Intuit/QuickBooks = Anti-Gun

[Bailey Guns]

I recently applied for a merchant account (credit card processing) for my new gun store with Intuit...the makers of Quickbooks accounting software and many other business products.

My merchant account was denied. Here is the email I received in explaining the denial of my merchant account:

Thank you for applying for Intuit QuickBooks Merchant Service. After careful review, we regret to inform you that your application for a merchant account has been declined because we do not support the services or products you offer.

If you have further questions, please contact Underwriting, Intuit Payment Solutions, 21215 Burbank Boulevard, Suite 100, Woodland Hills, CA 91367.

They don't support the "products and services" I offer? I sell guns. I sell gun stuff...and ammunition. The people I sell to subject themselves to state and federal background checks to pursue a hobby that is protected by the Constitution. My business is licensed by the federal government. But Intuit doesn't support my products and services.

Now, I thought for a moment they meant they somehow couldn't physically support the activity I was trying to conduct. But that can't be it because when a credit card is swiped for a gun purchase it's no different than the credit card transaction that's conducted when one buys a pair of shoes.

No...Intuit doesn't support guns and gun stuff. It's very clear because they asked in the application what products I would be offering for sale.

I hope you consider this the next time you think about buying an Intuit/QuickBooks product.

Intuit/QuickBooks is an anti-gun, anti-freedom, anti-Constitution and anti-American company. And that's ironic because I've been in the gun business for 10 years and they've never had a problem accepting my money for other products and services I've purchased that supported that gun business.

[arz]

can you recommend an alternative?

[Birddog1911]

What a bunch of libtard idiots. I'll be sure never to buy one of their products.

[mx'r]

WOW.. Gues all our money isn't "green enough" for those inbread liberal commy queers. I hope California falls into the ocean and drowns all the fags soon... Thanks for the heads up Carl. I guess you should've told them you sell organic granola and homo condoms.

[ronaldrwl]

That pisses me off. I can't believe it. I have supported them in many ways. By purchasing their software for myself and my business software supports theirs by linking to it.

[GreenScoutII]

WOW.. Gues all our money isn't "green enough" for those inbread liberal commy queers. I hope California falls into the ocean and drowns all the fags soon... Thanks for the heads up Carl. I guess you should've told them you sell organic granola and homo condoms.

Homo condoms???

Thats the funniest thing I've heard all day!

Nope, I won't be buying any intuit products. Fuck them.

[sniper_tim]

Although I support their right to not do business with whomever they choose, I also think it is a travesty. Unfortunate, I really like TurboTax, however will find a new product next year. I previously held an FFL and typically put "sporting goods" for "products and services" to avoid this same issue, however it really sucks that legitimate businesses have to do that.

Cheers,
Tim

[jason303]

Maybe someone with more business or legal knowledge can explain how this isn't illegal discrimination because the OP is running a perfectly legal business. I don't get it. I bet I would be accused of discrimination if I opened a super market and declared that I would not have an ethnic food section because I did not support the products.

[Irving]

Gun ownership is a choice and not a race. Gun ownership is not a protected class.

[Bailey Guns]

Gun ownership is a choice and not a race. Gun ownership is not a protected class.

True. But gun ownership is a constitutionally protected right as well.