6% is double what it actually costs you to provide the service. If you want to charge me 6% extra to pay for lawn service by credit card, I’m going to the competition.

In my view, not that important. Also, .com and .ca are not your only choices here.

I own a consulting company. I picked an obscure, Latin name for the company so that I could have a .com domain for it. Only to learn that my clients struggled to spell that name correctly. I then rebranded under a simpler name. The .com was, predictably, taken. I wound up getting a .net domain instead. As I do network consulting, that seemed appropriate anyway.

There is a preference for .com, and a lot of people are brainwashed to assume that .com confers some level of legitimacy. This has gotten worse with the proliferation of TLDs-for-profit in the modern era, which overwhelmingly contain spammy web sites. But I certainly wouldn’t value it at $20K.

How is your LLC taxed? If it’s a pass-through entity and reported on your 1040 on Schedule C, I think you’d be ok. If it’s taxed separately, I don’t know the answer.

FWIW, I’d recommend keeping the LLC around. It doesn’t cost much, and you may want to use it again in the future. I have a consulting business on the side that predates my current W-2 job. My current employer knows about it, but lets me continue to do side work (different business, so they know I’m not competing with them.) Extra side income is nice.

Older used excavator.

Construction machinery.

“You burned a bridge with us when you tried to fraudulently charge back a previous order. We will not sell to you. Do not call again.”

If they’re willing to commit fraud by using a different name/address/card, there’s not much you can do about that besides being diligent. But maybe, just maybe being flat out told they’re fired as a customer will make them stop trying. One can always hope.

Google their name and see what kind of legal drama they’ve been involved in, how many times they went to rehab, how many people have sued them or what drunken rants they’ve previously posted online.

If you can find one without any baggage like that, you probably have a good candidate.

Perhaps I’m going against the grain here, but: A Facebook page is fine. The conventional wisdom is that if you’re a business, you should have a web site. And generally speaking, a web site is a good thing, but only if it’s kept up-to-date, complies with security practices etc. It’s not a zero-cost option.

The important thing is that people can find you. Facebook is sufficient for that. It may not be “professional” and wouldn’t be sufficient for Apple or Coke or Ford, but for a small business, it’s fine IMHO.

There are some objections raised in the comments that are valid. Facebook’s terms and conditions may be unacceptable to you. They could potentially remove your site (or all sites) for whatever reason they choose, including bad ones. But that rarely happens, and if it does, you can set up a web site at that time. The same thing goes for Yelp etc. You can cross that bridge when you get to it.

But there are plenty of small businesses who never had a web page.