TVI Express: website down again, maybe no more credit cards!

TVI Express website appears to be down AGAIN (as of 5PM PST, 11-MAR-2010) and was probably down for hours.

Furthermore, I have been receiving some unconfirmed reports that TVI Express have stopped taking credit cards (again). Last time, they blamed fraud. However, I specualate that some people actually realized that they've been con'ed, and disputed their payments!  (And if you get too many disputes, your merchant account gets chopped!)



Isn't it wonderful for TVI Express to use some third-party payment solutions like SolidTrustPay and Liberty Reserve? So they don't have to be checked by banks and subject to bank's rules and regulations?

Oh, and SolidTrustPay may not be that good either. Here's the MacAfee SiteAdvisor review: possible phishing source. Hmmm...

The SiteAdvisor review for LibertyReserve is not that brilliant either...Overwhelmingly negative.

Whereas Paypal's report is overwhelmingly positive, and most complained about bad shopping experience, which is not a PayPal problem, but a PayPal merchant problem. 

Wonder why TVI Express would not use the biggest and the best payment processor out there (PayPal, that is)? Is it because PayPal is in the US, and the other two are not?