ARTICLE · 30 MAY 2020

Online Shopper Be Aware!

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Online shopping, whether it be for goods or services, has segmented its own small part of our reality in recent years.

South AfricaConsumer Protection

Raeesa Ebrahim Atkinson

Online shopping, whether it be for goods or services, has segmented its own small part of our reality in recent years. Be it browsing a catalogue or reacting to a social media post of a person complaining that they didn't get what they paid for; most people are at least familiar with the concept of an online purchase.

If you have never made an online purchase, you might have been put-off by the myriad of posts and horror stories of "...I thought I was buying a phone but it was the cover that they were advertising..." or "...It's a lot smaller than it looked in the picture...".

However, before writing off online shopping as strange and all too risky, let us consider the laws and regulations that may apply to it.

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