Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Online Shopping

Online shopping is the craze nowadays, using your credit cards Visa, Mastercard, Amex and Discovery you can buy stuffs at the comfort of your own home, you can save on gas and fair to go to malls, all you have to do is search and click on your computer just make sure you are connected to the internet before you do it, what is more exciting is when you wait for your item to come to you through your local or international courier.

You can shop everything for everyone in the household, Mom Dad and Kids even for your beloved pets and pest, from groceries, equipment, personal accessories, clothes, toys, movie tickets etc.

1st thing first look for a dependable online shopping website, like ebay or amazon, or other on line shopping website that are paypal verified, or offer paypal as a form of payment.  I am not not working for paypal but just sharing my experience, I had purchase a collectible toy on ebay and payed through paypal and yet the seller from the US refuse to send the item, we reported it to ebay/paypal and after sometime we got our money back down to the last cents back to our credit card attached to paypal. In the Philippines we normally use bank deposit and gcash as a mode of payment, for us to make sure that the seller is legit and will not run away with our money, we can review transaction history, but be very careful for it can be tampered, for items involving large amount of money do not agree with bank deposits or gcash unless they agreed that you can pay through paypal, you can arrange meet ups and make sure that the item is the one that is posted and as described. note it is better to take someone with you during meet ups, and make sure you and the seller meet where there are people around and security guards for safety.

Next thing to do is taking time to shop around the web for the ones that offer the greatest deal for the item you are looking for, but don't forget about safety, sometimes it is better to pay a little more and you'll get what you pay for or you pay less and get nothing!



After ending up buying the item, you will receive the E-invoice for you to be able to pay, now there are several different ways to pay or get the item, You can do bank transfer direct from your savings account, western union which is not advisable, in the Philippines G-cash is somewhat popular and based on our experience it is not safe also to pay using that specially for a huge amount of money, you can also arrange meet ups specially if it involves a large amount of money,  credit cards and paypal. The choice is yours.

And the most exciting part waiting for your package yehey! for some they provide tracking number for your package so you would know where it is. Sometimes its arrives before you know it good luck and enjoy shopping!

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