We recognize that not everybody can pay by credit card. Thus, we do provide other options. These include:

• Mailed check or money order
• Electronic P.O.s followed by invoice and check or money order.
• Paper P.O.s followed by invoice and check or money order.
• Wire transfers.

These options are described, below. We try to make them easy for you.

We do not ship to former_Soviet_Bloc_countries, whether you pay by check or any other means. Click the link if you need to know why.

Mailed check or money order.

Procedure: Go through the online ordering process, but stop when the system asks you for the credit card information. Print out the page (use the landscape setting), then mail it and the check or money order to:

Mindconnection
4806 Wedd St
Merriam, KS 66203-5414

This method must be used for all orders from "fraud countries."
If you are active-duty military, police, or fire department, subtract $5 from your order as our way of saying thank you. It's not much, but every bit helps. Yes, this applies for personal use orders.

Electronic P.O.s:

1. Go through the ordering process, but stop when the system asks you for the credit card information. This will show you the order totals and shipping charges (there are no shipping charges for electronic delivery items)
2. E-mail your invoice information (PO number, items, quantities, ship to, and "bill to" e-mail address) to sales @ mindconnection.com (you can paste that address into your e-mail program and then remove the spaces).
3. Note that "ship to" is an e-mail address, if ordering an electronic delivery item. "Bill to" is always an e-mail address, regardless of delivery--we don't send paper invoices and we don't fax. So be sure to provide the e-mail address of the person who processes payments.
4. After your A/P Dept acknowledges they have the invoice, we will process the order. We will not process the order until A/P confirms they have the invoice. Reason: Too many customers have said, "We didn't get the invoice" months after the buyer assured us the A/P department has it.

Paper P.O.s:

1. Use the electronic P.O. procedure outlined above.
2. We don't require a paper P.O., but your organization might. We'll support you in that.

Wire transfers

We do not like wire transfers, both for security reasons and for cost reasons. But if this is the only way you can do business, we provide this option if you pay the wire fee. We do not provide this option for individuals, unless they are members of the military, law enforcement, fire department, or United States Secret Service. For those individuals, the order may be for personal use.

Options we do not provide

• COD. This is just a needless expense.
• E-Checks. We looked into this, and found it to be a management-intensive way to handle transactions. We'd rather spend our resources helping customers.

Former Soviet Bloc Countries

Due to corruption, rampant treaty violations, and other misdeeds by Customs Officials and other petty bureaucrats in these countries, we do not ship to these countries. They may think tying up a perfectly good shipment for six weeks and then demanding a "tax" that exceeds the cost of the product is cute, but we don't.

Don't buy from us if you plan to ship to one of these countries. Actually, we don't even want our competitors put through that particular meat grinder. We can beat our competitors on value, and would prefer to battle them that way rather than have crooks ruin their businesses.