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The whole concept of online commerce hinges on convenience, particularly during the frantic holiday shopping season. Unfortunately, some well-known Web merchants left consumers seriously dissatisfied in the past year.

U.S. shoppers spent 15 percent more in online holiday buying compared to last year, after what may have been the busiest week of the season, said research firm comScore on Sunday. Shoppers have spent $30.9 billion online from Nov. 1 through Dec. 16, up from $26.9 billion at the same point last year, said the Reston, Va., company, which tracks Web use.

Watch out, Cyber Monday: Green Monday is gaining traction with shoppers. Consumers flexed their thumb-shopping muscles on Dec. 12, Green Monday -- the second Monday in December that's become another big day for online holiday shopping.

We all know that buying a fake Fendi is "bad" to the degree that selling such goods is illegal, and they hurt the companies whose good are being copied, and the economy overall. But it turns out that knockoffs are problematic in many other ways as well: Buying them can put your health and your money at risk.

For back-to-school shopping this year, more parents are cutting back on non-school expenses so they can buy their kids clothes and school supplies, while spending less on computers and electronics.That's one nugget of data from a new survey by Bing shopping, part of the new Microsoft search engine,...

A new site called Ztail that claims to answer the question: What's it worth? The site provides the answer in several forms: the list price at several stores, the average price on eBay, reviews and then finally readers' opinions. The last part makes it kind of fun. like an online The Price is Right....