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

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Nowadays, the popularity of online shopping is increasing.
People
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buy things like concert tickets, books and bags on the internet. I think the
disadvantages
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and
advantages
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are the same for online shopping. In
this
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essay, I will discuss both
advantages
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and
disadvantages
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. It is widely accepted that online shopping has a lot of
advantages
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. There are two main factors behind it.
Firstly
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, buying things on the internet makes
people
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’s lives more convenient. Many individuals do not need to leave their house and they can find anything they want online.
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, 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
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,
products
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which
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that
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are sold online are usually cheaper than physical stores.
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, 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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per cent
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off.
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, on the online
shop
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it is half of the price in the physical stores.
On the other hand
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, online shopping has
disadvantages
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. One of the
disadvantages
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is that the
quality
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of the
products
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are
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not stable. Even if some
people
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buy the same
products
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from the same online store, the
quality
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of the
products
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can be very different.
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, a kind of backpack sold online, the responses of the
products
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were different, some
people
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said the
quality
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is good, some
people
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have a different opinion. At the same time, there are differences between real items and pictures. The difference can be the
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colour
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of the product or the
quality
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is different to the advertisement. To sum up, online shopping has
advantages
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and
disadvantages
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. In my
opinion
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there are
advantages
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more than
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because online shopping makes
people
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'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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