How can I buy online in a secure way?

Well before you can make a decision on where and how can you buy something online, you must take in consideration the look of the store or site that you are about to make a purchase. The first thing you got to ask yourself is "it looks like a genuine site?" Sometimes we visit a store or a site and you can see all in the appearance of it, like the letters distorted, incorrect words in the description of the items, blury images of the products.  

Another thing that you got to see is if the store have a valid email to contact the owner, I mean a domain email, like for example if the store name is http://bestforless.weshiponline.com the domain email should look like this bestforless@weshiponline.com, not bestforless@yahoo.com, bestforless@hotmail.com, some stores use them and not because that it can be a fraud store, but if the store got a domain email it gives you more confidece.

Look what they can offer to you, their policies and history, sometimes you can find that in the About Us link.

Another thing that is very important is the way that they accept payments, some stores accepts only money transfers or money orders, it is a kind of risky to pay with that method. For example can you imagine what can happens if you make a payment to somebody that you never knows with a money transfer? Note: Im not saying that all the stores that have that type of payment are fraud, we are looking here for a store that a client (you) can feel comfortable and secure at the moment to make a purchase.  

I recommend to trust in sites that have a secure way of payment like (PayPal, AlertPay, MoneyBookers), those ways of payment offer to the buyer a lot of secure features, for example if somebody do not send you the item or the item is not as described, you can open a dispute and they investigate the seller and in case that something happens they refund the money to you, thats because the seller can not sell nothing without his credit or bank account on those sites, they got all the necessary information to track the seller and freeze his account at the moment of the dispute so you can have your money back again. That is why when you are looking for that store to buy something, you must verify if they accept one of these methods of payments and another impontant thing is, look for the logo specially for PayPal verified user, that is a certification that says that it is genuine. In order to use those services you got to open an account in PayPal or the other service providers.

Look if the seller are a seller on eBay, most of them are, there you can verify their feedbacks (comments about the sales that the people leave after the end of the transaction), if it got 100% of feedbacks and he is a Power Seller (high sales per month), you can buy with confidence from that seller you are not going to have any problem with your purchase.

Now what we learned?

1. Look at the content of the store (appearance)

2. Verify if it have a secure way of payment (verified and confirmed logos)

3. Verify or contact the seller asking him about his or the store background (ebay seller account history, feedbacks and seller status)

4. Verify if the seller or site have a domain email to contact them.

5. Look about what they offer to you and their history in the Abut Us link. 

You can see an example of one genuine store and verify what you learned HERE