Poll Analysis 9

Hi, to everyone, this is the last poll analysis and also the last article for this semester. I wish all of you are able to get the information you want in this blog. Well lets see the result we have it on our poll 9. 75 % of people are voting for no while the other 25% goes to the answer yes. Lets see, most of the people have the fixed mindset that shopping is the privillage for women, and men act as the pick up goods worker and chauffeur but in my opinion, there are lots of metrosexsual guy as well, they like to dress up themselve, get a nice hair do and wear smartly in every situation. They spend alot in fashion and beauty as well, many men loves to shop nowadays. For example, my guys friend, they even spend more than me. well, see you guys again.

Smart Shopping Online

Hi! Today, I want to share something useful in shopping online with you which is how to shopping online smartly. Shopping online is convenience and attractive, people like to shop online because there selling stuff at cheaper price. Yet, how would people react when they see many stuff are selling at cheaper price than shop? Will they get lost control and buy a lot of things from the net? Most of the people would not see the money they have in their wallet and forgot their budget while shopping online, unlike shopping at the mall. When people shopping at the mall, they will check the money they have and make sure they have enough money to pay. After they received the purchased product, they only realized that some of the purchased product are useless. So, what is the ways to save money on shopping online?

Well, people should know what they want to buy and set a budget before start making purchases. Some of the online shopping websites do offer promotion or discount items or stock clearance kinda stuff. For example, Lebliss.com has offer discount items and stock clearance stuff. You can look for your product in these promotion areas before you go for the normal price stuff. Besides, some online shopping websites offer free or discount shipping coupons. Then, you can save some money on the shipping fees. Moreover, some merchants provide cash rebate for certain purchases. For example, http://www.dell.com/ offer cash rebate if customer buy the computer or laptop on line.

Now is the tough economic times, everyone wants to save money and making the most of what they earned. I believe that your parents would always advice you to save money and try not to buy less important stuff. Earn money is not easy, think twice before you pay for something and make every spends worthy.

China Online Shopping Website, Taobao.com

A few days ago, i have read this article from TheStar Online.This article is about a China Online Shopping Website, Taobao.com. It has captured 75% of China online retail market since three years ago and has over 62 million registered members nowadays.

Consumers can buy a lot of things like clothes, accessories, tickets, lotteries, furniture, digital cameras, software, computers, mobile phones, skin cares, cosmetics, electric appliances. I also found that the products are comes from overseas such as UK, US, Japan, France, Canada, Australia, Taiwan, the country itself and so on. Based on the article, the buyers can return the effective product to exchange and also can obtain the receipts from the seller and the corporate for the products.

Taobao created 570,000 jobs last year based to an iResearch survey in China.The result shows that 19% of the jobs in Shanghai, the international gateway to China. More than 50% of the individual sellers on Taobao are aged between 23 and 32. The majority are fresh graduates. The result also shows 44% of the sellers earn between 1,000 yuan and 2,000 yuan a month; 4% between 4,000 yuan and 5,000 yuan, and 2% more than 6,000 yuan a month.

Reference:

Chow How Ban, Online shoppers flock to the way of the Taobao.com, TheStar Online [Online] Retrieved 17th March, 2009.

URL:http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/3/14/focus/3475207&sec=focus

Poll Analysis 8

Hi, everyone! It is the end of the week so i am here to analyse the poll result again. The question of this week poll is "What will you do when Online Banking?" The result is shown at the following. There is 38% of the voters who will check for enquiry when they Online Banking. Followed by 37% of the voters will make payment online. Third, 13% of the voters chose prepaid service when they Online Banking. Lastly, voters who make fund transfer online are only 12%.

Nowadays people can check their account enquiry, make payment, prepaid service, fund transfer online instead of going to particular bank. Different banks offer different services online. The answer of the poll question are the common services that provided by most of the bank such as Maybank, Public Bank, Cimb bank, RHB Bank and so on. The most common advantages of Online Banking are save time and save energy. Users no need to step out of home to do the banking services. It save time and energy instead of finding parking slot and queuing for the machine or sometimes users have to wait for the receptionist to serve them.

Any topic that you all want us to cover? Feel free to comment us la. haha. See ya!

Recommend an Online Shopping Website

Hey girl! Good news here! Today I want to share something that is really cool with you guys. That is an online shopping website: http://lb-lebliss.com/. This is an awesome website that providing trendy stuff that most of the girls are wanted! There are a few easy steps to register an account for become a member. Just click on "Log In" button, fill in your account details and submit your information. Then, wait for the webmaster to verify your account and enable account.

