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Chapter2 Payment
Unit 4 On-sale Services of Cross-border E-commerce
Acquire basic knowledge about different methods of payment on Cross-border E-commerce platforms
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Learn the relative words and expressions
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Understand the security insurance of online payment
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Learning Goals
After studying this chapter, you are expected to:
PART ONE
Warming-up
PART 1
Warming-up
Work in group. 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.
PART 1
Warming-up
B. One of the reasons why people tend to choose PayPal is due to its characteristics of capital security, speed, convenience and wider coverage.
PART TWO
Passage Reading
PART 2
Passage Reading
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, excerpt 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.
Payment
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 give in-time communicatio