Online flower services option has rapidly changed the way we do our shopping for flowers now a day. It has enabled us to pick our desired flowers from a huge range of floral arrangements, which we were never able to do in the past, and get these flowers and bouquets delivered to our home or offices. This mode of doing business has also been beneficial for the business owners as well, for example, instead of spending huge sums of money to decorate their shops, now they can just focus on the consumer and the end product.However like other e-businesses, finding a reliable online flower shop is still not a simple task, there are a lot of fraudsters who are acting as rotten tomatoes in this business of fragrance.

Some of the key elements to find and ensure that you are dealing with a legit online flower shop are as under;

1.Ask Around

The best protection you have online is the power of community, when you are dealing with an online flower shop or any other online business, first thing you should do to check their authenticity is to ask around the web, check for their reviews from earlier shoppers, if all comments are positive then also know that something is fishy.

2.Check and Compare Prices

As the old saying goes that if a deal looks too good to be true than it probably is, to ensure that you are dealing with a legit online shop then check around and compare the rates of competitive shops, if the difference of rates is more than 20 to 25 percent than be aware of that online shop. Better rates are the easiest way to capture the attention and hard earned dollar of the unsuspecting customer.

 3.Use Credit Card Instead of Debit Card

As general rules of business is to always try to use credit cards when you are online and never use debit cards, one logic of it is that your credit card is more secured than a debit card and you have better options to claim fraud on credit card instead of a debit card.

 4.Check for Safety Seals

While doing online business with any merchant, always try to find online safety seals, these seals are awarded to online businesses that conduct their businesses in a proper manner and are technologically efficient to secure the customers sensitive data is their data banks.

5.Check for Secure Connection Icon

Before hitting the send button on the flower delivery form, always make sure that the website is secured and check for appropriate logo near the browser address bar to make sure you are entering the data on the correct website, and some hacker is not snooping on your internet connection.

The above are some of the methods to safe guard yourself while doing online business. If you want to share your own thoughts on the subject matter or want to need further clarification then let me know through the comments section below. I love to hear your thoughts and inputs.