I have reviewed about MyLittleBow in my recent post titled Women Fashion Online Shopping: One Stop Portal. In this post, I conducted an email interview with them.

*Start of Interview* (Do note that the email interview replies are not edited)

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

I have always been passionate about fashion and accessories since my schooling days and from 2003, I started selling clothes and handmade accessories on various platforms such as yahoo auctions, livejournal and ebay. Hoping someday to own my own boutique store (yes, a physical one here in Singapore) and moving one step closer to my dream, I decided to start off first with an online store and that was how MyLittleBow was born! Thanks to my ever encouraging family and friends!

FYI – MLB is a one woman show, so it’s me and me only for now!

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

MyLittleBow, unlike other blogshops that solely sells either Fashion Apparel or Accessories, MyLittleBow offers Fashion Apparel (of which many are boutique standards, selling at less than half their price), Handmade Accessories, as well as Personalized Name Accessories (Name Necklace made famous by Carrie in Sex and the City).

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)

(*click image to enlarge)

Personalized Name Necklaces. Made famous by Carrie in Sex and the City, MyLittleBow provides 20 fonts and over 60 icons for you to choose from to create your very own, One-Of-A-Kind unique accessory! Apart from Name Necklaces, we also have Name Ring, Bracelets and Keychain. By far, we have made over 200 pieces of Customized Name Accessories and are currently taking orders for our 19th batch!

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

To provide the best online experience to every one of our customers, I would try to reply to emails as quickly as I humanly can (usually within 24 hours during weekdays and 48 hours over weekends). Thus, if you do not hear from me after 48 hours, please email me as I might have missed out your email (including verification of payments)!

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

Do ensure that you received the payment invoice an online checkout as well for for an email order. Feel free to email me if you have questions about anything!

*End of Interview*

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I have reviewed about Chicadale in my recent post titled Women Fashion Online Shopping: Chicadale. In this post, I conducted an email interview with them.

*Start of Interview* (Do note that the email interview replies are not edited)

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

Chicadale was founded in mid May 2010 and currently managed by two sisters, Deon and Pei Si (:

We created our site ourselves, though we had no knowledge of website design to start with But we did find our way through to come up with a website design that’s as simple yet comprehensive as we can.

Hmm, I would say that our mum has a lot to do with the start-up of our blogshop since she supported us financially and taught us a lot on choosing quality apparels and spotting defects. She was a seamstress, so she had a lot to share in this area (: I think the suppliers have known us to be very picky for defects because we always check our stocks at the suppliers’

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

Chicadale focuses on offering a wide of apparels, for school, work and parties. So it translates into our customers having rompers, shift dresses and lovely frocks to choose from (:

We love to refer to trends but tend to choose designs which we feel will stay trendy for longer and most importantly, comfortable.

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)

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That’s a tough question! We do have a few items which are selling better than others but even then, they all suit different occasions. We’re really glad that our customers come from all walks of life (:

I think our personal favourite amongst the best selling items has to be our High-Waisted Peplum Skirt, which we brought in for our second collection and had to bring it in again in our third collection in a different colour and size (:

I guess the reason why it sold so well was because it has a subtle design that really suits well for work. A simple and classy design!

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

We always try our best to give our customers a peace of mind when shopping with us (:

All purchases made with Chicadale.com come with a unique invoice number which they can use to track their parcel status on our parcel tracking page. This applies for customers who opt for normal / registered mail and gives them confidentiality while giving them a peace of mind in knowing whether their parcel has been mailed (: All parcels sent via normal mail come with certificate of posting, of which we absorb the cost.

In addition, our blogshop uses an external form system for customers to submit orders and payment details. This allows auto-generated invoices to be sent to them upon order submission.

Everytime a customer submits her payment details through our form system, an auto-generated confirmation email is sent to her so she knows that we have received her payment details and it’s pending verification on our side.

The system also allows inventory tracking, so our customers would know that an item is pending or sold if we are unable to update item status fast enough.

We find this system really good and affordable so it really suits us as a start-up. But one problem is that there’s a limit to the number of items we can have in each form, so we have to do manual invoicing for items on our ‘Available Items’ page. We’re currently in the midst of finding a solution to this issue with the administrator (:

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

To have a measuring tape with you so you can gauge the sizing of our clothes accurately (:

*End of Interview*

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I have reviewed about Shigatsu Juunana in my recent post titled A New Unisex Blogshop That Has Potential. In this post, I conducted an email interview with them.

*Start of Interview* (Do note that the email interview replies are not edited)

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

I’ve been looking at online shopping for quite some time and I’m both a buyer & seller. I find that online shopping is really easy and convenient, therefore, I decide to open one blogshop to bring the joy of shopping closer to shoppers.

