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Buying a garden fountain or water feature online
Buying on the internet is very convenient, you can view many more designs than you would find in any garden centre but the problem is not being able to touch/feel your fountain before you buy. For the most part this can be offset by good pictures of the designs together with acurate descriptions but there is perhaps more of an element of trust involved.
Best practise for choosing a site to purchase from is to hold back from clicking checkout and just look for an 'about us' and a 'contact us' page, who are these people I am about to buy from ? If the site doesnt give any address details then there may be a problem if something goes wrong. Try to avoide those sites that pretend to be genuine retailers but just redirect you to another site to purchase from another company, often these are just affiliate sites run on the basis of making revenue from your clicks and will be of no help if your garden fountain or water feature doesnt arrive or is of poor quality and you wish to get a refund.
To stay safe when purchasing from online retailers is, look for who they are ? and Where they are ? if you cant answer these questions then probably not a good place to buy.
Even worse are those sites pretending to be impartial sources of advice, these will usually be set up on a .org or .info domain to give the illusion of impartial free advice, at best all you will get is blocks of totally useless text with repetative keywords (for the search engines) punctuated with links to barely relevant advertisments(The aim being to get you to click onto a product so they can earn revenue from the adverts) and at worst the links will take you to virus laden pages.
If a website portrays itself as an impartial source of information try to contact them, Although some may have apparent contact forms you will never get a reply since they dont work, its just a scam to make the site seem legitemate, the site owner has no interest in talking to you or helping you in any way.
So if the content on the website appears to be large but on reading doesn't actually give you any useful information, beware!
Get value for your money many people make money on the internet by selling other peoples products, this obviously adds an extra cost to the purchase price you pay,some manufactures of garden fountains and water features have their own websites and if you seek them out direct you can save yourself a considerable amount of money.
