My Online Purchase

Good afternoon readers,

Today, I used a gift certificate for Amazon that I received as Christmas gift from my older brother. Another gift at Christmas that I received were a few novels from an author I had never read before. I have fallen in love with author and has gone through the first two books of a nine books series. I decided to use my gift certificate to purchase more books in this series and feed my love for reading!

Here is e-commerce in action!

This is my gift certificate:

The first thing I had to do was to apply the gift certificate to my Amazon account.

I typed in the URL on the back of the gift certificate which took me to the gift certificate page of Amazon.

After applying my gift certificate to my account, I went back to the Amazon.ca homepage. And it was time for the shopping to begin! Because I had been on Amazon recently, it already showed some recommended book choices for me.

 I simply typed in the author of the books I wanted.

I find Amazon really user friendly and it took less than a couple minutes for me to find one of the books that I was looking for.

Once I added the first book I wanted to my cart, the other two I was looking for showed up on the page so the rest of my shopping trip was pretty straight-forward.

Once I finished shopping, I proceeded to my "shopping cart".

 I even qualified for free shipping! Yay!

 

  After selecting my gift certificate as method of payment, I confirmed my mailing information and submitted my order.

 

Amazon is a great example of e-commerce. Many consider them to be the forerunners in e-commerce in the most effective ways. They offer a wide range of products and have developed an online shopping experience that is friendly for customers of all kinds. I thought the best way to explain e-commerce was to give a real-life example.

And now I'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of my new books!