Internet

Shopping

You can buy almost anything you want or need on the web; you can do it comfortably from your own home; and it is a relatively low risk experience. It’s easy and incredibly convenient. In this section, I’ll give you two examples of how online shopping works. Nearly every online retailer works in a similar fashion.

Shopping online is similar to wandering through the grocery store. You walk up and down the aisles, browsing at the items on the shelves, pushing a cart. When you browse at an online store, if you see something you like, add it to your shopping cart. When you’re ready to leave, take a look at your cart and then decide if it has everything you want. You can add or remove items at any time (You don’t even have to return anything to the store shelves, they do it for you!) Then checkout and tell them how you want to pay.

Is It Really Safe To Use My Credit Card?

No credit card experience is perfectly safe. Credit card numbers are stolen in restaurants and "bricks and mortar" stores. Giving your credit card number over a non-digital cordless telephone may be riskier than using the web. Because of the tremendous potential of the web as a way to do business, online retailers and credit card companies are going to great lengths to protect your credit card number and limit your liability.

Amazon.com is one of the biggest and most successful online businesses. They offer this guarantee:

We guarantee that every transaction you make at Amazon.com will be 100% safe. This means you pay nothing if unauthorized charges are made to your card as a result of shopping at Amazon.com

More companies will follow suit. VISA also has a program that will protect your online purchases when using a VISA card.