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Does This Sound Familiar?​

A customer walks into your store, chooses the product they want to purchase and brings it up to the counter to buy it. You tell them the price, but then they hand you a credit card.

You regret to inform them that your business does not accept credit cards. The customer, without any cash on them, then has to put the product back and walks out of the store, not likely to return. They’ll find somewhere else, like a gas station, that accepts credit cards to fulfill their CBD needs. They prefer to pay with card, rather than going to an ATM to get a cash advance.

Or, maybe this is more relatable to your business: Sales are going great, and you accept payment from both credit cards and cash. The business is growing and more customers are coming in each day.

One day, you get an alert that your merchant account provider has dropped your business, no longer letting you accept credit card payments. For what reason? You’re considered high risk to your payment processor for selling CBD products, even though the products are completely legal and offer promising health claims, all while you require age verification for purchases. It wasn’t even your fault that you lost your account, but it’s the few bad apples that ruin it for everyone. You scramble around to find a new processor, one that will accept high risk business types.

Every processor you’re finding, though, has high fees that will take advantage of you for years. They know you’re desperate and think they can make a ton of money off of that desperation.

CBD + Dual Payments

CBD comes in many different forms. CBD oils, CBD vape and other variations all have different uses to consumers. If are a CBD business owner and seeking a merchant account solution to allow you to accept credit cards on these products, give Dual Payments a chance. We have plenty of experience with all different types of high risk industries, including CBD processing.

If your business specializes in CBD oil, for instance, we can work with you to become your CBD oil merchant account provider. We can provide a CBD oil merchant account that will allow you to process purchases made by credit cards. Let Dual Payments become your CBD oil payment processor. Contact us today for information on CBD oil credit card processing.

From mobile processing to brick and mortar processing, Dual Payments has a wide variety of options to meet your needs for merchant processing for CBD. Dual Payments’s CBD oil merchant services can provide one of the best CBD merchant accounts. We can also work with you to create a virtual terminal so you can have a payment gateway for CBD online payment processing.

Dual Payments offers competitive rates with unbeatable customer service. No other merchant account provider will give you the same experience that Dual Payments promises to deliver as a credit card processor for CBD products. There are no offshore merchant accounts with us.

Contact us and tell us how we can help you start payment processing for CBD products with credit cards and get a merchant account approved in less than a week.

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Your business needs a merchant account that won’t charge crazy high fees or cancel your account out of nowhere because you’re considered “high risk”. You need a processor that has experience with similar businesses and knows the struggles that you have already been through for trying to simply accept credit card payments.

Many CBD business owners think that it’s too hard to get a merchant account, or that if they find one, the fees will be far too high. For the most part, they’re right. But with Dual Payments, your interests are put first. We want to be the merchant account provider that changes your mind.

What Should You Look For In A Processor?

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Honest

Many merchants will give their clients a price up front, but hide fees or stipulations in the contract that allow them to raise the price after about a year. As a merchant processor for CBD and other high risk businesses, here at Dual Payments, we are very transparent about our fees and offer no termination fees should you choose to end your contract with us.

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When you accept credit cards at the point of site, it should be the last time you think about that transaction. You shouldn’t have any payment processing responsibilities beyond providing your customer with a credit card terminal and having them swipe the card.

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Widely Accepted

If a certain card brand can’t be accepted by your processor, then you’re more or less right back to where you started. You could easily run into the same issues that you had before if a certain type can’t be accepted. Keep that in mind and get a payment system and processor capable of accepting credit cards.

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Low Fees

Most processors will charge ridiculous rates to high risk merchants because they know that you are probably desperate for a processor. Get a merchant account that is cheaper than the rest, without hiding fees that will grow over time.

Why Dual Payments is Good for CBD Businesses

Experience with High Risk Businesses

Dual Payments has plenty of experience with “high risk” businesses just like yours. You’ll have a team of dedicated professionals to help you through the application and approval process. With a quick terminal set up, you can be accepting credit card payments in no time.

Experience with CBD Businesses

We’ve worked with both online and brick and mortar CBD businesses, and continue to do so because they trust us to process their payments at low rates and not cancel the merchant account.

Earning the trust of your business and satisfying your need for a credit card payment processor, just like the other CBD businesses, is our number one priority.

Low Monthly Minimums

It’s common for processors to require that you, as a business, continue to process a certain amount a month in order to stay a client, or else you’ll face an additional fee to cover for the amount of the minimum that was not hit. With Dual Payments, the monthly minimum for our CBD Merchants is only $25.

