Hello and welcome to a new Weekly Shopping idea Post. To begin this post I want to let you know that I will be moving this blogsite to another platform, so this week will be the last posts on this site, and yes time to move this blog from WordPress and will be launched via another platform, the following week.
So I have been asked to do a new Campaign and I founded it too, to do a #BeSmart Online Campaign, to help people to be wise with sharing content on the Internet and how to spot online scams.
You know they say that the worst impulse buys are when we go Grocery shopping because we relate supermarket as a must spend, we feel it is okay to splurge, but it adds up and when we go on holiday, as we are full of the Holiday brain and so loose sense of, what we buy too.
So #BeSmart Online is campaigning against those who share too much, troll and common scams. With the internet, it is so easy to get caught up in the sales battle and yes I share them too, but there are things you still need to be aware of.
An example of this is a show I just started watching on Youtube and a guy has a suitcase of sunglasses. Now, why would someone have a load and I mean a load of kids sunglasses without having an alterior motive? He has bought them from Ebay to resell, and its obvious, and that is a scam there.
Reselling items on Ebay is actually under Consumer rights Law, illegal, and when representing a manufacturer at a call centre, there were customers who bought electrical items made by them, only to find it was a refurbished product that a sole buyer had, to find that it has no warranty or valid guarantee, so could not get his money back or exchange it, as it was sold to the customer broken.
Even the manufacturer was being scammed too, by people making out their appliances had stopped working to then be given a replacement without seeing the receipt or batch code and then were selling the replacement on EBay, and no the broken one wasn’t even needing to be sent in to be tested first.
Keep your witts about you and even sales in Supermarkets do your maths before purchasing items, even online and make sure before you give your card details over that you see the Lock sign in the search bar, to see that it is a secure purchase without someone taking your details to commit fraud and using them to buy items for themselves.
When booking a holiday, go with the well known travel agents, but check with their cancelling procedure just in case and then check on Bookings.com as you may be able to get your holiday cheaper by you being the Travel Agent. I would do this a lot, and compare it, as Travel agents will often add a lot of Commission for them on top.
Never go near anyone selling scratchcards abroad, and don’t be tempted by Timeshare offers as this is a very big scam abroad and just want to take advantage of you, being holiday makers.
The other thing is don’t by electrical good abroad as they work on a different power source and a have their own code of CD’s and DVDs for that country so not guaranteed to work back here in the UK.
Plus many company’s who sell wifi products and smart devices including mobile phones are often refurbished and they just fix them or if a customer has bought the item and still in it packaging, they often won’t check it, and put in to be sold again.
So just be vigilent and if it is too good to be true it normally is.
Many thanks for reading,
Carrie L.M X
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