There are a lot online shopping platforms and apps that been around the internet. The online shopping apps help us to buy things even though we are just laying in our beds or at work. Here is the advantage and disadvantages of using online shopping apps/platform.

Advantages

• You can buy anything from it anywhere you are. It's one of the greatest advantage of using online shopping is you can buy anything even your are in the comfort of your home or at the office.

• The items can be delivered in your home. It is also why a lot of people got hook in buying things online because you can just use your mobile devices and wait for it to be delivered in your house.

• Can minimize your contact with people. Online shopping is one of greatest thing that maybe all of us used when the pandemic started. When Covid 19 was started spreading it is really scary to buy things in the mall because you don't want to have any Physical contact to anyone.

• You can have a lot of discount vouchers and free shipping vouchers.

• There are a lot of choices to choose from and you can find almost everything that you will need. In shopping online is great that you can just easily find the thing that you need to buy and most of the time you can pick type or color you can get because most of the time you can't find the color of type that you want when to go to a store.

• You can get some freebies or some gifts from the online sellers depending on what you buy and the seller will give. When you order a quite big amount of order from the store sometimes you can get a freebie products or things depending on the what the seller want to give as a thank you for buying in the store.

• There are a lot sales you can find. In buying things online you can easily find when there is promo or sale products are because most of the apps show a category or section where you can see the sales items.

• Anyone from your house can received your parcel. It also great that anyone of your family can just received your parcel when you go out or in the work, you just have to left the money on them when it is cash on delivery but when it is already paid you can just tell to the delivery guy to gift it your family or anyone in the house.

• You can get some perks depending on the online shopping apps that you choose for example you can have a coins back or cash back when you buy something and you can use it to get some discounts when you buy again next time.

• You can see reviews of other customers about the product. It is really nice that you can see what other people thinks about the product and you get yourself some assurance to buy the product.

Disadvantages

• You are not sure about the quality of the product. It is one of the biggest disadvantages when you things online because you are not sure about the quality of the things that you will buy and if is functioning well. You can't really tell if the product looks like what in photo or it's proper size.

• Sometimes the shipping fee is quite big. Sometimes when you ordered something just simple and cheap you can see that the shipping cost more than the product you brought because it is from a quite far place or when you ordered something big like machines the shipping fee cost a lot because it is heavy.

• You can be addicted to shopping it is really enjoyable and soothing in yourself when you buy something but it also have bad effects when you got carried away. It is really makes our heart and mind happy when we buy something for ourselves or our loved ones but it can also big us trouble when we got addicted to online shopping and we use our money for something that is not really important, Yes we can spoil or rewarding ourselves a little for accomplishing something but we also need to remember that we have to get control in buying things.

• There are scammers everywhere there is nothing new about scammers in the internet this days. There are a lot bad people in our Physical life so it is more likely to have more scammers online because their identity is hidden and you cannot do anything because there is no one or anywhere you can go to compromise.

• The courier, we are not really sure if the courier that we will choose can deliver safely because there news that there are some areas that experience bad experiences with couriers.

• The shipping can take quite a long time. Buying things online can take a long time in some products because it takes time to pack all the order and get picked up by the courier. It can also get longer when the parcel is from far place or in different country.

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