Do you know what is the problem with people nowadays? They are too easily drawn to convenience. Often they pay a high price later on as the consequence of their laziness. Take for instance the use of e-commerce websites that offers interactive chat features for their members to deal openly.
As interesting and convenient it may sound, but do you know often people abuse this and instead of closing the deal there and then, this interactive, open chatting feature allowed online crooks to skew the whole thing to an entirely different type of ending. Often ended up having some innocent people falling prey to their schemes.
I'm sure we all have heard a lot about innocent victims falling preyed to unscrupulous, creeps and crooks alike through the popular social networking and e-commerce websites that offers interactive chatting features.
Is it really the fault of these websites or was it because of our bad habits? I'd think it's a bit of both. However being a website operator, one should understand customers are king. So it's a wiser move (politically) to blame on ones own website instead on the customers.
Well the problem is, 99.9% of web operators don't bother. Well all except this e-commerce website I stumbled upon in the search engine. It claimed to be using an Interactive method for their buyer & seller members to bargain and deal.
Well initially I found it to be quite a hassle to use this website, especially when registering as a new member. It asked a lot of questions and it even had a survey questionnaire for us to fill. After going through all the hassle to register, I have to open up my e-mail to click a link for this website to activate my account.
After that, well it looks pretty easy to use. However, when I wanted to click on something to sell, I have to go through another hassle of uploading my image file, key in description of the product I want to sell, etc.
Once done., when people started to click onto my ad in there, it will take them into a panel for them to see my product, my price, the product description (and video as well - if I want to pay for it), and then there is this field that allows my potential buyer to key in their counter offer price, I'd then open my account and counter-offer back, so it goes ding-dong-ding-dong until both sides agreed to a price.
Then there is this problem, this website had its own internal currency called "bzd", sort of like credit points and the buyer have no choice but to fork out his/her credit card and buy these "bzd". Now most people would ask, why should I buy some credit points in which I'd use for only once? It's such a waste of time and money. Besides, I don't understand why this website claimed it's interactive when I cannot contact the buyers directly? There's no ICQ chat feature or anything like that. I got pissed off with this website.
So I decided to abandon the idea of continuing with this website and started to click away to some other more popular e-commerce websites. I posted my iPhone for sale and it's so much easier to post than the earlier one. Not very long after that, there are people who click onto my product ad and started enquiring.
I was very happy, the buyer contacted me directly through the e-mail address which I place onto my product ad. We met offline, in a restaurant and we negotiated and I agreed to sell my iPhone to him at a price which is half the price in the open market. He was delighted and so was I when I'm counting the cash he paid me.
He left and I went to bank in the money but the ATM machine rejected the notes. So I went to the counter, and the bank clerk told me that the cash I tried to bank in was fake. It's counterfeit and I got into quite a bit of trouble with the authority after that. Well luckily, I was later cleared.
So I learnt my lesson and started to use the good old auction websites, in fact the most popular one. I use credit card instead of agreeing to meet outside like I did earlier. This time I was a buyer because that what I do. I get products online cheap and sell it at a profit. It's not much but I can easily earn a couple of hundred bucks weekly.
So then there was this Monier watch that caught my eye.. I clicked on it, I bid for it only to find that someone else out-bidded me. Then my ego tells me to keep bidding higher. So I listen to my ego and bid until finally I was the winner. Whoa the feeling of triumph is just great. But that was short-lived. Soon I realised that my Monier watch wasn't coming after all. I complaint to the site admin but they referred me to their indemnity clause and said there's nothing much they can do about it. Because the seller was from overseas, there is nothing much I can do about it.
Another good lesson learnt - there are many crooks out there. After the bad experiences with the e-commerce and online bidding websites, I sort of gave up on this whole e-business thingy. Then I remembered that "cumbersome" e-commerce website which I had registered earlier and almost got a deal with a buyer there until I pulled out inadvertently.
I re-logged into this "cumbersome" website again to try my luck and as I started to get the hang of using its method of dealing, I realised all the cumbersomeness is actually protecting me from being cheated by online crooks like the ones I met earlier. By not enabling direct communication between me and my counterpart, there is no way for my counterpart to plan his cheats on me.
With the "bzd" credit points, I realised if sellers don't deliver the product, the administrator will revert back the credit points back to my account, in which I can cash out anytime.
