Forums for Internet shopaholics: communication + exchange of experience

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

We tell you about the communities where online shopping lovers gather. The article will be of interest to those who want to buy on the Internet, but are afraid and do not know where to start, as well as experienced shopaholics who want to share their experience.

How to place an order? How to determine size? When will the goods be delivered? Can I order to someone else's address? A lot of questions swarm in the head of a person making a purchase in an online store for the first time. And also fears … Will not all the money be written off when paying by card? Will they send it exactly? What if you get a marriage? What if I am wrong with the size?

Thematic forums are designed to answer these and many other questions. On them, you will not only gain useful information about the mechanics of online shopping, but will also be able to exchange experiences with other community members. You will find out where it is better to get shoes, and where - electronics, for which one or another store offers the best price and who has the most convenient delivery or return conditions.

At the same time, the data on the forums is updated more dynamically than in articles and guides. You can ask clarifying questions and even enter into discussions: communicating in the community is usually more convenient than writing comments on websites and blogs.

Here are a couple of the largest and most popular forums for online shopping aficionados.

Shophelp.ru - forum for shopaholics and joint purchases

is one of the first and oldest online shopping communities in the Russian Internet. Here you can get all the information a beginner needs:

• How do I register at popular shopping sites?
• What are payment systems and how to work with them?
• Why do we need intermediaries and which of them should we give preference to?

In addition to detailed FAQs, the community even has its own Wiki. For those who already know where and how to buy, topics with discussions of various incidents will be useful: deception of sellers, refund of money or goods, and so on.

There is also a "" section on the forum. The first will introduce you to the whole variety of online shopping sites, and the second will tell you where to buy a product from a particular manufacturer.

Looking at "", you will be aware of discounts and promotions of various stores. Separately, it should be noted "". This is one of the most popular Asian online stores - promotional codes are always relevant for it.

Shophelp.ru also has its own parcel tracking system and a section where you can boast of successful (and not so) purchases. There is also a kind of "flea market" where you can exchange goods or resell them.

For joint purchases in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan, the forum provides separate sections.

You can search for the information you need by tag cloud, heading, or using the search bar.

ShoppingZone.ru - forum for remote shopping fans

There are various articles, reviews, and online shopping guides, such as how to work with PayPal. The community has more than 14, 5 thousand registered users, on the form - over a million messages.

The first section of the forum is called "". Who among us has not found a colorful booklet in the mailbox that could be used to order clothes, books or household goods? This section will tell you which offers in the catalogs are really profitable.

The next branch is "". Here, trading platforms are structured by product: cosmetics stores, clothing stores, children's goods stores, and others. A separate topic is devoted to intermediaries who help to buy where there is no direct delivery to your country. there are Russian online and offline stores.

Questions of payment, discounts, cashback, customs and other important points of distance purchases are discussed in the section "". You can attach unsuitable goods, exchange or outbid something from other members of the forum at the local "". Next - a topic for organizing joint purchases.

There is also a thread where online auctions are discussed. For example, there are many pages about shopping on eBay.

Finally, there is a section where you can have a heart-to-heart chat, discuss fashion trends, sellers and find out where to buy this or that item cheaply. By the way, a life hack for men: if you don't know what to give your beloved for the next holiday, climb through these sections of the shopping forums - you will get a lot of ideas.;)

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There are other forums for online shopping fans as well. They are not so numerous, but perhaps this is where you will feel comfortable:

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Is there something to add? Write in the comments on which forums you get useful information about online shopping.