When Online Shopping Gets Funny: Two Stories You Won't Believe

I am the kind of person who finds joy in buying stuff online; it is stress-free, I don't have to bother leaving my home or walking through shops to get what I want, and more so, it saves a lot of time. But there is something that happened recently that I find funny. Actually, I would be sharing a story about two recent experiences I had while trying to order something online.

The first was with Oraimo. After ordering a power bank from Oraimo, I received a free gift. A friend of mine was so interested that he told me to help him with the order since I have discounts on my Oraimo account. On a normal day, if I were to order from oraimo, the delivery time would be around 3 to 4 weeks before the product finally arrived.

This was how a week passed with no message, call, or anything from Oraimo. It was so annoying that I did not receive any calls or messages. I tried the customer service number I found on their website, but it was not going through. At first, when it went through, it was declined by the person operating the phone. This made me really angry. I asked myself a question: why would a popular brand not have a reachable customer service number?

Then I later remembered that I was in an exclusive WhatsApp group for Oraimo fans. I went in there to chip in my complaints, and then I was asked for my order number. This was when I was told that the order was cancelled because the free gift that was attached to it was no longer available. This made me more pissed, not because the free gift was not attached but because they did not communicate about what they did; they had to make me look for their customer service number before getting that information.

The second story I want to share is about a friend of mine who came to me about wanting to order an ergonomic share. I went online to search for the chair, and he saw a particular chair with a range of prices. He saw the chair for $29, and some other sellers want to sell that same chair for $42. The distance in prices was a lot, and this made us laugh so much.

Why were we laughing?

We were laughing as what was going through our minds was: Will the chair of $29 be original? Because it is actually hard to believe an ergonomic chair would be that cheap, and also because it is on sale for $42 by another seller. What is the difference between both of them, aside from the price?

I think this happens to people who go to the market. Just like having a seller tell you a price for something that was quite high, you move on to another seller showing you the same product for a far cheaper price. The thought of whether the product offered by the second seller is cheap or not.

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