The Tips of Online Group Buying

Why people used to shop online with a group of people? There must be reasons. It might be some people who just shop without thinking rationally. Maybe they just buy because they think it is worth. Or maybe they just buy the product following the popularity.

Now, we're here to share the tips of online group buying. Shop rationally, think twice before you buy the product.

1. Think carefully, count smartly.
Think twice and calculate, is that really a good deal? Consumer can do some research by asking friends and family around or went somewhere to find out. Because we won't know the actual price of the product. But just because they stated there 50% offer, people believes it. But it might be the seller purposely raise up the actual price and says that it was a promotion, so that people believe it and they are earning. It is not possible that the seller do this but they are losing money. It might be possible they do this way for advertising their product, who knows? Therefore, consumer has to find out the truth and the actual price of the product before they decide to purchase.


2. Read the find print carefully and contact the merchant.
Some of the deal has terms and conditions on their fine print such as "only valid on weekdays" or "3 days in advance is required for appointments". Every different deal has different terms. Consumer has to read carefully then only decide wants to deal or not. Some of the deal does not written the information correctly or does not written information on their fine print. Therefore consumer has to take action to contact the merchant to find out whether how it actually works.


3. Beware of the numbers of buyers and be flexible with redemption dates.
Some of the company will set the limited numbers of buyers so that they would not be over purchase and they can handle they job. Imagine if there are 1000 consumer have bought the voucher and they voucher are only valid for 3 months. The company might be full of booking everyday and the voucher will be useless. Hence, consumer has to beware of the numbers of buyers and also the date of expires.


4. Beware of phishing sites.
Be careful with phishing or fake websites that  looks like a real group buying website. The phishing sites might cash out your money indirectly through paying transaction.