TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesian e-commerce Tokopedia recently offered various discounts during the past few days dubbed Flash Sale. The program required consumers to shake their smartphone after entering its official website. The lucky consumers would obtain many benefits such as coupons, vouchers, until 99 percent discount for certain best products.
Unfortunately, many people complained since errors occurred when opening Tokopedia website. The site could not be opened and some delivery process was failed or pending. Negative comments started popping up regarding the flash sale.
However, you should be careful to shop via online. Here are some tricks to apply for safety online shopping summarized from various sources.
1. Make sure the online site is secure
In online shopping, you are required to provide your financial information such as details of information through credit card to be used. Regardless of the sites, putting any information, including credit cards on the internet has risks.
As cited in Salehoo, an easy way to check if the site is guaranteed safe is to see its URL. The "https" means the website is secure. The last word "S" denotes an additional layer of security known as SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). You can also search the site's domain name via search engines. From there, you can see when the site was created because the old website tends to be trusted compared to the newly formed one.
2. Buy something small first
If you doubt on the authenticity of an online shopping site, you can buy something small with a cheap price first. In this way, you can view and monitor their responses. How they handle delivery, buyers, etc. You can also monitor how the payment and confirmation process made by the seller.
3. Create a strong password to avoid hacking
Do not create a password with your pet's name, date of birth, address or even similar password with your other accounts of social media. It might help you remember your password but that is easier to be hacked. Hackers could steal money, personal information or other data using your password. Thus, we recommend you to create a different password for each of your online accounts.
ANASTASIA PRAMUDITA DAVIES | SALEHOO | DIGICAMHELP | CSMONITOR
