SHOPPING

	SHOPPING

	1. What are the advantages and the disadvantages of on-line shopping?
	A: On-line shopping becomes more and more common. Due to its convenience, more and more people ”shopping” at home. Although on-line shopping is more convenient and easier, there’re still many problems with it. Some ”stores” require you to pay your money first and send you the things you buy later. It’s dangerous because you don’t know what the things are like and the most important of all, you don’t know whether they can be trusted or not. So when you go on-line shopping, you should be more careful!

	A: Feel comfortable when you are shopping online because: a. It’s more convenient. We can buy at anytime. b. We just need a computer. We don’t spend much time on transportation. c. There are many different kinds of products we can choose. d. It is very convenient for us to receive the product. Most of them are sent through door to door delivery. e. Some of the products we cannot buy at shops but we can buy them on the net. But heed these disadvantages: a. We won’t see the product before receiving it. The product we receive may be wrong or defective. b. If the product is damaged, it is difficult to change or ask for replacement not even refund. c. We need to pay on credit card. The payment may be overcharged. If not, our credit card number may be forged to cause great loss of our bank savings. Security problem happens to online shopping is serious. d. We lose the chance to bargain with the seller. e. We lose the happy moments on real shopping where we enjoying meeting and chatting with people.

	A: About the advantages, online shopping is very convenient. All you need to do is just surf on the Internet, click all the stuffs that you want and pay money with your bank account (credit card). Finally, the things you bought will be sent to your house. About the disadvantages, online shopping makes the consumers take a lot of risks. First, the product of what they buy may not be the one that the company sent. Second, the credit card number may be intercepted by the theft of identity and they can consume with the stolen card number.

	A: About advantages, online shopping is convenient. We can just sit at home and order the things we want. Online shopping is faster. We just need to click a button and we can get the things. Online shopping is cheaper. Sometimes online shopping has sales that provides much cheaper prices than shops. However, some disadvantages make people hesitate to do this type of shopping. It is unsafe because your personal information may be stolen. Some net businessmen are liars. They offer fake things and ask you to pay more. We select the products from pictures exhibited on the computer screen. We don’t know the things are true for our use. It is very likely we receive defective products particularly when the businessmen are dishonest.

	A: The advantage of on-line shopping is very convenient. You don’t need going out, just searching the item you want on the net. You can pay it by credit card instead of cash. You can finish shopping quickly and save time. The disadvantage of online shopping is you can’t see the item you would buy right away. You don’t know if the things suit your need. Maybe the item is not like that you imagine. By the time you receive it, you turn out not to like it at all.

	A: The advantages make people like to order things from the net. Things offered online are cheaper. Shopping online is much more convenient, too. Buyers can just choose what they want to buy and the products will be delivered to their houses. It can save much time. However, shopping online also has some disadvantages. Buyers can’t see the real products from the Internet because they can only see the pictures so that they may buy broken goods. Sometimes, buyers could be cheated by the sellers. They may buy things that are not exactly like what they saw on the Internet. When they try to contact the sellers, they are gone already! Finally, customers may not have chance to bargain with the sellers since computer programs do not include this function.

	A: People like shopping online. It saves their time because they don’t have to go to the stores one after another. Besides, the delivery man will bring it to their house and they don’t have to manage transportation to collect the goods they order. On the computer screen, they can browse a lot of different products at a time all through finger tips. However, disadvantages keep people from using this service. Most of all when we receive the product we bought, we find that it’s different from the one we saw on the screen. Worse than this, they are either damaged or defective.

	A: It’s very convenient. I can sit at home and they will send the order to my place. It’s very fast, and I don’t need to look around the things in many stores. But maybe the things they’ve sent are not what I really want. And the price is more expensive than other offers.