In one of my recent post titled: Trendy Ladies Fashion Apparels Suitable for Work and Play, i have reviewed about Hanasecret.

Today I will be sharing with you my shopping experiences with them.

Ordering Process

The ordering process was easy. They had a shopping cart, therefore, order and purchasing is via the shopping cart function.

Waiting Time

Waiting time after my item is extremely short. Hanasecret was very efficient. It took me about 3days to receive my item.

Shopping Experience

When I received my item, I realised that the material was good. However, my item was defect. There was a hole in the pocket due to the hemming of the material.

I followed with an email with regards to exchange policy and they did not hesitate to mail me a new piece. All I need to do was to mail back the current one I have.

Postage fee to mail back the item will be offset in my next purchase with them.

This is the picture of the item that was taken from their site (*click image to enlarge):

This is what i have received in my mailbox (*click image to enlarge):

they even have their name printed on the enveloped. very professional!

The actual item that I received(*click image to enlarge):

It looks almost like what is shown on their blogshop or online shopping site.

Overall

Well done Hanasecret! They remain as my Best Deal.

Do remember to share your shopping experiences with me if you have any

Cheers!

Upcoming post: An email interview with a blogshop or online shopping site owner

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Ladies out there, I will be sharing with you a trendy pre-order ladies apparel blogshop or online shopping site.

They aim to provide latest fashion around the world and if they really keep up to their aim, I believe they do have some potential.

I have also place an order with them, will share with you in details my shopping experience when i have received my item. Read on to find out more about this blogshop or online shopping site which I am talking about….

Design Template

QQShopz has an extremely simple and plain template. Honestly, when I first came across their site, I was hesistant if this shop were reliable.

Unlike many other blogshops or online shopping site with T&C in place with regards to ordering, terms and conditions etc, QQShopz does not have these.

Otherwise, QQShopz’s template is fine. They do have categories in place for easy browsing of apparels.

Focus and Content of the Blogshop or Online Shopping Site

They are focused on ladies apparels. A decent variety is also available. Here’s some of the trendy apparels that are available (*click images to enlarge)

Its a pity that description of the apparels are not available.  It leaves a doubt on what material the apparel is made off and what are the exact measurements.

Customer Service

I have enquired about a dress that I was interested in as description was not available. I must commend that their replies were quick.

Have also placed an order with them about my dress. Now, I shall wait for my item to reach me. That’s all for my shopping experiences with them at the moment.

Best Deal?

QQShopz is a good deal. Price range from SGD$17.90-$28.90.

Have fun shopping! =)

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This blogshop that I will be sharing about is a Fashion Spree Organiser based in Singapore and they sell items mainly from Japan, Korean etc.. I must comment that some of their items are indeed nice and I did consider buying something from them.

But this same blogshop had almost hit my no deal rating due to the experiences I had with them.  I gave them a chance and I had sent 2 potential mystery shoppers. Read on to find out more about this blogshop and also about my experience with them…

I have first found out about this blogshop because they have asked me to review about them.

Design Template

Essentiel Boutique had made an effort to design their own custom header.

I like the idea of their categories too. They even have a column on online shopping security tips. I was indeed attracted to it and was impressed with it.

Focus and Content of the Blogshop or Online Shopping Site

They are rather focused in organising sprees. They essentially did not target any particular audience. Some of the sprees that they are organising are couple tees, ladies apparels, bags etc.

Here’s some of their items:

Customer Service

My experience with them was based on the follow up of the blog review invitation.

After the first email that I have received from them with regards to the invitation, I had replied them to said that I would do a review on them but had told them that my reviews would include both the good and bad reviews and asked if they would still like to be review.

However,  I did not received any reply. I decided to give them a benefit of doubt and send another email to check if they have received my email earlier. Weeks later I received a reply apologising that my mail had gone into their junk and they are still interested for me to review about them.

Fair enough, I replied telling them to be reminded to save my email address to their address list so as to prevent this from occuring again. Followed by it, I had sent my email interview questions to them, to let you my readers find out more about them.

Weeks later, I did not receive their replies. I sent another email to them to check if they had received it, and till now, about 1 mth later, I have yet to receive any reply.

Seriously, how frustruating can this get. If you have invited someone to review about you, and you realised that you have not received any reply, wouldn’t you check out your junk mail just in caseye.