Low Monthly fees

Unlike other high risk processors, Dual Payments does not charge massive monthly fees in addition to the per transaction fees. Minimal monthly fees means more money in your pocket.

No rate increases

How does a rate decrease sound? The longer you process with Dual Payments and demonstrate that your CBD business is not such a high risk, you may actually find that your rate will decrease over time from where it began.

Accept Credit cards

Our credit card terminals and POS systems can accept credit cards. This will keep your business from falling back into the original problem of only being able to accept cash.

What Other Processors Offer

Does Stripe accept CBD payments? Does Stripe allow CDB sales?

Stripe restricts CBD based businesses from accepting payments on their services. In fact, Stripe restricts any highrisk business in any industry, from the hemp oil and CBD oil industry to the gambling industry, from using their services. So while the product might be completely legal in your region, Stripe prefers to not take on that risk and will deny any CBD based businesses from using their services.

Since we a lot of questions regarding Stripe CBD sales and Stripe CBD payments, we’ll explain their policy. For trying to obtain a CBD merchant account, Stripe really isn’t an option for your business.

They have a policy against acquiring high risk clients. Since selling CBD is considered a high risk business, the Stripe for CBD policy is that your CBD business will not be allowed to process payments with them. Stripe CBD sales is a “no” for CBD payment processing.

Does Stripe accept CBD sales? No. But Dual Payments does

Dual Payments has plenty of experience with high risk businesses and knows what business owners need out of a processor. We put you

Paykings is almost exclusively a high risk merchant provider. This means that almost all of the businesses that they work with contain some element of risk. With that, they have a lot of experience processing for high risk businesses.

However, their standard fees start off at a fairly expensive rate, and with CBD payment processors having higher rates across the board than other high risk industries, will almost definitely grow even more costly.

Dual Payments also has plenty of experience, both with high risk and low risk businesses. However, Dual Payments has lower fees across the board than the rest of the competition, not just as payment processors for CBD.

Square is currently working on a credit card processing solution to allow them to be able to accept the payments on CBD products. However, this solution is currently just being tested with a few different CBD businesses on an invitation only basis. So, there could still be a while until Square has CBD ready payment processing solutions. Square overall, however, tends to have pretty high fees and usually only works well with small businesses because of those processing fees.

Up until the trial testing of a CBD processing option, Square has refused to process the payment of the majority of high risk businesses that try to process with them. For the few that have gotten Square to process their purchases, they found that Square would many times hold their funds and take a while before finally clearing the purchase and allowing the funds to go through.

Dual Payments already has a processing history with CBD products and businesses at a fraction of the cost of other processors. With Dual Payments, there is no waiting for the test version of a system of payment processing for CBD to be approved for the public. Instead, you can jump right in and begin processing CBD credit card payments in just a couple of days.

Terminals Offered by Dual Payments

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  • 2.7’’ (320x240) TFT Color display
  • 150 MB of memory
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  • PCI PTS 3.x certified
  • Contains thermal printer

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Verifone VX 520

  • 2.6" (128 × 64) monochrome LCD display
  • 160 MB of memory
  • Dial-up or ethernet connectivity
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  • Contains thermal printer

CBD Merchant Account
Frequently Asked Questions

WHAT IS A CBD MERCHANT ACCOUNT

A CBD retail merchant account is an account that allows you to accept credit card payments made for CBD products. Merchant service providers that are willing to take on CBD accounts can be hard to find.

Many merchant accounts for CBD, in fact, will drop a CBD account after having it as an account for months on end. They might take you on at first. If they suddenly view your business as too high risk, they might drop it without warning.

Dual Payments has plenty of experience with highrisk merchants, including high risk merchant accounts for CBD sellers, so you can find safety in knowing that Dual Payments will not drop your CBD dedicated account.

If you intend on selling CBD products online as well as in store and need a CBD payment gateway, consider a payment processor for CBD that can provide an online payment gateway or virtual terminal.

If you’ve ever tried to sell CBD products online, you understand the depth of the struggle in trying to secure an online account. Dual Payments specializes in both brick and mortar and online cbd accounts with a 99% approval rate for our cbd merchants.

We understand that every business is different, and listen to each business owner to fully understand the best solution for your needs. This isn’t a cookie cutter business, and getting the right merchant account services for CBD can set you up for success for years to come.