I’ve decided to name blogshop “Shigatsu Juunana”. The meaning in english is “April Seventeen”, which is also my birthday! The reason I chose Shigatsu Juunana because I wanted my shop’s name to be related to me.

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

Shigatsu Juunana offer a variety from unisex bag to ladies clothing & males clothing will be coming in soon. No waiting time, because all our clothes are instocks, so grab it before it’s gone! Shigatsu Juunana will be attending flea market or bazaar, so we could interact with our costumer more

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)

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My best selling item is a Camera bag. The bag comes in a few range of colours and it is suitable for both male & female.

The bag is big enough to put a DSLR camera in and it itself is fashionable.

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

In order to make online shopping safer and more secured, purchases are made through I-banking services provided by banks and this allows the shoppers and the shop owner to keep track of the purchases.

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

Feel free to contact the owner about any doubts regarding the items. In Shigatsu Juunana, we enhance the shopping experience for everyone!

*End of Interview*

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I have reviewed about Three Point Six in one of my recent post titled A Blogshop for Ladies in Perth Owned By A Singaporean. In this post, I conducted an email interview with them.

*Start of Interview* (Do note that the email interview replies are not edited)

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 basically a typical girl who loves shopping and most of all online shopping =) I study in Perth, University of Western Australia and I am a full time student. Three and Six is a significant number in my life, hence put together gives my blogshop name. Pretty much running this blogshop with my house mate, who doesnt like shopping, but has a great photograpy skills =)

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

Our blogshop is a gateway for ladies to buy affordable clothings, fashion accessories and beauty items. I realised that many of my friends actually order from blogshops in Singapore and Malaysia and the postage would burn a hole in their pocket! Hence, our blogshop is a place for ladies from Singapore/ Msia who enjoy blogshopping without needing to pay so much for the postage. Moreover, our prices are reasonable and I think most online blogshops in Singapore could be selling in higher prices compared to my blogshop =)

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)

The best selling item in my blogshop? I think I am pretty new to say about that =) However, it’s summer here in Australia, and I realised floral prints is a major hit! Also, many people have enquired me about the liquid legging (PVC) that I am going to update soon =)

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

Safe blogshopping? For this particular question, I think most people would know that online shopping has its risk and I would admit that too =) No matter how honest am I as a blogshp owner, I could never afford to say something like “Items sold are exchangeable/ refundable” cause there are nasty people out there who do nasty things. But I would say that being a foreign person STUDYING in Australia, I don’t think cheating is a good idea, as I am doing this simply for the pleasure of fashion and shopping, and it’s not my major occupation.

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

If you like something, go for it if it is not too expensive for you. Cause what usually happens is when you see something you like, you told yourself ” Nah, I am not going to buy it” And when it’s gone, you start feeling empty, looking for it here and there, trying to look for similar item. And ended up buying the similar item at a higher price !! Hehe… that happens to me all the time =) That’s why people in Aussie should visit my blogshop =) The prices arent too harmful after all… right? Hehe =)

*End of Interview*

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I have reviewed about Wild Daisy in one of my recent post titled Trendy Korean Fashion Apparels Suitable For Work. In this post, I conducted an email interview with them.

*Start of Interview* (Do note that the email interview replies are not edited)

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

I’m a long-time shopaholic who has been bargain-hunting for real Korean fashion online. Good things must share, so recently I’ve decided to start a blogshop (hehe…since I’m shopping for myself, may as well buy a few more pieces right?) I figure it’ll help people who like Korean-quality clothings, minus the pain of shipment, fund-transfer, risk of items not arriving after payment etc (and help me earn a couple of dollars for the trouble).

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

Authentic Korean brands, boutique-quality pieces (comes with tags, extra buttons and the works) and affordable pricings.

Our last collection consisted of Korean brands exclusively imported by us, so is the collection that we are preparing to launch.

Avid Korean fashionistas will probably be able to identify with some of the brands we bring in.

The next collection has arrived and I am very excited

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)

The Pink Romance is our best selling dress so far….although I really can’t say since there’s only two collection!

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

wild_daisy is a registered business with ACRA
(ACRA: 53159112C)

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

Check the measurements!

*End of Interview*

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I’ve found another Online Shopping Security Tips Video which will benefit you. Even though the video’s context is in UK, certain tips can still be useful for us who are in Singapore.

If you have not viewed the video that I have shared with you in Online Shopping Security Tips Video – Part 1/2 do take a look at it as I believe it will benefit you.

Here’s a summary of what was shared in the video for your convenience:

#1 Make sure your computer have up-to-date anti-virus software and firewall installed

My comments: Indeed this is so important. You will definitely need your anti-virus software and firewall even though you do not shop online. What’s more now that you are shopping online?

#2 Choose online retailers and services you know about

My comments: If you know them, there is less likelihood that you may be cheated.

