Welcome to Shopping Guide Homepage

theShoppingBoard.com provides 100’s of shopping resources for U.S. and international consumers offering 1000’s of Shops from more than 200 Shopping Categories. We hope to provide you a Shopping Guide for American shopping as well as International Shopping and how best to take advantage of our shopping portal. Find below a selection of the most popular features here on theShoppingBoard.com and learn more how you can best use our site to your advantage.

International Shipping
Free Shipping
Shipping Costs
Secure Shopping
Returns & Refunds
Currency Converter
Visit our Shopping Forum

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International Shipping

Probably our most targeted consumer base are shoppers from the USA and Canada. However, we are pleased to provide our visitors American and Canadian shop that provide international shipping to the UK, Australia and New Zealand, Asia and Europe as well as South American and beyond. You are able to see instantly whether a certain shop offers "International Shipping" to your country as we'll clearly state it with the shop description. Note: Receiving orders from abroad to countries such as the UK and Ireland may require you to pay Import Duties. Please find out more about International Shipping.

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Free Shipping

Many online Shops can be very generous when it comes to Shipping Costs. However, even better offers include Free Shipping for any orders you make, or orders over a certain value. This provides huge savings for Consumers on Shoppers on the net and does not cost you know more than the price your paying for with the Product, or Products or purchased. Please find out more about Free Shipping.

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Shipping Costs

When you make an order from an online shop, be sure to get a better idea of the item you purchased how much it will cost you for Shipping and delivery. For basic items such as DVDs, CDs, Books average Shipping costs should cost about $2.00 to $5.00. However larger items like TVs, Furniture and Electrical Appliances would cost up to $10.00 to $30.00US. Most importantly don’t be taken for a ride, once in a while you may feel your getting a great saving, but you may not know it as you will be paying high Shipping Costs. This is usually common on eBay as people feel they can make up the difference by charging extra on the Shipping Costs. This can sometimes add up as much as the items you purchased.

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Secure Shopping

For any online shopper, it is vital you keep your personal information safe and away from potential fraud. When shopping online from e-Commerce Shops, be sure there is a small picture of a GOLDEN KEY. or something similar near the bottom right corner of your screen. This tells you that the shop is run on a Secure Server, preventing anyone from stealing your Credit Card and other personal detail when you place it on an order form to process your order online. Without this feature the Shop in question may not be secure and vulnerable to Fraudsters. Once in a while you may be taken to a third party website to process your order, PayPal and Google Checkout in particular need you to login to your account to fully process your order.

  1. Never ever give anyone your Credit Card details unless from a Secure Form and a well trusted site.
  2. Keep your PC Monitor Hidden when placing your Credit or Debit Card Details.
  3. Keep your Password and Login Details to yourself.
  4. Before you sell or give away your computer, consider removing the Hard Drive first, it can contain your personal data.

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Returns & Refunds

Before purchasing from a shop in the US, be sure to learn more about their Returns and Refunds policy. Most Returns and Refunds policies include Wrong Item Sent or Broken Items when Refund is required. To be entitled to a full refund, do not Open the Item or you could be entitled to only a partial refund. However, many shops will allow you to return the item within 30 Days to receive your full refund. For International Orders, Shipping Costs may be paid for you including US Shipping. Now and again, international orders may not be required for orders to be sent back if the error was the shops mistake.

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Currency Converter

For International Shopping it is vital you no how much you are spending rather then taking a lucky guess. Please be sure the Online Shop offers a Currency Converter whereby all the Products on their Website will change into your own currency. However, if this feature is not available to you, you can always us a free Currency Converter Tool on the Internet. Please consider using either of these currency converter sites: XE or CurrencyConverter.co.uk.

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Visit our Forum

Go interactive with our Shopping Forum where you can participate in for free. Talk with other users about anything shopping related in our own Forum. Read other peoples Experiences with subjects on Shopping, Online Shops, Products and Services, Customer Support and so much more. Write or Review a Shop or Product with our Reviews and Ratings section. Find the cheapest prices on popular products by Comparing Prices.

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