Originally Posted By: Gordon Scott
One of the bizarre things about this is that you shouldn't even need to be a business to set up a secure server, all they're doing is setting up a verification certificate that assures encryption of the traffic.

It's another issue with processing credit cards, but most organisations use a third party for that, as I think you do.<...snip...>

Definitely. I can code a basic website, but don't have the knowledge to create a bulletproof shopping cart.

I could probably learn, but instead I could take the time to make more style and fake e-disks, learn and sequence more backing tracks for my duo, gig 14-16 one-nighters (mostly in the daytime) per month, and spend some quality time with my best friend, Mrs. Notes.

I started with Americart, which was bought by some company with initials for a name (I forget) but still called Americart, then by Americommerce, then by Sparkpay/Capital One, then back by Americommerce and now cart dot com.

The shopping cart has always been secure. They have always had that all important S.

Because I am more careful about my customer's safety than my own, I do not download their credit card numbers to my computer, and I have the cart erase them so many days after I resolve the order. Furthermore, I take all my customer's, personal data like name, address e-mail, etc., and transfer it to a computer that has an encrypted hard drive and is never-ever connected to the Internet.

I feel I have a responsibility to do everything I can to protect the data my customers trust me with.

I've been in the mail-order turned internet-order business since 1990. I've never taken a business course, but go by one rule. Treat my customers the way I would want to be treated if I were the customer.

After that, it's all paperwork and dealing with my silent partners who take a piece of everything (shopping cart, credit card authorization service, credit card merchant's account, bank, insurance company, web host, state tax man, federal tax man, local taxing authority and now the S company). Fortunately, they leave me the crumbs off the table.

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