Dear all,

Need your opinions for a survey about online shopping, this won't take more than 10 mins. All help is appreciated.

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Also, if we might have a discussion here, what are your thoughts on the multitude of online shops that has mushroomed in the past few years (my observation is limited to Singapore and Indonesia, but I believe the same is going on in other parts of the region)

Many thanks!

I personally think its easy and quick but not safe!

Cheaper even for brand named goods and more of a selection. But you have to know where to buy what from.

Also, returns are more costly.

I like it. It allows me to buy stuff that my country doesn't import. Or stuff that my country does import but put on so much taxes that you pay 3 times more that the original value of the product in order to support local brands.

depends...clothing i don't trust because I like wearing mine before buying.

I buy Carlson's Fish Oil regularly. At the local health food store like Whole Foods Market or Vitamin Shoppe, a big bottle costs over $40. If I order from Amazon or Vitamin Shoppe website, the same-size bottle costs a little over $20.

Nowadays I pretty much buy everything online. The only brick-and-mortar stores at where I still shop are:

• Wal-mart, whose prices can be (sometimes but not always) less than online prices;
• Big Lots, for supplies like paper and toilet towels, and sometimes really cheap close-out items;
• Ikea, whose prices are cheaper because the shipping costs for furniture kill any potential saving from buying online; and I like to look, touch and measure my furniture before I actually buy them;
• Sears and Big-K (which is a subsidiary of Sears) for Kenmore kitchen appliances because I trust Kenmore's quality, and only Sears sell them;
• Fry's Electronics, but only when some items are on sales or clearance; otherwise everything at Fry's are unreasonably overpriced.
• Grocery stores for food items.

Everything else I pretty much buy from Amazon and Newegg (for computer and sometimes electronic items.)

I used to buy from eBay, but now everything on eBay is so expensive. Nowadays eBay is for tools who want to spend too much. "Buy It Now" = "Click Here to Get Ripped Off"

For clothes, I already know my size on Hollister/A&F/Ruehl, so mostly I buy 'em online because their store here are like $10, $20 or even $40 more than the price they had in online store and in the mainland. Same goes for AE, and Ecko (I only buy the Cut&Sew tops, dont like their Ecko Unlimited), plus you can find coupon codes for those 2 store on the internet, something you cant do on Hollister/A&F/Ruehl. For shoes, Zappos is my main store but if I find a good price other than them, I would use whoever has a better price.
For electronics, I use Google shopping or something similar (like price matching websites), but most of the time I use Amazon 'cuz they are the only ones that do free shipping here in HI.

i love online shopping because i love getting packages in the mail.

kyoot

I love it too