Hi Bruce, et al.
We too are being charged through Authorize; MOM forced us to close our current Authorize accounts and re-open them through DydaComp. I agree that it's not allowing "free trade", and there should be something done about it. Unfortunately, Dydacomp has deeper pockets than we do...
Also MOM had so many issues with functioning properly (uploading to Amazon, generating emails with tracking info, listing prices with items, on and on....) that we would like to sue their pants off too.
If we can help, holler.
Laurel
Evidently, it is also illegal to tie up (encrypt, for instance) a customer's data with your leased software, thereby forcing them to use your services while charging them extortion fees. This is precisely what they were doing last I checked.
Do any of you have a SiteLink website with them (or whatever they're calling it)? Try taking that data out of your database and putting it all in a SQL database so you can use an open source web server package. If it's impossible for you to do that without first paying them $50,000, then they're likely breaking the law.