Buying things on the Internet, such as books, air tickets and groceries, is becoming more and more popular. Do the advantages of shopping in this way outweigh the disadvantages?

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Nowadays the popularity of shopping online is growing rapidly. Shopping online has more advantages and a few disadvantages.
This
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essay shows that how advantages of online shopping supersede the disadvantages of shopping online and
also
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my personal experiences about using
internet
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the internet
to buy things. We can buy almost everything by just staying at home and even the prices of most of the products are lower than in the market and it is
also
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time saving. We just have to search for the product we want to buy and have to give our address. Mostly we have payment on delivery
options but
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options, but
sometimes we
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have to pay via credit card. Is not it great that we did not have to go anywhere and we are going to get the stuff we needed. It will not just only save
our
things belonging to us
ours
but
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the money we have to
spent
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spend
on fares or gas of our vehicle. With all these benefits online shopping still
have
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has
some disadvantages. People get fraud a lot by shopping online. They order one thing and they get something else.
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it is not always, getting more popular every day.
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However with
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However, with
every passing online shopping is getting more secure and free of frauds.
Still some
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Still, some
people do not prefer to buy online as they want to see the product live and want to feel it with their
otherwise
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they do not know what to buy. Mostly it is the case with wearable products
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as clothes and shoes. With all these pros and cons I think that online shopping is
great method
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a great method
of shopping and I know sometimes we do not get
satisfied but
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satisfied, but
most of the times it is a great way to shop.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • convenience
  • time-saving
  • wide selection
  • competitive prices
  • discounts
  • accessibility
  • global marketplace
  • availability
  • fraud
  • scams
  • lack of
  • physical interaction
  • personal experience
  • impersonal
  • customer service
  • delays
  • delivery
  • return process
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