Plimus warning message before purchases

[ragdollsoft]

I'm evaluating Plimus, and I must say I'm pretty puzzled by the red "warning" sign they put in the screen where the customer inserts his card info:


In order to protect our customers from credit card fraud, we verify billing information with your credit card company BEFORE processing your order.

Please be aware that our servers record the unique IP address that a browser transmits when requesting a page download which can be used by law enforcement officials to identify a person committing credit card fraud, even if that person does not provide his or her real name.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS: By submitting this form you agree that Plimus is not responsible or liable, directly or indirectly for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the product(s)/service(s) above. The sales agreement is concluded exclusively between the publisher of the product and you as the buyer.

By submitting this form you are authorizing Plimus to charge your credit card.


I'm fine with the terms and conditions part, but the first part? the BEFORE in capital letters? The part to scare off credit card fraudsters? I believe it will only scare away customers...

Plus, red?! It's possible to change it to black, but I'm amazed they put red as default...

If I see something like that in RED I'd be scared enough to close the window and run away... :eek:

[Jack Norton]

If I'm a honest customer, I've nothing to fear from that message, even if is in red...

[Agent 4125]

I actually think they present it rather well. The text is small and it has its own box below all of the data entry portions, so it doesn't get in the way of the user.

If it were at the top, it might confuse users into thinking that they did something wrong. If it were in black, most people would skip over it, as they do with any large block of text, especially legalese.

[Sillysoft]

My biggest problem with the warning is that half of the text is center-aligned and the other half is left-aligned. Can you say ugly? I think I requested to them once that they fix it to be all left-aligned, but nothing changed.

[Tom Cain]

My biggest problem with the warning is that half of the text is center-aligned and the other half is left-aligned. Can you say ugly?
I agree with that. The problem is they have a <CENTER> tag wrapped around the first two paragraphs but not the rest. Their template HTML overall needs cleaning up, there are a few problems in there. You can "fix" the alignment problem by adding this CSS style to your Plimus page code:
CENTER {text-align:left;}
This will also left-align the Next and Submit buttons at the page bottoms because they use <CENTER>, but I think it looks better.

I'd love to see a class/id added to each HTML element so we have more display control using CSS.