Besides, the stock will be dispatch out within two to four days for "Ready Stock" after payment received. Soon, you can get your product that you have bought from Lebliss! To get the purchased product as soon as possible that bought in online shopping is the most important thing, am I right? Online shoppers are exciting to see their product and cannot to be waiting too long to get their product. How about the payment method? It is same as the others online seller. You can choose your preferred payment method either by credit card, online transfer or offline payment like cash deposit or bank in.

In addition, Lebliss has got provide direct delivery service to the third party or to a different address. Hey guys! Give your loved ones a surprise now. Buy something for your girlfriend at Lebliss and they will direct send the product to your loved ones.

So, check it out now. The website is http://lb-lebliss.com/ or you can click on the post title and you will be automatically direct to the website. Any comment about this online shopping website? Feel free to drop any suggestion or comment here.

Male perspective in purchasing online

I have read through some articles from magazines and online articles, I found out that woman and man behave and acted difference way in online shopping, for woman, going shopping is a major source of relaxation and a way to release the tenses. For men, they will think that shopping is time consuming, wasted money and energy and this would not be the favorite activity for them. This is just a fix mindset of the public. It is important to note that trends in demography can be particularly misleading and can reverse suddenly. Due to the time constraint, changing social roles and technology advanced, people demand more in their life and the way they act to be in the upper trend and in today social. As I know, man actually purchase as much as the woman, they usually shop for the IT goods or merchandise for their love one in online retailer. Bid for the goods, they have been given a minimum amount from the online retailer, to bid, and the highest price will get the goods at last.

Bid defines as:-

To offer an amount of money for something at an auction.

(http://ca.encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861590346/bid.html

This is one the famous activity most of the man will do online. Men even purchase books, computer software. Accessories, clothes, present etc. For men, they think online shopping and online booking is more convenience, and safe time, some website even provides customize services, it is easy and fast. That is the reason why men are more likely to incline in the trend of purchases good online.

Poll Analysis 7

Hello, it's time to analyse the poll result of week 7.

The poll question of this week is "Have you ever tried online banking?" The result of the poll is 8 votes which is 57% who never try Online Banking before. Following by 6 votes which is 43% who have tried Online Banking.

Although majority of the bank are promoting their Online Banking Service, yet most of the users still using the conventional ways to do their stuff at bank. The example of Online Banking Service are Cimb Click, Maybank2u, RHB Online and so on. I think most of the users are worring about the security of phising scams so they rather do in conventional ways. How you guys think about it?

Online Banking (part 2)

Hey! It is me again. Today, I will discuss more about Maybank2u.com. Here is a video to share with you guys too. It is a video online banking demo.

What does Maybank2u.com offering?

-Enquiry

It is an account summary completed with the user's account type, account number, and available balance. You can view your transaction history, make payment to credit card and balance transfer account.

-Funds Transfer

This is a great option for users. You guys can done funds transfer through online banking! You need not to write cheque or queue up for the Deposit machine to transfer funds.

-Foreign Telegraphic Transfer

Want to send money to overseas? You can send cash or credit money to 50 countries worldwide in 24 currencies. Besides, this service is so convenience that you can calculate the value of your currency instantly and the amount will be debited from your Maybank account directly.

-Cheque Services

This is about cheque status checking service, whether your cheque have been successfully paid, unpaid, stopped or returned. More to the point, you can request for a cheque book through online banking. Then, you can choose either collect it at the selected branch or mail to address.

-eFixed Deposit

Now, you can make fixed deposit placements or upliftments online! This is a Certless Fixed Deposit, no certificate will be issued. But, you still can print the confirmation slip for your records.

-eStanding Instruction

This is a really convenience service for those who are making payment or transfering funds monthly. This allows you make regular funds transfers and payments on time. Some bank service fee might charge for each transaction.

-EPF Payment

This is for registered EPF members, easy for those employers to make EPF contributions to their employees through online banking.

-My Bills

This offering electronic bills statements online which you can view or print your bills.

-My Statements

This allow Maybank account members to check their account statements online.

-Utilities

• TAC request
• Password change
• Cancel ATM facility
• Update profile

-SMS Alerts

This is to inform the Maybank members the successful transactions that done by online.

These are the functions that available in Maybank2u.com. I found this is a very easy and convenience service for people is lazy to go out of home. You can do everything within online! How are you think of Maybank2u.com? Or you have a better suggestion of those banks that offering online banking service? Welcome to tell us here!

References:

Maybank official website, Online Banking: About [Online], Retrieved 5th March 2009.

URL: http://www.maybank2u.com.my/consumer/online_banking/index.shtml

Maybank official website, Video demos, Retrieved 5th March 2009.

