Shopping Online

Is shopping online a good choice?
How can you get good value for money during shopping? Over the past years, shopping online has a rapid rise because of the mushroom of development of computer science which seems incredible. A large amount of people prefer shopping on E-bay or Taobao and believe it has numerous advantages and benefits. Nevertheless, other rational people have a question: Is online shopping all that much better? In order to solve this question, this paper will discuss whether online shopping is a good choice. In fact, it is obvious that purchase goods from online stores in not a good option. More specifically, it is because the information provided by the sellers does not match with the real quality and it tends to reduce folk’s communication with the outside world. More than that, human beings are tricked in online stores frequently and their privacy can be threatened likewise.

For starters, quintessentially vendors conceal numerous discrepancies of their product so that they can sell them easily, but consumers will receive a good which does not match with the information they provided. The fact is this; all customers can depend on during website shopping is just the incomplete and plain statement, if people is lucky enough, they can get several pictures as well. As the saying goes, “seeing is believing”, buyers do not really have a deep comprehension of what they are buying due to the lack of personal examination. Furthermore, when people put shopping online/ bad quality in baidu it comes out about 20,000,000 results; and in google folks can get about 90,900,000 results. It seems that the link between online shopping and poor quality has become a common view. Yet, the situation will become completely different if consumers choose physical retail presence. Observation of all aspects is provided therefore customers can choose the product easily and depress return rate simultaneously. As for consumer satisfaction, coincidentally, a survey ran by China Internet Network Information Center shows their results recently. Almost 50 percent surveyed consumers said they believe the quality of products in online stores is not guaranteed. More specifically, 52.3 percent buyers think “you see is not always want you get” is a common phenomenon during website trade and 22.7 percent costumers admit they do received inferior products from online stores. Some people might argue that they can judge whether they should trade with the sellers by customer reviews. Indeed, it is an approach people can apply. Nonetheless, a case in point is almost all the sellers alter the assessments individually and numerous consumers submit their praise just because they do not want to be harassed and threatened. For this reason consumers will be confused about their decision.

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Additionally, one of the most negative aspects is shopping online makes personal interaction reduces. “The year we stopped talking to one another.” That's what USA Today dubs 2010, in light of the unprecedented use of technology. As a significant part of technology development, online shopping led to an invisible change which is about human beings’ attitude of communicating with others. Theoretically, people are able to perform transactions expediently, whereas it is not in favor of maintaining and improving relations with friends and family members. A study says the telecommuters and internet users spend less time with others. The frequent internet users signify a trend that they rarely talk with their family, do physical exercise or even hardly watch television with other people. Furthermore, large amount of people from above are being addicted to online store use. For them, to spend much of the day that does online shopping is quite common. In this course, many interpersonal skills will diminish, such as good listening techniques, persuade someone and self-expression. These kinds of social behavior and habits will cause the disappearance of personal contact distinctly which is detrimental to family life or social relations. Without those interactions, there may be a huge group of people who is socially isolated in the future. Some people regard that though shopping on website reduces interaction with the outside world, it is a quick way to purchasing goods, which means in some aspects it helps people save time. Actually, consumers will not only pay for the high freight charges but also the long delivery time during online shopping which usually takes at least 4 days for waiting to the goods. If you purchase goods during promotion campaign, like the “Double eleven” activity in Taobao a month ago, it will take even more than 12 days. It seems that real store is the best choice for both shopping and promoting relationship with others.