Thursday, June 27, 2013

Lazada Philippines: Selecting the best option in online shopping

Online users will always look for way to try to get the best shopping experience To think that Ecommerce is just starting to spread in the Philippines Shopping online wasn't even a discussion in the Philippines just a couple of years ago. We were not actually very closed minded in online shopping, it's just we don't have enough local online malls during those times. Ecommerce scene changed when they launched in South East Asia. They are available in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam and Philippines.  They are actually backed by Rocket Internet. A huge Internet company based in Germany. Their business model was quite simple. They clone online business models that were successful on other countries and launch it on countries that don't have that service yet. With their arrival in the Philippines, it allowed us to try online shopping as an option to address our shopping needs.

Shopping on traditional malls was just part of our culture growing up. Parents may have contributed dearly on how we perceive shopping on traditional malls. Parents may have dearly contributed in our way of thinking in offline shopping on traditional malls. Now that we are living in the digital modern era, it made most of our offline activities way easier when done online. We just don't depend on traditional shopping anymore, now we also have online shopping as another option to address our shopping needs. The Philippines’ Online Shopping Mall is actually more reliable than its competitors given it has diverse options unlike other online stores. They were one of the first online stores to introduce Cash on Delivery or C.O.D. in the country.

As a result, online shopping became possible to everyone. It became evident that online shoppers can now pay thru cash as an alternative payment method. Online scams are highly unlikely to happen since we have the advantage as a customer. All the customers need to do is leave their shipment address and recipient upon their check out and they are good to go. Payment of cash can be just handed over by customers as soon as it receives their orders. Customers can inspect as long as they want before paying. Only they can offer this kind of option to their customers. Customers are the ones who get the advantage with this kind of setup. It proves that they only want to provide us the best online shopping experience in the Philippines. Now that they are willing to take all the risk, it reflects on how they can be trusted by the local online community. They even took an extra effort by shouldering the delivery fee of their customers as long as it exceeds one thousand pesos mark.

Personally, I like what Lazada Philippines is doing to make the Ecommerce become a huge thing like what they are on other countries. We are actually late adopters of online shopping. But I’d rather be late to adjust to this kind of lifestyle than not at all. I’m quite excited on what they will offer in the future.

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