Indians world's third biggest online shoppers

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DELHI: Drawn by the installation offered by the web and the diverseness of products
available on it, North American Indian netizens have got emerged as the 3rd greatest recognition card
users globally for online purchasing, adjacent lone to the Turkish and Irish
e-shoppers. According to a
global online study conducted by leading research house Nielsen, more than than 85
per cent of cyberspace users in the human race are purchasing commodity or services online,
while recognition card have emerged as the most celebrated payment method for such
purchases. In the survey, as
many as 84 per cent of online shoppers from Republic Of India said they have got used credit
cards for such as transactions, adjacent lone to 91 per cent in Turkey and 86 per cent
in Ireland. Republic Of India shared the
third place with the UAE, which also have 84 per cent of online purchasers using a
credit card. "Shopping on the
Internet with the easiness of a recognition card is especially appealing to consumers in
emerging marketplaces who simply cannot happen or purchase points they desire in their retail
trade. The Internet have opened up a whole new human race of shopping for these
consumers," Nielsen's United States Custom-Made Research Vice-President David Bruce Alice Paul said. The study establish that credit
cards are by far the most common method of payment for online purchases with 60
per cent of planetary online consumers having used their recognition card for a recent
online purchase. Among the assorted recognition cards, more than than one-half or about 53 per
cent used a Visa card. Globally, more than than one-half of
Internet users have got made at least one purchase online in the past month. Most popular purchased items
over cyberspace are books (41 per cent purchased in the past three months),
followed by articles like clothing/accessories/shoes (36 per cent), pictures /
DVDs / games and air hose tickets constituted about 24 per cent.