Quote Originally Posted by rbjb
I recently set up two carts for clients and the one that used authorize. net was told by his bank (his merchant account) that they would not do business with him without one.

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These things are only important for those buyers that are smart enough to click on the "lock" to check out the cert before they buy. I for one will not buy from an online merchant that is using a shared cert because I know they are cutting corners.

Ray
Yes that was my experience with Authorize.net as well, as I posted upstream.

Regarding the "cutting corners." Sure they are trying to save money, but it's not any less secure that I know of, except for the fact that the Certificate owner may not match your domain name. Do you have any reason to believe it is less secure?