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Good afternoon hiver learners, how are you doing today? Happy new year to you all. This year 2023 will be a great and good year for every one of us.
I am back to hive learners’ community; I was on away for few days. Christmas and new year were good on my side. My biggest challenge network during my holiday was network challenge. The network in my village was too poor, so I could not enjoy online like the city.
Shopping is simply mean purchasing something online or offline; in this Era, it is not easy not shop online; unless in a remote village where there is no access to network. That is when you cannot know what is going on in the world of technology.
Hmmm! Shopping online is very crucial in this age because we are in the era of technology. Technology is advancing on a daily basis; more people are getting used to technology. Therefore, more than 60% of youths in my country are shopping online.
I like shopping online so much to the extent I kept on searching online every moment.
The major reasons I like online shopping are:
It saves time: there are times in my life that I am always occupied with loads of work; there was no time for me to shop offline due to my busy schedule. The only alternative for me is to shop online while i continue doing my work. Shopping was so easy for me; I no longer go to the market to get those things i needed.
I get what I want at any time; time is no longer a barrier to shopping for me. There was a day I wanted to buy electronics from a specific company offline because of the durability of their products. On getting to the company, the company had already closed, there was no option than to stay with my friend living close to the environment to avoid too much expenses; the hotels very cost, and I didn’t calculate lodging in hotel with the expenses.
I could not achieve my plan for the next day due to the delay.
Online shopping gives me the opportunity to buy the products from anywhere in the world and deliver at the stipulated time. I don’t need to get there before getting what I want.
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The products are easy to get: Unlike shopping offline, where I walked round the market before getting what I wanted in some cases.
Last 2 weeks when I went to the market to get sander, I was faced with serious problems such as overcrowding and searching for the store. I missed the road as a result of overcrowding, it was a guy that took me to the store
In online shopping, I just need to search for the name of the products I want. I don’t need to undergo all the stress of finding the store.
Cash back voucher and online discount: cash back voucher and online discount motivates me to shop online. I received vouchers or discounts on products I purchased online. When I compared the discount of online to offline shopping; I preferred to use online shopping.
There is a period when you get a high percentage discount on a certain product when you shop online. We call this period ‘black Friday’. I get most of the things I needed at that period once it is listed. These are the things that motivate me to patronize online shopping.
One of the biggest challenges of offline shopping is that the price of products is not regulated here, you can buy a product and sell it the way you want it.
Home delivery method: the company delivers the products to my home. Therefore, I get my products on the door of my house without stress.
All these factors make me like online shopping very much.
Whatever has advantages gets disadvantages. This saying is very true. That is the reason shopping online is very risky. There are many people across the world that have been scammed and I was one of them.
Last two years, I ordered for a sander from one of the biggest online companies in my country.
What I got was different from what I ordered. I ordered imported sander; a very high-quality sander. I was given a rubber sander.
The most painful thing was that, if I were to purchase that rubber sander in my environment, it would not cost me more than $3.
I ordered the sander $24; this made me went crazy. I was not at home when the sander was delivered to me; when I came back from the journey, I could not return the sander again.
This made me lose interest and doubt shopping online. I also heard the same thing from different people, they told me how they were scammed.
This has created psychological effects in my life.
There were several times I searched for products online, added those products to my cart but refused to pay because of the experience I had.
Presently, I hardly shop online, I shop offline frequently.
What I do right now is to compare the price of the products online and offline, if the price is affordable, I purchase the products and collect my invoice.
I had returned some products to where I bought them when they stopped working after a few months; the seller changed them or repaired the products for me.
Hmmm! This is not possible when shopping online, I have never heard that someone return a product when it stops working after few months of usage in online.
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The psychological effect in my life now is that I don’t develop interest in shopping online due to the fear of scamming. I prefer to go to supermarkets, groceries and stores to get whatever I want. There were times I ordered most of the things I used online; the moment I was scammed, I lost interest in online shopping.
Scamming from a trusted customer may cause you to lose interest in purchasing items from such a customer. I lost interest because I trusted the shopping site and it is the biggest, largest and most popular shopping site in my country.
‘Whatever has an advantage gets disadvantage’ This saying is very true, and that is the reason shopping online is very risky. There are many people across the world that have been scammed like me.
I have never thought that such a big company could have such lapses. I believed that since it happened to me in a big shopping site, I am not safe from other shopping sites in my country.
I stand up for success, and success is not achieved by merely making mouth, No room for laziness, no room for idleness.
Thank you for reading my post.