e-commerce within mauritius?
Academics, Articles & News, Blogging World, General, Web & Tech July 16th, 2007
The largest shopping mall in the world is operating all round the clock, millions of potential customers constantly on the move comparing prices here and there and placing their orders, which can take a few hrs to a few days before their delivery to the other end of the world.
Recently, someone told me that it took only 1 week for his newly acquired a laptop battery bought from ebay, to be delivered here in mauritius.
The Concept of the world as a small global village (or la ville, attention ena dimounes frustrer) is here, except in Mauritius.
The addition of Mauritius in the list of Paypal (posted by Josh) will surely boost e-shopping among our Mauritian fellows but not necessary within mauritius, at least, not for now.
e-banking has been introduced since long by SBM or MCB.
I tried SBM Online (guessed they stole the word online from уαѕнαkuη Oηliηe, hihi ), it works great but their security logging system sucks.
While playing with the system, my browser crashed and when u try to re-login into the system, u cant, koz, u had not properly logged off.
As a consequence, u have to wait for the system to kick you out, after some time, perhaps after 15-30 mins to be able to sign in again!
As reported in Express today, we are not ready to include e-shopping in our culture, but i think that it is not only our fault.
Mauritius, being a small island, surrounded by …[blabla], i find it rather difficult to introduce e-commerce, at least not immediately.
Why?
- I dont think we have the appropriate laws and judicial structure to cater for cyber crime or ecommerce yet.Iust to quote, the mauritian hacker of the Government Portal was freed of all charges since his case was hanging in court for more than 2 years!
More on Express
- Also, i dont think that our ISPs or even authorities to have the required expertise to track down users yet.
Some simple examples:
- Nomad itself has some modems wandering around in mauritius, being used freely since months, without anyone knowing it lol
- Frequent billing problems in telephone bills for adsl or myT users may also prove the lack of organisation at some part in the structure.So, i doubt that they are ready to take such a challenge yet.
- Most important issue, which will be most difficult to overcome is our daily culture and ways of getting things done.
You may be one of the highest modern/hi-tech person in mauritius, but i think you would prefer to spend some time looking for your items in a hypermarket than buying it online, just for the pleasure of spending some time with your family or without the work stress.
For many of us, doing our first e-shopping would be simply fun, but i dont think that we would do it for long, specially if it concerns something that can be easily bought from our hypermarkets or retailers.
On the other hand, e-buying a domain or hosting online or even books (mo pas lire), will be something nice in which i would be very much interested and encourage others to do.
Take your credit cards out,
2day, we gonna shop online!
So,
would u do it?
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July 16th, 2007 at 8:20 pm
Yeah u r absolutely rite about the situation of e-shopping in mauritius. In my opinion, more campaign should be made to make people feel more secure concerning e-commerce. I have already experience that on my own, actually 2 weeks back i have ordered the MCSD.NET Core Requirements, from Amazon and did payments by credit cards, and i think with the security that org like Amazon, eBay and Yahoo provide it is rather safe to do transactions online….. Wat u think guys??
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July 16th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Online shopping is never secure, you may be a hosting provider with the most secure line ever, be sure that one day it will be hacked and cracked. Some people think that becoz they will be using SSL for their site, its perfectly secure, i can assure them that its not. I don’t think mauritius is ready for it yet, not becoz of the lack of technology or law blablah. But becoz people do not trust giving their CC number out on the net. We will need time before we can all accept online shopping.
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July 16th, 2007 at 9:27 pm
CC is the most unsafe method of payment…
In fact, any type of payment is unsafe :ermm:
Unless you have a separate bank account only for online shopping…
In this way, if someone hacks ur CC, u won’t lose much.
We are not yet ready for our own e-shopping network.(There would be too much fraud)
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July 16th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
CC is not so un-safe as you seem to believe. All that is required is some common-sense about where you use your credit card. Having said that, I was recently victim to card fraud. Once I reported the occurrences, the bank was quick to invalidate the card and issue a new one to me. The sad thing is, because the law in the UK forces the card issuers to deal with fraud, many of them do not even bother to involve the police, and therefore, card fraud is being de-criminalised gradually, thus leaving the perpetrators to roam free.
