Christmas Fruits

For a lot of years I thought the secret to shopping successfully for Christmas holiday gifts lay in a nice balance between the number of shopping mall visits and online purchases. I never really stopped to think how often lady luck had been on my side during all my online shopping. I’ve always had a one in fifteen chance of getting ripped off while shopping online. Now that I think back to the earlier days when the internet was my first choice for finding unique Christmas gifts, I do remember several tings that looked highly suspicious.

The worst thing is these scams hit harder on Christmas when people are looking for their Christmas holiday gifts. That’s like Scrooge gone cyber. What kind of people try and scam others on Christmas anyway? So this happens a lot with stuff like Christmas gift vouchers. The ones that have those extended expiry dates and stuff can be a total scam. I received a Christmas gift basket a few years ago and it had some of these ‘fabulous’ gift certificates in them. I only managed to use one; the stores wouldn’t pass the other three. I thought it was because of where I was shopping, like a location thing, but now I know better. Personally I don’t think gift certificates are a nice thing to put in Christmas gift baskets. I prefer giving Christmas fruit baskets that I can purchase from very reliable people on the internet. There are some companies out there that are dedicated to saving online shoppers from being ripped off. It’s good to know someone is on our side. So be careful where you shop online, apparently you can now get your pocket picked or your credit card pinched online too.