Nowadays, people tend to shop via online instead of offline shopping. However, this trend has some advantages and disadvantages that will be described in this essay.
E-commerce is a modern invention, which brings numerous benefits. To begin with, online shopping could save customers’ time. For example, traditionally, to buy a product, people have to go directly to the shop, if it is not available, buyers need to go to different places to find out. While, with online shopping platforms, they just need to search for available goods then make an order. Furthermore, there are lots of e-commerce platforms’ big sale events, which provide countless deals and discounts for customers. In Vietnam, young generations always look forward to these occasions to go shopping with cheaper prices, even it happens at midnight. Another reason why people change their shopping habits to online, is because models are updated day by day, which leads to the variety of products, as well as buyers can easily order from oversea countries, or other provinces.
On the contrary, cybershopping brings many drawbacks besides its benefits. First of all, consumers have to spend a plus fee, which is delivery fee, it may cost higher than the price of the product. In some cases, worldwide shipping is even free, but domestic shipping is costly. Additionally, customers can get poorly-made items by buying from unlegit shops, then losing trust on online shopping. This problem has a common name is scamming, which is when customers already pay for the bills, but they received unlikely products as what advertisements said or just a blank box. Moreover, users would face to the threats of being stolen personal information from hackers by exchanging on platforms that have weak cybersecurity. For instance, while you surf the Internet and it recommends you a product that you searched for, in fact, that website already sold your information to make a profit.
In conclusion, there are many threats of shopping via online, but we can not deny its benefits. People should learn to be smart customers to take advantage of e-commerce and prevent damages.