Viable Alternatives to Payment On Delivery?

Are their viable alternatives to #POD in other to get people to buy what is on their wishlist and actually pay before the item is delivered to their address ?

A friend penned http://bit.ly/2niimAR highlighting ;

  • 10 Reasons why more failures are recorded w/ POD
  • Implications of a Returned/Failed Order.
  • Potential alternative to POD

My Top3 Recommendations for any e-merchant that wants to gain customers trust and win in order to abolish POD

  1. Genuine Product Ordered meeting required Specs and Preferences.
  2. Prompt Delivery.
  3. Ease of Return , Replacement and Refunds.

Some e-Merchants are doing their bit to supply items ordered within a 24hr time frame within Urban cities.
Analytics will help add other peri-urban locations.
Drop-off locations close to the customer are doing the job at the moment.

Getting money out of my account was easy. Lodging complaint(s) and having someone fix the issue should be easier. Robust support team wins always.