Elective #3 – Online Shopping for Jody Welin

Shopping Method	Description of shopping method	Website	Website
Browsing	This is when you want to "look around". You are able to see pictures and descriptions of many different items the website has to offer.	J Crew	Dillards
Auctions	This is where you bid on products. You are usually in a bidding war with other online shoppers.	Ebay	Yahoo Auctions
Wish Lists	Here is where you make lists of items that you would like purchased for you. This is most commonly used for wedding events and baby showers.	BabysRUs	Pottery Barn
Surplus/Clearance	These are websites that contain overflow items from other websites or stores. Here you would usually find deep discounts on products.	Overstock.com	SmartBargains.com
Comparison Shopping	This is when you are able to see how much a product costs at another store or compare prices of different brands	Edmunds	BizRate

Security Tips:

1. There is a very easy way to find out if the site that you are shopping on is secure. This was new information to me. If the website doesn’t have the automatic pop up window that tells you they are a secure site, you can look at the web address for the page that requires your credit card information. The web address will change from http: to https: to let you know that they are using Secure Sockets Layer technology.

2. Passwords should be different when you are shopping. Don’t make passwords the same for shopping and important things like banking. SafeShopping.org gives us a great idea on how to make passwords. They say to make an acronym out of a song title and add some numbers on the end. For example, the password would be TWOTB96, coming from The Wheels on the Bus and 1996 because that was the year I started teaching elementary school.