Furthermore, you are an online blogshop. Should you have a potential customer who sent you an email enquiry and it went to your junk mail, what will happened?

With this incident, I wanted to give them a straight no deal rating. For the matter of fact, if you are not comfortable with the email interview, you could always let me know you see

Nevertheless, I decided to give them a chance. I asked a mystery shopper to send a enquiry to them. They replied the shopper 2 days later.

Thinking perhaps it was a yahoo mail fault as they did not received mine. I got another mystery shopper to send an enquiry to them via yahoo mail. About 2-3 days later, they replied her.

Therefore, it really leaves me wondering, what happened to my email. Could it be that the mail was lost? Or perhaps, they wasn’t interested? In fact, I had wanted to purchase something from them. But with this encounter, I did not. Because if they could not even reply my email, what will happen if I purchase anything from them?

Best deal?

Giving them a chance as they had managed to reply my 2 mystery shoppers,  I will be giving them a nice deal instead of a no deal.

Their price range from SGD$18-$29.

However, do be prepared to have a chance to be ignore should your mail enter their junk. Nevertheless, do share with me your experience if you have any with them

Upcoming post: Want to know an accessories blogshop or online shopping site based in Malaysia but ships to Singapore. Check back soon to find out more =)

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I have reviewed about Citrus Garden in one of my recent post titled Korean & Japanese Fashion Inspired Apparels .  In this post, I conducted an email interview with one of the owner, Mizuki. You my readers can now find out more about them. =)

You can then decide if you would like to purchase anything from them even though they are a new blogshop or online shopping site.

*Start of Interview*

1) Could you tell me more about yourself? How was your site created? Any other team member behind your blog shop’s success?

I am mizuki this year 18 together with my partner nathanial,25. The site was created after 2 unsuccessful blogshop. we decide to join forces and open a better blogshop and we still funding to open a shop in Singapore.

2) What is your blogshop or online shopping site offering? (Share at least 3.)

Fashion, Paypal Service, Flyers Distributors and Auto-Tagging Service(coming soon)

3) Which is your best selling item? And tell me more about it. (Preferably provide me a photo of at least 250 pixel in length)

We just ended our first preorder #1 so i cant tell which one is the best selling item yet

4) Could you share one tip that your site have to ensure safe shopping online?

Google search for that blog feedback sure there is bad or good somewhere online stated forums mostly will have it (eg. Sgclub forums)

5) One last online shopping tip you want to share with my readers.

Have fun in online shopping. I know recently there lots of secondary school girl or some even primary school girl opening blogshop (let say about age 14), becareful of that they might be scammer or slow in reply you might not know who you dealing with is better to check the blogshop owner profile and the feedback for it.

*End of Interview*

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Image taken from Citrus Garden

Are you finding a blogshop or online shopping site that sells Korean and Japanese Fashion inspired apparels? If you are, you may be interested in what I will be sharing with you.

I got to know this blogshop or online shopping site because they approached me to review their blogshop or online shopping site.

*Disclaimer:  I have not recieved any benefits or renumeration of any kind even though this blog post is an invited review

This blogshop provide overseas shipping too. Their items are pre-order.

Design Template

Citrus Garden‘s design template is simple and nothing fanciful. It resembles any blogshops or online shopping sites that I have came across.

However, they did make an effort to design a logo for themselves.

They have any made an effort to include who are the owners of the blogshop or online shopping site, what are the clothes range that they offer, and when do they start. This allows an added credibility for online shoppers.

Categories were used too.

However, would you agree with me that it would have made your experience better if they have used larger fonts?

Content and Focus of the Blogshop or Online Shopping Site

Considering that they have only started their blogshop or online shopping site in Dec 2009, there is a reasonable variety of the apparels that they are offering.

They do offer some Plus Size apparels too. Therefore, do take note of the measurements when you are interested in any of their apparels. Using the categories would be useful for you if you would like a clearer picture.

Here’s some of their designs:

Some of their apparels are suitable for business casual wear and the desins are trendy and cheap too.

Customer Service

I have no shopping experience with them at the moment. Moreover, since this is an invited review, this is quite subjective.

Best Deal?