If you’re looking for an online CBD merchant account, you’ve come to the right place. Our staff is trained to get to the bottom of what will work best for you while keeping the fees low so you can grow your business.

PayPal will technically approve CBD sales. But does PayPal allow CBD sales? A quick Google search will show that PayPal is notorious for shutting down the accounts of CBD businesses without warning and even holding their funds. PayPal stops accepting purchases of CBD businesses very frequently. Because of this, PayPal is widely regarded as poor to work with for CBD businesses.

An actual payment processor that has experience in high risk and CBD merchant processing and CBD payment processing in particular will be more beneficial to a CBD business looking to accept credit card payments.

Processing CBD sales through PayPal is a huge risk. If they decide that you are too high risk for them, they have the right to, without warning, shut down your merchant account. The lack of warning provided to you means that you won’t have time to find another processor before they decide to shut you down. You’ll have to rely only on cash purchases until you’re able to find a processor that is willing to partner with high risk businesses.

You could just accept cash, like plenty of other CBD businesses, but that would severely limit your customer base. You could stick out amongst other CBD stores, or do exactly what they are doing.

Think about the necessity of accepting credit cards this way: Each customer that you have to turn away because of your inability to accept credit card payments is a purchase lost. But, how many sales are you actually turning down in the long run?

CBD Merchants who accept credit cards typically see a 20% higher ticket than their cash-only counterparts.

Each customer that you turn down will probably not come back again, because they’ll always assume that you can’t accept credit cards, even if you begin to accept them after they came in. Each customer that was initially turned down, then, could turn into tens of hundreds of dollars lost in future purchases by their assumption that you don’t accept credit cards.

So, being able to accept credit cards really will turn into countless purchases down the road as customers know they are able to use a credit card and come back to your business because of that convenience.

It can be hard to find a CBD payment processor because it is seen as a “high risk” industry due to its affiliation with marijuana. Though hemp based CBD and hemp products overall are legal nationwide, few credit card processors are willing to take on the risk that it presents through its affiliation.

CBD credit card processors or merchant services for CBD and hemp credit card processing are very difficult to find. Even if you find a processor willing to take on a CBD business, odds are that their fees are very expensive. This is because of a couple different factors. First, they know that it is risky to process your payments. Because of this, they want to make more off of you for being willing to process CBD payments.Second, they know that if you are a business seeking payment solutions for your CBD business, you are probably fairly desperate and are willing to pay a good amount in order to accept credit cards. Many credit card processors for CBD take advantage of that desperation and try to tell you that they have very competitive rates, when they actually have very high rates.

That’s why many businesses choose Dual Payments for their CBD oil merchant processing.

The legality of CBD is complicated, but as a general rule, hemp based CBD is legal in all 50 states as long as the level of THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, in the cannabis product is low to virtually nonexistent. There are no specific federal laws against hemp based CBD. However, marijuana based CBD is only legal in a few different states.

Marijuana based CBD, as you can probably guess, is only legal in states that have approved the use of medical marijuana or recreational marijuana. If marijuana is legal in your state, then marijuana based CBD is most likely legal as well. However, the legality is very complicated overall, as THC above a certain amount might turn the CBD illegal. Find out what the laws are in your local state to be absolutely sure that your products are totally and completely legal.

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Example of High Risk Merchants

