E-commerce Review of Trading Card Game Online Store

StarCityGames.com is an online trading card store, not as usual trading card store ini many places in the world. StarCityGames.com offers simplicity to any of the customers, they don’t need too walk around and find the trading card store near their places, they can just simply access StarCityGames.com via internet connection and buy some stuff by themselves with relevant prices. At first, StarCityGames.com only takes order for Magic the Gathering trading card game, but as the time goes and many of trading card game appears in many places, StarCityGames.com start to expand its hand by grabbing Yugi-Oh trading card game as the second partner. And the World of Warcraft trading card game as it’s third partner.

If we want to buy or even sell in StarCityGames.com, there are a few requirements to be fulfilled, first is an account, we need to make account so we have access to buy or sell in StarCityGames.com. We need to fill the form with our username, password, our billing address, our shipping address, our contact information and of course our credit card information for the media of the transaction. Or we can simply start shopping with clicking the items that we want, it will be in our shopping cart, and when we have done we can do checkout, and we’ll need to do few things. The first is create an account if we don’t have it yet, the second is to verify our items, we need to clarify that the items inside our shopping cart are the right one. And the second is we can choose about the shipping options, yes it is as usual, we can choose regular or the one with delivery confirmation, or even the fastest one. Then we can choose our payment options, via credit card or via PayPal. PayPal is internet account that use internet banking, we can have PayPal account if our bank have connection with PayPal, then we can create an account connected with PayPal. After the payment than the last is confirmation and comment that we can choose to do it after the packages arrive, we can write about anything regarding their service and shipping.

StarCityGames.com ships worldwide with exception of Magic the Gathering sealed product. StarCityGames.com have thousands of satisfied customers throughout the world. For their international customers, StarCityGames.com offers UPS Worldwide Express as an insured, trackable, guaranteed shipping option. They also offer USPS EMS (Express Mail Service), and USPS Global Priority Mail as uninsured, non-trackable, non-guaranteed shipping options. Some of those shipping options may not be offered to us, depending on the size, weight, value, or shipping address of the order. Due to the different, and constantly fluctuating, rates of various countries, StarCityGames.com do not have information available on what taxes on imports will be. It’s highly recommend that the customers check with their country's appropriate agency to find out what the taxes on imports will be. If the customers refuse a shipment because the country is charging excessive customs fees or import taxes, StarCityGames.com will refund the payment minus their initial shipping charges, their return shipping charges plus an administrative handling fee of 10%. If the total ends up exceeding the value of the merchandise, they may have to charge the customers an additional fee to cover those charges.

We too, can pay via bank wire transfer, they provide an instructions on how to do so. There is a $10.00 fee for paying via bank wire transfer. The customers have to add that amount to his or her order total and include it with your payment. The imprtant thing is that StarCityGames.com reserve the right to cancel the order if it is not paid for within ten (10) business days. Unless otherwise stated, the majority of orders (not including pre-orders) will be ship within one business day after the order being placed. StarCityGames.com requires that all packages sent through UPS be signed for when delivered. Since this policy not only ensures that the customers receive their orders, but also allows them to file claims in the unlikely event of a lost or damaged package. UPS does not deliver to P.O. Boxes. The customers must provide either a complete home, work, or school street address where someone will be available to sign for the order. If the customers are not present when UPS attempts to deliver your order, UPS will leave a posted notification of the delivery attempt. UPS will generally make three consecutive delivery attempts to the provided shipping address before returning a package back to StarCityGames.com. If that happens, the customers will have to pay an additional shipping charge to have the package reshipped.

By: Soedjadi

E-commerce Review of Apple Online Store

Apple Online Store is an online store which sells many items such as iPod engraving, Mac customization, and Certified Refurbished Products. Apple uses the best carriers in the business to make sure your order gets to you on time. Learn more about shipping times, methods, costs, and carriers. This time, I will talk about how to buy products. First about the delivery time, once we have to place an order, you can visit online Order Status for shipping and delivery dates for each item. The Ships By date is an estimate of when the item will ship from our facility. The Delivers By date is an estimate of when the item will be delivered to your shipping address. All estimates are based on business days. Let’s talk about the shipping methods and cost, the Apple Online Store offes a variety of shipping methods to meet your needs. For US the have variety methods such as :

• Standard Shipping This option is free on all qualifying products. Delivers within 3 to 7 business days after shipping.

• 2 Day Shipping Delivers within 2 business days after shipping.

