What is PCIDSS, we think its maybe a bit of a ripoff from the banks, did we hear you say not again!well as we have had only ONE inquiry about it from our branch members, we take the view that you are quite happy to keep handing out money to the banks when ever they ask you for it, and may be you don't understand why and for what? This seems to have been started by the Bank of Scotland, but will be followed by the rest of the banks, so be ready when its your turn.

Here are our thoughts on this PCIDSS , it stands for .Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard it was thought up by Master card and Visa. ( is this one way of getting back some of the loses through fraud?) and there are four levels the level 4 which applies to our shop members who just have a terminal on the counter to send details down a phone line , the terminal being supplied by the company or bank you have signed up to ,so one would assume it would be to the standard required by the PCIDSS, the other thing is if the terminal does not store but only sends card info we don't need to worry about the computer side of things, the only think we think we do need to worry about is keeping the duplicate slips in a safe place , which most of us have been doing for years, so why are they charging us to do it?.

We would like to hear the views of other members on this subject