Welcome to the Quality Counts. For those health conscious consumers and medical professionals that are looking to purchase nutritional supplements, vitamins, herbs, learning about medications, losing weight, health food, low carbs, high protein nutrition, and exercise, you have come to the right place. Quality Counts serves both the medical practitioner and consumer interested in nutritional therapy and alternative medicine.

I'll bet I'm losing 50% of my sales because people are still worried about their credit card number being stolen on the Internet.  I'm estimating that based on my own experience from people I know.  It seems like it's the people who are the least technical savvy that worry about it.  They don't seem to have an understanding of encryption.  If it says https:// vise http://, it’s secure.  Yeah there have been people that hacked into databases but those databases include credit card numbers whether you placed the order over the Internet, over the phone or at the store itself.  I’ve never heard of anyone that used an https:// website that had their credit card hacked via transmitting it on the Internet.  Plus, most people don’t realize that if your credit card is stolen, you are only responsible for $50 by federal law.  "If the loss involves your credit card number, but not the card itself, you have no liability for unauthorized use" (click here for the FTC web page that I got that quote from).  For people who are still worried about it, all the major credit card companies have a program that you can download from their website called Virtual Account Numbers (click here for Citi®'s version) that allows you to generate a credit card number and maximum amount that can only be used once.  I used to use one for overseas pharmacies but decided it was a waste of time.

On the 11/25/07 of "60 Minutes" there was a segment about credit cards that said you are far more likely to have your credit card number stolen when using it in a store or restaurant than when using it on the Internet.  Click here for the "60 Minutes" video.

I had a credit card number stolen once and I never even used it on the Internet.  I got the card at Home Depot because it got me 10% off a washing machine.  They immediately approved the card over the phone at Home Depot and told Home Depot the card number and they put it through for the washing machine.  I received the card in the mail about a week later.  I never even used the card and put it in the bottom of a desk drawer.  Then one day I got a call from them asking if I changed $4,000 in Australia.  I said no.  They asked if I had my card and it took me about ten minutes to find it buried in the bottom of the drawer.  I told them it has never even been out of the drawer.  They said sometimes they use a random number generator and if they get one that works, they put it through.  They removed the charges and I never heard anything more about it.  I never even got a bill for it. - Ben