Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Lazada Review: A click away from shopping online

Connecting online is as easy as doing it right at your fingertips. All you need to do is have an Internet capable device with Internet connection. Making it easy for users to be online made online shopping a desirable option by most online users nowadays. Not to mention, there are only a few online malls that were available a couple of years ago. Lazada is one of the reasons why the online shopping competition got tighter and Ecommerce started to be a popular option in the Philippines. Surprisingly, the local industry of Ecommerce in country was really struggling prior to their arrival.

For short, not all local online users regarded online shopping as an option to their shopping needs. They usually buy second hand items at local online classified ads by most local online users. For customers who want to buy brand new items, they usually go to traditional malls to buy it. It's no surprise to anyone since traditional offline malls are usually the place we go to when we want to buy something growing up. Picking online shopping over offline shopping can save local online consumers more time and money. How can online shopping actually give us more benefits? As long as local consumers go with online, they can do it wherever they please.

Customers will no longer need to visit location traditional malls saving them money on transport expense. The Philippines' Online Shopping Mall wanted to fix this for the local online customers in the country. The goal for them is to actually tap the untapped market online in the country. Probably because the majority of the Filipinos are not credit card owners or Paypal account users. It's obvious that we are not comfortable or very trusting in online transactions. We are actually aware of the possibility of having online scams and frauds in online shopping. The industry of Ecommerce in the country is now on the verge of rising as an online industry. In fairness to Lazada, it only took them over a year to establish them in the local Ecommerce. One proof to realize that they are as legit as they can be is they can be seen on TVC during primetime from top local TV networks in the country.

Since Ecommerce in the country is limited, how did they come up with a solution? An alternative payment was offered by them called Cash on Delivery or C.O.D. As a matter of fact, most online stores or malls won't offer this kind of payment method. Any online business finds this payment method very risky from their end. With Cash on Delivery or C.O.D., customers don't need to pay right away unlike with other payment methods were it is required to pay right away. Customers can pay cash right after their orders are handed over to them during delivery. Customers can keep the payment up until they have received their orders in real time. This is to ensure that scams and frauds won't happen if they want to deal with them.

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