Hi beautiful people. It's my first time writing here, I couldn't help but jump on the topic when I saw it, although I didn't see it on time.
I've had both good and bad experiences with shopping online, although I haven't shopped so much online, but some experiences stood out for me that I would love to share.
So in 2018, I lost my smartphone in a vehicle while in transit, I was really devastated as I couldn't afford to be without a phone at that period because I needed it for my project work that I was carrying out.
After mourning the loss of the phone, I decided to gather some money that I had been keeping away for a while to get a phone. This was the first I would be getting a phone for myself by myself, as previously I had always gotten a phone as a gift from either my dad or my aunt, so this was really a big deal for me.
I didn't really have time to go to a physical store to get the phone, so I asked my friend to help me order online from a particular online shopping website, he accepted and made the order according to my choice. All I had to do was wait for the day I would receive my order.
On the day of the delivery, I was so excited as I was going to get a new phone, I couldn't control my excitement, you know how it can be being without a phone for a while. Upon arrival of the delivery guy, I signed off the phone, and I felt like I had just won the lottery. After setting up the phone, I plugged it in to charge, you know how we are advised to charge first before using the device?
I noticed that it took a very long while to get full, but I thought maybe it was because it was the first time, but as days progressed and I observed it, I confirmed that the charger was really slow, at some point it even stopped charging and I didn't really know how to go about the return and my friend that helped me had traveled so I found another charger to use. Unlucky for me, the phone was stolen from me a week or two after I bought it. I guess the phone was not meant to stay with me, because how do you explain all of the events surrounding it?
The other online buying experience I had which was a good one is more recent. So I needed a wardrobe in my room for some time now, I had been on the lookout to get one. I tried going to get a new one made for me, but it was really expensive, so I was checking the ones that were fairly used so I could get one.
One day I decided to check for the prices of new wardrobes on a particular online marketplace, and I saw different prices for different sizes from different sellers, I then reached out to one of the sellers when I saw that he had something I liked, he responded to me swiftly, answered all of the questions I asked, sent me pictures of what he had. After all, I decided to patronize him.
He said it was pay-on delivery, so I waited for him to deliver, he got stuck in traffic and took a while to get to me, at some point, I got weary after waiting for a while, but my joy was that I hadn't made payment already, because if I had I would have really stressed myself out with worry.
After hours of waiting, he finally came and I was able to get my wardrobe, I inspected it, and it was to my satisfaction, so I made the transfer to him, there were network issues, and my bank app wasn't really working, so I had to use USSD, and I ended up sending him more than what I was supposed to and I didn't even know. The next day the vendor called and said that it seemed I did a certain transfer twice, and that I should cross-check what I sent, it was then I noticed that indeed I sent twice, I had to call him back to confirm his suspicion and he asked that I send my account details, and immediately he sent back the money, I couldn't stop thanking him. I could not believe that such honest people still existed.
So yeah these are some of my online buying experiences that stood out for me. How have your own experiences been with buying online, feel free to share them in the comment section.
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