• Next Business Day Delivers in 1 business day after shipping.

• 2-3 Day International Shipping Delivers within 2 to 3 business days after shipping.

That’s all about shipping methods. About shipping cost, shipping costs are calculated and displayed before we complete your order on the Apple Online Store. We can also see shipping costs on the Order Acknowledgment email and on online Order Status. If we order multiple items, we may receive separate shipments. Shipping fees for the entire order will be charged when our first item is shipped. That’s all about shipping methods and cost. About payment and pricing, apple online store have many variety. The Apple Online Store accepts a variety payment methods such as

• Credit Cards or Debit Cards

• Cashiers Check or Money Order

• Wire Transfer

• Juniper Visa Card with iTunes Rewards

• Apple business lease (AFS Commercial Credit)

• Apple Gift Card

• Bill Me Later

We can also combine payment methods to pay for your purchase. Choose from the following combinations of credit cards and Apple Gift Cards:

• Credit card(s) - up to two

• Apple Gift Card(s) - up to four

• Apple Gift Card(s) + one credit card

we can also pay with credits cards or debit cards. but some people have troubled when they pay with credit cards or debit card. But Aplle have a solution to resolve it such as

• If our card is new or recently reissued, make sure it has been activated.

• Double check the card type (for example, American Express), the account number and expiration date.

• Remove dashes or spaces from the account number.

• If everything seems to be correct, call the card issuer's customer service 800 number on the back of our card. Our credit card company may need to speak with us before they authorize your purchase.

To prevent any unnecessary delays processing your order, please ensure that the billing addresses on your order matches the information on your credit card account. The card security code is a unique three or four digit number printed on the front (American Express) or back (Visa/MasterCard/Discover) of your card, in addition to the account number. Most debit and check cards have daily spending limits that may substantially delay the processing of an order even if there is enough money in an account. When using a debit card, funds are immediately reserved in bank account at the time place the order. Apple receives authorization to charge the account prior to shipping the item. If the card will only be charged after the order has shipped. If the order contains multiple items and they ship at different times, we may see multiple charges on our credit card statement. Apple is unable to accept credit, debit, or check associated with a billing address outside of the United States. In the united states, apple accepts American express, discover, mastercard, and visa.

By: Rian

Overview of Internet Business Potential in Indonesia

Nowadays Internet has spread everywhere in Indonesia. From the office to residence have a computer with Internet connection. The tariff of the Intenet connection in Indonesia decreases year by year. Today we can enjoy a high speed Internet access connection powered by Telkom with the famous brand in our country, Speedy. Speedy offer high speed Internet access connection to residence user with affordable price. Nowadays everyone who had dream about an affordable price of Internet connection can realize their dream by register Telkom Speedy services that offered by PT. Telkom Indonesia, Tbk.

With Internet, we can Introduce ourself in Internet. If we have a business, we can offer it to anyone in the world by the Internet. Without worry about distance, country, or geographical boundaries. All can be happened by the Internet. It is possible to us, to sell our product worldwide across the countries without worrying about the geographical boundaries.

If I have much time, I want to make some bussiness over the Internet. I want to make an Investment company. A company that collect money from everybody and raise the value then give it back to the people who have join this program. I believe this idea will be success because some people that has so much money or a lot of idle money didn’t have any idea to multiply their money with safely and reliable programme. Some people was cheated with a lot of investment programme over the Internet called HYIP ( High Yield Investment Program ). With my new strategy, I will make them happy with multiply their money in my Investment Programme. Here is my plan for this bussiness.

I will give name of the company with S3-Investment.com. S3 means Safe, Secure, and Solid. I will collect money from people around the world which attracted to multiply their idle money in investment programme. Before I collect money from them, I will make some questionare to know how they prepareness about the risk in investment. I didn’t want dissapointed them because High Return Investment also have High Risk Lose their value of investment but with a good strict Risk Management runned by my company, I believe my company can minimize the risk and maximize the profit to the investor. We called investor to people whose join this programme. For the operational of my company, I will make some administration fee about 20% from the capital their deposit into S3-investment.com.

