It’s amazing to see that Internet
usage has drastically increased for the last couple of years. I’m not sure if
social media websites and smartphones penetration have contributed to it, but
logically, it made sense that with the two, connecting online can be more fun
and easier for most of us. One thing that is actually changing is our ways of
shopping. The online shopping phenomenon in the country just keeps on growing
every day. Surprisingly, this is a shock for most of us when we think on how it
was looked down upon by most local online users. Most of the frauds and scams
happen online beside offline in the Philippines. It is why transactions done
online is not highly regard by most of the local online users. What was closest
considered in Ecommerce was local online classified websites. This helped the
Ecommerce industry prepared the local online users for online malls.
A community of marketplace was
eventually built thanks to these local online classifieds. It was actually
tough to seek items you want online when these local online classified websites
were not yet available. It became a website for canvasing the market price of
the item they want to buy offline. This eventually helped revolutionize on how
online users behave for shopping ideas. It turned to be a buy and sell platform
for most local online users. This allowed local online users to have more
options on which third party resellers will they are dealing with. Offline
transactions are usually conducted by third party resellers on these kinds of
websites. The same goes for group buying websites for the impact it did on
local users. They showed the way for the Ecommerce websites in the country. The
local online users were already prepared with online payment but the time
Ecommerce websites arrived in the Philippines.
Online shopping to local online
users has more upside than downside. It was hard for local online users to get
greater deals being offered by group buy websites. With lower prices being
offered by group buy websites, it made it harder for local online users to
refuse them. Lazada Philippines was launched in the country last year. They are
actually an online mall that is part of a venture in South East Asia. They are
being back by Rocket Internet which is owned by Samwer brothers. The
Philippines’ Online Shopping Mall significantly helped the local Ecommerce in
the Philippines through their diverse payment methods. Customers are given
numerous kind of payment methods which they finding fitting for themselves.
Credit cards and PayPal are usually the online payment method accepted by most
online stores. Conventional online payments like these, only limits the
customers in availing what they want. Local online consumers were introduced
with Cash on Delivery as their alternative payment method online. The untapped
market in the past can now be tapped with their offering of this payment
method. This is actually the majority market in the Philippines. Now that it
has been tapped, it allowed the Ecommerce industry to further grow.
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