Advantages & Disadvantages of Online Shopping

Online shopping is one of the most popular ways to make purchases, but it's not something that everyone is comfortable doing. As with most things, there are positives and negatives associated with this approach to shopping. Consider the advantages and disadvantages carefully so you can make an informed decision about what's best for you.

Advantages

1. Convenience

• Can be very convenient for busy people. 
• Can shop from your home or office - or any other location where you have access to a computer, tablet device or smartphone and Internet access. 
• Can browse and make purchases any time of the day or night from any location.

    2. Ease of Comparison

• Can compare offerings and pricing at different stores with the simple click of a button. - rather than spend precious time hard-earned gas money running from one store to another to see what stores carry what product lines and how much each one is charging. 

      3. Better Prices

• Much lower than what will find at pysical store - Online business owners will usually reduce their profit margin to get more customers because many people use the internet to find cheaper items.

     4. Variety

• Shopping online allows to find many products that you would not be able to find in a physical store - Most physical stores have a limited array of products.

     5. Discreet Shopping

• Shopping online gives privacy because you won't have people looking at you while you shop. Not only that, but the receipts are usually made so that no one will know what you bought.

Disadvantages

1. Personally Check the items

• Purchasing via shopping online are not able you to touch, see and taste the product personally. Online stores only showing products description and photos of the items.

    2. Diminished Instant satisfaction

• Because the item must be shipped to you, you will have to wait 2-3 days or even longer depending on the location you have ordered it from.

    3.  There are shipping charges

• Though items are generally cheaper in online store, sometimes the addition of a shipping charge makes the total price similar or more expensive than that of your nearby store.

    4. There's can be delivery problem

• Sometimes you may face delivery risks. This means that the seller might fail to deliver the specified product or it deliver a product that has been damaged during shipping

    5. Fraud and security concerns

• Given the lack of ability to check the merchandise before purchase - consumers are at higher risk of fraud on the part of the merchant than in a physical store.
• Merchants also risk fraudulent purchases using stolen credit cards or fraudulent repudiation of online purchase.

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