What are the advantages and disadvantages of online shopping

Abstract: Online shopping is a kind of consumer way of purchasing goods through the Internet, which has the advantages of low price, more choices of products, convenience, etc., but also has the disadvantages of product quality can not be determined, transportation problems, after-sales maintenance difficulties, and so on. China's network shopping development is relatively rapid, as early as 1999, China's Internet prophets began to establish B2C website, and with the development of the economy, network shopping has gradually become an important form of shopping. The next step is to take a look with the editor. What are the advantages and disadvantages of online shopping

One of the advantages

1, low price

Low price is the biggest advantage of online shopping, compared to the traditional way of buying, online shopping malls / B2C platform merchants do not need to counter the hard costs, some merchants do not even have the pressure of inventory, so in this regard than the traditional merchants have more advantages, which will be reflected in the end of the The price of the products will ultimately be reflected in the price of the products.

2, more product choices

Network shopping is completely free of geographical restrictions, even for consumers in remote areas can easily buy goods from all over the country on the network, all kinds of brands, all kinds of models can basically be found in the online shopping malls / B2C platforms, for consumers, its product selection is undoubtedly more abundant.

3, convenient

Network shopping from ordering, buying goods, to the door of the goods, do not need to be present. Both time-saving, and labor-saving. It can also protect personal privacy, many people like to buy adult products online, go to the physical store to buy seem embarrassing and embarrassing.

Two, disadvantages

1, product quality can not be determined

Because of the current imbalance in the domestic legal and industrial structure, a large number of fake and shoddy products will appear on the network shopping. At present, the most complaints about online shopping is that the products purchased online are not of the right quality and are of poor quality. Many consumers find that the products in their hands do not match the pictures on the Internet, and are parallel imports, refurbished goods or counterfeit goods. After all, for online shopping, we can only be through the pictures provided by the merchant, video to understand the product, rather than seen in kind, there is a quality deviation is unavoidable.

2, transportation problems

Compared with the traditional way of buying, online shopping to be more a courier transportation problems. In addition to a lot of extra costs, the quality of courier transportation is also something to worry about, many products are damaged in the transportation process, the speed of delivery is also very different, giving consumers a lot of trouble.

3, after-sales maintenance difficulties

Network shopping although there is also after-sales protection, but the product warranty is more trouble. If there is a national warranty products slightly better, no, consumers need to express the product back to the network merchant side of the repair, but the repair time, the cost of express delivery, business credit and other issues, are more worrying.

The development of online shopping in China

Before 1999, China's Internet prophets began to set up B2C Web sites, dedicated to promoting online shopping in China. But this approach was generally questioned by the economics community at the time. In the time since, however, those doubts have become a non-issue, having been addressed by large shopping sites and couriers other than the postal service, as well as by a host of third-party online payments that interface with major banks.

In 1997, online bookstores began to appear, online shopping and China's commodity ordering system began to appear. in July 1998, China's commodity trading and market website officially operated, Beijing and Shanghai launched the e-commerce project. on March 6, 1998, 3:30 p.m., the country's first INTERNET online e-commerce transactions successful. Mr. Wang Keping of CCTV purchased 10 hours of Internet access from CenturyLink through the Internet banking service of Bank of China. on March 18, CenturyLink and Bank of China officially announced this news in Beijing. Shortly afterwards, a container truck full of COMPAQ computers worth 1.66 million yuan arrived at Beijing Starfish Kaijuo Computer Company from Shaanxi Huaxing Company in Xi'an, the first e-commerce contract in China generated on the network of China Commodity Exchange Center. This was the first e-commerce contract generated on the network of the China Commodity Exchange Center. Thus, Internet e-commerce moved from concept to application in China.

The year 2007 was a year of rapid development for China's online shopping market, with both the C2C and B2C e-commerce markets achieving rapid growth of 125.2% and 92.3% respectively.

The size of China's B2C e-commerce market reached 4.3 billion yuan in 2007, and the size of China's C2C e-commerce market reached 51.8 billion yuan in 2007.

With the popularization of the Internet, the advantages of online shopping have become more prominent, and it has increasingly become an important form of shopping. The 29th Statistical Report on Internet Development in China released by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) in January 2012 shows that by the end of December 2011, the number of Internet users in China had reached 513 million, with 55.8 million new users added during the year. The Internet penetration rate increased by 4 percentage points from the end of last year to 38.3%. The number of Chinese cell phone Internet users reached 356 million, up 17.5% year-on-year, and compared with previous years, China's overall Internet user scale growth has entered a platform period.

On January 23, 2015, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) released data that the 2014 national online shopping complaints were the highest in five years, mainly focusing on contract, after-sales service and quality, which accounted for 28.4%, 22.7% and 21.7% of the total number of complaints, respectively. As a result, the state on March 15, 2015, the official implementation of the "infringement of consumer rights and interests of behavior punishment measures", December 1, 2017, the official implementation of the "public **** service areas of English translation and writing norms", the provisions of the online shopping standard English name OnlineShopping.