OK , my question is : how to accept credit card on GB?
So I was setting in this bar in Anchorage Alaska one night with a couple of friends drinking a few.
We were just laying over for the night, had a 6am flight the next morning for a remote Bering Sea coast village where the salmon were running, we planned to do a bit of fishing.
So, like I said, we were minding our own business and having a few cocktails as we talked. We had all arrived on different flights and met up there and hadn't seen each other for a while, we so we had plenty of catching up to do.
Well, about 3 or 4 drinks into our conversation this old Yupik Eskimo dude walks into the bar, I'd seen him through the window milling around out front, he had two young kids with him.
He'd left the kids outside but he had two pieces of Native art with him when he entered, one was a 10ft baleen all scrimshaw'ed up with a whale hunting scene, it had a lot of detail in it, it looked pretty good but I have a few of those.
It was the other item he had that caught my eye.
It was a 8 foot long toggle harpoon, about Walrus hunting size.
The toggle point was carved from white ivory as well as the thin cut blade that was inserted into it. The head of the harpoons shaft is made of a 16 inch piece of ivory about 2 inches in diameter. The tail of the shaft has a matching 16 inch ivory ice spike. He'd cut long narrow strips of Spotted Seal hide and wrapped the shaft for hand holds.
As soon as I saw it I told my buddies, that's mine!
I have a lot of that kinda stuff but I didn't have one of those.
He started off going person to person down the bar showing his goods, everyone was intrigued.
We were setting at a table across the room from the bar, by the time he got down to the third or fourth person at the bar I was running out of patients and got up and when over and tapped him on the shoulder and told him not to sell the harpoon before he talked to me.
Not long after he was at our table.
He told me he was from a village up between Kotzebue and Point Hope on the Chukchi Sea coast, he'd traveled to Anchorage to peddle his goods.
I asked him how much and he came back with a fairly reasonable number, I bartered him down a couple hundred and we cut a deal.
I didn't have the money it was going to take to buy this thing on me, I had like 500 cash. I told him I'd give him the 500 and head out to find a ATM.
The old dude looked me right in the eye and said 'no problem, I take Visa' and he whipped out his cell phone and said, 'slide here'
He had a little doohickey on the side of his cell phone to swipe your card through.
I told him he had to be the coolest Eskimo north of Kotzebue, not only was he a amazing artist, he took Visa payments!
We concluded our deal and he went to the parking lot and rounded up his grandkids, then he packaged my harpoon in bubble wrap and slid it into a 4 inch piece of PVC pipe so I could take it on my flight the next morning.
Oh yeah, about your question, he also used Square.
I just looked up the auto send receipt I got from that transaction in my email.
Hope that helps....;-)
