Online shopping in India is getting popular slowly and steadily. Its clearly evident from the stream of websites offering online products. Till now, i have restricted my online shopping to personalized gifts, mostly. Clothes, home needs, electronics are bought only after visiting a handful of shops and 'feeling' the product. This is the preferred way for most Indians, I feel, mainly because we don't have much online shops competing with lowest price guarantee and an established market as is the case abroad.

We always have our doubts about the genuineness of the website, quality of the product and the effort involved if it were to go wrong. Be it online or not, in general my experiences, when something goes wrong, were almost always nerve-wracking, even with the big brands. I should say, my blood pressure instantly shoots up when am in situation to call a customer care. Somehow, am not a big fan of this 'customer care' way of solving issues - guess that would deserve a separate post.

Anyways, things do not go wrong all the time. Am compiling below, in no particular order, few websites I have personally used one or more times and all was well. As I already mentioned, most of them are for buying gifts. It was easier, provided more choice, customized and less time consuming this way.

Apart from these, i always look for things in few websites, though i haven't personally bought anything yet.

I hope to add to this list in the future. Waiting to hear your experiences too.