And how about the initial deposit of investor money ? I will use some electronic currencies such as Liberty Reserve, Pecunix, E-gold, also Web Money. With this currency the investor can deposit or withdraw their capital easily into my company. The investor can buy some electronic currencies in some e-currency broker over the Internet. For the example is : sentraegold.com, fastchanger.com, egoldindonesia.com, or search the qualified and trusted e-currencies in the most famous Indonesian forum over the Internet, kaskus.com. They will be instructed by the e-currencies broker to transfer some money into the e-currencies broker Bank Account. After the money receive by the broker, the broker will be deposit the investor e-currency account by some amount of balance according to the amount of money that investor was transferred. When the investor has some balance of money in their e-currency account, the investor can deposit their money easily into my company e-currency account. While the fund received, the investor will get some announcement via website and email about their deposited money and the investment plan that they choose before.

The collected money from the investor will be use for Online Foreign Exchange trading and Online International Stocks Trading. With a reliable internet connection, famous brand of IT infrastructure, and some employee that has a lot of many years experience about Forex Online Trading and Stocks Online Trading, I believe we can grab some high gain profit and low risk of capital loss. I’m very sure about this because my company run some policy about strict Risk Management to assure investor capital deposited.

For Foreign Exchange Online Trading, we only trading in five major currencies such as : Poundsterling ( GBP – Great Britain Pound ), US Dolar ( USD ) , Yen ( JPY – Japanese Yen ), EUR ( Euro ) and AUD ( Australian Dollar ).

This money will be traded 24 hours from Monday 04.00 AM until Saturday 04.00 AM ( Indonesian Local Time West Region ). For this trading, my company will be hire some Forex Online Trading Expert divided into three times of work shift.

For Stocks Online Trading also have the same way with Forex Online Trading. In Stocks Online Trading we trade the money in some International Stocks Market such as : Nasdaq, Hangseng, and Nikei.

When my company have a lot profit from this bussiness, I want to make some expansion of my bussiness in agriculture. I want to open some land in Kalimantan or Sumatera Island to make sawit plantation that can produce sawit oil to cook some food in the kitchen. I hope someday my dream about this will be reality.

By: Prehatanto

E-commerce Review of Abc Shop in Australia

the abc shop has in Australia, they make a website to help the customer. this website is a site to sell some items like DVD, book & Mags, Music, audiobooks, clothes and toy and novelties. They sell all the items for members only. The items will be sent to address where user want, but to sent the item the abc shop can sent to all place in the world, and Indonesia does not in the list the abc shop can sent her item to the customer. Because of that abc shop don’t have a member from country or place where abc shop can sent the items to the place. The abc shop have a children item too. They categories all of their items, to help customer to find the items that they want, the customer can find items by search or see every category. The abc shop have browser interest category too, the category is list category that many customer in online see in this category. The abc shop sent the items to customer have 3 delivery method with different cost for every delivery method. The different of the delivery method not just the cost, but a place an address to sent the items and by what the items will be sent to the address that customer want to sent the items. That times to spend the delivery items is different too for every delivery method. The customer can choose the delivery method has he want. In choose the delivery method the customer must choose not for the cheaper cost only but they must know times to spend and place where they are want sent the items. Because the cheaper cost for delivery method is not for the best to other customer that in out off Australian and need the items their buy to send to the address in fast. When the customers want to buy some items in the abc shop customer can see the description of the items to make sure that items has customer want, after that the customer can choose all the items that they want to buy, and in all the items to basket. After that customers can make sure all items that they want to buy is already in there basket or not, if in that cart have items are not want to buy that items can be removed from the basket. After all the items in the basket list correct the customers can choose the delivery method and customer can know that total cost. After this customer can choose again what they want proceed her order. For customer don’t want proceed or pay online they can pay their order by phone or fax. If customer no problem to pay by online, they can proceed with order online. If customer choose proceed order online they must insert email and password that can make sure the abc shop that u a member. But if u first time buy customer u can choose the frame first time buy and insert all information that the abc shop want. After that u must insert name, addres, city, state, post code, country and confirm delivery method, in this page u can see description all of the delivery method, customer can change the delivery method in this page. The abc shop will check all your information in this page. if your information is correct u can do billing and payment. If customer choose order and pay by phone and fax, customer can call 1300-360-111 for phone proceed, 1300-360-150 for fax proceed, and customer can order by mail, for by mail customer must print the order and sent to abc shop customer order center on jpo box 9994 sidney 2001. because the abc shop in Australia they payment is in Australian dollar.

