Online Shopping with a Conscience

Triple Clicks is a way to give back even if you don't think you can afford it. It is a gigantic web mall that contains mostly private seller listings, and offers you the opportunity to sell items you have that you no longer need, but unlike Ebay and other auction sites, a portion of the proceeds goes to support CARE.

From site: "TC is a bargain hunter's paradise. Browse thousands of quality used items including collectibles and items available nowhere else. New items added daily. 'Haggle' for the best price and snatch bargains for pennies on the dollar. TC makes it quick, simple and easy to sell the stuff you no longer need for cash! Use TC as your online garage sale to clean out your closets, attic and garage! Easily list and sell dozens of miscellaneous items."

That's right--discount shop and help to fight global poverty at the same time.

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CARE is an outstanding non-profit organization that is working on the front lines of the fight against global poverty. Every purchase you make through Triple Clicks helps them in this mission.

From site: "CARE is a leading humanitarian organization fighting global poverty. We place special focus on working alongside poor women because, equipped with the proper resources, women have the power to help whole families and entire communities escape poverty. Women are at the heart of CARE's community-based efforts to improve basic education, prevent the spread of HIV, increase access to clean water and sanitation, expand economic opportunity and protect natural resources. CARE also delivers emergency aid to survivors of war and natural disasters, and helps people rebuild their lives [...] Last year, CARE programs improved the lives of more than 55 million people in 66 countries. CARE not only feeds the hungry, we also help tackle underlying causes of poverty so that people can become self-sufficient. Recognizing that women and children suffer disproportionately from poverty, CARE places special emphasis on working with women to create permanent social change."

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"[...] Royal Mail, a sponsor of E-Christmas.com, recruited two sisters from Essex to participate in a test to determine exactly how much more convenient and less stressful online shopping is over store shopping [...] To judge how stressful each shopping experience was, their heart rates were taken at various stages of the experiment. The sister who went to the high street--as Main Street is known in the U.K.--took four hours to complete her Christmas shopping trip, including driving and visiting four parking lots before finding a space. Her heart rate started at 69, rose to 138 while shopping, and was 79 when she got home, "tired and cold, with sore feet," the report added. The sister who shopped online took 36 minutes to do her similar Christmas shopping, including logging on and off the Internet. Her heart rate started at 66 and didn`t rise above 67."
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"1. Lower prices. Online shopping can reduce overhead costs in a variety of ways, which can translate to lower prices for you. In fact, one 2004 study found online prices to be 6 to 16 percent lower than offline prices."
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"The main advantage of online shopping is that it allows people to browse through many items and categories without leaving their house, to compare the prices of as many shops as they want, and also to order as many items as they can afford without having to worry about how they will transport them, because the online shopping websites also deliver the things to the buyer's home. Furthermore, the Internet is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, so you don't have to hurry or worry about finding a parking spot."
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