Advantages and disadvantages of online shopping.

Online shopping has recently become very popular among people of different ages, gaining their trust immediately. This fact, together with its undeniable benefits, has some serious dangerous. In the following essay I will discuss both advantages and disadvantages of such way of purchasing goods.

Firstly, the Internet provides you with a wide range of specialist or collectors' shops with products which are incredibly hard to find, like, for example, rare books, coins and stamps. In such stores you always have better choice than in traditional ones and the prices are usually more profitable.You can also choose one of the numerous stores which sends items from abroad.

On the other hand, you are never sure that you didn't buy a fake. Forged works of art and coins are a plague of the Internet because it is extremely difficult to assess whether something is original or not having only its photo. Actually, we can never verify if the descriptions and photos provided by sellers are in accordance with truth. There are many fraudsters preying on human gullibility, and, unfortunately, we have to get used to that fact.

However, we do not need to worry if we chose a reliable store. There are plenty of shops whose sellers are honest and have unblemished reputation. If there are many satisfied buyers who write good reviews about a store, you can buy without risk.

Although now you can buy everything at home, sitting comfortably near the computer, you may encounter a few problems with dispatch. 'Thanks to' our 'dependable' post, many parcels arrive even one or two weeks later than you expected. Some of them even get mislaid... It's extremely unpleasant, especially if you have already paid for what you ordered.

In conclusion, shopping in the Internet is advisable only as 'necessary evil'-i.e when something you buy is extremely rare. There are far too many risks to have a trust in them.