URL: http://www.allyou.com.my/video-demos/

Createspace.com

In the last articles I introduced a websites which is cafepress.com, which provide user friendly service, easy access and navigate and it is more than the conventional types of online shopping. And today, I will introduce another available and interesting websites as well, Createspace.com, it is a sites which allowed user to produce their own book, music collection and movie collection. Is it like the other way of reaching the user demand to be a writer, although they could not be very famous after all, although they will not have good sales for their book at last, but still in this way, they can try to be a writer. There is a case that a young woman I read from an article, she has been very famous in online writing; she believes as long as she tried, everything would be possible. And she end up in the result to be a writer in the real world and finally she has she own writing and book all sold all over the world. In createspace.com, it provides free charge in producing a book, CDs and DVDs collection, until someone has buy the masterpiece, and after the user has uploaded their work and customize the service, it will automatically help the user to advertise their work in Amazon as well, but still the user has to advertise by themselves as well. Nowadays, online shopping is not only what mostly people think of buying and trading, it expands widely and provide lots more service.

Poll Analysis 6

Hello!! Good morning everyone. How are you guys during this weekend?? It's my turn to analyze the poll result of this week. The poll question is "Have you ever tried TV Home Shopping?" The result of this poll question is 100% for the people who never tried TV Home Shopping and 0% for the people who tried TV Home Shopping. Well, I'm quite surprise because there is nobody tried TV Home Shopping before and neither me. Haha. I think the reason why people never tried TV Home Shopping is because it is not popular to buy goods on TV in Malaysia. Moreover, i guess people used to buy goods at the market or buy goods online.

Online Banking

Online banking is one of the online payment methods. Online banking also known as internet banking. Nowadays, people would rather stay at home to manage their financial transaction than step out to bank and queue up for banking. Online banking is a secure website that allowed people to manage their financial transaction such as pay bills. Who is operating the websites? Most of the banks in Malaysia do have this facility. Today, I will discuss the most common online banking site-Maybank2u.com.

First of all, how to login? Well, you must have a Maybank account. Then, go to http://www.maybank2u.com.my/. You will see "Login" on the top left of the site.

Next, you will be directed to login page. Key in your username and password and click Login.

After that, the page will be automatically directed to your online financial service home page.

There are some tips for you to keep you safe in online banking.

-Never login via email links

-Never tell your password to anyone

-Remember to log out everytime after you finished banking

-Clear your cache after each session

Be ALERT! A phishing website may confusing you the real and fake website. Then, you will key in your infomation as usual if you don't realize the fraud. This is one of the way the hacker steal your information. A secure website address will start with the HTTPS.

Next week, I will discuss more about Maybank2u. What are the services does Maybank2u offering? Comment our post, tell us what you know about online shopping or you can ask any question that you want to know regarding online shopping. Thanks for spending time on our blog! Have a nice weekend!

References: Wikipedia website, Online Banking [Online], Retrieved 28th Febuary 2009. URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_banking

Maybank official website, Maybank2u.com: a complete one-stop financial portal [Online], Retrieved 28th Febuary 2009. URL: http://www.maybank2u.com.my/

More Than An Online Shopping Websites

Normally people know some sites for online store that sells merchandise that only available to choose only, but do you know there is actually some websites do provide some service like, you can create and customize your own gift or goods, which those goods can be embroidered the graphic you want on it. For example on a cup, on a t-shirt for a kid, a keychain and so on, or you can drawn out your own draft to make a bracelet and ordered online, there are a lot more choices you can find in those websites, a lot of freedom in chooisng your own perfecet gift or goods.

It is interesting, you can decide and take the authority in designing your goods, it has not limitation of course, but there are also some “this month popular graphic” can be chosen in the community trend that created by the users and online retailer. For example for the websites, caferpress.com, this websites is about, where peoples from all walks of life gather online to create, sell, and buy T-shirt and other “print on demand” products.

Createspace.com, it is about you can write your own book and this particular websites will help you to print it out and advertise in Amazon to sell your masterpiece. Not only book, you own movie, your own created songs and music. It is fun, people who interested can surf to the websites and get more details for it.

Poll analysis 5

Today is the day to release the poll result of week 5. Below is the chart to indicate the percentages of each options.

The question of this week is: "Which form of delivery would you prefer?"

Well, most of the respondences would rather choose shipping which has 60% votes. On the other hand, 20% of the respondences would choose download to get their online purchased product. The rest 20% of votes were in-store pickup.

