For awhile now, there has been a huge shift toward bail bonds companies offering not only payment plans, but little to no upfront down payments and interest. Smarter credit card users may realize once they factor in how much they would pay in residual interest, even credit card bonds have their downsides. Although in-house kiosk fees are only 7%, a decent amount less than the 10% to 15% bail agents must charge, it's a fee needed to be paid in full; often an amount more than a defendant can afford.

Disguised Online Threat.

A larger threat for small businesses is the relatively recent developments of bail bonds companies hiring aggressive search engine and social media marketing services. For example, if just a handful of businesses within a city closed, largely it would go unnoticed and bail kiosks could hardly be described as a punishing blow to the industry.

There is no shortage of literature describing how the recession has impacted the bail bonds industry negatively. The leaders of the industry routinely make 7 figures annually.

This is analogous to realtors; you can't expect that everyone with a real estate license to compete with large realty companies much like every bail agent can't expect to survive the economic and legislative fluctuations all businesses face.

The bail bonds industry was rooted and remains to be built on responsibility. Bail bonds companies cannot be successful without adhering to this responsibility and maintaining very low forfeiture (also failure to appear) rates.

In Nevada for example, there are over 100 Las Vegas bail bonds companies. One way or another, there will always be a need for a group to take responsibility. Potentially in the future what could happen is that bail kiosks are sold to bail bond companies to manage within jails.

The kiosk manufacturer would profit from the sale of hardware vs. Of course with bail kiosks provided by jails, there will always be concern of whether the defendant will appear in court, even for unintentional reasons.

Bail Schedule Increase.

If credit card bail kiosks become widely accepted, the State might impose higher bail amounts for crimes in the event there was an increase in fugitives.

Those who have not needed bail bonds service may be unaware the fee (also premium) required for some defendants can be equivalent and sometimes higher than the monthly salaries of your average doctor or attorney. In addition, the appearance of a crime problem within a city can be created by the misconduct of even one individual or group.

However, the County may reduce the number of kiosks or tighten restrictions of its use to offset a problem before increasing bail amounts.

People with the ability to bail out quickly should be able to do so because jails are unarguably over crowded with non-violent offenders.

Occasionally you read or hear stories of bondsman soliciting service illegally, but not at such a high frequency as to raise wide-spread national recognition, such as the mortgage loan modification scams of 2009, which made headlines weekly.

For the most part, County credit card bail bonds will not change the industry as a whole and with some outcomes potentially being helpful, concerns should settle as time passes.

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