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Life is full uncertainties which makes it difficult to easily predict the outcome of things, most especially how specific humans tends to react to a particular event. in some ways I find it interesting, what is the essence of life if every outcome is known before the event itself took place, it will spoil the fun😅.

Over the years, As the marketing sphere navigates gradually into the digital world, making it more easy to have access to product without taking a step. though I have always been a great fan of sourcing of items online, "sourcing" in the sense that, I might not really be interested in buying that item at the moment or all I want is to get the price and plan towards it in the future, digitisation of marketing has made this act of mine a lot easier.

Apart from shopping online through websites and apps, there is another rampant medium, a division of online shopping, which is social media shopping. in recent times we have a lot of individuals who advertise their product on social media to get across to customers/consumers. All you have to do is view the product, contact the vendor and it will be delivered to your door step.

it sounds pretty cool but compared to the normal websites and apps for shopping, the credibility and authenticity of this online vendors is quite challenging. they mostly survive on referral some who have made deals with them and confirm they are legit but this doesn't guarantee that they wouldn't turn out to be scams in the future.

I had a weird experience with one of this online vendors about a year ago, one of my siblings was in need of a school bag and he kept pestering me about it and it is quite difficult to say no. knowing fully well that his birthday was around the corner I just decided to buy the bag and kill two birds with one stone 😅. I decided to check online outlet for bags that will be convenient for him but I wasn't seeing anyone I liked.

One Faithful day, I was strolling through my departmental WhatsApp group, when a lady's advert was forwarded into the group, she seem to be into all this wholesale stuff including bags, so I decided to check her catalogue on WhatsApp, I saw a lot of amazing bags listed, one in particular pinned my interest. so I texted her and requested for the bag, the amount she mentioned was a little bit expensive but she made emphasis on delivery expenses so I decided to ride along.

But the funny thing about this online vendors is, they always request for money before delivery of the item. I got paranoid and chatted up my colleague that posted her link, she admitted the online vendor is legit, as someone I knew I took her word for it. I went ahead and made the payment, she gave me details of when the bag will be delivered.

The bag was delivered the second day around evening to my door stop, so I hurriedly tore the package wrap to check out the product, that is when the whole drama began. though the bag looks exactly like what I ordered but not in terms of size and thickness. I immediately contacted her and informed her about my discomfort. she claimed that is how the bag looks like and that is the only size she had, the size of the bag was written on the picture I saw but what was delivered was smaller. I grew a little upset because she collected an amount for a bigger bag and delivered a smaller one.

I wanted to request for a refund but knowing how this online vendors are, what if I sent her the bag and she ended up holding unto the bag and the money, that will be double loss. I just let the matter slide and vowed not to ever patronise any of the online vendors again.

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