Before make a purchase - site verify

I decided to dedicate this post to all skeptical of online purchases and give below some recommendations of the Guardia di Finanza to verify the legality of the site of a company that sells on the Internet:

Internet sites with the domain ".it", unlike all others, needs to fulfill certain obligations for their registration including the compilation and sending of the letter of responsibility accompanied by a copy of the registrant document to the Italian Authority (www.nic.it).

Against this, those who have provided for the registration of the site is easily traceable. It is a good idea to check in the pages of the site the presence of any reference (phone, fax, etc. physical location.) and use them for a first contact.

With regard to Internet sites with the domain ".com", they are not required to comply with any requirement of registration of domains (www.nic.it). They are therefore difficult to tracing those responsible for the site itself. It is advisable therefore, check on the home page of the site of any reference (phone, fax, etc. physical location.) to make an initial direct feedback contact them by phone, in order to assess the reliability of their activity on the web.

It is suggested that you still wary of those who enter on-line only e-mail as the only mode of contact. A good sign is finally, in the case of a business located in one of the European Union countries, the presence of web pages on VAT, which entering it into the form on-line site VIES you can see the data and comparing them with those at its disposal, find out if the company exists and corresponds to that if you are paying.

I also refer to the recommendations listed on the webpage E-COMMERCE SAFER (in Italian), on the website www.gat.gdf.it.