According to wikipedia, shipping is a one of the type of delivery forms which is to transport goods and cargo. There are three types of shipping transportations which including land, air and sea. Most of the online shoppers would prefer shipping because it is convenience. The product will be send to your door by vans or trucks depend on the product size and it will be arrive in a couple weeks. Normally, the online seller will charge some shipping fees such as insurance, air freight fee and so on. Besides, the download delivery form mostly used for original softwares, musics, movies, images, and so on. They can easily get those updates of original softwares from the internet and no need to go out to get the softwares they wanted. In addition, not many people would want to get their product through in-store pickup. Online shopping is about convenience and shopping without step out their house. Those people who choose to pick up their product on the spot is because they want to make sure the product they bought is complete and unbroken.

What do you think about the topic of today? Is there any other delivery form else besides shipping, download and in-store pickup that we are not covered? Feel free to tell us what you know!

Reference: Shipping, Wikipedia [online], Retrieved 22th Febuary 2009. URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipping

Online Booking

Hello, everyone know online booking?? Online booking means the customers are booking the services online. There are a lot of services can be book online. For instant, the customer can book movie ticket, flight ticket, hotel's room, KTV's room and so on.

The benefit of online booking is the customer can save a lot times instead of queuing up at the counter. For example, i think you guys have the experience that queuing up at the cinema box office to buy tickets right? It's really extreme crowded and sometimes you might don't want to watch movie anymore. But you all realize that the counter for telephone booking and online booking always lesser people are queuing up or sometimes there are no people queuing there? It's really save time because you just tell the pin number to the receptionist and then you just pay the money to them, lastly you can get the tickets. See, it's fast right?

The second benefit of online booking is to save energy. It is because you will know whether there is available for the particular service instead of you go to the place then only know the service is unavailable. I have an experience when i want go to KTV with my friends. After we reached there only we know the rooms were full. It is very disappointed when our friends and I have the mood to sing karaoke. Well, i think online booking the KTV's room is only available at Red Box and Green Box. It's convenient if you booked the room online and for the members, you will get double collective point for your card.

Another benefit of online booking is customers can pick the specific rooms or seat of the services. Customers can just choose the preferred seats or rooms by clicking it and it's charge of free! It is what we called, first come first serve. This is the privilege that can enjoy by the customers who book online. For example, the consumers can book movie tickets and choose the seats that they preferred. Another example is customers can choose the seats when they book flight tickets online. So you won't seperate with your partner when there is full.

This is what I share with you all this week, if you all have any information about online shopping. Kindly share it or leave your comment here. >_<

A Case

Well, today we will have some discussion, that I felt really angry about, welcome to drop a comment right here. I had a friend who was really admired Manchester United football group for so long , he was about to find the limited edition Manchester jersey all over the available retailer, like Nike, Adidas and so on, but unfortunately he has got no result in the end. I told him maybe he should get a shot in online shopping website, maybe there is an available online shopping retailer would sell that limited edition jersey, since he saw that Jersey introduce in an online articles. He wouldn`t gave up any chances to get the jersey, So he decided to find it at online shopping website, and he found it, he called me and told me how happy and excited he was, he finally made the ordered for a red jersey.

He waited for two weeks, and finally the parcel delivered to his house, he opened the wrap and found out that is not the jersey that he wanted and ordered, the online retailer gave him an Arsenal Jersey rather than a Manchester Jersey, and that jersey is selling at all the available store in the shopping mall, and is selling cheaper than the online retailer, he was so angry, and called to the website service line, but they did not giving an answer that can satisfied us, and they keep saying, “Sorry Sir, I am not so sure about it” , and we asked for refund, but she said “I’m sorry , that is not refundable”. How blur she was, she can`t even make any explanation at all, irresponsible. My friend gave that jersey to the other friend for his own sake, he is fed up and really disappointed about this matter.

Well, trying to buy stuff in online retailer is actually not really, not that okay and dangerous, but before you made any order for stuff, think wise and make some judgments to the website. Don`t simply click on the stuff and order without reading the terms and conditions and also the paying platform, THINK WISE. Because not every online retailer is safe and secure.

Poll analysis 4

Hi! Its time to share the poll result of this week.

The poll question of this week is "How do you find online shopping websites?" Based on the poll chart, most of the people which is 50% are found online shopping websites by word of mouth. Other than this, there are 30% of the people claimed that they found online shopping websites through the forum. The minority of people which has 20% votes are found online shopping websites by using search engine.

Many online shoppers would like to share their online shopping experiences with their friends in a conservation. They will recommend the good online shopping websites to friends and at the same time, they will also discourage the bad online shopping websites. Therefore, the online shopping websites spreading around and many people will try online shopping websites that recommended by friends. On the other hand, forum is a good medium to share the online shopping websites. People discuss everything there... about music, movie, IT stuff, shopping, and so on.

Whats your opinion? Feel free to comment here....

