are an American viewing a site in Italy with a view to buying a camera, for example, your browser automatically loads the page in English and quotes the price of the camera in US dollars. If you are Japanese and want to buy a camera from a dealer in Germany, your browser will automatically load in Japanese and show you the Euro price instantly converted to Yen.
So far as I know this company is not subordinate to Wall Street or the odious Department of Homeland Security, and if I have time later I might take a closer look and possibly write a report on the subject, because it seems that having an account at Yaskifo is probably the poor man's equivalent of an anonymous "Swiss Bank Account". If you want to see how the system works for yourself, feel free to click on the "donate" link below!
For those who do not like online donations of any kind, I can personally process Australian Dollar or Pound Sterling checks, and convert almost any banknote into usable currency. My snail mail address is "J. Vialls", 45 Merlin Drive, Carine, Western Australia 6020. If anyone out there has online Internet banking and the desire to donate, please direct the funds to my account shown here. Thank you for caring.
Bank Name: Bank West
Account name: J. Vialls
BSB: 306-074
Account: 0574527
Donations page click here: