Tips before you Shop Online !

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Check out these5 Tips

before you Shop Online

1 Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions

Read the Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions carefully, before you agree to the terms & conditions.

There are a few bad players in the industry who might sell your personal information to other parties and you might get emails from them wondering “Why am I getting these Emails?”

2 Payment Options.

Look out for multiple Payment Options.

Before using your bank or card credentials , double check in the address in your browser for the safe link.Always use https:// do not use http:// for payment.

3 Return & Refund policy

Check out the Return & Refund policy before shopping !What if you bought a product but not satisfied with it?

Policy may include- no. of days within which the product should be returned, condition of the product when received, charges for return. If you have made the payment will that come back to your account or you will get some store credit?

4 Online Tools

Use Online Tools to know more about the website.

You can use websites such as:www.alexa.com , www.mywot.com, www.sideadvisor.com to have more information about the website.

5 Complaints and Reviews.

Look out for Complaints and Reviews.

You can use any of the search engines for this. Just type in the search box “reviews complaints Website Name(example.com) ”But do not rely on every review or complaint, as it might be posted by untrustworthy sources. Such as a positive review can be posted by the employee of the website itself with some other name similarly complaint can be posted by the competitor or by randomly by a person who might not have used the website.

Thanks !

Check out LinkedIn Group “Online Fraud in India”

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Online-Fraud-In-India-4926358?home=& trk=anet_ug_hm&gid=4926358

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By:Neha Mehta

Risk Management Pro, Amazon.com