Well, I bought and sold quite a number of products from this website now. Well I'm not trying to make it sound like I'm promoting it, but I think you should try it on your own. Below is the url hyperlink - http://www.bzhub.com/ArticleView.aspx?Code=_Demo
As interesting and convenient it may sound, but do you know often people abuse this and instead of closing the deal there and then, this interactive, open chatting feature allowed online crooks to skew the whole thing to an entirely different type of ending. Often ended up having some innocent people falling prey to their schemes.
I'm sure we all have heard a lot about innocent victims falling preyed to unscrupulous, creeps and crooks alike through the popular social networking and e-commerce websites that offers interactive chatting features.
Is it really the fault of these websites or was it because of our bad habits? I'd think it's a bit of both. However being a website operator, one should understand customers are king. So it's a wiser move (politically) to blame on ones own website instead on the customers.
Well the problem is, 99.9% of web operators don't bother. Well all except this e-commerce website I stumbled upon in the search engine. It claimed to be using an Interactive method for their buyer & seller members to bargain and deal.
Well initially I found it to be quite a hassle to use this website, especially when registering as a new member. It asked a lot of questions and it even had a survey questionnaire for us to fill. After going through all the hassle to register, I have to open up my e-mail to click a link for this website to activate my account.
After that, well it looks pretty easy to use. However, when I wanted to click on something to sell, I have to go through another hassle of uploading my image file, key in description of the product I want to sell, etc.
Once done., when people started to click onto my ad in there, it will take them into a panel for them to see my product, my price, the product description (and video as well - if I want to pay for it), and then there is this field that allows my potential buyer to key in their counter offer price, I'd then open my account and counter-offer back, so it goes ding-dong-ding-dong until both sides agreed to a price.
Then there is this problem, this website had its own internal currency called "bzd", sort of like credit points and the buyer have no choice but to fork out his/her credit card and buy these "bzd". Now most people would ask, why should I buy some credit points in which I'd use for only once? It's such a waste of time and money. Besides, I don't understand why this website claimed it's interactive when I cannot contact the buyers directly? There's no ICQ chat feature or anything like that. I got pissed off with this website.
So I decided to abandon the idea of continuing with this website and started to click away to some other more popular e-commerce websites. I posted my iPhone for sale and it's so much easier to post than the earlier one. Not very long after that, there are people who click onto my product ad and started enquiring.
I was very happy, the buyer contacted me directly through the e-mail address which I place onto my product ad. We met offline, in a restaurant and we negotiated and I agreed to sell my iPhone to him at a price which is half the price in the open market. He was delighted and so was I when I'm counting the cash he paid me.
He left and I went to bank in the money but the ATM machine rejected the notes. So I went to the counter, and the bank clerk told me that the cash I tried to bank in was fake. It's counterfeit and I got into quite a bit of trouble with the authority after that. Well luckily, I was later cleared.
So I learnt my lesson and started to use the good old auction websites, in fact the most popular one. I use credit card instead of agreeing to meet outside like I did earlier. This time I was a buyer because that what I do. I get products online cheap and sell it at a profit. It's not much but I can easily earn a couple of hundred bucks weekly.
So then there was this Monier watch that caught my eye.. I clicked on it, I bid for it only to find that someone else out-bidded me. Then my ego tells me to keep bidding higher. So I listen to my ego and bid until finally I was the winner. Whoa the feeling of triumph is just great. But that was short-lived. Soon I realised that my Monier watch wasn't coming after all. I complaint to the site admin but they referred me to their indemnity clause and said there's nothing much they can do about it. Because the seller was from overseas, there is nothing much I can do about it.
Another good lesson learnt - there are many crooks out there. After the bad experiences with the e-commerce and online bidding websites, I sort of gave up on this whole e-business thingy. Then I remembered that "cumbersome" e-commerce website which I had registered earlier and almost got a deal with a buyer there until I pulled out inadvertently.
I re-logged into this "cumbersome" website again to try my luck and as I started to get the hang of using its method of dealing, I realised all the cumbersomeness is actually protecting me from being cheated by online crooks like the ones I met earlier. By not enabling direct communication between me and my counterpart, there is no way for my counterpart to plan his cheats on me.
With the "bzd" credit points, I realised if sellers don't deliver the product, the administrator will revert back the credit points back to my account, in which I can cash out anytime.
Well, I bought and sold quite a number of products from this website now. Well I'm not trying to make it sound like I'm promoting it, but I think you should try it on your own. Below is the url hyperlink - http://www.bzhub.com/ArticleView.aspx?Code=_Demo
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