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Payment Methods

artelino accepts:

• VISA™, Mastercard™ and American Express™ credit cards.
• Paypal™.
• Payment by bank transfer (wire transfer, Banküberweisung, Bank Overschrijving, Bonifico bancario, virement bancaire) is available for residents of most European countries.

Update June 4, 2010: First-time bidders are restricted to payment by credit card.

Secure Submission and Filing of your Credit Card

1. Submit your credit card information over our secure line (SSL encryption) or by phone ++49-8178-9099666 or fax ++49-8178-9099667. Our secure line is certified by Thawte.
2. As soon as we noticed the submission of your credit card (typically from a few minutes to several hours), we verify your card information, delete it physically from our database with the exception of the type of card, the expiration date and the last four digits, and file your card information on paper. For the short time while your credit card information is in our database, it is encrypted.
3. You are eligible to bid.
4. Since November 2005 we are certified by src GmbH and are compliant with the new security standards SDP and AIS by MasterCard and VISA.

Charging of your Credit Card

• A few minutes after the closing of an auction, we send a notification to all successful bidders. It contains a mini-invoice. In addition you can view your full invoice by logging in My Account.
• One hour after auction end we begin to charge the credit cards in our paper files of all winning bidders.
• We confirm charging by e-mail.

Payment by Bank Transfer (Wire Transfer)

Clients who opted for payment by bank transfer must instruct their bank to pay - using online banking, going to a branch, calling your bank ... depending on your arrangements with your bank. We do not use automatic debit transfer/ bank collection. You will receive artelino's bank details by e-mail after auction end in your winner's notification or your shopping confirmation. artelino expects you to pay within less than one week after your purchase/auction end.

Payment by Paypal™

If you opted for payment by Paypal™ and you are among the winning bidders at auction end, we send you a payment request by Paypal™. We expect to receive your payment within one day, at the latest within two days after auction end.

Disabling of Client Accounts for Bidding

Accounts of clients who have any unpaid invoice(s) with us, are usually temporarily disabled for bidding. Regular bidders in our auctions are therefore advised not to choose payment by bank transfer.

Zero Tolerance Policy

To assure a high quality standard of our auctions we practice a zero tolerance policy towards bidders with payment problems that cause us severe or repeated trouble.

• Bidders from whom we cannot get the due amount at all ("no-pays"), are reported to a number of institutions, including the credit card issuer, and are made public with full name and address on the Seller Login Page.
• Bidders with repeated problems with credit cards - not valid or not sufficiently covered - or first-time bidders with such problems, are permanently excluded from our auctions. In addition we may publish them in our Seller Area. This is in the sole discretion of artelino.