JB wrote:
>
> I also forgot to mention. I am leaning towards using GET to send the session
> ids. Many people have told me that customer penatration decreases, some
Which people? What facts do they have to support their claims? Is this a
bigger problem than distrust in credit card security? Is it a bigger
problem than poorly designed shops where people never finalizes their
deals?
> times significantly, when requiring cookies to use the cart. How would this
> have an effect on my script? i will have to call the sessid in all of my
> links, correct?
That is done automatically by PHP 4.x when using the correct settings,
but I can't remember them. There might even be a method for asserting if
a user digs cookies or not, and thus based on that set the correct run
time status.
What I really wanted to pounce on was the customer penetration
mentioned. Does anyone have numbers/research on the following:
How many don't like to use credit cards on line?
How many turn off cookies?
How many fear cookies?
I feel that for the majority of people cookies are not an issue,
probably due to lack of knowledge, or an attitude that it serves a
purpose. If your shop is aimed towards fringe groups (like geeks) that
sceptic group might be large. If your shop aims at the general
population I'm pretty sure that most leave their cookies on because it
makes their webmail easier to use, their accounts at amazon easier to
use, etc.
When in doubt, follow the stream... Check out this, Amazon uses cookies,
Amazon does a lot of business. Do you really feel that Amazon misses out
on a lot of customers? Do you know of any large websites doing shopping
carts which doesn't rely on cookies?
Finally the biggest obstacle might be credit card usage (lots of
negative hype) or product cost, who wants to use cc for really cheap
stuff?
Even more finally, sorry that I can't shore up my thoughts with any good
facts either, I just felt like questioning the statement since I feel
that it isn't neccessary the full truth.
--
Paul K Egell-Johnsen
Utvikler/PR Manager
eZ systems as
http://ez.no/
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