Lately I've had several people calling me wanting to pay with credit cards. And when I tell them I am not able to take their credit cards, they get hostile. So I explain that I used to take credit cards. About half the time I couldn't get through, so I had to swipe repeatedly to get an approval code. Sometimes I had to try and try for 10-15 minutes before I could get through. Sometimes I never did get through. Customers couldn't sign until I got an approval code. One guy said he couldn't wait for me to get through and told me that he would pay me double next time. He never came back again. When I was lucky enough to get through, I had to deal with secretaries calling me, demanding to know what their boss had purchased because he said he didn't remember making the charge, and they were going to dispute it. To make a long story short, I ended up working for nothing, and it wasn't worth the hassle.
Now I've got to deal with irate people who are upset because they can't charge my services on their companies expense accounts. Jeesh! What a business. The world seems to have gone mad.