#3 Look for unbiased reviews about the online retailers

My comments: This is so important.There will be no credibility if the reviews are biased. At SG Blogshops Review, I aim to provide unbiased reviews for you my readers. Do let me have you comments and feedbacks, I really appreciate it.

#4 Thoroughly check their terms and conditions and privacy/return policy

My comments: This can really be helpful and useful. But sadly, many blogshops do not have this, especially with regards to return policy.

#5 If you can pay by credit card, pay by credit card

My comments: I would suggest, if you can pay by paypal, it is even better!

#6 Use a secure website

My comments: I have mentioned in Online Shopping Security Tips Video – Part 1/2 that in many case of blogshops in Singapore, this is not possible. We usually make payment via i-banking.

Nevertheless, when doing your i-banking transfer, do take a look at your URL making sure that it begins with “https”.

#7 Print out a copy of your order and the confirmation email

My comments: You need not exactly print out, you can save the earth by saving the copies in your PC.  For added precaution, in case your PC crash, do back up your data.

#8 Check your bank statement carefully

My comments: Do remember to check your statement. If you notice any strange happening do alert your bank.

I hope these have been beneficial to you. Do share with me your feedbacks about my post!

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I have reviewed about Jewel de Palace in one of my recent post titled Beautiful Fashionable Jewellery. In this post, I conducted an email interview with them.

*Start of Interview* (Do note that the email interview replies are not edited)

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

I used to work in a corporate world and got tired of it. And being a “Fanatic Jewellery lover & shopper”! I decided to set up this online business with a friend. As stated in “About us” in the website, we understand the agony of purchasing jewellery that we love because of its price. Therefore we decided to bring in ourselves the most affordable and top quality fashion jewellery without all the extra overheads!

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

a) Our mission: We offer the Hottest & Fashionable Jewellery of Today!

b) Our site is slightly different from other website as we offer full range of costume jewellery such as Earrings | Necklaces | Rings | Bracelets. Our wide range of jewellery appeals to diverse customer tastes from high class Cubic Zirconia jewellery, Swarovski Crystal Jewellery, Semi-precious Stone Jewellery to low cost costume jewellery.

c) Both of us came from Service Industry, therefore we know the importance of providing value-added services to our customers. We are not just another online store. We wanted to provided valuable information/knowledge about Jewellery to customers such as latest trends, guides, fashion tips, rules to wear jewellery, and care and handling for their jewellery.

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)

* Can we provide you two best selling products as we are in a dilemma of which to choose. So you might want to pick from either choice. ;p

a) Brilliant Clear Cubic Zirconia Heart Shaped Ring RC00042

(The cutting of this ring is classy and elegant enough to wear it for all occasions. The stone is made of Cubic Zirconia or what it is term as stimulate diamonds. The CZ is really stunning which is why we named it “Brilliant”. The metal piece is plated with Rhodium to give a bright finishing. We have priced it so affordable as compared to what other retail shops are selling).

b) Tiffany Legacy Cushion Shaped Look-Alike Cubic Zirconia Ring RC00056

(From its name, it is no doubts this is one of our best selling piece! Made of Cubic Zirconia or what it is term as stimulate diamonds. The CZ is really stunning and the metal piece is plated with Rhodium to give a bright finishing. Tiffany Legacy Ring is what every women dream of owning. We brought in this piece to crunch their craves! We do not need to spend a fortune to look glamorous!

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

We do not review customer’s personnel details under our Privacy & Security section. Customer are not required to provide us their banking details when making payment to us, with this safety precaution in place customer are ensure that their banking detail are well protected.

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

We understand purchasing online do have some risks, but having said that it also leave some excitement while waiting for your item to arrive & the best part is that shopping online is just a click away, easy and convenient! Buying online also saves you some bucks as the price offer here is better than retail shop.

We do have a write up on why buying jewellery online is better to boost our customer confident in online shopping, check our link here for more online shopping tips http://www.jeweldepalace.com/blog/why-buying-jewellery-online-is-better/

*End of Interview*

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I have reviewed about Soak Republic in one of my recent post titled Unique Trendy Fashion Accessories. In this post, I conducted an email interview with them.

*Start of Interview* (Do note that the email interview replies are not edited)

1) Could you tell me more about yourself?

tiffany chew age 26 was a multimedia designer, pei shan age 27 was a communication executive (from graphic design background) are good friends since college days, and peter – a graphic designer, one of the co-founders of soak republic.

