Handcraft Shopping – Online Vs Offline
Posted: Saturday, December 11, 2010
by Jithin Dev
Online shopping of Handicraft is one of the major benefits of the Internet. Many things that were pretty hard to do or to obtain have become so simple since the development of the Internet. Nowadays shopping is a necessity, some enjoy it and others try to keep it as simple and short as possible.
Advantages of online shopping (Handicrafts)
2. These are more comfortable when compared to real world shopping, you do not have to deal with the weather - you won't get rained on for instance shopping online.
3. The seller does not have the costs of running a shop and having to pay wages to salespeople, insurance and all of the other running costs of a real world business, so goods are often cheaper.
4. Using anyone's credit card payment can be done when shopping online. A lot of us are concerned about the identity theft when heard about online shopping. Identity theft cases take place in reality in brick and mortar store itself and not online. Nowadays websites keep your identity safe as they are secure with powerful encryption procedures.
5. You can also compare as many products and prices as you want without having to spend the time and money to travel between several different shops.
6. Also here you can read reviews that have been written by other people who have purchased the item you are considering.
7. You can find and buy products from all over the world while doing online handcraft shopping .
8. To get fast deliveries and low shipping fees try to search for the shops that are in your country.
Disadvantages of online shopping (Handicrafts)
1. You cannot feel or see the item you want to purchase, this is the main disadvantage of online shopping, mainly from a handmade store online. So you will have to buy the item relying purely on a photograph and description.
2. You cannot purchase an item you need to use immediately, as you have to pay shipping costs and have to wait for the items you purchased to be shipped and delivered.
3. It may take weeks to exchange a faulty product purchased online. You will have to repack it and pay to ship it back to the seller.
4. At times an online craft store fails to offer warranties and some sort of guarantees.
5. An online website may have credit card security issue, despite the fact that how secure the website claims to be. You cannot always trust them.
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