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Thursday, February 19, 2009

A Guide To Online Shopping

By John Purkis

Basically, most sites already provide the directions on how orders can be made from them. There are buttons either labeled as either "Buy Now", "Order Now", "Submit Now", which will automatically lead to other steps of the process. Sometimes, there are diagrams or even written instructions that detail the entire process of ordering. It is actually that easy to orders sometimes. However, there are still some sites that are cluttered, confusing, and difficult to understand especially to those people who do not use the internet frequently. In such cases, there are just a few pointers that need to be kept in mind.

Shopping has evolved from single stores to large malls containing many stores that most often offer attentive service, store credit, delivery, and acceptance of returns. These new additions to shopping have encouraged and targeted middle class women. Most sites already provide the directions on how orders can be made from them. There are buttons either labeled as either "Buy Now", "Order Now", "Submit Now", which will automatically lead to other steps of the process. Sometimes, there are diagrams or even written instructions that detail the entire process of ordering. It is actually that easy to orders sometimes. However, there are still some sites that are cluttered, confusing, and difficult to understand especially to those people who do not use the internet frequently. In such cases, there are just a few pointers that need to be kept in mind.

One of the trickiest parts that need to be properly monitored is when payments are made online. This usually involves providing one's credit card information to those who manage the site. In order to determine that these pages are really exclusively managed by the site administrators or owners, one can look at the site addresses indicated on search bars. Addresses that have "https" on them rather than just a mere "http" are said to actually be the secure sites. Thus, it is safe to provide the credit card information to these sites because other people cannot access them. The only remaining information that should be determined is whether the site being accessed is one that is reliable or that which can be trusted.

The next time you visit a site you can access to some buttons on the home page which will in turn guide you to order a product or a given service. Usually after you choose a product or service to buy all you have to do order the product which will guide you to a form which asks for your personal details via name, occupation, account details etc. It is mandatory for the customer to fill in all these details if he or she wants a product online.

This form may be made up of several parts such as personal account information, shipping or contact information, and a medical questionnaire. After these forms are accomplished, some customer agreements have to be read and agreed to before the button "Submit" can be clicked. After this, all a person needs to do is waiting for the updates regarding his or her order.

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