  • 1-900 Phone companies – If you’re the type of company that charges people to have a chat on the phone, you’ll be considered high risk.
  • Adult Bookstores – Clearly a part of the adult entertainment industry, and an easy mark for the high risk tag.
  • Adult Entertainment – Any business labeled with the “adult” descriptor will automatically be assigned a high risk status.
  • Adult Toys – As “adult” is in the name, it’s an easy target for association with the adult entertainment market.
  • Airline Industry – Due to cancellations on high ticket purchases, this will put your airline company in the high risk category
  • Amazon Stores – By having a high rate of return, Amazon stores are seen as high risk.
  • Ammo Sales – Association with the weapons industry guarantees high risk status.
  • Annual Contracts – Any time an annual contract is involved it can be considered highrisk because most consumers forget they signed up and chance of chargeback can be high.
  • Antiques – With a high average ticket per item, antiques are considered a risky merchant type.
  • Astrology – The study of the celestial bodies and the influence on human affairs can be a chargeback target if customers feel like they aren’t getting the answers they want.
  • Auctions – Because of the nature of bidding on a product and not having a set price the risk level goes up.
  • Autographed Collectables – There is almost always a question as to whether an autograph is authentic, and therefore chargebacks are much higher in this industry.
  • Automotive Brokers – Brokers of automobiles have a very high average ticket are are therefore of higher risk.
  • Bankruptcy Attorneys – Since the people who are working with bankruptcy attorneys are usually in financial trouble, the odds that a payment would be charged back is higher.
  • Betting Services – In many states betting is illegal but for the legal states betting with a credit card has huge chargeback implications.
  • Brokering – When a third party is involved with selling a product the risk level goes up ten fold.
  • Business Loans (Merchant Cash Advances) – Loaning money is always risky, but with business loans and startup lending, high risk is present by the nature of the business.
  • Casino – Just like a betting service, if a customer gambles with their credit card the chargeback rate sky rockets.
  • CBD Products – CBD itself poses high chargebacks because of the legitimacy of the product and the health benefits promised.
  • CBD E commerce – CBD E Commerce has twice the charge back of retail CBD because many consumers don’t feel like the product they receive gives them the benefits promised.
  • Check Cashing (Check Processing) – The level of fraud in check cashing and cash advances is what gives this industry a higher risk consideration.
  • Cigarettes – With higher levels of risk for theft and criminal activity, cigarette sales are deemed high risk.
  • Collection Agencies (Collection Agency) – Many banks see collections as an unsustainable business model that is many times unreliable.
  • Collectible Coins – A higher level of chargeback in this industry gives it a high risk tag.
  • Collectible Currency – Due to the level of inauthentic collectibles, the risk of chargebacks are much higher with collectibles.
  • Copyrighted eBooks – When someone sells something copyrighted without permission many legal issues can arise.
  • Coupon Programs – With many coupon programs the coupons expire and once they expire the consumer wants the money back they spend.
  • Credit Counseling – Due to their clients usually being in financial problems, this industry is fraught with non-payment and fraud.
  • Credit Protection – Most people that need credit protection are bad with money so chargebacks abound.
  • Credit Repair – If a consumer needs credit repair then chances are they are a high risk for chargebacks.
  • Currency Sales – Many businesses that exchange currency do it at incorrect rates hence more chargebacks.
  • Dating Services – Dating is a volatile industry, and is also lumped in with the adult entertainment industry, making it a high risk account.
  • Debt Collection Services – As the collection of debt isn’t always possible, this industry retains the tag of risky.
  • Debt Consolidation Services (Debt Consolidators) – Consolidating debt is a challenging business and as debt is usually the problem, it’s seen as unsecure from a payment perspective.
  • Debt Repair Services – Since the clients of debt repair services are usually having financial challenges, it makes this industry seem a higher risk.
  • Discount Health Programs – Many people don’t feel they are really getting a discount so they try to get their money back and if they don’t the chargebacks sky rocket.
  • Discount Medical Care Programs – Just like the discount health programs if they don’t save the consumer wants their money back.
  • Drug Paraphernalia – Anything that is associated with the drug trade is considered high risk. Offshore merchant accounts are commonly used for this type of business.
  • E Commerce – As the source of the payment is unverifiable at the point of sale, any transaction without the card present has a higher risk of credit card fraud.
  • Ebay Stores – Many people sell items that aren’t as described so chargebacks can be an issue.
  • Electronic cigarettes – much like traditional cigarettes, e-cigarette sales are also deemed high risk.
  • Electronics – This industry has a much higher ticket compared with many other businesses. A chargeback for a $3,000 tv or two and your account can be in jeopardy rather quickly.
  • Escort Services – This is deemed a part of the adult entertainment industry and therefore needs a high risk merchant account and payment solution.
  • Event Ticket Brokers – If a customer buys a ticket and doesn’t use it they feel like they can charge the transaction back.
