FAQ
Q: How can I place an order at PaulsDepot.com?
A: Choose the item that you wish to purchase, click on "Buy Now" or " Add to cart" button and make the online payment. Soon, you would receive an order confirmation email from us. This email contains your order and shipment details.
Q: Are there any hidden costs such as delivery charges, taxes etc ?
A: No, there are no hidden charges.
Q: My order is shown to be in ' Processing' state. What does it mean?
A: Your order passes through following states before it finally enters the 'Shipped' state: a) Processing: This is the default status for your order and it comes as soon as order is placed. b) Processed: Your order/payment has been approved by our payment gateway. We are ready with the product and the order will be executed as per your specifications. c) Shipped: Your order has been successfully shipped from our end; or d) Cancelled: Your order could not be approved by our payment gateway or we are not in a position to deliver the goods due to some constraints.
Q: Is my information secure using this site?
A: Yes, we use the latest technology to ensure your information is secure. To get more information, visit our "Privacy Policy" page.
Q. How do I contact you?
A: Please visit our "Contact Us" page to see the best ways to get in touch with a Paulsdepot.com representative.
Q: How do I find items to purchase?
A: You can use the "search box" at the bottom of the screen. This is located in the ordering section of the website. Enter in the item’s description or part of it and the system will search our database of items.
Q: Can I save time shopping online?
A: You’ll save tons of time when you shop online.
• You do not have to drive to the mall, park, hike inland for a mile or so, buy stuff, hike back, and drive home.
• You can shop whenever you want. These stores are always open. If you get an urge to book a trip at 2 A.M., you can work out all the details, and have tickets coming your way even though all real travel agents are asleep.
• The minute you enter an online store, you can find what you want a lot faster than you can going from department to department in a big mall store.
• Purchases that involve purely electronic transactions can be completed in a few seconds (or minutes, on a very busy day). For instance, several online stock-brokers promise that trades will be completed within ten seconds. If you reserve a car, flight, or hotel via the Web, you get confirmation in less than a minute.You’ll save even more time if you use our book. We steer you past the biggest time-wasters for Web shoppers, such as:
• Web sites that pretend to be stores but are just brochures advertising a retail store or mail-order company. These sites may offer online catalogs, but they force you to call their offices to buy anything, or, worse, urge you to come on down to the mall outside a city 2,000 miles from your home.
• Web sites that look like stores but are actually just the owner’s opinions. For instance, if you go to a site that sounds as if it might sell CDs, you may discover what someone thinks of a new band, period.
• Web sites that are lists of other Web sites. Most of these lists include every site that has anything to do with the topic, including university courses, personal pages, magazines, newsgroups, and, oh, some stores. Depending on the dedication of the list maker, these links may be 5% to 20% broken. The best-maintained lists include a wide range of sites, from information hoards to online stores, without extensive evaluation of the real worth of the sites, and with descriptions that are often a bit vague, leaving one unsure whether or not a particular site actually sells stuff.
• Graphics-heavy sites that take forever to download.
• Amateur and back-alley sites that try to sell you their products without using a secure connection.
Q: Well, what does take time when I shop online?
A: Starting your computer, getting connected to the Web, and deciding where to go to shop: these take more time than they should, particularly if you are using an older computer and regular phone lines. Other ways you might spend more time than you expected:• You may get distracted by all the neat products. If you are browsing rather than looking for one particular item, you can enjoy yourself for quite a while, learning about a product category, considering various products, comparing prices. Oddly, most people do not notice time passing when they are doing this kind of research, so you may easily pass half an hour or more at a giant store, amusing yourself, downloading free software, playing this or that tune. Strictly speaking, this takes time. But because it’s fun (and informative), most people don’t object.• Filling in a store’s registration or order form for the first time may involve typing your name and address into little slots, which can take a few minutes if you are a hunt-and-peck keyboarder.• When you buy a physical item such as a book, CD, or computer, you do have to wait a day or two for delivery, or a week if you decide to save money on shipping. But for many people, getting a book or CD within a day or two is good enough, and not having to take an hour or so to go to a physical store is the real time-saver.
Q: How private is the information I provide to an online store?
Your credit card information is safer online, within a secure shopping area, than it is when you give your card to a waiter at a restaurant or a clerk at a gas station. Far more credit card fraud stems from stolen paper receipts than from hackers intercepting transmissions to and from a secure shopping site.But the real question is: What will the store do with your email address and street address? Will the store sell that to other companies, so you end up getting junk email and paper catalogs?Recently, the Federal Trade Commission at http://www.ftc.gov/ found that 86% of online stores provided no information about how they would use this kind of demographic data. Reasonably enough, many customers at these stores have refused to provide such information at one time or another, and 40% have occasionally provided fake information, which often results in the credit card companies rejecting the request to charge a purchase. Eighty percent of Web users said they wouldn’t object if the stores would just issue a statement promising not to resell the personal data.Many of the stores we like do provide what they call a Privacy Statement inside their Customer Service area, the Frequently Asked Questions, or Help. Most of these statements say that they will only use the information in the aggregate, to spot trends, and they will only send you email about specials if you click a button indicating that you would like to receive these messages (permission email). And most swear they will not pass along the data to another company.But you may not see these policies, because you have to poke around a bit to find them. Best is when a store puts their promise not to divulge the information on the very form in which they are asking for the data.We think the situation is improving, particularly in the best stores. But if you have any qualms, look for that privacy statement, and if you don’t find it, or you find it and don’t like it, just exit. There are plenty of stores that really care about privacy, so you don’t have to settle for one that seems indifferent to your concerns.
