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Sree's Top Three Ways to Discount Shopping Sites
 Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003

This segment brings you quick, easy-to-use information each Saturday morning at 7:45 on TV and on Friday night right here on 7online.com.

This week: Discount shopping Web sites.

When shopping online, always make sure you:
  • LOOK FOR A SECURE SITE: Be sure you are in a secure site--you can tell by the picture of a little lock which will appear in the bottom right when you are asked for your credit card.
  • SEPARATE CREDIT CARD: Try to use a separate credit card for online shopping so you can track your purchases.
  • PRINT, PRINT, PRINT: And print out each order, with confirmation number.
  • GUARD YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION: Safeguard your passwords, using different ones for various sites. Merchants should never ask for mother's maiden name
  • BBB.org: The Better Business Bureau site has a way for you to look up a company or site and see if there have been any complaints against it.

Start by visiting these three sites:

  • Shopper.com: The best place to start you hunting. A great way to compare prices.
  • DealTime.com: Similar to Shopper, with a wider range of products.
  • Froogle.com: This new service, from my favorite search engine, Google, links to thousands of sites that sell on the Web.
For more tips, see Computers 101 - 7online.com's guide to computers and the Internet.


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