  • Extended Warranty Companies – Warranties are rarely used so people try to charge back the money that has been spent paying for them.
  • Federal Firearms License Dealers – Any organization associated with guns or firearms is automatically considered in this category.
  • Fantasy Sports Websites – Just like gambling, if a person starts to lose too often they try and charge back the transaction.
  • Finance Brokers – The entire financing industry is risky. By simply extending credit to other individuals, this business is betting that a majority of them will actually pay what they say they will.
  • Financial Advising/Consulting – The high risk tag on financial advisors isn’t about the advisors or their firm. It’s about the clientele and their current circumstances.
  • Financial Loan Modification Services – Due to a clientele in financial struggles, the high risk term is applied to any payments in this industry.
  • Financial Planning – Anything that includes risk for the consumer can have consumer implications with chargebacks.
  • Financial Strategy – Another risk and reward category, if money is lost, consumers try charging back making this a high risk industry.
  • Fortune Tellers – When a person doesn’t hear what they want to hear, or what is told doesn’t happen, the fortune teller can receive huge chargebacks.
  • Furniture Sellers – High risk only when its custom furniture.
  • Gambling – If money is lost the chargebacks rise.
  • Gaming – Chargeback levels skyrocket when consumers don’t win.
  • Get Rich Quick Programs – It’s rather common in this industry for an individual to purchase the training and then chargeback their purchase saying it didn’t deliver on what was promised.
  • Google Stores – With a high rate of return on their items, Google stores are considered high risk.
  • Gun Sales (Firearm Sales) – The gun and projectile industry is automatically associated with high risk credit card processing.
  • High Average Ticket Sales – With any high average ticket, just a couple of chargebacks can mean a massive shift in how risky the account is deemed by the processor.
  • Home/Vacation Rentals – Many issues with chargebacks can take place if the consumer decides not to travel.
  • Horoscopes – Many people believe this is hocum so will chargeback transactions.
  • How To Programs – A common practice in this industry is to purchase the program and charge it back with the description that it didn’t deliver what it promised.
  • Hypnotists – Many merchants will charge back these transactions if results they hoped for were not met.
  • Import/Export Business – Another example of taking goods over country borders which automatically brings in additional risk to any processing account.
  • Indirect Financial Consulting – When using a third party to consult, the high risk status gives the processor fraud protection.
  • International Cargo – Any time you introduce a multi-country element to credit card processing, the ability for fraud to be introduced skyrockets.
  • International Merchants operating in the US – Since the merchant isn’t operating from the United States, there are many unknowns about what is happening on the other side of their business, thus increasing the risk.
  • International Shipping – Transporting goods between countries is risky and introduces all sorts of elements to the financial stability of any transaction.
  • Investment Books – consumers get upset if the investor isn’t right which can lead to chargebacks.
  • Investment Firms – As investments are never a “sure thing” this is considered a risky industry for having a merchant account.
  • Investment Strategy – Anything with future promises can lead to chargeback.
  • Knife Sales – weapons of any kind are automatically given high risk status.
  • Kratom E Commerce – Accepting payments online is high risk, and Kratom is a substance in the health and wellness industry, which is also considered high risk.
  • Life Coaching – With no tangible goods involved in the transaction, life coaching is considered high risk.
  • Lingerie Businesses – Associated with the adult entertainment industry, chargebacks abound.
  • Lotteries – In most states you can buy lottery tickets with a credit card but if you’re allowed to and the ticket is not a winner, consumers try to chargeback the transactions.
  • Magazine Sales – Many magazine sales are recurring subscriptions, which can have issues with chargebacks.
  • Magazine Subscriptions – Same as magazine sales chargebacks can be huge when a recurring subscription happens. (often referred to as recurring billing.)
  • Mail Order Companies – When something is ordered through the mail chargeback risk can go up.
  • Marijuana Dispensaries – As marijuana isn’t a legal substance in every state, this is considered high risk due to the legality of the product. Cannabis credit card processing is available through Shift Processing.
  • Matchmaking Services – Another branch of the dating tree, and often associated with the adult entertainment industry.
  • Medical Devices – If a medical device doesn’t do what’s promised the purchaser may chargeback the transaction.
  • Membership Organizations – This is another instance of where the transactions don’t have any tangible product and are easily charged back to the merchant account.
  • Merchants on the MATCH list – If you are a merchant who has been reported to the MATCH list (Member Alert to Control High Risk Merchants) or the TMF (Terminated Merchant File) you are given high risk status.
  • Merchants with Poor Credit – Merchant accounts are given based on the credit score of the business owner. It’s assumed that the business owner is going to be making the financial decisions for the business, and a poor credit score reflects on the viability of any business transactions.
  • Modeling Agencies – At many agencies models are promised the world and it doesn’t happen. The consumer then wants their money back.
