An advantage of shopping online is being able to use the power of the internet to seek out the lowest prices or the best deals available for items or services. Suppose if some one is buying a mobile phone he/she should enter "mobile phone" into a search engine or the price of the mobile into the search engines. Search engine will display some websites listing according to their web presence on the internet. Then user should have confirmed which website or company will deal his/her needful mobile at lower price.
Getting the lowest price is important but it is more important to make sure the merchant or store the customer is purchasing from is reputable. There are some online stores that display ridiculously low prices, but when you call them you may find out that the item you're seeking is out of stock. This is called the bait and switch technique.
Placing Online Orders...
The actual steps of ordering online is simple after finding out a good store and good prices to select the most important relevant category of your choice and then go to the product page. There would e found an enquiry form to which you have to submit information about your products.
>>Browse product categories using a web browser
>>Put items into virtual shopping cart (or market basket).
Just as in a physical store viewing the contents of the cart can be done at any time.
Quantities of products can be changed or deleted.
>> Checkout
>> Log in or register by choosing a username and a password. Not all online stores require registration.
>> Enter personal data.
>> Billing address
>> Shipping address (some online stores do not permit a separate shipping address, at least not online)
>> Phone number
>> E-Mail address (extremely important, as they may have no other way of contacting you if a problem arises)
>> Choose means of payment
>> Choose delivery speed and method (post, courier and logistics service, etc.)
>> Confirm order
After editing the personal data a confirmation page is displayed so that the online shopper can approve, change or abort the order.
