Well, I believe that shopping online has merits and demerits. The merits is that it’s convenient. You can stay in the comfort of your home and order a commodity or whatever and they will bring a strip to you. So it’s a very good idea, it’s more convenient and it’s good. But the disadvantage of shopping online is sometimes they will give you what you do not ask for. Maybe let me say that you want to buy a green dress. I’m seeing it on the picture is green but when they bring in the shade of green might be different from the red thing you want. So sometimes picture mislead that is one of the disadvantages of shopping online not being sure of what you get and the quality also. Sometimes they sell inferior things instead of selling the original. So shopping online has its merits and demerits but I fear that the demerits are more than the merits.
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Well, I believe that shopping online has merits and demerits. The merit is that it's convenient. You can stay in the comfort of your home and order a product, and they will bring it to you. So it's a very good idea; it's more convenient and beneficial. But the disadvantage of shopping online is that sometimes they will give you what you did not ask for. For example, you might want to buy a green dress. You see it in the picture as green, but when it arrives, the shade of green might be different from what you wanted. So sometimes pictures can mislead, and that is one of the disadvantages of shopping online—not being sure of what you will get and the quality as well. Sometimes they sell inferior items instead of the original. So shopping online has its merits and demerits, but I fear that the demerits are more significant than the merits.
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