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SAFE ONLINE SHOPPING TIPS

Shopping online is becoming an increasingly common and convenient way to find products or services, also you can easily compare prices from the comfort of your home or office. Shopping online can be a safe and pleasurable experience if you follow a few simple rules and use your common sense.

Don't be put off going online for your shopping by horror stories about card fraud. Online shopping is as safe as making any other purchase with a credit or debit card, although you still need to be careful. You wouldn't give your credit card to just anyone who asked for it, so follow our tips before giving your details to an unknown web site. Her's a list of tips you should consult when shopping online. Print this page and keep it in a handy place so it will be easy to review before you order.

If you don't feel comfortable buying or bidding on an item over the web, or if you feel pressured to place your order immediately, maybe you shouldn't.

Take special care to familiarize yourself not only with the rules and policies of the auction site itself but with the legal terms warranties, refund policy, etc. of the seller's items that you wish to bid on.

Whether the product is being sold as new or used, be suspicious of prices that are too good to be true. Also consider carefully whether you may be paying too much for an item, particularly if you're bidding through an auction site. You may want to comparison shop, online or offline, before you buy.

Review the return, refund, and shipping and handling policies as well as the other legal terms. If you can't find them, ask the seller through an e-mail or telephone call to indicate where they are on the site or to provide them to you in writing.

Before you give your payment information, there are various icons and software programs that indicate that security software is in place. Use the safest way to pay on the Internet. Pay for your order using a credit card. See Payment.

You should print out and date a copy of terms, conditions, warranties, item description, company information, even confirming e-mails, and save them with your records of your purchase.

If you're concerned about the safety of your package if there's no one home to receive it, ask whether you can specify that the shipper must receive a signature before leaving the package. Or, it may be safer to have the package delivered to your office.

Look at your purchase carefully as soon as you receive it. Contact the seller as soon as possible if you discover a problem with it. Tell the seller in writing about any problem that you are concerned with, ask for a repair or refund, and keep a copy of your correspondence.