Welcome to Vera's Unique Gifts and General Merchandise

Here you'll find something for everyone...from the hard to please to the man who has everything.

Gifts for the family, for the kitchen, auto, electronics, home and garden.

If there is some specific item that you're looking for, please contact me, as this store is new, I may not have added the product yet.

Gift Certificates and Catalogs are available.

An Affiliate Program is coming soon.

You may contact me using any of the forms of communication listed below



My contact information

By email:
vmnubbi@yahoo.com
vmnubbi@sbcglobal.net

Business email address:
VeraMartin@veramartin.com

By standard mail:
Vera Martin
3126 N. 37th St. Lower
Milwaukee, WI
53216

By phone:
775-637-6806
Toll Free:1-877-225-5928(enter 775-637-6806)
(between 9a.m. and 1 p.m. CT)



• Anti-scam rule 1: Scammers pretending to be someone they are not cannot harm you if you delete their e-mails without clicking on any of the things they want you to click on.

Lately I’ve been getting official looking e-mails that appear to be from banks. They have beautiful logos and extremely official looking forms. One supposedly from Washington Mutual Security begins, “WAMU is committed to maintaining a safe environment for its community of buyers and sellers. To protect the security of your account, WAMU employs some of the most advanced security systems in the world and our anti-fraud teams regularly screen the WAMU system for unusual activity.”

Note the emphasis on safety and security. They even have an anti-fraud team! In order to “secure my account” I’m supposed to click on a link and supply information -- information which will lead them from my pretend account with them to my real account, which they will then kindly clean out for me.

• Anti-scam rule 2: Your bank does not need you to “confirm” your account number, your credit card numbers, or your social security number. It already has all the information it needs. As for some official sounding bank you’ve never heard of -- sheesh!

• Anti-scam rule 3: Give your credit information online only when you have gone to a legitimate website and are in the process of purchasing something from it. People who buy things from my website, http://store.veramartin,com, a very legitimate site, as part of the purchasing process are taken to a safe place online, so they can give their credit card information directly to the credit card company with whom I have a legal contract.

As the owner of the site, I NEVER SEE THE CREDIT CARD NUMBERS! All the credit card company gives me is the name and address of the person to whom I should mail the merchandise, what they ordered, and how much they paid. And that is the way all legitimate online merchants deal with your credit card information. We say your information is safe, and it is.
THINK YOU'RE TOO smart to fall for a scam? In 2006 alone, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) received more than 674,000 fraud complaints, costing consumers a reported $1.1 billion. On average, consumers who reported a monetary loss were conned out of $3,257.

One way to make sure you avoid falling prey is to know what to watch out for. Identity theft tops the FTC list, comprising 36 percent of all fraud complaints. Besides stealing your identity, crooks have other tricks up their sleeves that can take you by surprise.
Here are five to look out for.

Top 5ive Consumer Scams to avoid

Keep these simple steps in mind -- and help yourself steer clear of the many, many online scams that abound. And remember, keep smiling and spread the word!

VeraMartin@veramartin.com