In this ' Matahari terbit sebelah Timur' country, there are 2 common websites being used for online shopping. One is Rakuten, the biggest online shopping company based in Japan. Actually, I loved this websites most because more variety of goods and the point system used in the website. If we purchased one product with own account, we can get points, which can be used later to buy product with discount. For instance, If I bought a pen and got 2,300 points, I can used to buy a 3000 yen knife at 700 yen.(calculation is simple 3,000yen - 2,300 point). In conclusion, More I bought, more I get. If you are very smart, make other people buy things with your account and you can get point benefit here. Definitely, the person just need to pay you money, but his point is your point.(*^-^*)
Rakuten supply a ton of merchadise, from clothes, accessories to food, you name it they got it. There was a time I bought a dozen of mineral water in the website(-_-). Not mention here I was lazy but you know, to lift a box of mineral water is impossible for me without car. So, the best things was to order online and they carry for you.
Rakuten Websites
buying mineral water online
Actually, there are more feature in the websites such as you can do history search, which you can get back information about your search before. Moreover, billing information, receipt and comment to a product can be done online. One of the beast in Rakuten service is in their carriage charge. Most of them is free, unless you buy items which is extremely cheap. Yet, if we add all cheap items, we can get free shipping after certain price. So, basically the price is same as you buy in the nearest store, at least we don't need to waste body energy, fuel and parking money. Shipping usually take 1~2 days from purchased day, unless they send your items with normal postage, which may take 1~4 days depend on distance of their shop and your house. In addition, we can search our delivery items condition in website too, as easy as ABC. How to know our current delivery condition?
The biggest carrier companies in Japan are Sagawa, Yamato and Japan post. Mostly, they will use Sagawa for the fastest and easy shipping online. After you purchase your products in Rakuten, you will be given an email from Rakuten (receipt) and shop which handle the item. The shop will email back with delivery information, when they send the products and with appointed carriage company and track number. Below is how you can track your purchased items.
Put your track number here
This is your delivery condition with detailed date
So, this is basically how Rakuten works in Japan. The other online shopping website is Amazon, based in US. For malaysian people like us, we know this website is very popular among internet buyers but hey, there many type of amazon here. Amazon US, Amazon UK and Amazon JP is categorized in each country. For Japan, certainly they use Amazon JP with dual language, Japanese and English.
So, How about payment to the purchased items?
basically, there are 4 ways to do payment:
1.Credit card
2.Convenience store
3. Pay on delivery
4. Money transfer
Paying in convenience store is by inputting your payment information on the machine inside the store and after that there be printed out slip. Finally, bring the slip into counter and pay with appropriate amount of money. Famous convenience stores here are 7e, Lawson, Family mart, Mini stop and many more. Usually the store is almost near with your living place.
Malaysia online shopping websites?
I am still remembered Mudah.com become the famous online shopping website in Malaysia. Yet, the system is totally different from here. Payment from the websites is being made hand to hand (cash), where the website only a platform for the buyer and seller to deal. After you purchased, the buyer or seller need to move to a specific location to pay or give the product. We can see here time is consumed a lot, but because you are dealing with seller directly, you can ask for discount, free gift and many more. Nowadays, seller can ship the product and buyer can pay through money transfer, debit card or credit. But I am still believe, we can't get item in 1 or 2 days. We need to deal with them a few times before they can send the product.
Why we used debit card usually rather than credit card?
This is my personal opinion. Our people still don't have enough buying money so debit is a relevant choice right now. If we debt too much, we are not able to pay the credit and Malaysian salary is too low for many of them for having credit card. With the increase price of daily product with same amount of salary, I think we are too far away for having credit card right now.
What do you things about online shopping? do we need to improve our online shopping system?easy for people living in area which limited mobility to buy thing, or just buying in the store is a better option? there, you can see, feel and touch the real product.
ordering until arriving
ps: dah lame xtulis panjang2
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