E-Commerce: Buying and Selling Online

What is E-Commerce you ask? Well E-Commerce is the term that is used when referring to any business, or commercial transaction that involves transformation across the internet. In today’s world the internet is almost essential for anything you have to do especially shopping. There is not a successful company in America that does not use the ecommerce system in some type of way. For example have you ever shop online may be you have heard of Craigslist, EBay, Eastbay, or even Amazon all these or successful because of their ability to buy and sell online. There are many more business out their like this but this are just a couple of popular ones.
How did ecommerce get started you asked? Well ecommerce has been around for about 40 years now. Even though it has been around so long it has begun to grow rapidly in the last 5 years and is just expecting to keep growing. EDI or Electronic Data Interchange started the whole movement out with it replaced traditional mailing and faxing of documents with a digital transfer of data from one computer to another. A man by the name of Michael Aldrich an English inventor is credited to be the inventor of online shopping. It is said that the idea actually came from a day out of shopping with his wife at the supermarket. In the year of 1979 Aldrich connected a television set to a processing computer with a telephone line and created what he coined, “Teleshopping” which means shopping at a distance. This was a great idea but like most great ideas it takes time to develop into a successful movement, and this idea would not begin to grow into the spread of the pc and the World Wide Web also known as the Internet. The internet which really started coming around in 1982 this connected millions of user t...

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...f the disadvantages of ecommerce. Its benefits outweigh the risk hands downs because for customers it saves you time from taking a trip to a store when the item you want may not be there. With companies it’s a major advantage because it gives growth to a business because it gives companies more options. Customers no longer have to come to a store and order now they can just pull up their favorite place of business website and just order directly from online. So this gives company ability time to get process orders without having to rush orders. I actually order a lot of things online myself so this is really reliable source for me with everything been sold online you can even get car insurance or even buy a car online these days. So next time you online getting ready to order something just think with 1 click of a button you can order anything because of ecommerce.