No doubt online shopping is convenient and everyone seems to shop online, these days due to some XYZ number of reasons these online shopping portals offer us. From offering the best prices over some silver rakhi online India to offering doorstep delivery without having you leave your house to pick up your parcel, these online shopping websites are indeed a blessing of our lives. But in order to have a pleasant shopping experience, we can end up having just the opposite kind of experience - a blunder. Sometimes we chase the lowest price without even paying heed to the product quality or the website being authentic at all or not. This is why we bring you a few tips to choose the best online shopping websites for a better, safe experience.

• Place orders from secure connection - Your financial information such as card details, passwords, atm pin might get exposed to the merchant if the dealings are not done from a secure connection. Sometimes even your device can contract some malware or virus if you shop from unsecured connections. So if you are shopping with the help of a wireless connection, make sure it is encrypted so that no one can get hold of your personal, confidential data online. Never use a public wireless connection to make any financial transactions.
• Know the seller before shopping from them - If it is a known brand, then shopping online from them would be pretty safe. But if it is not a known brand, then make sure to do your part of research before investing some of your bucks in their products. Check out testimonials, reviews from other customers, study the website thoroughly If positive reviews are more than negative ones, you can rest assured that this brand is probably worthy of your investment. But if a store doesn't have many reviews make sure you don't make any purchases from them.
• Avoid 'too good to be true' offers - Any store which offers some low price offers might not always turn out to be a good investment for us. Rather may end up raising some suspicions. What if the product is of low quality? What if it's a fake product? What if its' a return of damaged products being sold out to you? Disputable online stores may end up offering some low priced products to lure you into purchasing their products and getting entrapped in their 'click and bait' scam.
• Read instructions, before buying gift cards - Gift cards are the safest option when facing doubt about what the other person would like to be gifted with. So make sure the store from where you are getting the gift card is legitimate, read the instructions mentioned on the back of the gift cards. Make sure there are no loops when your loved one comes to shop for something of its value.
• Shop from a secure website - Having a secure connection on your end would not keep you 100% safe. You need to rather check whether the URL of the website starts with "https:", and not "http:" That tiny s added in the end, shows whether the website is secure or not. So next time you shop for some gifts for bhabhi on Raksha Bandhan or on some other special occasion, make sure to check the URL of the website, before shopping from them.

So, these were some tips to bless yourself with a safe shopping experience online for various products. Do keep each of these in mind before you shop something online, the next time.

Happy and safe shopping to you!