Online Shopping

Have you shopped online before? AZ has been making purchases online - mainly buying books and documentary videos from Amazon.com - for the past 5 years. Apart from purchasing Airasia tickets, I never tried online shopping myself. In fact, I never even considered it, until last week when Anoi introduced me to some websites selling handbags - Wow! What an eye-opener!!

From what I have seen so far, most things sold online are so much cheaper than in department stores. In more established sites, payment methods are very safe. I tried to purchase a Coach handbag (at an extremely discounted price) on a website using AZ's creditcard (he suggested it!). The website didn't approve the purchase as the creditcard billing address is not the same as the delivery address (!). Well, that's interesting, I thought. Online shopping must have evolved so much in the past few years that they have tightened up the payment methods to reduce fraud & creditcard thefts. I felt comforted by this (boleh la shopping online - heehee..).

Kak Long advised me to try out the Global eShop Comgateway.com which facilitates Amex card holders in Malaysia to shop globally. I tried it out last Friday evening & OMG - I couldn't believe it - I was shopping in Macy's from my bed in Malacca!! Just as a try-out, I bought an Aigner handbag which was only USD20.99 (unbelievable!) + USD5.95 delivery charge from Macy's. Imagine that - an Aigner handbag for less than RM80. Let's just see if it's really trash or real when I receive the package in 2 weeks :-)

The world is so much smaller with technology..