Home Shopping

Hello, how are you guys?? Busy on assignments?? Me too.. haha.. The topic that i wanted to cover is Home Shopping. Online shopping and TV Shopping are categorize as Home Shopping.

Do you guys ever watch of the programme that a host introduce some products?? The duration of this programme is about 30 minutes to 1 hour and the programme is repeating over and over again but just to introduce one or two products? This is what we called TV Home Shopping. Most of the programme will broadcast at morning and target to the housewives. The example of TV Home Shopping in Malaysia is SmartShop and Quantum Showcase. There are home shopping network TV in other countries such as America, Taiwan, UK and so on. Most of the home shopping network TV is successfully make sales. Unfortunately, i don't think TV Home Shopping is effective in our country.

The process of TV Home shopping is quite easy. The consumer only have to call to the hot line that show at the bottom of the TV and you can order the products that you wanted. Definitely you must tell them your details when you buy the products like your name, address, telephone number and so on. The consumers can pay the product when they receive the products by paying cash or credit card.

Another category of Home Shopping is food delivery such as Mcdonalds, Pizza Hut, Dominos Pizza and so on. It's simple to order your food. Just pick up the phone and dial to the particular number and follow the voice instruction. Then you can order your food and beverage. Moreover, the delivery charges may vary from different restaurant and places. Well, have you tried delivery service or TV Home Shopping?? Feel free to comment here~~ Happy weekend!!

Poll analysis 3

The poll question for last week was "How do you make payment for online purchases?"

According to the poll result, the majority of people which is 78.57%, would rather choose internet banking than the other online payment methods. Besides that, the minority of people would make payment by using debit cards and cash on delivery(COD) while at the same time both have got 7.14% votes. In addition, there is 7.14% of the people voted for "other" votes and has entered cash deposite as their answer.

Based on the responds we have got in the previous poll analysis, some said that rather go shopping in the shopping mall than shopping online. This is because of they can touch and try the product before purchase it. There are many risks and tricks in the internet, online shoppers have to be aware about cracking and hacking. They might hack your account and steal your information for another purposes. What do you think about our poll? Is the result announced in your expectation? Feel free to drop comments.

The secure of online credit card transaction

Reference:http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Online%20

Recently, my web development lecturer Mr. Andrew has taught a lesson which is about the tools and methods of cybercrime and the safeguard (the solution to solve the risk of cybercrime) which is very useful in my topic, and I get to learn more. I get to know actually online shopping is very dangerous in some way.

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Reference:

Credit Card and Online Shopping, Decribe the credit card [Online], Retrieved 6th February 2009

URL: http://credit.echoes-act3.com/o/post_64.html

The paragraph above claims that among the payments like bank transfer and credit card payment the consumers will choose credit card payment on the spot. This is convienience to complete the purchase. Moreover, the consumers no need go to bank and transfer the money after they have booked the stuff.

Mostly people are paying by credit card while doing online shopping, which I found is very dangerous. CCV, as know as credit card validation, it available behind of the physical card, it was numbers that state behind the credit card. In reality, the store will normally, verified the card with a Point of Sale terminal to handle credit card transactions, like what you can see when you buy things by using credit card in a store or market. A receipt will be given by the cashier to keep it as a proof of the trade. But in online shopping, it seems natural that online commerce would be done with credit cards rather than other kind of payments. Just simply type our credit card number into the merchant's World Wide Web (www) page payment form and wait for our purchase to be shipped to us. The only thing that needs to pass between the merchant and the buyer is the credit card number. The problem is, it's not that simple and safe. In the open networking, the data show and flow without unencrypted, the mischief-maker may uses the number without the person permission to do some unknown trade and action. Unless there is a security based provision built in that can ease the people`s fear, a secure server is one that uses a protocol such as SSL or S-HTTP to transmit data between the server and browser, which a person have to beware of that before making any payment by using credit card.

Here is a video showing PayPal hacking...

There are a lot of videos like this in the internet. The hackers show how they hack other people accounts and password, teaching people how to hack PayPal money.

Poll Analysis 2

Today i will discuss about the result of the poll question. Our question of the poll is "What would you buy from the internet?"

Based on the result of the poll, most of the people will buy clothes when they online shopping which is 71%. The following things that people will buy from internet are perfumes and accessories. Perfumes and accessories are each contain 14% of the result. On the other hand, there is no people buy accessories in the internet.

We have asked the question whether you have tried online shopping last week. Most of the people haven't try to shop online. I think the majority of the people who have tried to shop online is female because they bought clothes, beauty and perfumes from the internet. Well i guess the people will buy clothes is cheaper than buying beauty stuff like cosmetic and perfumes. So that, they will try to buy clothes online.

