Online Shopping Disadvantages

One of the important disadvantages of online shopping is lack of personal interaction. Another disadvantage of online shopping is tangibility factor. Seeing the picture of a product is far inferior to that of seeing it in real world. When you go for real world shopping, you can actually touch, feel or sense it with different means, but for online shopping you can only view the electronic catalogues. Eventhough this problems has been rectified to certain extent by use of 3D product catalogues, some online malls still uses the old fashioned images in product catalogues.

Another factor is shipping cost. If the shipping cost is more than that you need to actually carry the product home, then online shopping become un attractive.

Yet another concern is about online security. If you are shopping online, you have to take additional care about your credit cards so that to protect from unauthorized usage.

Online shopping lacks the real world shopping experience that we get shopping with relatives and friends offline. Eventhough online shopping has several disadvantages, the advantages out number the disadvantages and thus more and more people started buying online.