What about using a service such as ccnow.com?
They offer a service that handles the shopping cart function, including
collection and processing the credit cards.
Seems like they were charging around 9% for their service, with
a payment schedule of about 2 weeks.

Joe



> >    I suspect at first, they will have a lot of sales (this item is not
> >available anywhere else) but I'm sure at some point the sales will taper off
> >to even just a few a month.
> 
> This sounds pessimistic and unusual. Are they selling the elixir of youth, 
> so that one purchase sets up the buyer forever? Am I on the right track here?
> 
> >What would be the best option for them?  Are there merchant accounts that
> >only charge per transaction?  They basically need something free or very
> >cheap.
> 
> Get a copy & paste form mail handler pgm for your platform, your ISP might 
> even provide one already. Collect everything but the credit card info and 
> have your client call them to complete the order. If the volume's too great 
> for that to be realistic, then for a reasonable fee you could hire someone 
> (me, for instance) to collect the credit card info over a secure link and 
> email the order to your client.
> 
> The way I do this for sites with small volume is to encrypt the data on the 
> server on a non-web accessible directory. Then send a secure link with the 
> order email which sits behind an .htaccess file. When they're ready to get 
> the CC# they click the link, enter id/pw, and print or write down the info. 
> It's simultaneously deleted from the server.
> 
> Marty
> 
> 

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