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	Getting Started HERE'S WHAT YOU DO! Search for products using keywords. View detailed information and photos for each product. Compare products head to head. Add products to your "Wish List." Search for products using keywords. Do the following 4 steps to create a Search. Click "Begin" on the Home Page. Wait for a short download of ski-equipment.com™. The Search screen will be displayed. Use the "Groups and Categories" menus to select up to 5 different categories of products. Use the "Sport" drop menu to select the Sport you are shopping for. Now click on the tab "Results" to see your search results.
	Who Wants Lists! View detailed information and photos for each product. Click on a product of your choice in the Results list. Poof! You're on the "Product Detail" screen now. Here you find detailed product information and photos. Click the big blue arrows to scroll back and forth through the products your search retrieved; you know, the "Results" list. Advanced Users: To be more selective about which product you want to view, click on the "Search" button on the Toolbar to view the "Results" list. Determine which product you want to view and click on it. Use this method when you do not wish to view every product on the list. Got it? Use the drop menus to select the attributes of a product that you would actually take home: color, pattern, size, etc. Click on the photo to see another view. Click on the photo again, or on "OK", to close that photo. Use the "Matching Sets" tab at the top, to see the product as part of a set of related products.
	What can I do besides look at product information? Compare products head to head. Like the product but want to compare it with other products? Click "Send to Comparison." Browse the products until you find another product to compare. Click "Send to Comparison." When you have sent a few products to Comparison you can use the Comparison button on the toolbar to view the Comparison screen. Poof! you're on the Comparison screen now. Click on a product in the list of products you have chosen to compare. Click one of the View buttons to see the product photo. Click another product you need to compare to the first product. Click the other View button to see that product's photo. Click on the Description, Customer Service, Retailers, Awards tabs one at a time to compare the product information. Make a decision! Which product is right for you?
	What else? Add products to your "Wish List." Like the product? Want it? Click "Send to Wish List" to hold it while you continue to shop. Poof! you're on the "Wish List" So, we're limited here while new functionality if being developed. At this time you at least have a list of the products you like and the details needed to get what you want. For now, information about where you can get a product is provided on the Product Screen under the Retailers tab. Manufacturers choose what retailers to list. 800 numbers to customer services providing retailers in your area are sometimes provided.
	There's more, much more. But now you're excited to get on with shopping. How much handholding does any good shopper need? Have at it. You'll find tips for using other features in Help . By the way if your favorite manufacturer doesn't have products on the site yet, you can sit back and wait or you might give them a call and suggest they get on board. THANKS for shopping with ski-equipment.com™