5 online shopping tips

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Advantages of Buying  products online are saving your time and fuel costs because we need not to travel to a local shop to buy products and we have the option to get them at our door step for cheaper prices. Below are the points to remember to become a smart buyer.

1. Check product description: As the customers cannot physically touch and feel the products while buying it using a e-commers website,product description is the answer to the queries like what fabric is it made from? User instruction or care instruction,Size,Quantity and Expiry date etc.

While most of the buyers focus on product images and technical things it is equally important to look at product description.A well explained product  description describes the product benefits and convinces the customer to buy what they need.

Most of the e-commerce websites make genuine efforts to post unique and attractive descriptions for the product pages, some sellers forget the content entirely and there are some who take a short-cut and copy all the descriptions from manufacturers sites or from different online websites. So it s is buyers responsibility to understand the product description before placing order and disputes for successful ruturn of the product is mainly on the basis of this, so Don't Neglect it.

Keep in mind, if you are not satisified with the product description don't buy it. Have quaries? then raise it to the customer care of the website and get the clarity from seller before placing the order.

2. Product Pricing: Product price plays a key role to convert a e-commerts site visitor into the customer. When you buy items online in addition to price , keep in mind the Shipping cost and the discounts Most of the online websites quote the product price lesser than the market rate but if you consider the price+shipping cost it will become expensive. To avoid paying shipping costs buyers endup adding extra products which are not necessary at that time. So being a smart buyer, make use of whish list to save your time and shipping costs. Add products that you require to the whishlist and place your order when you reach the free shipping criteria. Before ordering compare the price of the product online on different sites.

For example on amazon.in a buyer is eligible for free shipping only when he buys products worth Rs.499 or more. Different sites like flipkart, snapdeal and ebay offers free shipping basing on the product and pricing range.

 

3. Returns: Benefits of buying online products are saves your time and fuel costs, it has some disadvantages too. You cannot physically touch and feel the products. So most of the e-commers sites provides Returns based on its return policy. So while placing order please read the product description and Return policy carefully. They will accept returns based on the details mentioned in product description and Return policy. Certain things like under garments does not cover under returns policy.

4. Rewards N cashback: Most of the websites provide Rewards and offer cashback on regular intervals in order to promote the sales. So always make use of it and don't forget to grab it while placing the order. Please understand the complete Terms and conditions of the offers before proceedint to place order. 

This gives a happy shopping experience because we get the product at great discounted price if we considering the Final price of the product(Product price=Discount on MRP+Savings on Shipping + Rewards and Cashback).

5. Warrenty: As we discussed earlier since we cannot touch and feel the products while buying online, Please read out the What does the warranty cover?. Understanding the Warranty Terms and Conditions helps us in knowing what kind of warranty is it? and What is the purpose of the warranty?

A warranty has various meanings, generally it means a guarantee or promise which provides assurance by one party to the other party that specific facts or conditions are true or will happen.We have different kinds of warranties like Seller warranty, manufatcurer warranty etc.