Do you find online shopping really profitable?

I shop online all the time. Go to price watch dot com and look up things on that site they find the best prices you can get online. I wouldn't buy anything from ebay but that is because I got burned twice buying from that site. And if you have a pay pal account they have stores online that are gaurnteed to be the best prices. But I always when looking for something go to price watch dot com. it is a great site to find good bargins from. I get my printer ink online and I pay 20 bucks for 5 containers of ink at the store it is 8-9 dollars for one. Yep I always buy online the things I need to get.Good luck hope this helps you.

Personally, almost all the products I have bought online has ended up very cheap for me. Even recently I bought my Sony Ericsson P990 almost Rs.2000 less than the market from one of the online site. That too with a good product quality, with warranty and all the other stuffs I can get from the stores.

Also the other products I have bought so far are of good quality only. The only suggestion I can give you is that, check the reputation of the site before you purchase anything. Also check for the security of the site before you pay online. Thats all I did.

If you own your own on line shopping mall like I do, then it could be profitable. The mall has over 1000+ stores on it. You could own your own mall too. And if you join as a business you can offer it to others like I am offering it to you and earn off them as well. It is free to join. If this sounds like something you might be interested in, go to my profile and click on My Power Mall, it will give you all the details a lot better than I can here. If you want to see the lay out of the mall while at my profile click on my website Faithfully By Terri. If this doesn't sound like something you would like to do, be sure to bookmark it as your favorite place on line to shop.

When you shop online, you are paying for the convenience of having the product delivered to your door. And that's only fair, because the delivery companies have to make money too.

I think it depends on what you are buying maybe. For instance, i wanted to buy the first season of a show on dvd. it is a show i used to watch a few years ago, it only ran for 3 seasons then got cancelled. Well its really hard to find in stores, i only saw it in a store once and it was 100 bucks! Well i got season one off of Amazon.com for like 24.99 (brand new)and with the shipping it ended up being only 30.00 total. I live in Canada but i ordered it off the american version of the site seeing as it was a bit cheaper and our dollar is realy good but then when i got the package i noticed it was sent from within ontario (where i live), so i thought that was pretty cool!

I have found that you need to be very careful. In the UK version of eBay it is against their rules to charge an unreasonable amount for postage so you can report sellers who charge too much. I always take the postage into consideration when I am calculating the cost of an item I am buying. i do know people who buy things form cheap shops and then sell them at ebay for a profit so I am sure that you could probably find some of the things cheaper elsewhere but I guess it depends on how rare the item is that you are after.

A lot of it depends on what you are buying.
Got to find a good to first with.
Shipping has to be reasonable or free.
And you have to figure in sales tax to balance it all.
For those that live in rural areas and small towns, online shopping may be our only choice to get some items.