Good day once again to everyone, my name is oluwatimileyin and I welcome you to the season 8 of the engagement challenge.

I welcome you to my participation in the week 6 of the Engagement contest with the title: Review Your Favorite Online Shopping Apps.

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Online shopping Apps has helped a lot of us in many ways, it can be in helping us to get items at a cheaper price, or giving us the choice to purchase a scarce item due to our area of choice.

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What's your favorite online shopping app & why?

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My favorite online shopping App is Jumia Ng. Jumia Ng is short for Jumia Nigeria , and it is a shopping platform that deals with selling of varieties of products such as electronics, gadgets , fashion styles , makeup kits , beauty products, and any house use materials.

One of the major reason why I enjoy using Jumia so much is because the app is simple to use, which is unlike the other shopping Apps, and the transactions are easily made in Nigeria Currency (Naira), which means there is no need for any dollar conversion before I purchase .

The Jumia app is very easy to navigate, and you can easily search for the specific product you are looking to purchase, and also ,you can save items that you are interested in to a CART and then come back later to purchase it when you have the Money.

And these are the unique features that made me choose the Jumia Ng Shopping Apps as my favorite shopping store.

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What would you prefer to buy through your favorite online shopping app?

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When it comes to purchasing products or items on Jumia App, I prefer to buy perfumes, clothes and some home items as well.

As someone who owns a small perfume business, I do make use of the Jumia App to source my product price sometimes, I could use it to confirm the ratings of each item , then compare it to my own and see which one is better, and if the Jumia price is better, I had rather purchase through the Jumia App Instead.

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The Jumia App has varieties of perfume brands , there are sometimes when a customer will request for an item and I didn't have it, I will swiftly go to the Jumia App instead to make the purchase and I had still make my profit anyways.

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Is it cheap or costly to buy through online apps? Share price in Steem and your country's currency

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To be honest, this goes vice versa , sometimes the products are cheaper on Jumia while more cost offline and sometimes it is cheaper offline than on the Jumia App.

So therefore, I have come to the conclusion that buying stuffs through Jumia Ng can be costly compared to buying them offline, the only time I had opt for Jumia Products and price is when the product is not available in my area, and the customer is willing to pay for the price or sometimes it can be for my own personal use as well.

For example, in the case of a bottle of Onleeu perfume , the perfume costs 7,000 Naira which is approximately to 44 STEEM on the Jumia App, but in an offline store, it cost only 4,500 or 5,000 Naira which is approximately to 32 STEEM.

Although, sometimes the price difference might be due to shipping fees, delivery fee, but if the product is possibly to get in a nearby store, I could agree that it is cheaper to get offline then.

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Would you prefer to buy items through online apps or offline? Which do you think is the best way of shopping?

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If I have the money , I will always prefer to buy through the Jumia App because it is very convenient and there are several products to go through. But if there is a slight chance that the product is closer my house, I would prefer to buy them from the offline store instead.

In my opinion, I believe that the online and offline shopping have their own advantages and disadvantages, the best way to decide depends on the users need and capability at that moment.

The Online shopping are more convenient and there are always varieties of products to go through, this will give you an option to select and select at the comfort of your home, but most times this products are costly, but Offline shopping requires you to leave your comfort zone , and there may not be varieties to go through unlike in the online shopping, so the preference depends on what the user wanted at that moment.

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Here is where I pen down my entry, therefore I would use this moment to invite @yakspeace, @Lhorgic, and @jueco to participate in this contest

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