Lazada Philippines: Boundless possibilities in online shopping

Never did I imagine that online usage would take it this far growing up. As far as I know then, it is only as good a source for great information. It's actually overwhelming to see that online shopping is now starting to become popular in the Philippines. Believe it or not, this wasn't the case a few years ago. People were hesitant in online shopping. One factor is that both online and offline scams have a high rate here in the country. This is why online transactions is not highly trusted by the local online users in the country. This made local online classified websites as the top websites that local online user visit when they want to buy something.

They actually paved way for the arrival local online malls in the country. An online marketplace was eventually created because of their online presence. Buy and sell was harder online classified wasn't available yet and relied only thru offline. It has become a venue for online users to check the price of the item they want before visiting malls. It allowed local online users to do more and stay longer connected to the Internet. A lot of people go to their websites to buy and sell on their own. The difference between them and Ecommerce is that it is third party resellers who gain from the traffic. It's most likely that transactions are being done offline by third party reseller. It's the same concept with group buying websites. Customers were prepared for online payment by these websites for the coming of Ecommerce websites in the Philippines. Upon the arrival of the Ecommerce websites, local online users were already prepared for online dealing.

One reason why online shopping was ever considered is because they can gain more than what they are risk. The amazing deals offered to customers from group buy websites were very rare. The offered deals of group buy websites were so great that it will be hard for customers to not try them out. Just a year ago, Lazada Philippines was launched in the country. It is one of the online ventures that were launched in South East Asia. It is backed by the Samwer brothers who own Rocket Internet. They made significant impact in the local Ecommerce industry with their offering of unconventional offline payment methods. Their payment methods featured different payments that allow online customers which suit them best. Customers are only allowed to pay via credit card or PayPal by most online malls. This actually hurts the potential of customer pushing through with their orders since most of them can't pay thru these conventional online payments. They were one of the first online malls to offer Cash on Delivery or C.O.D. as a alternative form of payment method. This payment method helps them to tap the untapped marketing in the country. Actually, the majority of the local market is this one in the Philippines. Now that the entire market is open in online, it definitely helped Ecommerce thrive in the country.