As for the slow adoption of e-commerce in Mauritius, there are many reasons, the most likely being:
* Proximity - Mauritius is a small country, and the short distances do not warrant people to make purchases online when shops are easily accessible.
* Price comparison - Why buy goods at higher prices in Mauritius when the same can be ordered for cheaper on eBay and the major international e-commerce sites?
* Credit card penetration is still very low in Mauritius.
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July 17th, 2007 at 1:40 am
E-commerce can be very helpful - mais problem la: trop bocu escrocs ek manque professionels dans mauritius.
Lotte zafer kuma Yashvin ine dire - pou fer ene system e-commerce dans moris, bizin ene system professionel! Pas sa banne system kot zot meme pas koner sipas clients la p paye so banne bills, sipas p fer grillade ek modem la; bizin attane timeout pourki capav re-login etc… dans sa cas la, vaut mieux reste kuma li eter - pou evite ki moris perdi encore point.
Ene lotte zafer, mo kone ene kantiter dimounes ki ena PC mais PENA internet akoze li trop chere!!! Kuma pou fer e-commerce dans sa cas la? Prend letemps pou choisir produit, comparer etc, mo meme, ici, mo ti prend 4 days pou decider ki pieces mo bizin prend pou mo PC!!! Si ene dimoune dans moris p servi dial-up, combien letemps sa pou prend li pou choisir so produit ek passe so commande, ek lor la, ene connection lente? dans sa cas la, vaut mieux bez ene bus alle prend couyonade la vine lakaz trankil… :whistle:
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July 17th, 2007 at 6:14 am
online transaction mo pas fer confiance moi……
cheers…
cyber crime n hackers n about security issues…. i better not indulge in thse ecommerce…. its not that safe business!!!
well, it depends on the person! yeh, its true mauritian e-commetce culture hasnt developed…..
i dnt think e-banking is safe for the time being.. there are security experts missing in our world……. so we must specialise in security … wot ya think yash?
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July 17th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
Heya!
e-commerce? Mauritius? does that involved Mauritian buying Mauritian (asté morisien) or buying from international companies? :ninja: get your product deliver in a week(or more), pay the freight (custom duties), don’t know where to go for warranty, etc…
And why would a local private company ‘amerd so F’ to invest for e-commerce for this tiny market (Mauritius). You never know what these ‘punk’ (gouvernma) may invent about tax, vat or E-VAT, E-TAX.
anyway as Kunal said internet services=hard shit so should I spend 4hrs online to order and get it delivered in two days? :sick: :sick:
quote Eddy young;Mauritius is a small country, and the short distances do not warrant people to make purchases online when shops are easily accessible.
If punk services… sorry I meant Government services available online and for instance you can pay your NTA ‘declaration’ or stuff like that it would really help.
I’m not saying e-commerce is evil but there’s a lot of stuff to do first before it could be ~profitable~ for Mauritius. nudodo.net for example was selling CDs online but now… :alien: :alien: :alien: :alien: :alien:
and no system (ssl 3,tls,securenet,verisign,etc,etc) get 100/100. Not even taking cash and walk to the shop to get u’r :biggrin: :face:
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July 17th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Heya!
e-commerce? Mauritius? does that involved Mauritian buying Mauritian (asté morisien) or buying from international companies? :ninja: get your product deliver in a week(or more), pay the freight (custom duties), don’t know where to go for warranty, etc…
And why would a local private company ‘amerd so F’ to invest for e-commerce for this tiny market (Mauritius). You never know what these ‘punk’ (gouvernma) may invent about tax, vat or E-VAT, E-TAX.
anyway as Kunal said internet services=hard shit so should I spend 4hrs online to order ~a banana & a yop!~ and get it delivered in two days? :sick: :sick:
quote Eddy young;Mauritius is a small country, and the short distances do not warrant people to make purchases online when shops are easily accessible.
If punk services… sorry I meant Government services available online and for instance you can pay your NTA ‘declaration’ or stuff like that it would really help.
