Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Cooling Off Period for Online Shopping


When you shop online in Ireland - under EU regulations you  have up to 7 working days to return the goods or withdraw from the service without having to give any reason or without incurring any penalty.
In other words - you can get a full refund if you just don’t like the goods. You may however have to pay for the cost of returning the goods.The goods must be sent back by you within 7 working days of recieving them .


There are however some exceptions:
Perishable goods or goods made to your specifications or clearly personalised
Audio or video recordings or computer software which were unsealed by the consumer e.g. DVDs, software installation CDs which have the seal removed.
Newspapers, periodicals and magazines
Goods or services the price of which is dependent on fluctuations in the financial market which cannot be controlled by the supplier.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Top Online Clothes Shops that Deliver to Ireland

The number of shops that now do online shopping in Ireland has gradually increased over the past few years.
In the early days of online shopping - Ireland was only served by a small number of shops. Now - most of the major UK retailers deliver to Ireland and  some offer free delivery .
We can now buy almost everything online in Ireland - from books to beds, candles to cooking utensils, Clothes , Shoes, Electronics , DVDs , ebooks , toys - the list goes on.

These is our list of some of the best online clothes shops that deliver to Ireland.

Amazon
ASOS
Boden
Burtons
Debenhams
Dorothy Perkins
GAP
House of Fraser
Marks and Spencer
M&M
Miss Selfridge  
Monsoon
New Look
Next
Republic
River Island  
Schuh 
Tesco Clothing
TopShop
Topman
Urban Outfitters
Wallis
Warehouse
Zara

Online Shopping Trends in Ireland

In Ireland it is mainly younger shoppers - primarily in their early 20s - buying clothing, sports gear and software
downloads that drive much of the online economy .
The second group of big online shoppers is women in their late thirties and early 40s, spending mainly on financial products and in online department stores.

According to the CSO  Dublin is the top place in Ireland for online shopping -  with 50% of adults buying online, followed by the west (Galway, Mayo and Roscommon) at 48%.

More Central Statistics Office (CSO) data shows that in 2011, 43% of Irish adults had shopped online within the previous 12 months.
That represents a sizeable increase from previous years – the comparative figure was  36% in 2010. The jump to 43% meant that Ireland was now on a par with the EU27 average in 2011 but some way behind the UK, where 71% of adults had bought online within the previous 12 months.

The rural nature of much of Ireland has limited the availability of online food shopping because of the delivery distances involved . Tesco is the main online grocery supplier in Ireland - they say they cover 85% of the population . Tesco online grocery shopping continued to grow rapidly in 2011 , with sales up 21pc to €57.1m.
Superquinn and Supervalu also offer online grocery shopping - but only in certain areas of the country .

Online Shopping Security


When doing online shopping - what do customers look for ?

In a 2012 survey by World Pay - online shopping customers listed their top 3 priorities as follows:
• the security of personal or financial information - 75 percent
• payment security checks - 66 percent
• guarantees and warranties provided for products or services - 57 percent

The top 5 things that would make online shopping more popular are:

Better payment security
Better protection of my personal details
Accurate delivery dates
Greater variety of payment methods
More customised offers

Online Shopping Times

Across the world, shoppers spend more online during the second half of the day.
A recent survey by WorldPay shows that 74% of global online spending takes place between the hours of midday to midnight, with most (44%) done during the evening.The ‘spending peak’ is.40pm  -  that is the time at which most customers are shopping online at a  global level.

95% of online spending across the globe is still done from home. Just over  64% of us  use our home PC to make online purchases, despite the multitude of other mobile devices available to shop online.