A: Choose the item that you wish to purchase, click on "Buy Now" or " Add to cart" button and make the online payment. Soon, you would receive an order confirmation email from us. This email contains your order and shipment details.
Q: Are there any hidden costs such as delivery charges, taxes etc ?
A: No, there are no hidden charges.
Q: My order is shown to be in ' Processing' state. What does it mean?
A: Your order passes through following states before it finally enters the 'Shipped' state: a) Processing: This is the default status for your order and it comes as soon as order is placed. b) Processed: Your order/payment has been approved by our payment gateway. We are ready with the product and the order will be executed as per your specifications. c) Shipped: Your order has been successfully shipped from our end; or d) Cancelled: Your order could not be approved by our payment gateway or we are not in a position to deliver the goods due to some constraints.
Q: Is my information secure using this site?
A: Yes, we use the latest technology to ensure your information is secure. To get more information, visit our "Privacy Policy" page.
Q. How do I contact you?
A: Please visit our "Contact Us" page to see the best ways to get in touch with a Paulsdepot.com representative.
Q: How do I find items to purchase?
A: You can use the "search box" at the bottom of the screen. This is located in the ordering section of the website. Enter in the item’s description or part of it and the system will search our database of items.
Q: Can I save time shopping online?
A: You’ll save tons of time when you shop online.
• You do not have to drive to the mall, park, hike inland for a mile or so, buy stuff, hike back, and drive home.
• You can shop whenever you want. These stores are always open. If you get an urge to book a trip at 2 A.M., you can work out all the details, and have tickets coming your way even though all real travel agents are asleep.
• The minute you enter an online store, you can find what you want a lot faster than you can going from department to department in a big mall store.
• Purchases that involve purely electronic transactions can be completed in a few seconds (or minutes, on a very busy day). For instance, several online stock-brokers promise that trades will be completed within ten seconds. If you reserve a car, flight, or hotel via the Web, you get confirmation in less than a minute.You’ll save even more time if you use our book. We steer you past the biggest time-wasters for Web shoppers, such as:
• Web sites that pretend to be stores but are just brochures advertising a retail store or mail-order company. These sites may offer online catalogs, but they force you to call their offices to buy anything, or, worse, urge you to come on down to the mall outside a city 2,000 miles from your home.
• Web sites that look like stores but are actually just the owner’s opinions. For instance, if you go to a site that sounds as if it might sell CDs, you may discover what someone thinks of a new band, period.
• Web sites that are lists of other Web sites. Most of these lists include every site that has anything to do with the topic, including university courses, personal pages, magazines, newsgroups, and, oh, some stores. Depending on the dedication of the list maker, these links may be 5% to 20% broken. The best-maintained lists include a wide range of sites, from information hoards to online stores, without extensive evaluation of the real worth of the sites, and with descriptions that are often a bit vague, leaving one unsure whether or not a particular site actually sells stuff.
• Graphics-heavy sites that take forever to download.
• Amateur and back-alley sites that try to sell you their products without using a secure connection.
Q: Well, what does take time when I shop online?
A: Starting your computer, getting connected to the Web, and deciding where to go to shop: these take more time than they should, particularly if you are using an older computer and regular phone lines. Other ways you might spend more time than you expected:• You may get distracted by all the neat products. If you are browsing rather than looking for one particular item, you can enjoy yourself for quite a while, learning about a product category, considering various products, comparing prices. Oddly, most people do not notice time passing when they are doing this kind of research, so you may easily pass half an hour or more at a giant store, amusing yourself, downloading free software, playing this or that tune. Strictly speaking, this takes time. But because it’s fun (and informative), most people don’t object.• Filling in a store’s registration or order form for the first time may involve typing your name and address into little slots, which can take a few minutes if you are a hunt-and-peck keyboarder.• When you buy a physical item such as a book, CD, or computer, you do have to wait a day or two for delivery, or a week if you decide to save money on shipping. But for many people, getting a book or CD within a day or two is good enough, and not having to take an hour or so to go to a physical store is the real time-saver.
Q: How private is the information I provide to an online store?
Your credit card information is safer online, within a secure shopping area, than it is when you give your card to a waiter at a restaurant or a clerk at a gas station. Far more credit card fraud stems from stolen paper receipts than from hackers intercepting transmissions to and from a secure shopping site.But the real question is: What will the store do with your email address and street address? Will the store sell that to other companies, so you end up getting junk email and paper catalogs?Recently, the Federal Trade Commission at http://www.ftc.gov/ found that 86% of online stores provided no information about how they would use this kind of demographic data. Reasonably enough, many customers at these stores have refused to provide such information at one time or another, and 40% have occasionally provided fake information, which often results in the credit card companies rejecting the request to charge a purchase. Eighty percent of Web users said they wouldn’t object if the stores would just issue a statement promising not to resell the personal data.Many of the stores we like do provide what they call a Privacy Statement inside their Customer Service area, the Frequently Asked Questions, or Help. Most of these statements say that they will only use the information in the aggregate, to spot trends, and they will only send you email about specials if you click a button indicating that you would like to receive these messages (permission email). And most swear they will not pass along the data to another company.But you may not see these policies, because you have to poke around a bit to find them. Best is when a store puts their promise not to divulge the information on the very form in which they are asking for the data.We think the situation is improving, particularly in the best stores. But if you have any qualms, look for that privacy statement, and if you don’t find it, or you find it and don’t like it, just exit. There are plenty of stores that really care about privacy, so you don’t have to settle for one that seems indifferent to your concerns.
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