Blogshops: For or Against?

As the world advances today, technology has improved by leaps and bounds.However, the one thing we must all keep in mind is how freely available such technology is made to the masses. A recent experience was when I stumbled upon www.in2glam.blogspot.com, whereby a mere 15-year-old girl can be seen posing and selling various merchandise on-line(commonly known as blogshopping). Here, one can trade, sell, buy, or merely swap items for fashion interest or a hobby.Such a find can be a double-edged sword. Here, one more inclined to think in view of consumers would be gleefully trying to see if any items he/she likes are sold cheaper, as is often the case. To take the view of a critic, however, one would think that such an activity is illegal and can be flagged as trading without the right or license to. If such, then they are missing at least 2 licenses, one from the government, which is the right to sell, and the other from the wholesalers/retailers i.e. the original producers of the fashionable merchandises.

Blogshoppers and blogshops alike work with each other on a mutually beneficial relationship. They may refer customers to other blogshops which specialise in certain merchandise, i.e. rings only. If we follow the obvious trends of sales from blogshopping, eventually more youths will see it as the best and cheapest way of shopping, meeting up at arranged places to exchange goods for money, or vice-versa. Eventually, this will lead to more “official” shops losing sales and then complaining to the relevant authorities about it, which will in turn lead to the closing, and yet more openings, of blogshops. Simply put, blogshops are here to stay, hate or love it. We must simply find a way to accommodate them into the current economical system or fall back behind other governments which have already done so.

Blogshoppers may be competitors of E-bay spread all over the world in the form of innocent, ignorant youths, but with such a convenient and fast system of purchasing whatever one wants, with no GST etc.etc. , and the hundreds of free web-hosting sites popping up day after day, with cyber-dominators such as blogger.com and webs.com, blogshopping is now definitely a very real alternative compared to going out for a shopping trip.

Who knows, in the future, even “window-shopping” may be done on-line?