Citrus Garden is a good deal. I do like some of their designs. I’m sure you may find something you like with them too. I do hope they will continue to improve and add more apparels. Their price range is between SGD$14.50 -$21.80.

Happy shopping!

Do remember to drop me your comments about my post. Should you have any shopping experience with them, do share it with me too.

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Dear all,

I felt I should do a summary of this series of Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas for your convenience.

I hope that you have enjoyed yourselves reading it and that I have also been able to share with you something that you can take away as an Inexpensive Christmas Gift Idea for yourself or your loved one….

Here’s the summary of the posts that I have shared and reviewed in this Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas series:

# 1 Summary and Description

I gave a summary and description in Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas. In this post, I introduced 7 categories of Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas. This is so you will get to know what I will be sharing in the series.

# 2 Accessories

In Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – Accessories, I shared and reviewed about a blogshop or online shopping site selling pretty Korean accessories.

# 3 Apparels

In Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – Apparels, I shared and reviewed about a blogshop or online shopping site selling Hong Kong and Japan Fashion Apparels.

# 4 Electronics

In Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – Electronics, I shared and reviewed about a blogshop or online shopping site which sells electronics items that you can buy for yourself or your loved ones. An example would be a pair of pretty earphones

# 5 Bags or Pouch Holder

In these 3 posts, it revolves around the topic of Bags and Pouch Holder, such as sanitary pad holder etc..

1. Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – Bags or Pouch Holder (Part 1/3)
2. Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – Bags or Pouch Holder (Part 2/3)
3. Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – Bags or Pouch Holder (Part 3/3)

# 6 Board Games

In Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – Board Games , I shared and reviewed about a blogshop or online shopping site that you can rent or purchase your board games.

# 7 Personalised Stuff

In this 2 posts, I shared and reviewed about 2 blogshops or online shopping sites that sells personalised items suitable for christmas gift.

Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – Personalised Stuff (Part 1/2)
Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – Personalised Stuff (Part 2/2)

# 8 Beauty Products

In these 3 posts, it revolves about the topic of beauty Products, such as facial masks. I also did a price comparison between 2 blogshops or online shopping site in one of the post.

1. Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – Beauty Products (Part 1/3)
2. Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – Beauty Products (Part 2/3)
3. Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas – Beauty Products (Part 3/3)

Last Words

With these, I conclude my series of Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas.

Merry Christmas to all and Happy Holiday! =)

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I have come to my last post for my Inexpensive Christmas Gift Ideas Series. To find out more on what were the Christmas Gift Ideas that I have been sharing about, you can view here, where I discussed 7 categories of inexpensive christmas gift ideas.

After reading this post, you will get to know on another blogshop or online shoppping site that sells Hong Kong and Japan Fashion Apparels at affordable price. They also sell other items but I will only focus on apparels for this post….

Design Template

My Pretty Closet has a simple template with a nice custom header. Basically, they used a picture of one of their models and included their blog address on the header picture.

Navigation around the site is simple.

Due to the design template constraint, only certain number of items can be show on the page. Therefore, not only loading of the pages can be a little longer than usual, you have to click “older post” to view more picture.

You may also appreciate the fact that they introduce their models to you. The model profiles such as their height and measurement are included.

This allows clearer picture for you and myself when you want to purchase an item from them. You no longer need to make a guess on how tall the model is and whether the item is too short for you.

Now you just have to check back on the model’s profile who is posing for the item that you are interested for a clearer picture if the items fits you.

Content and Focus of the Blogshop or Online Shopping Site

They are focused on reaching out to ladies. They also have an extensive range of apparels for you to choose from.

The apparels are trendy and some are also suitable for business casual wear.

Here’s some of their designs:

Do you agree with me that their apparels are trendy? Suitable even for wearing to a christmas party. Moreover, the pictures are very clear too.

They also make an effort to include details of the thickness of fabric and material of fabric on the apparel. Thumbs up for them!

Customer Service

I have yet to have any shopping experience with them. However, I am interested to purchase something from them in time to come.

Best Deal?

It is a good deal even though I have yet to have any shopping experience with them. This is because they have an extensive variety of apparels and the effort they have to include the details of the apparels.

Their price range is between SGD13.50-$32. Majority of the apparels are above SGD$20.

Cheers! Do share with me your shopping experience with them if any. Thanks!

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