Online purchases gain the increasing popularity among Russians. Unfortunately, increase in number of buyers on the Internet is followed also by growth of activity of swindlers in network. How to make the purchases by the safest and to protect itself from loss of money?
It is required to you
- Internet access.
Instruction
1. Not to fall a victim of swindlers, it is necessary to pay attention to a number of signs in which unfair sellers differ. The main trick by means of which swindlers entice buyers is low prices. If the offered cost 10 times less average market, is one of signs of the potential swindler. At best, it can testify to the offer of counterfeit or low-quality goods.
2. Often swindlers begin to hurry you with the order. They try to convince you that such price works the last day (hour, minutes) or that the goods remained in a limited number. It becomes in order that you did not manage to evaluate all details of the forthcoming purchase soberly.
3. Try not to buy goods on the Internet at the requirement of 100% prepayment. Especially, if it is offered to transfer money for the e-wallet, or a personal card of the natural person. Such transactions are especially dangerous. But if you decided to risk, at least, check the ratings of the seller in payment service providers.
4. In conscientious online stores there is always an alternative to prepayment. It can be cash on delivery by mail when receiving goods, payment to the courier, or delivery through pickup location.
5. Look at what forms of payment the seller offers. If among them there is no non-cash payment, it is a bad signal.
First, when opening the settlement account the company always undergoes testing of security service of bank. Secondly, payment aggregators which provide acceptance of payments are also analyzed the potential partners.
6. If the online store has no status of the legal entity or the individual entrepreneur it also should guard. The seller already is out of the legal framework and is engaged in illegal trade. So to it prevents to go for deception of ordinary buyers? Cannot serve as an honesty guarantee the shown scan of the passport of the seller at all. Same does not confirm his personality and authenticity of the document in any way.
7. At the website of online store there has to be contact information on the seller. Among them data on the organization or individual entrepreneur, INN, checkpoint, legal address. On the website of FTS specify whether there is such company in fact how long it works at the market what profile of activity is specified in constituent documents whether it is issued on the figurehead (if Full name the founder appears in a set of other firms) and so forth.
8. It is desirable that the online store had own office. Look whether really the seller locates at the specified address. Often swindlers specify the nonexistent addresses. However existence of office - the optional requirement since many honest sellers do not rent the room only for the purpose of economy on costs and offers of competitive prices. But if among contacts only the mobile phone or e-mail, then such shop is specified - it is potentially dangerous.
9. Read reviews of shop on the Internet and check the rating of shop. Not only negative experience of purchases of other users, but also exclusively positive estimates of online store should attract attention. Unfortunately, distribution of the paid responses today very widespread practice. Lack of history at shop also an occasion to prick up the ears.
10. What it is necessary to pay attention to? Compare the description of goods to similar, offered on other Internet resources. Existence of inaccuracies and discrepancies and also numerous errors forces to approach with care purchase.