subject: How To Ensure Safe Delivery Of Gifts To India [print this page] There are many occasions when people send gifts to India for their friends, family and relations. As the technology is developing fast, so has increased the value of time. Now they do not go to market, buy gifts, get them packed, and take them to the local courier or postal department to book for some address in India. All they do now is select a gift from online gift stores, place their order, make payment and done. It takes hardly a few minutes to send a gift to India. They save time and money both. But, sometimes this easy approach turns into a bad experience and a great monetary loss, when they find that, even after many days of your order, the gift has not been delivered to the ordered address. Or the gift was delivered in pieces, or damaged condition. What do they do then? They immediately call to the vendor and spend more money on calls only to get fake empty assurances and at last they give up.
They do not know whether this was an accident or this is the practice of that particular online vendor. While dealing online, you can not sense what the person is there for. There are good and bad both types of persons available online. What will become of these looters is a different matter, what should be your concern is how you can protect yourself from such frauds while sending online gifts to India.
Here are some precautions that you can take to ensure that you are dealing with a genuine online gift to India service.
-Check the seniority of the service. The fraudulent activities, be the in physical world or online, have very short life span. They do not last long in both the situations. But they can always come up with a different name and style to disguise you again. Thus you should make sure that the site you are going to send gift to India with is there for quite some time. You can check its seniority by making relevant searches online and also by checking the age of its domain, if needed.
-Talk to them those who are there to deceive you will, most possibly, not be sitting there to attend your calls in different time zones. They will not be attending your calls. If the do pick up your calls, you will instantly know whether they are reliable or not by asking a few questions about their services. On the other hand, those who mean fair business will attend you calls immediately, respond positively and will even give you return call, if you need to.
-SSL Certificates The genuine online sites that send gifts to India adopt 100% safe SSL (Secure Socket Layer) technology for data protection. You can check if the site has installed an SSL certificate.
These are few techniques which are easy to perform and can be used by anyone to ensure that he / she is dealing with authentic online gift portal for sending gifts to India.
