Monday, March 12, 2007

Disadvantage of E-Commerce

There are still many disadvantage of E-Commerce where by this area is still in its introduction stage. Some of the disadvantage are as below:

  • Security
    The biggest disadvantage in E-Commerce would be the issue security. The risk of having someone getting a hold of your personal and financial information even with encription being implemented on the data. If someone were to obtain your credit card number they will be able to purchace items using it.
  • Technological support
    As E-Commerce is still in its maturing stage there are still very little technology which is build to support it. Without these technological support E-Commerce still has its potential hiden
Reference:

http://wiki.media-culture.org.au/index.php/E-commerce_-_Overview_-_Disadvantages
http://www.iit.edu/~peacjen/cs485/ecommerce3.htm