1b) How was your site created? Any other team member behind your blog shop’s success?

it is started with some magic words, “What if” & “let’s do it” as simple as that. one day tiffany was admiring one of the accessories website and day dreaming ‘what if’ she can do something like that one day. then she showed pei shan the website, and pei shan throw the word ‘lets do it’! and there soak republic was born with few hundred as capital and importantly with an mind set of ‘lets try, you never know when u never try out!’. dare to dream and take action is what we always keep in mind, from selection of accessories to managing the site. also there is one thing that never change from day one which is we aim to have an environmentally friendly business. ie, we only use paper bag, encorage customers to recycle, we even printed our own shopping bag to give out to buyers, if they bring the bag to bazaar and use it we will give some discount as an effort to go green.

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

we offer fashion accessories from earrings to necklace, bracelet, headband to bags. some of them we design and handmade ourselve.

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)

bracelet:-
love locket  – u actually have to use the key to unlock the locket inorder to wear it.
http://soakrepublic.com/2009/07/20/love-locket/

sway away – design and made by us
http://soakrepublic.com/2009/09/01/sway-away/

chunky babe
http://soakrepublic.com/2010/01/22/chunky-babe/

necklace:-
locket – openable love shape locket with a flower cabochon on it
http://soakrepublic.com/2010/03/09/locket-necklace/

majestic – bib necklace
http://soakrepublic.com/2010/01/24/majestic-ii/

blooming – – design and made by us
http://soakrepublic.com/2009/09/26/blooming/

flaunt it – design and made by us
http://soakrepublic.com/2009/09/01/flaunt-it/

earring:
ever bloom
http://soakrepublic.com/2010/01/15/ever-bloom/

story teller
http://soakrepublic.com/2010/01/22/the-story-teller/

simplicity
http://soakrepublic.com/2009/11/27/simplicity-2/

rings:
real vintage fun
http://soakrepublic.com/2009/04/16/real-vintage-fun/

coronation
http://soakrepublic.com/2010/01/22/coronation-ii/

angel wing
http://soakrepublic.com/2010/01/24/angel-wing-ring-bigger/

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

currently we are only doing 3rd party fund transfer. that is the safest & most conventional way.
nothing can be safer than that we guess

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

shopping online, is much depending on personal experiences.
there is no tip, first timer – goes from gut feelings, testimonials and trust.
and surely, you will return to the sellers that you are familiar with and or you think they are trustworthy.

*End of Interview*

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For the past few months, I have been sharing with you my loyal readers blogshops or online shopping sites that might be worth visiting. For a change, I will be sharing with you a video sharing Online Shopping Security Tips.

In the midst of all our buying and shopping online, I’m sure one of your concern would be how do you shop safely online? I have also shared with you some tips to safe online shopping before in my previous posts and also in my eguide.

If you have not obtained a copy of my FREE eguide : “Online Shopping Guide for Safe Online Shopping”, get Your copy now! You can read here to find what I have covered in my ebook.

Otherwise, you can get your copy immediately by entering your name and email address in the “Subscribe Here” on the right column of my page. Do remember to check your spam folder should you not receive my email.

You will also need to do a double opt-in to confirm your subscription before you receive a link to download your free copy.

Ok, so here’s the video which I will be sharing with you =)

An online shopping security tips video sharing by a Google Support Engineer.

For your convenience, here’s a summary of her sharing:

#1 Be cautious when you order online

This is because you will definitely need to give away your personal information if you purchase something from them.

#2 Give your personal information to places where you trust

You can ask yourself the following questions:

• Is the company /organisation which runs the website well known?

• Do you have friends of relatives who have ordered from the site?

• Have they had good experience?

• Is the site affiliated to a brick and mortar store that you already know?

If the answers is yes for one or more questions, it is probably a safer bet than an unknown site.

My thoughts: That is so important. However, do note in shopping online, there is definitely risks involved. Are you willing to take the risk?

#3 Read the ratings of reviews for the site

Reviews can give you some information about the reliability of the vendor.

My thoughts: I have shared this in my ebook too Many times, reviews can give us a sense of the reliability of the vendor. Check out forums or do a search on it. You never know what you may find.

#4 Check out the privacy policy of the site

Are you comfortable with the privacy policy? Or do you understand the privacy policy?

#5 Make sure that the site you are sharing your personal information at is protecting your information by encrypting it

You can tell a site if it is encrypting your information by looking at the URL. The URL should begin with “https” rather than “http”

My thoughts: Sadly, with many blogshops this is not possible. We make payment via i-banking. Nevertheless, when doing your i-banking transfer, do take a look at your URL making sure that it begins with “https”.

#6 Avoid shopping online or making any sensitive online shopping transaction from public computers

Public computers may not have the security measures like firewalls or anti-virus softwares that you’ve enabled on your computer. Therefore, entering personal information on them may put you at risk

#7 Keep records of your orders to track your purchases

My thoughts: This is indeed very important. Keep track of your payment too.

That’s all for part 1/2 post for online shopping security tips video. See you around soon!

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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

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