Online shopping? If I can~~

I’m a  internet geek, but I don’t spend too much time on it. Internet is just a tool that made my life more convenient, above different kinds of the online application，online shopping is my favorite. In general, boys don’t like shopping as girls do, especially the window shopping. Online shopping is really a perfect way that allow us can pick the satisfied goods without too much time.

But, I find it is not very easy to shopping online in American. The differences between the American’s finance system and the China’s really confuse me. 

First of all, payment is a huge problem, I’m a international student, I don’t have a SSN card. So I can’t apply for a credit card right now. And the credit card is the major payment tool for the American online shopping. In china, people always pay for the online shopping bills by a system called “alipay”, actually is very likely with the “paypal”. But people can transfer their money from bank account(checking account) to alipay account rapidly，the entire process will be done in one second. Last week, I bought some books from the ebay, and transfer my money from checking account to paypal for doing the payment. but the transfer is still “on process” until today. what a suck system.

Secondly, there is no tool allow buyer and seller to talk about the deal, buyer can only get the information from the website, if they have some questions about the goods, there can only send message to seller by the ebay system, then maybe get the return message after 24hours. I think online shopping means faster and easier, if can not make a deal right now on web, why they choose the online shopping? In China, the biggest online shopping website called “taobao” provide a IM software for buyer and seller communicate instantly.

Thirdly, shipment is expensive and slowness. the shipment fee is much higher than it in China. For example. the shipment fee of a macbook pro 13inch is 40 RMB ( about 6 USD), and you can receive the macbook pro in up to 3days.  The same shipment action maybe costs you 20USD or more.( God bless, the APPLE store provide the free shipping, but it is too slow).

I am still waiting for the paypal system, and after that, I have to wait for the shipment too...... Maybe, that’s life~~~ lol~~








the taobao website :  www.taobao.com

the payment tool ——alipay

the online shopping IM——aliwangwang