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"I built a small credit card company, we have around 500k users and 2k merchants."

URL of this company? Links to some of the merchants that you've lost or currently have? Clear scan of the document in the photo?

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The company is called Redeconv (www.redeconv.com.br). I didn't want to attract attention to the company itself, we are just regional. I can provide the xerox of contracts we had and the forms I'll post that to the blog post later today.

Regardless of this story, I find it very cool that in Brazil you can just setup your own credit card company. Are there many regional CC networks like yours in Brazil? How did you get the idea?

Credit card company is generic term. In our case we are a PAT (we provide employees benefits). We never "touch" the money, your employer is, indirectly, who pays the merchants. We cannot provide loans (credit). For that, we need a lot of cash (FDIC insurances, etc)

So what you're providing is similar to meal tickets or coupons?

Yes.

FDIC? In Brazil?

It's called FGC here (credit guarantee fund), he was just using familiar terms.

On an unrelated note:

You don't provide any contact info in your profile and I don't really understand Portuguese either so I'll use this comment to inform you that your website renders horribly in my browser. It looks unreadable and unprofessional. Using Firefox 14.0.1 on Linux.

The website is pretty readable in Chrome using the Google Translate feature. I don't think it's fair to quickly assume that a regional, small business' website would be published in both your language and their language.

I didn't say anything about the language being the problem. I just was not able to find any simple contact info and I informed him his site does not render correctly using a comment. I didn't say I'm assuming anything. You haven't read my comment closely.

I think chmod775 was talking about actual readability, not the language. To be fair (Firefox 17, W7), it isn't perfect: http://imgur.com/WKoE8

(and it's not just because of the language--I modified the text to some English: http://imgur.com/8uss8)

Here's how it looks for me: http://ompldr.org/vZjUzYQ

Nice! Protect the fragile Visa- don't let this upstart hurt them!

The fact that you have been downvoted clearly indicates that the majority of people's browsers still don't implement the brand-new <sarcasm> tag in version 7.1 of the HTML specification.

... or, perhaps, that vacuous snark does nothing to improve the quality of the conversation, regardless of whether it's intended to be trolling or pandering sarcasm.

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