Nowadays, online auction being more and more prevalent in Hong Kong. Various auction websites like Yahoo, Taobao and ebay have become the paradises of many shopaholic.
In fact, online shopping is really a suitable and convenient shopping way for those lazy people like me. Because I can browse all the products I intend to buy at home without going out. Another advantage of online shopping is that you can know the prices of the products of each shop clearly and there is no need to go around to compare the prices. Besides, I can do online shopping anytime as the online shops open for 24 hours.
However, the main drawback of online shopping is the time consuming delivery process of the products. Therefore, online shopping can never replace "real" shopping since the customers cannot get the products immediately. If the seller are not in Hong Kong, you may even have to wait for a longer time for the product to send to you. Of course, you can also choose face trade if this service is available to shorten the delivery process.
In addition to buying things, you can sell the things which are unuseful for you throught the acution system online simply by just uploading the photos of that thing and set the price you desired.
By the way, the most important problem of using the online auction system that we concern a lot is probably the You have to bare the risk that you cannot receive the products or the quality of the product is poor.
Since more and more people like using Facebook to communicate and socialize with other now, Facebook also becomes one of the most popular online shopping platforms gradually. Some people may make their Faceboook into an online shop and upload the photos of the products on their album. I think creating an online shop in Facebook may gain greater promotional effect than that in other websites as the Facebook users can post comments or Arrprove 'o the items they like immediately. And after their friends view the status of those shoppers in Facebook, they may visit the shop as well. This can undoubtedly increase the popularity of the shop.
In view of this, some of my friends asked me to open an online shop on Yahoo or Facebook. They thought that operating online shop can not only save the time of monitoring the real shop, but also save the rental cost. In such case, the online shop owners can gain more profit by selling the products at the same price as the real shop. However, operating an online shop is still a great challenge for me as the online shop owners have to manage all the things themselves including ordering and transferring the product, taking photos of them and uploading to the Internet, contacting the buyers and sendng out the products.
Maybe, I will consider and start my online business soon. But now, I want to be a buyer rather than a seller!
Sounds interesting - what sort of things do you want to sell?
ReplyDeleteOnline shopping is really convenient!!!I can't agree with you more!!!!But as you say, operating an online shop is a great thing, there's lots of stuff you have to manage. At the same time, I think it must a trend for our future. So it's not bad that you have such dream!
ReplyDeleteI agree with Aly and Summer that online shopping is convenient, however, interaction between people may disappear, especially with friends. In actual shopping, people may share things with shops keepers or friends during choosing things, people may also chat with a drink in a restaurant. Online shopping may reduce such interaction.
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