Haha. Thanks for viewing our blog! Have a nice day~~

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The best online shopping website

As the previous topic about background and history of online shopping that written by Pui Fun, based on the article online shopping was began since mid of 1990s, Charles Stack is the founder who implemented and executed this great idea of online shopping and slowly, the trade and sales through the internet practice widely and expanded through globally until, today online shopping market is one of the crucial marketing influences.

To create an online store or business, the way of organizing and maintaining the profile, marketing strategy the management and interactivity is very important. News must be updated from day to days to keep refreshing the reader and buyer about today trend and issue. There are a lot of online shopping website exists in today’s day, for example like, Ebay is one of the largest online shopping sites, it allows the consumer to get quality item in the price they set and still the price is negotiable. It runs successfully and it is a well known website for online shopping. In the other hand, there are still some online shopping website did fail in the industry, it causes by lack of experience, infuse the wrong marketing strategy and so on. There are even some competitions for the best online shopping site for example, each year the Web Marketing Association names the Best Shopping web site as part of the annual Web Award Competition. Best websites are selected by judges who review the entered websites using a few criteria, who are interested can get more info from www.webaward.org.

These are the winners of website who are selected to be the winner of the year. Year

2008 Cooking.com

2007 Rare Bird, Inc.

2006 ShopLocal

2005 Ion Global

2004 Fry, Inc.

2003 AGENCY.COM -on_shop-

References:(http://www.webaward.org/winners_detail.asp?yr=all&award_level=best&category=Shopping)

Risks of Shopping Online

Hi~ Everybody! Today I will discuss about the risks of shopping online. Generally, the greater risk of shopping online is the process of making payment which involved in sharing credit cards over the internet. The consumers might get their credit cards data to be stolen and then the bad people in the net may be use the the credit card number to make transactions.

Besides, the consumers might access to fraudulent online shopping websites. The fraudsters accepting consumer's payment which pay by the credit card for their purchases and within one or two days the particular website is gone. At this time, it is too late to cancel their transaction when the consumer found out this and they still need to pay for their purchases.

On the other hand, the consumers sometimes complained that the item they received is not as nice looking as they seen in the picture from internet. The worse thing is, they might receive broken item from the seller while the item sold out is not changeable or refundable.

That is what I have heard from my friends who has shopping online. There is many false and tricks in the online shopping. You as a smart consumer, you have to be smart choosing online shopping sites and be careful while making payment for your purchases. Feel free to share your experience of shopping online here and your opinion about risks of shopping online. We are glad to hear you.. Thanks for spending time for this article..

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T&C of Online Shopping

Hihi, Happy Chinese New Year! For the people who want to shop online, you must read on the Terms and Conditions carefully. It is because that T&C may contain important information which is about your rights, obligations and limitations. The first thing that you may concern is the delivery charges. Different delivery areas will charge you different. The further places that the product will be delivered, the more expensive will be charged on the customers. The charges may vary from West Malaysia to East Malaysia.

Then, you have to notice the delivery time from the time that you ordered the products. This also the disadvantage of online shopping cause it take time to deliver the products to your house. So, you can't receive your product immediately. You have to wait a couple of day and sometimes it may take more than one week when it is out of stock. On the other hand, ordering food is different from ordering product. For example, if you ordered food from Pizza Hut, it will deduct money if they didn't deliver to your house within 25 minutes.

Beside that, you also have to notice about whether you can change your stock if the products that you received were different such as different sizes, colour, shapes, and so on. How about food like Mcdonalds, Domino and Pizza Hut? If they gave you Mc Chiken but you were ordering Filet-o-Fish? Then what will you do? Just pay the money and eat it? Or you want them to refund to you? Well, i think most of the consumer will just pay the money but not ask them to deliver Mc Chicken to you again right? As a consumer, we should concern about our rights and limitations.

That's it for today. haha. For the people who celebrating CNY, please drink a lot of water and take care ya! See you Monday!

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Interview of Gladys_The Online Seller

In the last articles, I got Stephanie to share her experienced as an online buyer and what she found interesting in online shopping. And today I get Gladys Chan, a college student who commit in her perfume business in Friendster to share her experience and how the little extra income comes from the business.

Sue Chean: I heard you created your own little perfume business in Friendster. What inspired you to start the online business?

Gladys : I see the potential in online shopping. It is a networking, you can even link to the people from oversea, and you can see how far it can go. It develops and expanded widely. As you known I’m a college student who interesting in marketing management. And I find out this is a best way for me to try management in my own little business, and gain some experience without large expenses.

Sue Chean: how do you manage you profile?

