Oops,
in responding, please be mindful of this being a rules discussion group, not a website discussion group.
regards,
Charles
>
> 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
> --- In HeroQuest-rules_at_yahoogroups.com, Ashley Munday <aescleal@>
> wrote:
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> > G'day all,
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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...
> >
> > Thanks to anyone that can help,
> >
> > Ash
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