With the development of e-commerce, more and more people are choosing to shop online.


Compared to traditional shopping methods, online shopping has its desirable aspects and shortcomings.


Online shopping is becoming more and more prevalent, and it brings convenience to people's lives.


It can also bring many troubles.


In the minds of most people, with the wide variety of goods in online stores, you can have a root more choices, and the cost of shopping is lower, compared with shopping in real stores.


So online shopping is not a better way to buy. However, the prevalence of online shopping has caused a series of problems.


Like the buyer is cheated.


The quality of the products is low, etc. Is online shopping really beneficial to people's daily life?


Do the advantages of online shopping outweigh the disadvantages or do the disadvantages outweigh the advantages?


The advantages of online shopping 


1. Lower prices


In the traditional marketing model, a commodity goes into the hands of consumers.


It has to go through layers of agents to exploit.


The cost of online shopping is very low, site fees, utilities, staff wages, the cost of the product down, the price will naturally drop, and through the national logistics company.


The goods often only take a few days to your hands on, and the price is also half the traditional price.    


2. More convenient shopping


The traditional shopping method is in the store or supermarket.


There are restrictions on business hours, for consumers in person to go shopping.


Online shopping is much more flexible, customers can buy and sell the goods they want at any time, 24 hours a day.


Online shopping is not territorial, no need to go out only need customers at home to open the website, click the mouse can easily shop, and the seller is responsible for home delivery, which in a very short period of time can be completed.


The traditional form of shopping requires running around multiple stores, which adds a lot of time consumption to the customer. 


Disadvantages of online shopping.   


First, the description of commodity information is unclear.


Because the buyer can only understand the goods on the network through pictures and text descriptions to complete, and some goods description language is ambiguous, easy to make people's understanding of the goods ambiguous.


When the purchaser completes the online shopping transaction according to his or her understanding and gets the goods, he or she will complain that the goods are not consistent with what he or she ordered.


Compared with traditional shopping, returning and exchanging goods for online shopping is a relatively troublesome and costly risky affair. 


2. After-sales service


Assume that the online boss and the real boss of the after-sales service as good.


After all, through the online purchase of goods to replace and repair some inconvenient, to send.    


3. Payment security issues


Although online banking is now very convenient, from a technical point of view.


Some online banking is still using a static password, it is easy to be a "Trojan horse" and another virus tracking.


The familiar Amazon platform is the world's largest online store, with sales worldwide.


Payment methods are usually international credit and debit cards. Amazon allows buyers to pay in their local currency.


The online shopping platform gathers a large number of merchants, and almost all the products needed for daily use can be found in a large number of diverse categories, giving customers greater freedom of choice without considering space constraints.


Therefore, it is easier to buy something new and novel through online shopping. Cost-effective things.