Posted on March 31st, 2013 by Amit Gupta
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garethjmsaundersAs internet shopping and online ordering of goods and services becomes indispensable with each passing day, it is not surprising that cyber crime mongers are finding new ways of making a fast buck online.
To protect the American consumers falling prey in their lure for internet shopping, The Federal Trade Commission has advised online shoppers to keep the following tips in mind before they proceed to pay for their purchases.
1. Have complete knowledge about what you intend to buy along with the terms and conditions related to the purchase. The coupons for discounts should be purchased from genuine websites and care should be taken to make sure that they are not fakes.
2. Be careful about giving out personal information related to your credit card details. Emailing your financial information or clicking on links that are not directly related to your internet shopping should be avoided.
3. Be careful of purchasing online on public WiFi networks and carefully read the privacy policy before accepting he terms and conditions.
4. Downloading free screensavers, images, videos, freeware can prove to be extremely costly while you innocently indulge in internet shopping as they can be carriers of virus and malware.
5. Internet shopping requires payments through Pay pal or charge cards and care should be taken to carefully monitor the financial statements after the transactions are over. This to make sure that you have been debited only for the sanctioned amounts of the transaction.
Pay pal has become the most indispensable tool for online shoppers and internet shopping is deemed to be incomplete without its services.
The new age shopping is increasingly moving away from conventional retail stores to e-malls. Under the circumstances it is important to be aware about the dangers that may be involved in internet shopping and care must be taken to deal with the same in a proactive manner.
Posted on March 25th, 2013 by Amit Gupta
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suavehouse113A recent study conducted by Forrester Research has revealed that the field of delivery services in London might grow during the upcoming years as online shopping is creating a strong hold on the retail landscape. The study has foreseen that online shopping in UK will rise by 11 percent from the years 2011 to 2016.
Forrester Research, which is a technical consulting firm, observed that countries like Spain and Italy are lagging behind in comparison to UK in terms of online shopping. The analyst of the Forrester Research, Martin Gill, was of the opinion that a number of aspects encourage people to choose online shopping as it involves finding the best deals and discounts as well as cheap delivery options.
Almost 68 percent of the European respondents opined that the availability of cheap deals was the main reason for them to choose online shopping and 69 percent choose to shop online as it saves a lot of time. Mr Gill also noted that the way people use the internet shopping is getting too cumbersome due to m-commerce and f-commerce.
Recent results by a consumer behavior research company named Shopper centric shows that technology is altering the way of shopping in many different ways.
Posted on March 16th, 2013 by Amit Gupta
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ginnerobotOne of the most recent trends to hit online shopping networks is to provide tempting
offers to customers that expire at midnight. This has a lot to do with the state of the
customer's mind while reading the mail that brings the offer.
A recent study has shown that most marketing mails sent during the day are more likely
to go unnoticed than those sent during the evening when he/she is in a more relaxed
environment. If the customer can consider the offer at the time its well and good but
a little procastrination goes a long way. Since the deals expire at midnight there is an
increase in the chances of people buying goods under the influence of alcohol. This has
given rise to a new trend in online shopping: drunken online shopping.
A recent poll indicates that more and more British people indulge in online shopping
under influence and don't mind admitting it too. Although serving alcohol in high end
fashion stores is not a new thing, but the application of the same principle by online
shopping marketers certainly is a most revealing fact. More and more home shoppers are
being presented with quick decision offers that reach them in a relaxed state of mind, and
some tipsy clicks could do the rest of the job for them.