  • Movie Downloads – Transference of a digital product is considered of higher risk. Also, rarely is a physical card present at time of purchase.
  • Multilevel Marketing Sales – Often associated with pyramid schemes, MLM sales are considered a risky business.
  • Music Downloads – Purchasing any digital product is considered to be of higher risk than a physical transaction. Most of the time the card is not present in a digital transaction using a shopping cart.
  • Not A US Citizen Doing Business In The US – It’s possible to get a merchant account without a US social security number, but not having a SSN will increase the risk the processor will have in issuing a merchant account for your business.
  • Online Adult Membership Sites – If you’re running a website that is adult themed and requires payment for access, this is a highly volatile account and definitely high risk.
  • Offshore Corporations (Offshore Merchants) – The international element is what gives the high risk tag when looking for domestic merchant accounts.
  • Online Gambling (Online Gaming) – Without a card being present and gambling as the activity, there are two reasons why this would be on this list. Online payment alone is risky even without the gambling element.
  • Overseas Exporting Services – The introduction of the international element is what gains access to this list.
  • Pawn Shops – There’s a general stigma that goes along with pawn shops, and it’s reflected in their assignment to the high risk processors list.
  • Penny Auction Sites – Even though the customers are usually bidding at only a penny more per bid, users will commonly charge back the transaction when they don’t win.
  • Pepper Spray – Considered a type of weapon, pepper spray vendors are considered risky.
  • Points Programs – Points programs that cost money can cause chargeback issues if points are not used.
  • Pornographic Merchants – If you’re a part of the adult entertainment industry in any way, you’re considered high risk.
  • Precious Metals – Counterfeit metals can be a problem in this industry, making it more risky to accept payments for.
  • Prepaid Calling Cards – Anything prepaid that a consumer may not use increases chargeback issues.
  • Prepaid Debit Cards – When they expire or are lost consumers want their money back.
  • Psychic Services – “Honey, did you visit a psychic? No babe, I don’t remember visiting a psychic.” I’ll just reverse that charge then.
  • Real Estate – A common target for scams and identity theft is how real estate makes this list.
  • Replica Products (Watches, Handbags, Wallets, Sunglasses, Etc…) – As the product being sold isn’t authentic to the original manufacturer, the percentage of requests for refund is much higher than a traditional merchant.
  • Rewards Programs – If rewards are not spent, the consumer wants the money back.
  • Self-Defense – Since the payment provided is for instruction and not a physical product, the self-defense industry makes this list.
  • Self-Hypnosis Services – Yet another instance where the goods being transferred are of a service and not a physical product.
  • SEO Services – With a high rate of request for refund, SEO agencies make this list.
  • Social Networking Sites – Just like a dating site, if a consumer does not get what they want from it, they always like to chargeback.
  • Software Downloads – The software industry makes their way on to this list because of the digital nature of the goods being sold.
  • Sports Forecasting – An example of paying for information and not for a product, and usually not in person where the card would be present for the transaction.
  • Startups – Every startup is considered risky, and the percentage of startups that make it is quite small compared to the number that fail.
  • Student Loans – With the cost of a college education continually on the rise, so is the percentage of loans that default and never receive payment.
  • Strip Clubs – Associated with the adult entertainment industry gains the strip club access to this list.
  • Stun Gun Sales – considered a type of weapon, which makes it a high risk merchant.
  • Supplement Sales – The request for refund in this industry is quite high due to the nature of the product.
  • Sweepstakes – “Hey, I entered a sweepstake and I didn’t win. I’d like my money back please.”
  • Talent Agencies – “I paid thousands of dollars for headshots and glamorous outfits and I haven’t gotten any paid gigs. Pay me back my money please.”
  • Telemarketing Services – Telemarketing services many times do not have the results the purchaser would like to see, so the services are charged back.
  • Telephone Order Sales – Anything ordered over the phone has a increased risk of chargeback.
  • Timeshare Companies – When timeshares aren’t used, people want their money back.
  • Travel Agencies – If trips are not taken, consumers would like their funds returned.
  • Travel Clubs – Many travel club discounts aren’t what they were promised, increasing risk for chargebacks.
  • Vacation Rental Brokers – Third party brokers on prepaid vacation can have issues when customers cancel their trips.
  • Vape Shops – The level of criminal activity and theft is higher with vape shop merchants and therefore carries a high risk label.
  • Vitamin Sales – If the vitamins don’t provide the results the merchant would like to see they chargeback the transactions.
  • Web Designer – Because this service is prone to chargebacks, it has been classified as high risk.
  • Weight Loss – Considered risky because the results aren’t really up to the company, but rather the individual has to stick to the plan to get results, often resulting in chargebacks.
  • Yahoo Stores – Since the goods sold through Yahoo can easily be returned, they are considered a risky merchant.

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