Revealing The Hidden Traps Of Online Shopping

According to eBay statistics, the largest online trading platform in China, 3 million people are shopping on eBay every day, and 35 thousand products are traded.

According to a data provided by eBay, sellers on eBay sell a traditional Chinese painting every 5 minutes, sell a brand-name lighter every 4 minutes, sell a watch every 3 minutes, sell a stamp collection every 1 minutes, sell a mobile phone every 1 minutes, sell a pair of sneakers every 30 seconds, sell a jewelry every 30 seconds, and sell a T-shirt every 10 seconds.

Firstly, online shopping has no time limit.

As a network store, it can be opened to customers 24 hours, so long as users can log on to the website at the time they need, they can pick the products they need.

In traditional stores, most consumers are subject to business hours.

Secondly, the cost of shopping is low.

For online commodity buyers, they choose and compare their products. They only need to log on different websites or choose different channels to complete them in a short time, and they can be directly served by the merchants. They are free from the hardships of traditional shopping, and the cost of time and cost has been greatly reduced.

For traditional shopping, this can not be achieved.

Third, goods are easy to find.

Online stores basically have the classification and search function of store goods. Through search, purchasers can easily find the goods they need.

In traditional stores, buyers need more time and energy to find products.

Fourth, the scale of display is large.

Such as Dangdang's 300 thousand commodity has already covered nearly all the large domestic news and publishing enterprises' books and audio-visual resources.

Traditional book stores can only display tens of thousands of products to customers on site because of site restrictions.

The Internet shopping trap is a trap.

Exaggeration and false propaganda.

Use huge bonuses or prizes to entice consumers to browse their websites.

Save points for prizes. There are several ways to accumulate points, such as registering websites, browsing websites, introducing offline, etc., but ultimately, the prize money needs money.

There are gifts on the web page, but when consumers get the goods, they find that the gifts are missing or inconsistent.

Strategy: first of all, this kind of problem lies in the choice of shopping websites. It is more sure to choose the following shopping websites: choose websites with longer history, shopping websites with higher visits, choose websites with good reputation, and choose websites that can pay cash on delivery.

Trap two.

Some websites use formatted contract terms to provide consumers with "consent" or "disagreement". As for the details of the contract, there are unreasonable provisions, which consumers do not know.

Strategy: before trading, read the trading rules carefully.

In addition, because such electronic evidence is "easy to modify", it is necessary to print and store the voucher when the paction amount is relatively large or more important.

Trap three.

Businesses do not undertake the "Three Guarantees" responsibility for goods sold online.

Countermeasures: pay attention to keeping the relevant documents.

When delivering goods, you should check whether the goods are in line with the order, whether there is a warranty or warranty certificate, and ask for a shopping invoice or receipt to return the goods when they are not in conformity with the advertising.

Trap four.

In some shopping websites, things look cheap, but when they buy their hands, calculating the general ledger, plus freight, is not as worthwhile as imagined.

The price of some websites is often 50 percent off or even 70 percent off. In fact, the original price of the website will be higher than that under the net, but the price tag is very low for the familiar product and the price is clear.

In fact, most other commodities are not cost-effective, and even exceed the discount price of the physical stores. The total profit is very high, so the consumers can not afford to buy them.

Strategy: try to stroll as much as possible. Regardless of the Internet, you should have a general idea of what you want to buy, see how much it is to the physical store, and then make sure that it is really cheap and good quality.

Trap five.

The proportion of credit cards used in online shopping is relatively large, which is prone to the problem of misappropriation of credit cards and property losses.

Strategy: if you pay by credit card, you should use a special account. It is not appropriate to store too much cash in your card.

Keep your personal data well, credit card numbers and ID card numbers do not leak easily, and do not easily hand over credit cards and identity cards to others.

At the same time, reduce or eliminate the use of public facilities such as Internet cafes, in order to prevent user information leakage.

Every time after shopping, we should change the password in time.

We should try to choose cash on delivery.

Trap six.

The products we buy are not satisfactory, including: chromatic aberration, computer pictures sometimes look beautiful, get physical objects, but they are different; secondhand goods; size problems and so on.

Strategy: learn to use the search function to find the products you need. Don't worry about it.

First, leave a message to the shopkeeper and communicate with the owner to determine the details of the postage and paction.

Make full use of the message function.

On the one hand, the message is the best way to understand what you want to buy, the quality, number, function, after-sales service, and even global joint insurance (mainly electrical appliances). On the one hand, a good number of shopkeepers will give you a better discount.

There may be surprises. What's more, we can know the owner's sense of responsibility, after-sale service and even cheat by answering.

Trap seven.

After remitting the seller, there is no seller at all.

Countermeasures: professional sellers will send e-mail to buyers after the paction, inform the way of remittance, and ask the buyer's mailing address.

Buyers must pay attention to, must know: the seller's fixed telephone (not cell phone, not PHS), the seller's specific address.

The mature seller will tell you its remittance address, even if you choose bank pfer, you must know the seller's address.

If the seller doesn't tell you these two important information, don't pay for it. Most of the time you encounter a cheater.

Trap eight.

Delay in delivery.

Strategy: after remittance, inform the seller of the amount and time of your remittance, and the shopping list.

Urge the seller to deliver the goods.

Express delivery is faster and can be delivered in about 3 days.

If it is general mail, the general seller will send you an email within 1-2 days after delivery, and inform the package number and delivery time.

Considering that some sellers do not have the job, they can take the initiative to contact the seller and ask for the package number.

Surface mail usually takes about a week or so. It takes 10 days to get somewhere far away. Buyers must wait patiently.

If there is no movement for 15 days, you must contact the seller.

If you don't have any news for a long time, you can remind or warn the seller to complain about the website's rights and interests.

If there is something wrong with the receipt, you should contact the seller first. Some misunderstandings are resolved by a phone call or a letter. There is really a problem. Good seller's after-sales service is perfect, and the rule of return is complete, until the buyer is satisfied.

There is no surprises.

Of course, poor sellers, poor after-sales service is another matter, we must resolutely complain to the end.

Trap nine.

Most websites do not provide enough information to consumers.

33% of the websites did not explain the refund, and 39% did not establish privacy protection measures.

Strategy: careful choice of traders.

For unfamiliar businesses, we should pay attention to whether or not they provide detailed address and telephone number on the website. If necessary, we should call to verify the identity of the operator.