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Chapter 2
Chapter 2
Payment
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Mini-Project
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Passage Reading
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Warming-up
目录
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After studying this chapter, you are expected to:
Acquire basic knowledge about different methods of payment on Cross-border E-commerce platforms
Learn the relative words and expressions
Understand the security insurance of online payment
Develop a standard and rigorous work style
Learning Goals
Chapter 2
PART ONE /
Warming-up
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Task
Work in groups. Look at what the following people say or do and express your own opinions with your group members. Try to relate to your personal experience.
Mark has never bought anything from an online shop because he is worried about the safety of making the payment online.
One of the reasons why people tend to choose PayPal is due to its characteristics of capital security, speed, convenience and wider coverage.
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Chapter 2
PART TWO /
Passage Reading
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Payment
Order payment serves as the indispensable key part throughout Cross-border E-commerce, covering both online and offline approach. Offline bank approach is essentially the same as the original payment in international trade, except that the platform of business shifts from offline exhibitions to B2B (Alibaba.com, Made in China, Global sources etc.) and B2C websites (AliExpress, eBay, Amazon etc.). Offline
payment methods include Cash, Letter of Credit (L/C), Payment on Delivery, Western Union Transfer and Documentary Collection as well as Documents against Payment (D/ P), Installment, Payment on Credit and Deferred Payment, among which the first four are generally the main options.
Comparatively, online approach mainly refers to the payment model of E-account to E-account, touching upon such methods as Alipay, Paypal, MoneyBookers and Google Checkout, etc.
Some buyers that are new to online shopping may turn out to be not familiar with the payment procedures of Cross-border E-commerce platforms, and thus fail to complete the order after initiating one. In this case, sellers should giv