Tue, Jun 7 – Important Notice

Posted on June 7, 2011 by VirtaPay

Stage 1 of the Digital Delivery (DD) project has been live for a few weeks now. In that time, we have decided to integrate Facebook more deeply than we originally planned. It is very important that all VirtaPay users read this post to understand what Facebook integration features are in the works and why. Please read on…

Why Facebook integration?
From the time we gave our users the ability to sell items, certain people or organizations have been flooding the item listings with inappropriate items. This is an abuse of our service and resources. It also pushes out our valued users who are trying to buy and sell legitimate items.
The item spammers have disrupted our service to the point where many of our valued users don’t even bother to look at the items on the Buy page any longer. They are tired of seeing the spam listings. The spammers have been creating multiple accounts to post the same unwanted, inappropriate items over and over.
Although we have come up with many ways to slow the flood of inappropriate items, and have continuously deleted the multiple accounts of the spammers, it hasn’t been effective enough.

Facebook account required…
We will soon require all users to link a Facebook account to their VirtaPay account. Facebook provides identity verification services that will help eliminate the abusive users. We expect that by taking this step the problem of item spammers and multiple accounts will become far more manageable. In addition, it will help free our developers to continue working on new features and improving our service, rather than constantly struggling to find ways to stop abusive users.
We may eventually remove the requirement for all VirtaPay users to link a Facebook account. But, during our development stages, while we are still developing our service, it will soon be a requirement for all users.

What features are coming?
Stage 2 of the DD project is in the works. The Facebook integration is part of Stage 2.

• You will soon be able to log into your VirtaPay account using Facebook.
• You will be able to send payments by pulling up your Facebook friends instead having to know the recipient’s VirtaPay username.
• Your Facebook friends will be able to easily send you a VirtaPay payment.

Stage 2 will also include new features designed to help you begin earning a steady flow of regular money (US dollars, euros, pesos, etc.) to your existing bank account. These cash flow features will work whether you’re a Buyer, a Seller or both.

Thanks!
Thanks for participating as we work to take VirtaPay to the next level!