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You can buy anything on the Internet. You also can beg, borrow, or (gulp!) steal anything on the Internet. Jill Freeze explains how to take advantage of good commercial opportunities while minimizing risks in Savvy Online Shopping. Read this one if you're keen on finding bargains, and suspect that you're not getting the whole picture by visiting only well-known sites that advertise a lot. Freeze calls attention to dozens of relatively small sites, most of which specialize in something like Beanie Babies or antique items. She also explores the world of online auctions, and offers tips on where to go to get the best price as both buyer and seller. There's more to this book than directory listings. In large part, it's a guide to commercial safety online. Freeze explains how to check out vendors before you commit to purchases, and how some scams have worked in the past. She also introduces a concept that might be new to many veterans of online shopping: shopping agents that search for the best price on a given item across many stores. A lot of her advice is common sense, but she backs it with references to the tools that you need. --David Wall Topics covered: Online shopping for consumers and small-time sellers. Transactional security, payment methods, and other technical subjects get attention, while softer (but perhaps more important) topics like product research and vendor trustworthiness receive heavier coverage.
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