I’m not saying e-commerce is evil but there’s a lot of stuff to do first before it could be ~profitable~ for Mauritius. nudodo.net for example was selling CDs online but now… :alien: :alien: :alien: :alien: :alien:
and no system (ssl 3,tls,securenet,verisign,etc,etc) get 100/100. Not even taking cash and walk to the shop to get u’r ~banana & yop!~ :biggrin: :face:
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July 17th, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Yeah like Transformer said: for instance you can pay your NTA ‘declaration’ or stuff like that it would really help.
Sa vrai sa, si sa banne putois la ti capav fer ene system online pou paye bill CWA, CEB, Internet, telephone, Declaration, fees etc ti pou mari top! Lerla kan mauritian la trouver ki banne service gov p fer online, surement lerla zotte pou coummence gagne confiance dans e-commerce
Sois disant “tiger of indian ocean” encore p servi papier/archives pou alle rode form fitness pou automobiles… mo rappele mo ti bizin attane 3 hours dans soleil pou sa … Nous sommes les *F* de l’ocean indien (sorry…)
:angry:
CallCentres are a sh*tty industry that does not DEVELOP THE COUNTRY IN NO WAY! Its all make-up and cosmetics… mauritius needs PROFESSIONALS!
:angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
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July 17th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
message couper encore? lol.. oui, gaspillage donne prioriter internet pou call centres etc… instead, donne public plus access, fer sa couyonade la plus bonmarcher… fer banne internet hubs provided by the gov kot dimoune la capav paye so bills etc…
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July 18th, 2007 at 8:21 am
ene tas longue longue comments
ti pou bon si capve vend bajja online.. mais by the time banla vine livrE sa dan nou class networks pou fini frais
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July 18th, 2007 at 8:42 am
Well, I’m certainly not against it. But I need to be over 18 to be able to have any kinda credit card. That s*cks. Enfin, it’s true what you said. Mauritians are not ready yet. “Zot kwar dimun pu kokain zot kass” Well, not to go far, my dad is totally against it. He says he prefer paying with his own hands rather than with plastic cards. My mom has started accepting it, ’cause sometimes I need some books which we can’t get in our little mauritius.
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July 18th, 2007 at 8:54 am
thks to all of you for ur comments.
as u all do agree, it is indeed not the “moment propice” to introduce ecommerce in mauritius.:wassat:
if someone did succeeded in hacking the egovt site or even paralysed the whole internet access in mauritius for half day, just because they forgot to delete his username :shocked: when he was sacked out from MT, what tells us how secure can our payments be done, even if we are buying bajjias for our lectures? :silly:
sure, we also do not have any specialized courses yet in ecommerce..
oops, just remembered seeing something in the post graduate courses of UOM this yr.
there was a masters or msc in ecommerce
i dont know y my post didnt figure out on Mauritius Blog tracker this time, so i think we didnt get the whole blog community reading this, dommage
:w00t:
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July 18th, 2007 at 9:14 am
I dont think e-commerce introduction has to do something with timing and ‘moment propice’ but rather as the ways to change the mauritian mentality…
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July 18th, 2007 at 9:17 am
ya josh, totally agree wiz u, but for mauritian mentality to change, time has an important role. :blink:
as we say (mo pas for dan maths seman)
Mauritian Mentality is directly proportional to timing :biggrin:
si mo prof maths ti pu la, li ti pu content!
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July 20th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
hey pa ti coné pa capav buy onlyn in mru
i use to buy onlyn but im in france. franchement c ene zaffair ki facilite la vie. au début zote pou dire: ayo non plito ale supermarket to spend some tym wiz family (come yash la di) mé bien o contraire, on fé ses courses sur internet et on gagne du tps ke lon pe passé avec sa famille dan une otr activité ke les courses. maintenan reste a voir la sécurité du e-commerce a mru. c clair ke personne na envie de voir sa carte etre debitée d dizaines de fois!
bisouuusss
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August 20th, 2007 at 10:14 pm
check out maurizone.com online shopping e-commece in mauritius
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