Dr Z's StarryMart and why he choses to use Paypal

Fulfillment of all orders in Dr Z's StarryMart is via email. Fulfillment of your order through PayPal is normally within 7 calendar days. This saves you money (you're not paying for Dr Z's ink, paper, and stamps), and you also get your order filled more quickly (since you're not waiting around on snail mail delivery). All computer generated interpretation readings now by default come in the form of the multi-platform PDF Adobe file read with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader (or if requested a DOC Word 2003 file or a RTF file) attached to the email. If you discover that you're incredibly "technically challenged" and cannot open and read the attached file, then the readings can always be pasted to the body of an email.

The fact is, folks, that it's a big, ugly, and scary world out there in the vast wastelands of internet commerce. So Dr Z chose a payment service that both he and his customers could feel comfortable with and trust.

When originally choosing PayPal, Dr Z felt safer in knowing that he was doing business with an old and trusted friend, PayPal. Now that PayPal has been acquired by eBay, Dr Z feels twice as comfortable!

Buying From A Stranger
Dr Z sure as heck doesn't like to think of himself as being a "stranger" to you. After all, Dr Z and The Zodiac Master web site has been continously online since September 1996. As a pioneer of astrology on the Web, Dr Z's The Zodiac Master was 1 of only 10 astrology sites selected for review in the Nov 98 Edition of Yahoo Internet Life Magazine! For over 7 years, from June 1999 to July 2006, Dr Z was the expert astrology guide at About.com.

But let's face it, folks... ordering stuff online (especially from a pesky astrologer) still feels more than a wee bit "dicey" and "dubious" (at best)... so making your purchase via PayPal should help make you feel a heck of lot more secure and safe than mailing a check or handing over your credit card information to a total stranger.

Yep! That's right! When paying with PayPal, your credit card and/or bank numbers are never seen by the seller or merchant. Your financial information stays safe.

PayPal Has Optimized The Checkout Experience
And great news! PayPal has now attempted to optimize your checkout experience. For new buyers shopping at StarryMart, the hassle of signing up for a PayPal account is now totally optional. This means that you can complete your payment first, and then decide whether or not to actually join PayPal, by saving your information for future purchases.

(Please note this common potential snafu: If you decide not to join PayPal by saving your customer information with PayPal, you will not magically be sent to a page on my site to fill out a form with your birthdata and such. There will, however, be a "Return To Merchant" link where you can choose to return to my site. Please select that link as it will take you directly to the birth data form.

If, on the other hand, you choose to sign up for a PayPal account, then PayPal will let you pay anyone with an email address and is the world's #1 online payment service - it's accepted on over 3 million eBay (TM) auctions and thousands of online shops. You can also use PayPal to pay your friends; it's a convenient way to split the phone bill with your roommate or send cash to someone in another country.

If you're a member of PayPal, when sending money through the PayPal Shopping Cart, then you can fund your payments with your credit card, checking account, or PayPal account. There's never a need to worry about your privacy, because PayPal keeps your account information safe. Anyway... that's a small part of why well over 10 million people from around the world use PayPal to move their money.

How Does The PayPal Shopping Cart Work?
During the purchase process, you (the buyer) are not directed into the PayPal site. However you will be using safe and secure PayPal pages. When you as a buyer wish to purchase an item on Dr Z's web site, you will click on the "Add to Cart" button next to the item. Clicking on this button will launch a new mini web browser window (or tab page) with a secure page hosted by PayPal displaying the contents of the Shopping Cart.

If you click to continue shopping, the mini browser window will close, and you will be taken back to Dr Z's web site. If however you are using a tab browser, (depending on the particular tab browser) you may need to manually close the tab.

You can always view the contents of your shopping cart by clicking another "Add to Cart" button to purchase another item, or by clicking on a convenient "View Cart" button. Here, you can change the quantity of the item, continue shopping, remove items from the cart, or check out.

If not already a PayPal member... When you decide to make a purchase, you are walked through three easy steps:

1. Billing/Shipping information — Customers enter credit card information, email address (and optional phone number). You also have the option to send a message to Dr Z. The billing/shipping info and the optional phone number serve as a backup system for those odd times when delivery via your email address proves to be a "problem."

2. Review of payment information — Customers review what they’ve entered to make sure it’s correct. They can either edit the information or complete the checkout process.

3. Save customer information with PayPal (this is now totally optional) — To shop more quickly and easily in the future, you can choose to save the personal information that you’ve already entered with PayPal. Then to create a PayPal account, all you need to do is choose a password and answer a few security questions.

Please note this most common potential snafu: If you decide not to join PayPal by saving your customer information with PayPal, you will not magically be sent to a page on my site to fill out a form with your birthdata and such. There will, however, be a "Return To Merchant" link where you can choose to return to my site. Please select that link as it will take you back to my site and directly to the birth data form.

If you are already a PayPal member... when you click to check out (and if PayPal recognizes you and/or your email address as you are filling out the purchase information), you will be prompted to enter your existing PayPal password. If there are sufficient funds in your PayPal account to pay for the item, or if the account is funded with a credit card, then the amount of the purchase will be deducted from your account balance or sending limit. Upon completing your order, you will be magically sent to a page on my site to fill out a form with your birth data and such.

Please Note: If you're a "doubting Thomas," and/or otherwise like most of us just a wee bit nervous whenever shopping online with a new, unknown and/or different vendor, then click on an "Add To Cart" or "View Cart" button. Check out the URL of the small shopping cart window and you'll see that it's definitely a secure (beginning with https) PayPal URL window.

Also, if you're using Internet Explorer 7 or Firefox 3, in the URL you can read PayPal's Verisign Certificate assuring you that the site is what it says it is and that it is using high 128 bit security encryption. If you're using an older version of Internet Explorer a small padlock appears at the bottom of your Internet Explorer window. You can double-click this padlock to see who verifies the identity of the remote computer and issues the SSL keys. (Try it on the View Cart button just below.)

About eBay
eBay is the world's online marketplace(TM). Founded in 1995, eBay created a powerful platform for the sale of goods and services by a passionate community of individuals and businesses. On any given day, there are millions of items across thousands of categories for sale on eBay through auction or fixed price formats. eBay enables trade on a local, national and international basis with customized sites in markets around the world.

About PayPal
PayPal enables any business or consumer with email to send and receive Internet payments securely, conveniently and cost-effectively. PayPal's account-based network builds on the existing financial infrastructure of bank accounts and credit cards to create a global payment system. Based in Mountain View, California, PayPal is available to users in 38 countries including the United States.

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Fulfillment of all orders in Dr Z's StarryMart is via email. Fulfillment of your order through PayPal is normally within 7 calendar days. This saves you money (you're not paying for Dr Z's ink, paper, and stamps), and you also get your order filled more quickly (since you're not waiting around on snail mail delivery). All computer generated interpretation readings now come in the form of the multi-platform PDF Adobe file read with the free Adobe Acrobat Reader (or if requested a DOC Word 2003 file or a RTF file) attached to the email. If you discover that you're incredibly "technically challenged" and cannot open and read the attached file, then the readings can always be pasted to the body of an email.

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