Conclusions Practitioners in general need a generic scale that provides the potential for cross-industry and cross-functional comparisons. In this new environment of electronic service, the absence of a valid and reliable instrument to measure e-service quality has hard-pressed early researchers to make use of some fairly inadequate alternatives, such as using subjective quality attributes or selected generalisable items from the SERVQUAL. Hence, this has confused the endeavours of both scholars and practitioners to effectively measure and consequently manage e-service quality strategies. Moreover, due to the importance of service quality in the success of e-retailers, external validation of e-service quality measures through replication is extremely important, particularly in cases where measures developed in one country are intended for use in other countries. As observed by Rafiq et al. (2012), replications not only help to determine the reliability and validity of newly developed measurement instruments, but also help to define the scope and limits to their generalisability to other contexts. Drawing on the precedent, the measure of eSQ casts a challenge.