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Money Fix: Being a savvy tablet shopper

New iPad owner Becky Kopprasch, a social media

Photo credit: Handout | New iPad owner Becky Kopprasch, a social media marketing professional, says, “I do get ‘app-buyer’s remorse’ and question whether I should have purchased them. But unlike a regular store, the app store doesn’t have a return policy! The problem with purchasing apps is it is soooo easy to do with just the tap of a button.”

Patricia Kitchen

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Patricia Kitchen is a business writer who writes about workplace,

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Love those iPads. Not sure, though, how we'll enjoy getting monthly credit card bills reflecting increased purchases on those and other tablets.

Forrester Research has found that tablet users are a little more likely to touch "buy" than shoppers on traditional computers, though purchases on tablets are still a small segment of e-commerce overall.

Money experts say that awareness is the...

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