One of the first few e-commerce surveys in the United States to be carried out in the late 1990s found that the biggest obstacle discouraging fledgling Internet users from shopping online concerned uncertainty over the merchandise quality.
But users generally accepted some level of ambiguity on one condition: Four in 10 said they would buy more if they could return items with ease and confidence.
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