E-commerce Review of Shop.com

Shop.com is an online store which sell many items in internet. This online shop have an unique style to sell it items. They tell the customer what the customer want to buy. So the customer can see all the information about the items which they want to buy. The example about how they sell the items is portable media player. There are some clear favorites in the world of portable media players, but most people aren't aware of just how many options there are if you look beyond the most popular choices. To start with, there are very few players that are just for MP3s these days. You can watch video, view photos, record voice memos, store gigabytes of files, convert your old vinyl or cassette tape collections to digital format, and even use your PMP to tape your favorite shows straight from your television. SHOP.COM's Portable Media Player Buying guide will help to find the perfect device for the needs. The information they give to customer is :

Size: Media players can be so tiny, they can be worn as necklace pendants, or so laden with features and extras such as built-in speakers, that they stretch the definition of “portable”. Players can have two types of storage: hard drive, or flash-based. Hard drives have much higher capacity, but are also heavier and more expensive. The smallest flash players can weigh just over half an ounce, while a hard-drive player with a large LCD screen can weigh almost a pound. If you’re planning to run or do other sports with your player, go with flash.

Storage: Flash drives generally top out at 16 GB, while hard-drive players can go up to 160 GB. An average MP3 file (for a 3 and a half minute CD-quality song) takes about 3.5 megabytes of storage, so expect to get roughly 250 songs per gigabyte. With a large hard drive, you can carry your entire music collection (40,000 songs if you have a 160 GB drive), but if you’re a heavy video user, the space will go much more quickly, holding about 200 hours of video . General rule of thumb is to get as much storage as you can afford unless size is more important.

File Support: Every PMP will support MP3, but there are hundreds of file types, and the more your player supports, the more versatile it will be. Other popular audio formats are WMA, AAC, ASF, and WAV. If you want to view photos, you’ll want to make sure your player supports JPEG files. For video, there is MPEG 2 and MPEG 4, WMV, Flash Lite, H.264. Some players will support Audible audio books as well, which has its own proprietary system.

Battery: Most players will have rechargeable lithium ion batteries, but about half the time, the batteries are non-removable, and will require a manufacturer’s repair at additional cost after the battery runs its course in about two years. While being less eco-friendly, some less expensive players still use AA or AAA batteries. Playing time per charge (or fresh set of batteries) varies a lot, so be aware that for some players you’ll be charging every 4-5 hours, while others can go for more than 20 hours. Remember too, that watching videos takes much more battery juice and will run the battery down at least twice as fast.

Online Music Stores: Every player will be able to play music that’s already been digitized onto your computer from CDs, as long as they’re in a supported format. After that, things get trickier, if you have music from various online music stores. Apple’s iTunes uses a protected file format that will only work on iPods. Other stores will have their own restrictions which will limit where you can play those files. Complicating matters even more are the newer “all you can eat” subscription services which allow you to download unlimited music as long as you pay a monthly fee.

Extras: Some features aren’t standard but can be easily found if they’re important to you: microphones for recording voice memos; in-line encoding, which allows you to record any source into digital format; FM radio; Wifi for downloading music directly from the Internet, without a computer, PDA functions like calendars and address books; the ability to be used as a USB data drive, for storing files of any type.

E-commerce Review of Barnes and Noble

Barnes & Noble.com is an online store to market the brands of Barnes And Nobles, one of United States's largest bookstore. It has become one of the web's premier destination not only for books, but also music DVD, Video games, and other related products and services.

Barnes & Noble have more than 1 million books titles for immediate delivery which is more titles than any other online bookseller. With that many title, it is very crucial that Barnes & Noble.com provide an easy way to find precisely the books they are looking for. To help the customer find books they want, Barnes & Noble.com offer two ways. First, the user can use the search engine, to locate books by title, author, or keyword, and second, they can also use the bookBrowser that enable the user easily navigate through hundreds categories to find the right book. In addition to books, Barnes & Noble.com also provide a section called Meet The Writers, which is filled with profiles of favorite authors, biographies, and interviews, both audio and video.

Beside books, Barnes & Noble.com also provided DVD, Video Game, and Music. In these area, Barnes & Noble.com also provide some feature to help the user choose what items they wanted to buy. First, B&N Screening Room, where the user can view more than 10,000 full length previews and instantly order what they have seen. Second, is the free download section, where the user can download more than 1 million audio samples, and nearly 100,000 music reviews.

Since Barnes & Noble.com is commited to make their site as user friendly as possible, placing order here is very quick and easy. New customers can check out and create an account at the same time or they can complete their order without creating an account. However, registered user have some advantages which are they can track their order online, discounts, and transaction history. Barnes & Noble.com also provide a wishlist where user can keep the products they wanted to buy later on.

