Is Online Age Verification a Good Thing for the Industry?

[Shel]

However, on the other hand, THIS has quite a few spelling and gramatical errors.

First off, you forgot to put a period after "you use" and "it" These are two different sentences.

It's "based" not "base."

It's "you're" not "your." What makes this error pathetic was you had it right the first time when you said "you're 18" but then screwed the pooch with the "over your."

BTW, you really need a comma between "over" and "your(sic)."

Hard for me to take a salesman seriously when he can't speak or write.

I’m not fishing for contact info or leads; my company has the means to target any audience. I was only trying to gauge the response if they did and hear what you guys had to say. I am an occasional cigar smoker but wouldn’t attempt to converse on you guys level.

My original question was; (Is Online Age Verification a Good Thing for the Industry?) I believe yes, and here’s why; the credit card companies are refusing new merchant accounts for online sales of age restricted products unless the merchant has and/or uses an online age verification system and retains each transaction age verification confirmation. There is no such thing as being (grandfathered), the CC companies are saying anyone who is selling or taking orders via the Internet no matter if they are (keying In), Swiping or using a Shopping Cart will be required to use the government-issued ID database to be in compliance with age verification laws and guidelines.

A company with the initials RJ is using the same system to verify age before they will send product information or coupons.

Does this mean merchants that are selling these products will loose their merchant account tomorrow or in the next 12 months, no one knows.

How much work is it to manual check IDs, have the customer send in a copy of their DL or rely on a shipper to get an adults signature. Would it not be easier to have an online Shopping Cart that check automatically so you can get on with the business of supplying a quality product knowing you’re in compliance and bonded up to one million dollars per transaction for only .50 cent?

From reading the postings most of you are not vendor or resellers but if under age children are buying these products shouldn’t you as consumers want an age verification system be used? This is only a topic of discussion, please don't be mad at me for expressing my views.