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CLOSE THE WINDOW TO RETURN TO SHOPPING Q. I live in Argentina (or Hawaii, Alaska, etc ) can
I order on-line? Q. Can orders be shipped anywhere? Q. How will my order be shipped? Q.Which shoppe will ship my order? Q. I want my garlic products sooner....do you have
rush orders? Q. Can I backorder something that is out of stock? Q. Are the products guaranteed? Q. Is this a secure server? The Garlic Shoppe uses a secure server to process your order. This means that the data that you enter in our on-line order form is encrypted to safeguard your personal data . A secure server allows you to exchange information safely
over the World Wide Web. It encrypts any Should I use my credit card on the Internet? Is it safe?
What the Experts SayMichael Busch, a writer for AVWeb, spent 3 years consulting for VISA International, and he says using your credit card on the Internet is safe. But perhaps New York Times journalist Peter H. Lewis put it
best: "Compared with the risk of handing my credit card to a stranger, which I do nearly every day, sending it over the Internet is pretty secure. (The New York Times, Nov. 13, 1995 C3)
Hackers are too smart to bother --Note that hackers who are smart enough to hack a credit card number from the net are also TOO SMART to try credit card fraud -- they know it's too easy to get caught. Criminals who know how to get away with some limited forms of credit card fraud are much more likely to bribe a waiter in a restaurant or do a dumpster dive behind a gas station. Learning to hack the net is time consuming. Ask yourself: If I wanted to steal money fast, which would give me a better payday TODAY -- hacking the net, or walking down to the local gas station? Now you know why credit card fraud on the net is so rare.
Reporters aren't Internet experts --We feel that mainstream press reports claiming that "using your credit card on the Internet is dangerous" are simply wrong. Remember that mainstream journalists are not internet experts, and they are not retail merchants. They are in the business of writing news stories that will get your attention. Even Dan Akst, the cyber-writer for the LA Times, has acknowleged that credit card purchases over the Internet are safer than buying flowers over the phone from the office.
Credit card fraud down --MasterCard recently reported numbers showing that their volume of credit card transactions was up by 26%, but fraud was down by 11.4% -- you can conclude that fraud is being combated successfully.
You have all sorts of protection --The credit card customer has two (possibly 3) levels of protection: First, any charge on a credit card can be disputed and credited by the consumer. The banks protect the consumer! Second, here at Oakland Press, we offer a 100% satisfaction guarantee. That means that if you ask us for a credit on your credit card (and you bought something from us) then we credit your credit card. The third level of protection, of course, is our secure server, which encodes or encrypts your number, and is available to you if you want to use it.
You can choose with confidence --We find it interesting that over 80% of our orders are placed from our UNsecure server. Not a single credit card transaction from our firm has ever been investigated or disputed, and we process only 2 or 3 credit card queries each month, where the customer forgets what the charge was and asks us to document the purchase through the bank or credit card company. Apparently, in every case, the consumer remembers the purchase and does not pursue the matter because they have the merchandise they wanted. CLOSE THE WINDOW TO RETURN TO SHOPPING   All Rights Reserved. Site Revised: 20 Aug
, 2006
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