Escrow services fall under high risk category of business since they are doing payment aggregation(accepting money on behalf of a seller), and VISA does not allow aggregation. How are they accepting online payment through VISA and MasterCard then?
lorax
6:53 pm on Jan 24, 2010 (gmt 0)
Have you looked at the contracts for such services? There might be a clue in the language they use like the fee you pay is for "processing" or some such that allows the vendor to skirt the rules.