Gladys : well, I log in to the profile everyday to check if anyone drops me a message or comment in Friendster. And I update the profile once a while, and introducing the new perfume and sometimes I do promotion as well.

Sue Chean: what do you do to attract the customer?

Gladys : like I said, I do have some scheme sometimes, and join the fashion group to promote my profile. And of course, I use the most effective term, words of mouth to send my message around, haha my friends helped me a lot in that.

Sue Chean: for so long, do you have your own loyal customer?

Gladys : Ya, some customer will contact me again if they need any perfume, sometime they will even introduce some of their friends to my perfume profile as well. It is nice to have such customer.

Seems like online shopping do make Gladys earn some money, and she likes what she do. To attract and maintain your customer loyalty, you must always comes up with some little trick and strategy, customer do not visit your profile, if nothing can pull their attention. Hope this articles can do some help for the newbie in online shopping.

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Poll analysis 1

Hi everyone~ Today, we will discuss the result of the poll question-

"Have you ever tried online shopping?"

According to the result, it shows that 62.5% of respondence have never tried online shopping and 37.5% of the respondence have online shopping.

Most of the people claim that they have never tried online shopping because online shopping is not so popular in Malaysia, hence people do not know how to shop online as well. They rather to try and touch when they buying stuff. Besides, customer need to waits for a couple of days to receive the product. More to the point, those pictures are not believeable. Sometimes the products you bought from internet are not as nice as you seen in the picture. If you are not satisfied the product, you cannot refund or exchange it. The minority people who have tried online shopping said that they can get cheap stuff from the internet. Besides, they no need to go out and queue up for paying.

For me, I have never tried online shopping. I prefer see and touch the product before I buy it. It is a waste of money if you get a product that you do not like. Well, this is my opinion. How about you guys? Feel free to share your online shopping experience and opinion here!

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How to shop online??

Hello everyone! Welcome to -On_Shop-. haha. First, I would like to thanks for the people who dropped comments to this blog. Regarding to the comment that dropped by Siew Ching, she wanted to know some online shopping web sites. So we will write on this topic soon. The previous post is an article which is interviewed an online shopper, Stephanie. Today, I will discuss a bit of the process that you will go through when you shop online.

The Process of Online shopping:

When you want to shop online, the first thing is you have to sign up for that particular web page. While you signing up, it may require your personal details. After you registered, then you can order your staff online. In that online shopping web page will provide you a lot of images and descriptions of their products. You can select or buy any product that available in that web page. Some of the online shoppping web pages will provide you a "trolley" or "basket". You can browse through the products and place your selection into your trolley or basket. In other words, it is just like a real shopping like you used to go into the mall and market. The items that you have chosen can be viewed, changed and removed as you like it in your own trolley or basket.

After you have chosen your purchases, then it is ready for the checkout process. For the web pages that you no need to register, you have to submit your personal details like your name, mailing address, email address, mobile phone number, the method of paying and so on. A couple days after you have done your payment, your products will be delivered to you. These are the process of online shopping. Easy right? Well, if you wonder how to make a payment, you can refer to the post that written by our group member, Kar hooi who wrote that article for last week.

That is it for today. Thanks for viewing our blog! Chinese New Year is around the corner, Happy Chinese New Year for everyone! See ya'll after Chinese New Year ya!!

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Interview of Stephanie_The Online Shopper

I have some friends in college, who had tried online shopping, but not every of them continue in this kind of activity, luckily I found out one of them always do online shopping and she loves online shopping, and today topic, I asked the girl to share her interesting experience in online shopping.

Sue Chean: hi, Stephanie, when is your first tried in online shopping? What intended you to try online shopping?

Stephanie : I tried online shopping when I was 16, I was young and I like to try new things. Once, I heard one of my girls friend in my class said she bought a merchandise that are not sold in Malaysia and I said WOW, how you got it? I had been finding around the KL store but still can`t find it. And she told me to take a shot in online shopping.

Sue Chean: what do you find in online shopping?

Stephanie: At first, I’m not really believed if I can get the merchandise that I wanted without being cheated. But after a tried, I find online shopping is convenient, I can shop comfort of my home at any time of day. And I can get the cheaper price than the store.

Sue Chean: which website you usually surf to online shopping?

Stephanie: I usually surf at EBay and Queens.com. The sellers provide goods with better price, because they allow price negotiate.

Sue Chean: What you usually purchase in online site?

Stephanie: I buy a lot of clothes, design in Hong Kong, and I buy toiletries, corrective lenses and perfume from foreign country.

Sue Chean: what do you suggest for the first time user?