To start shopping at Barnes & Noble.com, The user only need to locate an item they'd like to purchase and click the "Add to Cart" button. These buttons are usually found beside featured products, on product pages, and search results pages. Clicking this button places the item in shopping Cart. Each time the user clicks "Add to Cart," the page will refresh and display the newest item in the Cart, as well as previous additions, items of interest, and links to "View Entire Cart" or "Proceed to Checkout."

The user can view their entire Cart before checking out, this is not really necessary but it's a great place to look over their order. The Cart displays all the selected items and lets user make adjustments like increase or reduce the number of copies to buy; move items to and from their Wish List, or remove items from their Cart. It also provides a subtotal, before any shipping charges and taxes are applied. Once the user are comfortable with the items in their Cart, they can click the "Proceed to Checkout" button. This will bring the user to the checkout screen, here registered user may log in, or the new user may also sign in. Eventhough this is not really necessary to finish the purchase, it will help to make the billing and delivery process easier, since registered user information including the billing and shipping address can be used here.

Before completing the transaction, user are asked to confirm or to fill in the shipping address, payment method, billing address (if required), and also shipping preference. After that by clicking “Continue Checkout”, the user will be taken to review their order and other information they have filled in previously. After the user is certain that everything is in order, the user can click “Place My Order” to finish. After that the user will be taken the screen where they can see their order number, which they can use to check whether their order have been delivered or not, view and print their receipt. Beside, shortly after this page is open, an e-mail confirming the order will be sent to the user's e-mail.

By: David

E-commerce Review of Yahoo Shopping

In this era, everyone must be know about Yahoo. But usually many people only know yahoo just for search engine. But now we know that yahoo can buy many items from yahoo. Online merchant can include their products in Yahoo! Shopping. Its way is simple, just sign up for Yahoo! Product Submit and your product will be promote in Yahoo! Shopping and in highly relevant areas across Yahoo! and the Web. Online merchant only pay if a consumer actually clicks on your product listing. Online merchant can manage their program with an easy-to-use, Web-based management system, including easy access to reports, alerts, and more. Online merchant can also have their products included in Yahoo! Shopping by signing up for Yahoo! Merchant Solutions. Yahoo! Merchant Solutions is Yahoo!'s e-commerce offering that allows online merchant to create and manage their store online. When online merchant use Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, their’ll receive a discount on Yahoo! Product Submit and their products can automatically be sent to Yahoo! Shopping. Online merchant also have the option to enable Yahoo! Shopping to crawl your site at no cost. However, there's no guarantee to be considered or to be included in Yahoo! Shopping.

There are two ways to get online merchant products listed in Yahoo! Shopping. Current Yahoo! Store merchants can continue to participate in Yahoo! Shopping by opting into Shopping within the Store Manager tool. online merchant will continue to be charged the appropriate network revenue share fee. If online merchant upgrade to the new Yahoo! Merchant Solutions service, their can opt in to Yahoo! Product Submit by simply clicking the " Yahoo! Shopping" link under "Promote" from Store Manager tool. Your product data is pulled from online merchant store, and Yahoo! also categorizes online merchant products into Yahoo! Shopping categories as a default. Instead of being charged a revenue share fee, online merchant are charged a cost-per-click price that varies by Yahoo! Shopping category.

"My Saved Products" is a place where online merchant can collect and save products that interest their. Use it for reference or to assist with future purchases. In addition, you can add notes about the products on My Saved Products, and compare different products on their list. Online merchant can add hundreds of products to My Saved Products, and they stay on online merchant list until online merchant remove them. Online merchant have no obligation to buy the items on My Saved Products—it's simply a place to collect and store products that interest you.

If we don't already have a Yahoo! ID, we need to create one. So we can use all yahoo feature. When we have a Yahoo! ID, we can start adding products to My Saved Products in Yahoo! Shopping. In addition, we'll gain access to all other personalized Yahoo! services.

Look for the "My Saved Products" link at the top of the page on the right. We must have a Yahoo! account and be signed in to use My Saved Products.

Click the "Save this Product" link that's found under or next to the product.

Removing a product from My Saved Products is easy. Simply go to My Saved Products and click the "remove" link found under the image of the product you want to remove. A pop-up window asks you to confirm the removal of the product.

If we decide to buy a product from My Saved Products, click the product title, product image, or either the "Buy It" or "Compare Prices" button. We're then taken to a page on which we can find more info about the product-including tax and shipping costs-and then purchase the product.

By: Atan