Buy Online and Sleep Well at Night

The transition from the habit of going to a store to find what you like and actually finding something online via the art of shopping and merchandising is not so easy because of the fear of exposing personal info over the web. When I was a first-time online shopper, I was quite apprehensive about typing in my credit card info / bank info on a page that I was directed to by the website I was browsing.

There is not much problem if you are purchasing from big website stores. They have good track records and have built their reputation on being reliable one-stop online stores and they make sure that they are hacker-free on a daily basis. There's amazon, bluefly and B and H, among others. You can also count on big commercial stores that have gone online - such as target, bloomingdales, etc.

What about small merchants who sell online? Ebay's sister company, PayPal, has come to save the day. If you are a member of the PayPal site, you can pay any merchant that offers this method of payment without exposing your credit card or bank info. An extra perk of this site is that it protects the buyer from fraudulent sales. PayPal makes sure that their merchants send you the specified product that you ordered. Best of all, there is no fee! It's absolutely free.

There are also those that give you a headache - such as newegg, macmall and other computer-selling sites. You're usually all ready to go with your purchase, computed the peso conversion, typed in your credit card info and then they tell you that they cannot accept your credit card. Just because your billing info is in the Philippines. This time, it is Johnny Air that will save the day. You can call any Johnny Air office in the Philippines and you will just fill up a form with the website and your specific order and we will order it for you using our credit card. All you have to do is wait for the package to arrive. Make sure that you mention the Johnny Air Retail Blog so that you get a good rate.

Not bad, no? Have a good night's sleep.