Stephanie: get the email from the seller, read the terms and conditional detailed. How the payment should be done. Must not pay all at once, maybe separate to two times, before and after you get the merchandise.

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Types of payment

Hey! Welcome to 89-shopaholic.blogspot.com. My name is Kar Hooi and I'm going to explain the types of payment in online shopping. Nowadays, there are more and more people start shopping online. Yet, some are wondering. How to make payment for the online purchases? Well, most online sellers offer a variety of ways to pay. Here is a list of common payment methods according to Wikipedia:

-Credit card

-Debit card

-Internet banking

-Various types of electronic money

-Cash on delivery (COD)

-Cheque

-Wire transfer/delivery on payment

-Money order

-PayPal (https://www.paypal.com/)

-Google checkout

-Amazon payment

-Bill Me Later

References: -Online Shopping, Wikipedia[online], Retrieved 17th January 2009 URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shopping

Among these payment methods, credit card and PayPal are the most common payment methods that normally use by online shoppers. However, some online shoppers may ask questions such as: Is one method better than the other? Which payment method is easiest? Which way is the most secure and reliable? Well, different people has different definition. Some people said that PayPal is the safer and easier way to pay online because it pay without exposing online shopper's financial information. Some said that credit card is the most secure way of paying because it has credit limit and 3D-Secure, which designed to combat online credit card fraud. In my opinion, I think internet banking is a safety way to make payment. You will be given a PIN number and this PIN number must be entered every time you log on to your bank website. Besides, the bank website will terminate your session when there is no activity within a preset time to against unauthorized user. Here is a internet banking payment guide to let you guys refer. http://www.love.com.my/maybank2u.html

Make payment online is fast and convenience especially for online shoppers and making online shopping more fun. But, be careful when shopping on internet. Do not ever show your PIN or credit card number to anyone to protect youself...

Thanks for spending time to read this article. Have a Nice WeeKenD!

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Background of Online Shopping

Hi, I'm Pui Fun. Before we go deeply about online shopping, let us know a bit of the background of Online Shopping. Online Shopping defines as :- The process of consumers purchasing and selling products or services through the internet. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shopping, 2009)

This is convienient and simple instead of going out to the market and mall that we usually go into. Nowadays Online Shopping is become more popular and allows us to purchase anything online like clothes, foods, furniture, cars, electronic appliances, accessories and so on. For me, i haven't try to shop online because i believe in what i see and what i touch in real. The pictures or images that shown in internet may not be geniune. How about you? Will you try to shop online?

Next, I will talk about history of Online Shopping. I know it sounds boring so don't worry I will quickly brief through about it. Haha. Online Shopping was began since the mid of 1990s. According to wikipedia, Charles Stack is the person who created the first online book store, Book Stack Unlimited which is as known as Books.com. Two years later, Amazon was created by Jeff Bezos. After that, Online Banking was introduced and Online Pizza Shop was began in 1994. In 1996, Ebay was started Online Shopping as well.

That's all for today and i hope you all can kindly drop your testimonial here~~ Thanks for reading this article! Happy weekend! See ya! -On_Shop-

Advantages and Disadvantages of online shopping

Technology is helping us in doing many task, nowadays people seems to be more depending to the technology, because it makes job easier, effective and convenient with just a click on the finger. For example, E-learning, socialize via the net, online services provider, or even coast to coast meeting can be held through the video conference. People don’t even need to go far away from a place to another for a meeting. It saves money and energy. Recently, online shopping is popular, many fashion store, IT store and even grocery store provide services in the internet instead of gaining information from the particular website. Items can be ordered in the net, and the item you have been ordered will deliver to your house on time. People who want to reserve services or item, like movie ticket and dine in restaurant can just make on the particular website as well. But still there are advantage and disadvantage for everything. Advantages

1. Trade and sales can be made online without going out from the house. 2. Save time and energy to seek a parking lot, carry the product (how would it be if it is a wide screen television?) and find the particular store. 3. Many choices available. For example, the clothes design in the United State market is different from Malaysia. 4. Orders can be customize in the net. The design, date of delivery and the wrapping paper can be chosen. 5. Lower price or discounted price item is possible to find in the site.

Disadvantages

1. Cannot touch and feel the product, consumer feel not confident to the particular product. 2. Quality of the product may be different from the one you want. 3. Some seller in the net may be not trustable. 4. Have to pay much for the delivery fees.

Conclusion

However, online shopping is still popular in the market. For the “equivalent brand”, like Top Shop, Zara, Dell, they have a hotline always ready to serve if consumer have any complaint, requires and order. But beware of some unknown brand and personal product in the net market as well, check out the ingredient, store location and the price of the product twice before order and make any payment. Sue Chean, Tee

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