{"id":37,"date":"2006-11-14T14:44:37","date_gmt":"2006-11-14T14:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/technotes\/2006\/11\/14\/online-shopping-tips\/"},"modified":"2006-11-14T14:44:37","modified_gmt":"2006-11-14T14:44:37","slug":"online-shopping-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/2006\/11\/14\/online-shopping-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Shopping Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-top: 0\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/online_shopping.gif\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" \/>As we approach the holiday season, many people will turn to the Internet for online shopping. The Internet is a great resource for gathering product information, reading product reviews, and comparison shopping.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">There are also many good sites for purchasing products. But as with stores in the &quot;real world&quot;, some online retailers are better than others.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">PC World offers an article on their web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/id,127537-page,1-c,shopping\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">How to Avoid the Biggest Web Shopping Annoyances<\/a>, that has some great tips on things to watch out for before, during, and after your purchase.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-top: 0\">Covering topics such as phony reviews, shipping delays, live assistance, and money-back guarantees, the article discusses a variety of things that can go wrong with an online purchase, and how to avoid these problems, as well as proper recourse when things do go badly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we approach the holiday season, many people will turn to the Internet for online shopping. The Internet is a great resource for gathering product information, reading product reviews, and comparison shopping. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/technotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}