E-commerce: Is it helping?

Hey folks,

E-commerce or e-comm for short, refers to any business (buying or selling of products and services) conducted over the internet and other computer networks. In our modern society, many people choose to do some of their shopping online. The virtual market online provides an easy going way to make trades; where you could choose to shop or look at items in a virtual store, buy or sell things over websites like EBay and Craigslist and get all your stuff to be delivered at home, so you don’t even have to move. You could even lookup online reviews of things that you wish to purchase. And, everything online is 24/7. Accordingly, shopping over the internet becomes much more relaxed for the consumer as little to no effort is expended. However, it is not always ideal to shop online. Often it happens that the object we bought did not turn out as expected. The delivery time is another factor here, as in most of the cases it’s too long of a wait, with some rare cases actually turning out to have no delivery made at all. Irregularly, products delivered can also have some sort of breakage. On top of it, there is always a chance that you might have become a victim of a Ponzi scheme (scammed). Additionally, since e-comm companies rely on e-mail for communication with their customers, it might be also unsafe to conduct business online as e-mail privacy is virtually non-existent (discussed in one on my previous posts). All this makes me doubt that if E-commerce is really benefitting the consumer society? What do you people think? Feel free to drop comments.

PS: Here are a two links that display pros and cons of e-commerce-

http://www.nireland.com/e.commerce/Pros%20and%20Cons.htm

http://www.esalestrack.com/blog/2008/09/advantages-and-disadvantages-of.html

And again, you are free to look for more if you want ;)

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