Hi,
The website requires an account but does not take credit card details.
All credit card handling is done by PayPal as we are not set up to
secure details of credit cards.
The reason that we require an account is that we have to have a place to
store your shipping address (if ordering hard copy) or to store the
links to your downloads (if ordering electronic copy).
More details for those who are interestedNow you can argue, and several
people have, that there are better ways to do this, so that customers
can place orders to without the hassle of creating an account. However,
when we ask them to give practical advice on how to achieve this, we
have never received an answer.
I am the technical/website adviser to Moon Design. Here is what I know:
- I am a volunteer.
- I know a Content Management Framework called Drupal
<http://drupal.org> that allows a webstore and much more functionality.
- Drupal is free to download/install/run.
- Drupal runs on cheap webhosting providers.
- Drupal allows payments via PayPal.
- Paypal allows Moon Design to keep over 90% of the cover price.
- Other payment processors take much higher percentages for small
vendors.
- Moon Design is a tiny vendor, that does not even qualify as small.
- Distributors take much, much more of the cover price.
Please do make suggestions on how to improve. However please keep in
mind the constraints that I have laid out above.
regards,Charles
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> Just been to the Moon Design publications website to try and buy paper
copies of Sartar Compendium and the Pavis book. Apparently I need an
account on their website which I'm pretty sure I didn't need a couple of
years (er, just checked, was back when I bought the core rules and the
first Sartar book. Having 18 accounts on various commercial websites and
trying to remove a few I'm a bit loathe to pick up any more. Does anyone
know somewhere (preferably online, but I'll take 'phone ordering if I
have to) I can grab some dead tree books without having to create yet
another account on yet another website? Something using paypal would be
ideal as they've already got my address, bank details et. al...
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> Thanks to anyone that can help,
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> Ash
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