𝘿𝙤 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙗𝙪𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙨𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙮?

Online shopping, is it saving or wasting money?

By - Nur Ainin Sofiya binti Hamdan

Online shopping is popular among people around the world nowadays. Shopee, Lazada, Zalora and many more are several online shopping sites that are well-known in Malaysia. Many people visit this sites either to search their needed items or just for window shopping. However, there are also many people that more prefer to shop physically at the shopping outlet such as Aeon, Mid Valley, Paradigm Mall and so on. This raises the question as to whether shopping online is saving more money than shopping physically or otherwise.

 

   There are strong reasons to say that online shopping can save our money a lot. First of all, every month, there will be a promotion provided by online shopping websites such as Shopee 10.10 Brands Festival whereby there are certain products that will be having a discount and offers such as 10% rebate if you spend RM 10 and above for the product. This offer will have a specific duration such as 1^st October till 10^th October so that it will attract people to buy items via the shopping websites in this fixed duration. Secondly, some shop’s seller in the shopping websites will offer some interesting and attractive offers for the buyers such as buy 10, free 1 or collect 100 online points when you buy items over RM 100 and redeem the collected with other product in the same shop.

 

   On the other hand, the add-on of postage fee for items that we buy might change our thought about saving money by shopping online. For your information, the minimum postage that will be charged on every item that we buy is RM 4.90. For example, if we buy an item that only costs RM 0.80, the total amount of money that we should pay can reached RM 5.70! That is such a huge amount to be pay just for one cheap item. Other than that, the seller might increase the prices of certain items to be sell on shopping websites so that they can get more lucrative profits while we as the buyers have to pay for the price.

 

   To sum up, I think we should spend our money wisely to save up the money. We should make a budget calculation, compare the prices between the stores and take note the offer deal’s date so that we could buy more items for the cheapest price. So, online shopping can save our money as long as we make a right action when buying some items.

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