The Complete Idiots Guide to Online Shopping, Second Edition, provides an easy-to-use source of answers for both computer-related and online-commerce-related questions. This book is for anyone wanting to research or make a retail purchase online. This revised edition has updated listings, as well as new information on the popular auctioning scene, covering topics such as insurance, fraud crackdown, new online auction services and more. Topics include How to Check out a Site before Buying, Where to Find Malls, Auctions, and Specialty Sites, Using a Credit Card and Digital Cash, How to Recognize and Avoid Scams and what to do if you didnt, Robots, Agents, Searches, and much more.