{"id":54,"date":"2014-09-25T16:06:18","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T23:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moekourawa\/?p=54"},"modified":"2014-11-10T21:35:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T04:35:21","slug":"re-e-commerce-advantages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moekourawa\/2014\/09\/25\/re-e-commerce-advantages\/","title":{"rendered":"RESPONSE TO: E-COMMERCE ADVANTAGES"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a response to post on Online Business -E-commerce Advantage<\/a> (by Kamila Bikbulatova)<\/p>\n

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(source: http:\/\/www.businessnewsdaily.com) E-commerce continue to increase its popularity due to the advantages<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kamila’s blog post discussed about the effect of e-commerce on both customers and businesses. Now, there are many forms of e-commerce, from \u00a0online banking, retailing and utility services. Thanks to the prevalence in social media and technological development, businesses are introduced to\u00a0a new channel of distribution and sustainable\u00a0source of revenue, and the consumers are presented with wider\u00a0choice and convenient surfing and processing experience. Win-win situation?<\/p>\n

I personally believe NO. Despite the increasing popularity the new way of business, in my opinion there are many pitfalls and unwanted cost associated with e-commerce.<\/p>\n

Firstly, the blog post mentioned extensively about e-commerce building\u00a0stronger and better relationships with the public. While this could be true, e-commerce has high risk of fraudulent trade. As a buyer, it is very difficult to authenticate if items sold on eBay. I am also reluctant to make orders online because\u00a0I fear for online fraud and security of my private information.<\/p>\n

Secondly, while the blog post emphasises how e-commerce can save our time, I personally find browsing online is quite time consuming and onerous. For instance, while most people enjoy browsing for information about a particular car they car interested in, they will still want to visit to test-drives and showroom prior to investments (especially when it is expensive).\u00a0Also, the lag time between your purchase and shipment can take a very long time. Likewise, I believed that e-commerce isn’t suited for all type of businesses.<\/p>\n

E-commerce also enable businesses to employ unethical marketing opportunities – the attack of spam mails.<\/p>\n

In essence, e-commerce is not the answer but merely an option for businesses to expand and succeed in their operation. With millions of users surfing online, the beauty and the evil of e-commerce has yet to be fully understood.<\/p>\n

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This is a response to post on Online Business -E-commerce Advantage (by Kamila Bikbulatova) Kamila’s blog post discussed about the effect of e-commerce on both customers and businesses. Now, there are many forms of e-commerce, from \u00a0online banking, retailing and utility services. Thanks to the prevalence in social media and technological development, businesses are introduced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25939,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moekourawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moekourawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moekourawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moekourawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25939"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moekourawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moekourawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moekourawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moekourawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moekourawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/moekourawa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}