6 How to do it – online shopping

General principles

In principle, online shopping is simple and involves the following stages:

• You find a site that sells what you want (possibly using a search engine, but more frequently going to a site which you know (from personal experience, word of mouth or advertising) sells the desired goods.
• Having found on the site, you then locate – by searching or browsing – the goods in its online catalogue.
• You then fill in an online form, giving your address and credit card details.
• You submit your order.
• The company operating the site then dispatches the goods.

Now let's look at a specific example.