People
are now seeing the online shopping trend that is continuously rising in the
Philippines. Surprisingly, this is a
shock for most of us when we think on how it was looked down upon by most local
online users. Frauds and scams happen most of the time both in online and
offline in the Philippines. As a result, everyone in the country always
reconsiders transactions online. Local online classified websites were the
premiere local website for mostly local online users in the buy and sell
industry. They actually paved way for the arrival local online malls in the
country. In the marketplace industry, a community was created because of these
buy and sell websites.
When
online classified weren't available yet, local online users didn't have an
option online. Users go to these websites mainly to get an idea about market
price of what they want to buy. It paved way for local online users to maximize
the usage of Internet. It was being used as a medium for local online users to
buy and sell. This allowed local online users to have more options on which
third party resellers will they be dealing with. Customers usually pay offline
when dealing with third party resellers. Group buying websites also has its
fair share for the local online user behavior. They guided the people for the
arrival of Ecommerce in the country. Upon the arrival of the Ecommerce
websites, local online users were already prepared for online dealing.
One
of the factors why local online users considered this is that the reward over
throws the risk. Through group buy websites, local online users had a taste of
great deals that is rarely found nowadays. Their deals were outstanding lower
prices that any local online user would have a hard time refusing. Last year,
Lazada Online mall was launched in the Philippines. It is an online mall
available in other countries of South East Asia. They are being back by Rocket
Internet, which is owned by Samwer brothers.
The
Philippines’ Online Shopping Mall has very friendly payment methods that helped
the Ecommerce industry to online prominence. Their payment method gave
customers option on which payment they find more suiting. In online, online
stores allow its usually only credit card or PayPal payment. This actually
hurts the potential of customer pushing through with their orders since most of
them can't pay thru this conventional online payment. They introduced to the
local online users about their alternative payment method called Cash on
Delivery or C.O.D. As a result, this allowed them to tap the market that is
still wary of online shopping. It is actually the majority of the population in
the country. It allowed the Ecommerce to grow with this market now included.
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