why do the British NOT buy on-line? PLEASE HELP!!!

[chrisaldred]

dear all!

I am a researcher at the UMIST School of Management, in the U.K.. I am researching British people's attitudes to Internet Shopping, and the reasons why they do not buy on-line. This is important research because we are not buying on-line and online retail spending is a fraction of total retail sales.

However, i do not have enough responses from UK nationals and i desperately need more. Please help me and click on to the WWW link below and complete my on-line questionnaire. For every completed questionnaire, i will donate 10p to the charity OXFAM. I will also post my research findings in this forum for everyone to read. IF anyone wishes to have more details of my research or wishes to request more in-depth research findings, then please e-mail me: chrisaldred53@hotmail.com

here's the WWW link to my questionnaire:

http://pjl.sm.umist.ac.uk/jlquest/chris/chrisEnglish.aspx

Kind regards,

Christopher Aldred
MSc Student
School of Management
UMIST
UK

 

[x-2o]

I'm in the UK and I buy online mostly and if you go to places like Ebay.co.uk there are thousands of uk people buying online.

Are you sure you have been looking in the right places??

x-2o

 

[Stewart]

i buy every thing online... food/electronics not sure what i dont buy...

I would have filled in the questionaire but i lost intrest because its too long...

 

[Anjay]

An old topic... oh well, I'll reply anyway.

Why did I not purchase things on line when I was in the United Kingdom?

Firstly because I didn't feel I needed to. I lived in the town centre, and was only a minute or two walk from the very centre and I lived in a nice small market town which was full of small shops [However that does not mean there were no supermarkets - Although one of the supermarkets (Waitrose) was also right in the centre].

Secondly was because it takes a fair amount of time if you order on line. It cane take from 24 hours to six or eight weeks depending on the items; and if it is something large and expensive which will take a long time, I want to see it in person before I buy to make sure I'll be happy once I receive it.

Thirdly was because I didn't feel like using my card 24/7 on the net.

Another reason was because when I found a good on line shop, it would soon afterwards close down. One example is Jungle; well first Argos bought them over and they were ruined. Then they just closed down because the majority felt the same way. Argos just seem to ruin everything.

Now I still don't purchase on line that much, however I'm in France. But now when I purchase on line it is only for books in English. There are so many great books which you just cannot get here in English.

 

[ldcdc]

All valid points Anjay... BTW, nice to see you on HD again. I'm a relatively new member (compared to you at least) but I do know that you were one of the most active HD members.