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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