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Buy Women's Clothing Online in Australia SAFELY

1. Check the website content and read their About Us page. This will help you find out who they are, where they are located, and to ensure they are a legitimate retailer. If you have any concerns, send them an email or message, and ask questions. Any company that is legitimate will gladly tell you their location and any other details you want. 
2. Make sure their site is secure – look for a picture of a little lock. If you see HTTPS in the website domain, it means the website is Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure and uses an SSL security certificate. That certificate encrypts the communication between the website and its visitors which ensures the website is safe, so hackers can't get their hands on it. 
3. Know your credit card’s policy on fraud and how you can go about getting your money back if someone has stolen from you. Both Mastercard and Visa offer a ‘Zero Liability’ policy, which means you won’t be held responsible for fraudulent charges on your card. You can read Mastercard’s policy here, and the Visa policy here.  
4. Check the website in detail. To start with, check the home page to see if there has been any mention of secure shopping, accreditations such as Afterpay, and look for details on their return policies.  
5. Always read their Terms and Conditions to see what their policies are for products that arrive in poor condition – or that don’t arrive at all.  
6. Keep your antivirus protection updated. Thieves won’t always wait for you to give them information; so, make sure you keep your antivirus software up to date to protect against malware. A full-blown security package with antivirus software will protect against spam, spear-phishing emails, and phishing attacks from websites, as well as other threats. 
7. Check their reviews and testimonials! But don’t just look at the reviews on their website. You need to do some research. Check reviews on their social media as well, and simply Google to find testimonials and reviews from customers that are published on other sites. These are likely to be honest reviews. 
8. Read the delivery instructions. While some companies may claim to be Australian, you might find, like Caroline did, that the goods are actually being sent from a warehouse in China – via an Australian seller. It’s just not the same thing. A good tip is that if the products are going to take 3+ weeks to arrive, they’re probably not in Australia to start with. 
9. Finally, if you want to make sure the company you’re buying from is truly Aussie, there’s one sure way to do so check for an ABN. You can do that by looking through their website, asking them if they don’t have an ABN published, or by looking up the company at the Australian Business Register.