What you need:
- internet access
- smartphone or computer/laptop/tablet
- bank card or credit(=debit) card
Process:
- open a browser
- look for the product that you need
- choose the one
- create an account (first time)- give some personal details
- put the product in your shopping cart/basket by clicking on the icon
- proceed to checkout- give your address for delivery and your payment details (bankcard number, expiry date of your card)
Advantages:
- comfortable, convenient- you do not leave your house
- can be cheaper- sales, no shop so the expenses of the store are lower
- variety is huge
- can order from anywhere (abroad, other continent)
- easy to compare the prices- find the best
- shopping is not tiring- do not go to the shop and walk around there
- do not need to visit crowded places
- can buy things discreetly
- can track the order and delivery status
Disadvantages:
- paying by bank card can be risky, dangerous
- fake webstores
- can take a lot of time to get the product
- delivery can cost a lot of money
- can’t try the clothes on- size can be wrong
- colour can be different in real life
- material can be different in real life
- quality can be poor
- can be damaged, broken when you get it
- can be lost during delivery
- can be late during delivery
- time and money consuming to send it back
Have you bought anything online? Why/why not?
How often do you buy anything online?
What is worth buying online?
What wouldn’t you buy online?
Have you had any bad experience?
1. Yes, I have. For example I bought shoes, phones, clothes.
2. The reasons I bought online these:
Why: Because it’s comfortable I don’t have to go to some things, shipped for me and it’s safe in this situation.
Why not: Because products be damaged, for clothes not good size, small or too big.
3. Rarely, when I can’t buy in the market or no in the shops.
4. Because we find some things thats we can’t buy in the shops, the things are cheaper or just we are too lazy to go for these.
5. That’s why I don’t, due the dimensions, sizes often are misleading, I think it for example bags, clothes etc.
6. Yes I have, I bought a bag that’s too small and I want to take books, so I can’t.