| With the Christmas season approaching, here are 10 | | | | little prying hands and eyes). |
| reasons to do your toy shopping online. | | | | 7. Home or work delivery. The majority of online |
| 1. Child free. Trying to shop for the Christmas | | | | stores will happily deliver to your workplace or home. |
| presents with your children in tow does not really | | | | If you want the toys quickly, many stores will offer |
| work. Why not shop on the Internet when they are | | | | a courier option. While most stores will charge a |
| in bed or busy with something else? | | | | postage and packing fee, just think how much you |
| 2. Crowd free. Avoid the hustle and bustle of the | | | | have saved on car parking, petrol and time - and if |
| High Street, trying to get a pushchair around a | | | | you spend enough, the store will probably throw in |
| cramped and busy shop. | | | | free postage. |
| 3. 24/7 shopping. The Internet is open for shopping | | | | 8. Range of payment options. On the Internet you |
| at all hours. With the exception of a couple of large | | | | can pay easily by card. Many stores will accept |
| supermarkets, why tie yourself to when your local | | | | payment by cheque or postal order. Then there are |
| toy shops are open? | | | | also the online payment options such as PayPal. Don't |
| 4. Range of toys available. You can find pretty much | | | | forget that PayPal and many banks and credit card |
| every toy available on the Internet. It's a great way | | | | companies offer Internet fraud protection for online |
| to find unusual and different ideas when you get | | | | purchases. |
| stuck in the rut of buying the same type of present | | | | 9. Discounts. You may well get a good price on the |
| year after year - after all, our niche is wooden toys | | | | Internet, but the trick to getting extra discounts is to |
| and we stock some very hard to find items. A | | | | sign up for mailing lists on websites that interest you. |
| surefire way of getting away from the cloned High | | | | You will probably find that from time to time you will |
| Streets and malls we live with today. | | | | get extra offers, discounts and lower shipping costs. |
| 5. Time saving. The children are not with you - and | | | | 10. Right to Cancel. In many countries you have extra |
| do not know what you have got them. You are not | | | | rights when purchasing online. In Britain and the EU, |
| fighting off the crowds of other shoppers. You can | | | | you may cancel your order at any time during the |
| fit your shopping into a time that is convenient for | | | | first seven working days after delivery - for any |
| your. No finding the last parking space in town. Get | | | | reason at all.Above all play safe when paying for your |
| the toy shopping out of the way and when you do | | | | Christmas shopping. Check the page that asks for |
| go to the High Street, you can relax and shop for | | | | your payment details either has a padlock icon at the |
| fun. | | | | bottom or https:// before the web address. Check |
| 6. No shopping bags. Five full shopping bags hanging | | | | that you have 'real world' contact details for the |
| off the pushchair, the car parked at the top of a | | | | shop. Do a quick search on the Internet for the store |
| multistory carpark a mile away and the busy | | | | to see if anyone has reported unresolved |
| shopping center to negotiate. Shop online and juggling | | | | problems.Enjoy your Christmas shopping! |
| the shopping bags is history (as is keeping out the | | | | |