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Online Shopping Insights and Strategies
By James W. Coates
Prior to a few years back, the idea of shopping via the internet was fuel for fantasies and science fiction movies. Shopping meant spending endless hours in malls that, regardless of their size, never contained everything you needed. Shopping from home meant thumbing through thick catalogues until you found exactly what you needed.
Today everything from banking to communicating is done conveniently and effortlessly over from the home computer. Shopping over the internet has stepped up to become one of the easiest ways to purchase rare and not so rare items from your local store to the item found only at a small specialty shop in an alleyway in New Delhi, India.
But for many people who are still unfamiliar with the concept of eShopping and are wary of giving out personal information such as a credit card number over the internet, the thoughts of shopping online are still scary.
Since the early days of the internet, online shopping companies have made great strides to ensure their products are available, ship in due time and payment transactions are completed conveniently and securely.
Shoppers must continue using vigilance and avoid sending their personal information to sites that raise a doubt in their minds, but used correctly, eShopping offers expediency as well as a host of other advantages over the traditional shopping mall.
This site lays down first hand knowledge of how to set up PayPal as well as Google checkout accounts that allow users to file their credit card information with one company for future transactions with other companies. Users will learn how to make purchases on both Amazon.com and eBay, two of the largest online retailers in the world as well as download music from iTunes and compare products and prices on MSN Shopping, PriceGrabber and BizRate.
The eShopping site demystifies online purchasing by dividing the different kinds of shops available online into three categories with the goal of easing the confusion surrounding eShopping so users get the most out of their online experience.
About the Author
James W. Coates is an avid online shopper. He also writes for eShopping.com – an online guide to online shopping, with extensive information on setting up a PayPal account, shopping at Amazon, comparison shopping at Shopzilla and more.
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