Shop Carefully is a new venture, founded to show to the public the “other” sites than the ones that come up on page 1 of the Search Engines – you know, the ones we all know about and buy from and swear by and when we see the name of it in the list, we stop looking. Shop Carefully has been designed to help you find other sites on the internet where you can buy products and services at good prices, with good customer service and reasonable shipping rates. They may not be as well known as the “top-of-the-list” sites but they sometimes give better service than the well-known sites. Shop Carefully gives you a way to compare what the well-known sites are offering with what the lesser-known sites are offering and you may find that the lesser-known sites will many times exceed your expectations AND out-perform the well-known sites. And you’ll get all this without having to do hours of research on the web.

Here’s how Shop Carefully works:

We have chosen these 15 categories where websites are listed:

§ Animals and Pets
§ Apparel
§ Arts
§ Automobiles and Trucks
§ Business
§ Computers
§ Electronics and Appliances
§ Food and Restaurants
§ Health and Beauty
§ Home
§ Miscellaneous
§ Real Estate
§ Recreation
§ Services
§ Sports and Games

To find websites that interest you follow these simple steps:

Step 1: Click on the category that interests you.
Step 2: Using the link provided, visit the site(s) you choose.
Step 3: Return to Shop Carefully and rate the site.

So, Shop Carefully is a community site where shoppers can rate any site that they have visited on Shop Carefully so that the community can benefit from the experiences of “real shoppers” (not those “Mystery Shoppers” who aren’t REALLY shopping but pretending). As a Careful Shopper, your horizons will be broadened as you find previously unknown websites that offer products and service as good as, if not better than, the well-known sites and then others will benefit from your experiences if you return and share your story. Of course, you will benefit from the experiences of other Careful Shoppers who have joined the community and rate the sites they use as well.

As the information grows on Shop Carefully, there will be a newsletter for each of the 15 categories that all users can subscribe to in order to keep informed about good places to shop online in the categories that are of interest. You will be invited to contribute information and articles to these newsletters to keep the entire community informed about places to Shop Carefully on the web.