Buying things on the internet, such as books, air tickets and groceries, is becoming more and more popular. Do the advantages outweigh the disadvantages?

Nowadays, the popularity of online shopping is increasing.
People
buy things like concert tickets, books and bags on the internet. I think the
disadvantages
and
advantages
are the same for online shopping. In
this
essay, I will discuss both
advantages
and
disadvantages
. It is widely accepted that online shopping has a lot of
advantages
. There are two main factors behind it.
Firstly
, buying things on the internet makes
people
’s lives more convenient. Many individuals do not need to leave their house and they can find anything they want online.
For example
, my aunts used to buy vegetables in the market. But during the pandemic she learned how to use Taobao, which is an app similar to amazon, she started to buy most vegetables online.
Secondly
,
products
which
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that
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are sold online are usually cheaper than physical stores.
For instance
, the same pair of shoes are sold both online and in physical stores. In the physical store, the lowest price of the shoes is normally around 20 to 30
percent
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off.
However
, on the online
shop
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it is half of the price in the physical stores.
On the other hand
, online shopping has
disadvantages
. One of the
disadvantages
is that the
quality
of the
products
are
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not stable. Even if some
people
buy the same
products
from the same online store, the
quality
of the
products
can be very different.
For example
, a kind of backpack sold online, the responses of the
products
were different, some
people
said the
quality
is good, some
people
have a different opinion. At the same time, there are differences between real items and pictures. The difference can be the
color
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of the product or the
quality
is different to the advertisement. To sum up, online shopping has
advantages
and
disadvantages
. In my
opinion
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there are
advantages
more than
disadvantages
because online shopping makes
people
's lives easier than before.
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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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