Computer Expertise Requirement:
One disadvantage of internet trade is that the initiator of this business must ensure some expertise in the computer medium to properly run this business. Although a business can hire professionals to control the internet trade mechanism but unless and until the business owner himself won't develop the necessary skills in internet trade then he could never truly analyze the performance of the business and properly run it. This is major disadvantage as most business owners that do not have a computer related background find it relatively difficult to run internet trade.


Security and confidentiality issues:
Security issues are also a disadvantage in internet trade. Although computer security have increased in the recent years with new programming and encryption protocol design to safeguard internet trade but internet is an open medium which still imposes threat to online cash transactions. Some business are unwilling to run internet trade because they fear the leak of confidential matter during the internet trade and are also reluctant to facilitate heavy cash transaction on the internet. The confidentiality matter and leak of secret information also greatly concern the business initiators.

Copyright issues:
This is also a disadvantage of the internet trade mechanism. The internet law does not and cannot impose copyrights rule as firmly as the administrators do in landmark business. The major reason is that internet is a huge medium and is distributed in several countries of the world. Keeping copyright laws intact is very difficult and therefore its very easy for one business to entirely copy the business and trade mechanism of some other business association on the internet. Therefore business owners are reluctant to initiate internet trade as they fear that their business ideas would be copied by other internet business easily. The copyright issues till now have not been resolved and there is little chance of having any major achievement in this regard.