Originally Posted by Marathon Man

I thought for the benefit of those having success with SQ, I would post all my history so you too can compare against your own activity rate. This may help you either do or avoid doing certain things in certain ways. I have nothing to lose in posting this... I hope only to help you all as you have helped me. I have left off the columns that include card number or transaction ID. I had informed SQ that I was buying a yacht and running a charter service. Some of my clients would be pre-paying for huge charter groups, the boat would cost a lot of money and I had pictures of me sailing it (the sailboat I pipe-dreamed about actually existed). My profile pic was me at the helm of her. Nearly all my transactions were done near the ocean and in fact some were done in the water (A few times at the beach where I was knee deep on a sandbar because I found that was the only spot where the phone got signal to run a card whilst my kids played nearby lol and some done on boats I sailed all summer. I also live near the ocean. So it came down not what we do for a business (when Sq asks) but what types of cards we run and why.

Enjoy and be careful. Sorry if the copy/paste doesn't perfectly format. When looking at your own acct histories you can, however, see how things go. From July 10 to Nov 15 I did just about $60k in swipes. There was ONE non GC. The first $10 test charge lol:

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Date Time Transaction Type Payment Type Subtotal Sales Tax Tips Total Fee Net Payment Method Card Brand Description
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7/25/2011 8:11:12 Payment Card $1,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $1,000.00 $27.50 $972.50 Card - Swiped AmEx Boat pymt 3
7/18/2011 12:21:23 Payment Card $3,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $3,000.00 $82.50 $2,917.50 Card - Swiped AmEx Boat payment 2!
7/12/2011 16:15:03 Payment Card $3,000.00 $0.00 $0.00 $3,000.00 $82.50 $2,917.50 Card - Swiped AmEx Boat
7/10/2011 9:54:19 Payment Card $10.00 $0.00 $0.00 $10.00 $0.28 $9.72 Card - Swiped Visa Sailing supply