Sunday, October 5, 2008

Safer online shopping.

I started to shop online after I moved to Hungary. Besides the language reasons, I find that online shopping is so much convenient and sometimes I can find better bargains compared to buying from retail stores. I usually make my payments using my paypal account. I do not feel comfortable paying using my credit cards. Unless if the website I buy from is quite well known. For example like Amazon.

It would be nicer if I can shop online at websites other than Amazon. It widens up my choice. Looking for merchants who accepts paypal is a chore at times. If they only accept credit card payments, I would have to pass the opportunity to buy from them the item that I have been looking for. Unless if they are really certified to be trustable, that would be a different thing. I believe many of us do not really feel 100% safe shopping online using credit cards. How are we to know that our important information would be safe?



Now you can make your online shopping a lot safer. How? By using the buySAFE.com shopping advisor toolbar. There are two important and interesting features of this tool.

Firstly, once you've installed this tool on your browser, available for Firefox and Internet Explorer, when ever you do a search for a product, it will show the the trusworthiness of the website on your website. So you can choose to shop from that website or not. They have ratings of 320,000 over ecommerce website, available on major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. Plus it works on Ebay too.

Secondly, you gain access to their shopping portal. Here the merchants are with bonds that insures shopping up to $25,000 worth plus identity theft insurance.

Okay now. Let's go down to the fees for this tool. $ 0. It's free. So you've got nothing to lose and much to be gained. So head on to their website at buySafe.com and get that tool for your browser.

1 comments:

Tammy said...

The only online shopping I think I've ever really done is eBay.