"Shopee:The Downside of free shipping voucher for small business owners"
Blog#170:04 March 04,2022Who among us don't want a free shipping voucher when shopping online? I guess everyone loves it and definitely would want to use it to save money. But little did we know that some small business owners are the one who's suffering?
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Just one day ago, from my previous article, I have mentioned that I have some items in my shopee cart(online shop) that I really wanted to buy for our house. Before the midnight sale came, I collected lots of vouchers from Shopee so I can use them to have more discount. I have collected 10% discount coupon, cash back, free shipping from selected store and this voucher called free shipping site wide.
From my understanding, site wide means, you can use that voucher to any shop inside shoppe, as long as you reach the minimum spend which is 55 pesos ($1+usd) then your good to use that voucher upon checking out your items.
So that night I stayed up until midnight, so I won't miss the biggest discount that they'd offer for their buyer's. That night's sale is actually special, as they have given lots of discount to all buyers, but you have to be hurry on checking out as some item's are just limited.
After I successfully check out all my items in my cart, I was very excited to receive them soon. With the use of the vouchers that I got before the midnight sale, I got a chance to bought an extra item for my son's feeding bottle. I was really satisfied with my purchases. Although I haven't received them, I'm already satisfied 😅.
But yesterday while I am scrolling at my Facebook account I have come across to this post of one of my Facebook friends that suddenly made me feel guilty 😅.
She is a shoppe seller and I guess she is just a small business owner so she was very affected with that free shipping voucher during midnight sale.
According to her, ones the buyer use a voucher for the shipping, the fee for the ordered item was deducted from her own saved funds. So she was asking her buyers to do not use a voucher so she still have fund's for her other expenses in shopee, such as packaging tapes, bubble wrap and etc.
I don't know the rules and regulations of shopee one's you open your store to their app, so I really don't know about this. Honestly all I thought that those discounts and vouchers are literally come from the developer of shopee. I mean from the people behind of shopee app 😅.
Anyway using a voucher might be beneficial to us( buyer's) but what if you heard a scenario like this? Will you still use a voucher?
For me, I think it was okay if I am going to use a voucher, but I might just use it in a big online stores not in a small online store owners so they won't be affected and their business will continue to grow.
As we all know, we can also find some popular store (brands) inside Shopee, and I think it won't affect too much to them if we gonna use a voucher. But anyway this is just my own opinion 😊. How about you, what do you think?
Anyway luckily this time all my items came from Shopee Mall, those store are quite popular so I think they won't be affected with my free shipping voucher 😅.
Anyway this is all for today guy's and thank you for reading.
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Though Voucher has discounts but it could affect small shop sellers.