Best Discount

Discount tips: Best bargains will generally be in the back. Ask at each store for the location of their discounted closeout and irregular merchandise. You may be able to buy clothes at 50%-70% off in these special sections.

Shopping Tip List: Use the safest way to pay on the Internet. Pay for your order using a credit card. See Payment.

Shopping Tip List: Trust your instincts. If you don t feel comfortable buying or bidding on an item over the web, or if you feel pressured to place your order immediately, maybe you shouldn t.

Shopping Tip List: Review the return, refund, and shipping and handling policies as well as the other legal terms. If you can t find them, ask the seller through an e-mail or telephone call to indicate where they are on the site or to provide them to you in writing. See Legal Terms.

Shopping Tip List: Print the terms. You should print out and date a copy of terms, conditions, warranties, item description, company information, even confirming e-mails, and save them with your records of your purchase. See Recordkeeping.

Shopping Tip List: Insure the safe delivery of your item. If you re concerned about the safety of your package if there s no one home to receive it, ask whether you can specify that the shipper must receive a signature before leaving the package. Or, it may be safer to have the package delivered to your office. See Delivery.

Shopping Tip List: Inspect your purchase. Look at your purchase carefully as soon as you receive it. Contact the seller as soon as possible if you discover a problem with it. Tell the seller in writing about any problem that you are concerned with, ask for a repair or refund, and keep a copy of your correspondence. See Legal Terms.

Shopping Tip List: Find and read the privacy policy. Read the privacy policy carefully to find out what information the seller is gathering from you, how the information will be used, and how you can stop the process. If a site does not have a privacy policy posted, you may not want to do business with that site. If it does have a privacy policy, there will probably be a link to it from the seller s home page, or it could be included with the Legal Terms.

Shopping Tip List: Double check pricing. Whether the product is being sold as new or used, be suspicious of prices that are too good to be true. Also consider carefully whether you may be paying too much for an item, particularly if you re bidding through an auction site. You may want to comparison shop, online or offline, before you buy.

Shopping Tip List: Check that the Internet connections are secure. Before you give your payment information, there are various icons and software programs that indicate that security software is in place. See Security.