Online Shopping: Nowadays, most consumers regularly purchase items online with the goals of convenience and, frequently, cost savings. Every household’s budget is being negatively impacted by excessive inflation. This buying experience shouldn’t result in unnecessary spending, especially if the online store or platform is using unethical or unfair methods. In this article, we will tell you about three traps that e-commerce websites use that you must be aware of and stay away from.
Online Shopping: Three traps to beware of
1. Drip Pricing
A website or app advertises a headline price, but when you check out, the actual price is higher. This makes it more difficult for customers to compare pricing among retailers.
2. Claiming Limited Stocks
Some websites or applications may display information such as “low in stock” or “popular.”These scarcity strategies can lead to customers spending more money than they want to. When they see these signs, 28% of people say they feel more pressure to make a purchase.
3. Countdown timer
This pressure technique involves setting a countdown timer for when a sale expires, much as limited supply claims. These suggest that a sale is going to expire—often inaccurately.
Therefore, don’t think that just because it claims you have only a few minutes or hours remaining, you will miss out if you don’t buy it immediately.
How to stay safe from these traps
- Sign up for newsletters, you can get updated on upcoming offers or even get a discount code if you are lucky.
- Become a member. Websites offer their members good discounts on their products. You might save more than you spend on the membership.
- Look for discount codes, if you search for a discount coupon on Google, you can get one. Which can help you save more.
- Trick the website by leaving the items you wanna buy in the cart, sometimes e-commerce websites lower the prices or give you extra discounts on the items you have in your cart. This is a good trick if you do not need something urgently.
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