If you are doing your shopping online, be vary wary. This time of year is notorious for taking advantage of naive online shoppers as ‘scammers’ will throw up junk sites hoping to capture your credit card info or take your money and give you nothing but headaches. If you are going to buy expensive items online, make sure you are purchasing them from a reputable retailers (or eBay sellers).
Here are a few warning signs which might let you know an online site is not on the ‘up and up’:
- Price is significantly lower than anywhere else.
- You cannot find any information about the retailer online (you can try doing a Whois search to see how long the domain has been in existence).
- Thrown together looking site. This is not necessarily a warning sign, but someone looking to take advantage of naive buyers probably will not put together an impressive site.
- No contact phone number or the phone number goes to someone’s answering machine.
Again, these are just a few things to be wary of. Personally, I stick to sites like Amazon and the like as it is worth it to pay a little bit extra to _know_ you are going to get the item… and can return it if needed.
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