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In recent years, with the "80s" to join the decoration force, online shopping building materials has become a new way of building materials procurement. Online shopping products are cheap and affordable, and they are not limited by venues and are popular with young consumers. However, due to the special nature of home building materials, many consumers will have various problems after purchasing materials through the Internet. Then what about buying online building materials online?

Young consumer groups tend to shop online for building materials

Ms. Tang, 26 years old, and her husband purchased a new house in a certain district. Due to the pressure on mortgages, Ms. Tang would reduce the renovation burden through online shopping. "Sofas, lamps, small pieces of building materials such as switches and sockets are all bought online. It costs thousands of dollars." However, Ms. Tang told reporters that similar tiles, toilets, wooden floors, and cabinets are not easy to transport and Products with high quality requirements are still purchased in physical stores. Like Ms. Tang, who likes online shopping, many young consumers have the experience of purchasing building materials online. The faucet in the house is broken. There is no time to pick up the physical store, and she rushes in and out of work hours and buys it online. A little mouse, save time and effort.

In a random interview with reporters, most elderly people expressed that they did not trust online to purchase building materials. "Can't see if you can't touch, who can guarantee quality?" Some young people said that although they did not purchase building materials online, they would choose to purchase online if prices and products are appropriate. "Now China's e-commerce is doing well. Buying clothes online and buying TV are all available. I would like to buy building materials and it shouldn't be too much of a problem," said Xiao Liu, who read junior at Xuchang College.

Not all building materials are suitable for online shopping

Most people now live at high levels, which brings a lot of trouble to online shopping and building materials. Although each building will have a freight elevator to facilitate the handling of the decoration materials, it is still inconvenient. And before buying the building materials in the physical store, the merchant is responsible for handling and installation, and the online shopping for large-sized building materials requires an additional “upstairs fee”.

Industry insiders remind consumers that there are advantages and disadvantages to buying building materials online. Not all products are suitable for online purchase. Some big items, such as custom furniture and home furniture, are not suitable for online purchase. "These large products are large in size and are not suitable for long distance travel. They are easily damaged during transportation. Products like small hoods, stoves, showers, taps, etc. are more suitable for online shopping," said the person in the industry. Goods not suitable for online shopping include glass-based furniture, building materials and tiles, flooring and ceramics, sanitary ware and lacquer furniture. In addition, if consumers choose to purchase these special products online, they must clearly understand the basic characteristics of the products and whether they have after-sales services beforehand. They must also be careful when checking and accepting, and they cannot be easily signed and confirmed. At the same time, we must choose a more formal shopping site, require businesses to provide as clear as possible details of the picture, and try to ask the seller for details, delivery, installation and other aspects have to be confirmed one by one.