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ITGS Global Collaboration Project 2008 Home Page =GROUP 6-Teleshopping=

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What is teleshopping? Teleshopping is another way to call Infomercials or Paid programming. An infomercial is a form of direct response marketing, it is designed to create a certain response on a product such as a cooking utensil or a workout machine, Infomercials are commonly presented as a television program (though they can be on other communication mediums) and usually run as long as a regular television program (20-30 minutes). Teleshopping can also refer to the act of buying a product through the internet or by phone

Teleshopping- e-commerce Teleshopping falls under e-commerce, e-commerce is basically the act of sharing business information, maintaining business relationships and conduct business transactions through telecommunication networks (Beekman and Quinn 463).

Advantages/Disadvantages (Feel free to edit more)
 * The offline store lets you take an item into your hands and inspect it upfront. Pictures on the Internet show the best angle of an product and sometimes it just misleads the truth.
 * Online shops - more convenient and don't need to travel, suits lazy people, and usually cheaper too.

__What is Zlio?__
Zlio.com is a way for ordinary people to As seen from the below image, it is very easy to start up a Zlio store, just following the steps below allows you to start up your own business. This means that e-commerce is readily available to ordinary people and allows a more diverse market on the internet whereas before online shops were very hard to maintain as one would have to maintain a constant stock of what products are available whereas in Zlio all the products are taken from online merchants.

[[image:Zlio.jpg width="878" height="624"]]__**Social Issues with Online Shops**__
There are many issues with having online/teleshopping. For one, currently online shopping is growing in popularity, what this means is that more people are shopping online over shopping offline. This could cause issues in local communities. As the amount of people going online shopping increases, offline shopping becomes second hand or obsolete, which could close down retail shops in the community. In turn, this creates a shortage of jobs for people which leads to employment issues. But online shopping grows steadily and more people are needed to maintain the functioning of these websites or services which offers more jobs to people elsewhere. Another issue is that online shops such as Amazon.com and eBay.com keep large databases of customer information e.g. Credit Card number, name, address etc. This means that workers or hackers could access this database, steal the information and do basically whatever they want with this information, be it selling it for a profit to other people or using the credit card number to buy things.