- What beauties!!
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Seems like everything we do these days needs a User Name and Password combination. Well that’s because almost everything we do is online! Even if you have never shopped online, I’m sure you aren’t completely oblivious to the World Wide Web – nowadays you can find ANYTHING (or anyone for that matter) online. The best part of it all is that it is so easy and convenient – you don’t even have to leave your home and you can buy clothing, shoes, electronics, groceries (Spud.ca), hand-made crafts (Etsy) (That’s my mom’s new favourite site, next to Ebay). The bottom line is that you can buy anything and everything – at any time.
The reason I wanted to write about this was because I honestly wanted to talk about my new skis and how excited I am about the upcoming season, so I thought it would be best if I did so in an indirect manner. But instead of boring you about the specs of my 2010 Line Chronic Cryptonites (hence the on-“lines”), I’m going to tell you about shopping online.
A few years ago, my family started to get into Ebay. We started up with PayPal and realized how convenient and safe shopping online really could be – something that is a major fear factor for many people. I can understand how people could be uneasy about putting their credit card information into the oblivion of the Internet; however, Ebay and PayPal has created a way to ensure satisfaction. After our first small purchases (cell phone and camera chargers) we started to go bigger. We started to find out that actual retail stores were selling their merchandise online. What a great idea!! Now we can get cross-border savings, without having to leave our home!!! After searching Ebay, wee came across a Seattle store’s website called EvoGear. My older brother was the first to purchase a big-ticket item online – a pair of skis (Line Chronics). The transaction took place with ease – putting in our billing address, our information, and our credit card information. Bing-Bang-Boom! The skis were sold and were on their way! Within a week or so we saw a long package waiting outside our door! The service was incredible and the product was completely new! Then when we were going to Seattle as a family shopping trip, we went to visit EvoGear in person. The store is located in the suburbs of Seattle, and is a bit of a detour, but when we were there, the customer service was spectacular.
To say the least, we were satisfied with the customer service, and now are loyal Evo’ites! Evo offers satisfaction guaranteed, and if you don’t think the product is going to work for you, you can return it, no problem!! That’s the beauty about it – is that you can buy buy buy, and if you get it and realize, WHOOPS too small! then you can return it with no hassles.
Sure, shopping online does have risks involved. That’s why you have to be smart about it:
- When shopping on Ebay, make sure the sellers have a high feedback percentage with a high feedback response. Basically what this is is past customers of this seller rate their service, product, and shipping.
- If it seems like a shady website, it probably is! Don’t give out your credit card information to ANYWHERE!
- Make sure you fully understand shipping rates – This is usually where some of the prices are pushed up!! Especially because we live in Canada!
- Use PayPal when you can!
- Make sure you read the fine print!
- Know your product and what you’re buying and what to look for! (Even though it’s illegal to say it’s real, when its a fake, sellers can be “misleading”)
Thanks for reading!
T