What is e-shoplifting?

Answer 1

E-Shoplifiting is the modification of product or service pricing by a malicious user between the shopping cart website and payment processing.

For instance, websites that use PayPal commonly pass the hidden field amount when the user clicks a Buy Now or Pay Now button. Instead of just clicking that button, a malicious user could save the HTML for the page to their local computer and edit the HTML to change the price before proceeding with the payment.