Online shopping in India is one of the preferred shopping options for techies or new generation. The advantage of the shopping may vary like saving time, no queue for billing, free delivery anywhere in India. Nowadays Online portals are coming with new schemes to make shopping even better like Online shopping guarantee and replacement guarantee. Awesome right. But before you shopping online there are a number of demerits from this deal. Let us check which are clearly known and which are hidden truth for online buyers.

1. Shopping online -Is buyer getting Best Deals?
Online shopping in India is one of the preferred shopping options
for techies or new generation. The advantage of the shopping may
vary like saving time, no queue for billing, free delivery anywhere
in India. Nowadays Online portals are coming with new schemes to
make shopping even better like Online shopping guarantee and
replacement guarantee. Awesome right. But before you shopping
online there are a number of demerits from this deal. Let us check
which are clearly known and which are
hidden truth for online buyers.
Buying temptation: Buying temptation
is nothing but ending in buying really
what you not needed. This can be anything from offering you cheap product
as best deal of the day. What a buyer need to ensure before buying such
products? Before falling in the offer, you need to ask yourself whether the
product you really need now or can you wait for a few more days.
Defective or Damaged: Earlier the main disadvantage of online shopping is defective or damaged
product when delivered. Now the online portals guarantee the replacement of the product if the
product is defective or damaged. The online portal offers you this guarantee only if the product has such
damage or defect when delivered but doesn’t guaranteeif the product is not working because such
guarantee seller has to provide you.
Image shown is always not true: Online portal may have a tempting image of the product but the
product delivered and an image shown in the portal is not always same. The size of the product may be
written in the product description but the technical words used to describe the product feature may
always confuse a common buyer.
Seller detail is not given in the bill: Yes, you read correct. The invoice shows your billing details and
address, the product you placed the order and the detail of the portal you placed the order. Getting a
dealer detail has many advantages. Dealer and manufacturer are not the same. A manufacturer is the
company that manufactured the product and the dealer is the person responsible for selling the
product. The dealer may be even from your city or neighborhood.
You can cancel the order anytime: Every online shopping portal guarantees you money back when your
order gets cancelled but what is hidden truth. The order can be cancelled only if you cancel before the
shipping of the product. Once you receive theproduct you feel the product is what really not thought
and wanted. Now if you call the customer service, they cannot help you because they had to obey seller
terms and condition. The seller terms and condition says once the seal is broken or packet is opened,
the product cannot be taken back. Logically thinking, how a buyer can know the product without
opening the packet.

2. Indiatimes, Flipkart, Jabong, homeshop18, rediff,
snapdeal, yebhi, Junglee, future bazaar, Myntra, etc
are some leading online portals offering one stop
destination for online shopping in India. Free Shipping,
Cash on Delivery, Exchange / Replacementetc are
some attractions of the these portal. But does these
sites really offer you an exchange offer? For example,
if you placed an ordered netbook and realized later
what you really needed is a notebook and not a
netbook. Now you if you raise a request to exchange
the product and willing to pay the difference amount, these portal cannot do anything in favor of you
because they can replace a netbook with another netbook but not a netbook to notebook.
What really an Exchange means?
Exchange offer means if the buyer is not completely satisfied with product, the buyer can exchange the
product with another product from the same portal and in same category. Can any online portal can
offer you this offer? If yes, really you are getting a best deal.
So next time when you shop online, take special care to familiarize yourself not only with the rules and
policies but also with the legal terms (warranties, refund policy, etc.) of the seller's items. Review the
return, refund, and shipping and handling policies as well as the other legal terms. Look at your purchase
carefully as soon as you receive it. Ask customer support before you book a product whether you will
get any solution if you discover a problem or is not completely satisfied with the product. If you don't
feel comfortable buyingan item over the web, believe me, the deal is not for you. Try offline where you
can check the product seeing, touching and feeling. You will also have an advantage of bargain where
you can say the product available rate online and the dealer will surely help you to get the best deal.