Online Shopping Reviews

Amormoda: A One-stop Shop for Special Occasion Dresses with Free Shipping

In the Chinese international market of special occasion dresses, Amormoda.com may not be a big name like Lightinthebox.com, but it deserves a good look if you are considering purchasing high quality formal gowns or semi-formal gowns for your special occasion from China-based shopping websites.

The reasons why Amormoda is a good choice to buy special occasion dresses are as follows:

1. It is a trusted store with a legitimate business license.

2. It accepts safe payment method like Paypal.

3. It carries a vast array of trendy dresses that fit various formal or semi-formal dresses, including wedding dresses, bridesmaid dresses, mother-of-the-bride dresses, flower girl dresses, maternity bridesmaid dresses, junior bridesmaid dresses, wedding guest dresses, evening dresses, prom dresses, cocktail dresses, homecoming dresses, holiday dresses, little black dresses, graduation dresses and sweet sixteen dresses. Focusing on special occasion dresses only shows that this site is empowered with higher professionalism in one particular field. Currently, 2014 prom dresses are on hot sale there.

4. It also offers a good range of accessories that people usually need to shop for a special occasion dresses, such as wedding favors, wedding reception, wedding ceremony, wedding invitation, gifts or wedding shoes.

5. It honors free shipping to every order as long as you choose standard shipping, which will take 5-9 business days for delivery to most destinations around the world. This should be a big plus as most Chinese stores do not offer free shipping to special occasion dresses. You know, such kinds of dresses are usually rather heavy and can cost a lot in shipping. Even the famous special occasion supplier Lightinthebox.com or Milanoo.com does not offer free shipping though they may offer a big discount on shipping.

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Romwe Fashion: Black Fake Leather Strap Top

Romwe.com is one of the few Chinese online fashion stores which sell apparel and accessories not only designed by their own designers but also produced by their own factories or workshops. They focus more on street fashion only though. If you are looking for street trendy made-in-China clothing or accessories that are unique in design and dependable in quality, it is definitely a good choice. And that is equally important, the fashion products offered by the company are easy to afford.

The black fake leather strap top as shown in the images above and below is one of the latest cool products I’ve found from Romwe.com. The creative design attracted me instantly when I saw it at the first glance. I thought it was a fake two-in-one top but then realized that it is just a top with fake leather straps can match with different tops. If you think your top is too simple or pure and needs something to embellish it, this novelty top could help. Continue reading Romwe Fashion: Black Fake Leather Strap Top

Aliexpress.com Is Recruiting Sellers of International Brands

According to Urban.com, the famous Chinese e-commerce online community, Aliexpress.com has been openly recruiting sellers of top international brands since early January, 2014. This activity will last till March 31. During this period, as long as you can provide valid data and pass through the qualification verification of Aliexpress.com, you will be allowed to sell branded products at the website. So far, only corporation-type sellers have been given the chance to apply for the qualification and individual sellers are excluded. Note that this time only 300 designated brands are invited to join the wholesale trading platform.

This is a sign indicating that Aliexpress.com is getting more and more ambitious in the international trading arena. In the Chinese foreign trade industry, people regard it as Aliexpress’ attempt to become an international Tmall.com, the biggest brand shopping website on the Chinese domestic market, also belonging to Alibaba Group. Lots of well-known brands with good international reputation have been invited to sell products to global buyers at Aliexpress.com, e.g. Camel, Big Foot, Pomp, Jewel Ora, Neo, etc. Even the famous online international fashion retail brand Milanoo.com has opened a franchise store there.

At Aliexpress.com, you can find an exclusive channel for the brands – you can access it by clicking on the Brand Showcase button at the bottom area of their homepage. There you can find products from verified brands covering various categories: Phones & Accessories, Computers & Accessories, Automotive, Jewelry & Watches, Wardrobe, Home & Garden and Kids & Toys. Compared to the majority of product listings at the site, products for sale in this channel are much better guaranteed in terms of authenticity, quality and related pre-sales and after-sales service.

Every brand included in that channel has to be strictly verified by Aliexpress.com in terms of qualifications before it opens the branded store there. All brands have signed an agreement with the website to guarantee that every product they are offering there is 100% genuine. If Aliexpress.com receives a complaint against any brand claiming that a product is counterfeit and proves it is true with valid evidence, the store will be significantly punished based on the agreement and even be removed from the website forever.

2014 St. Patrick’s Day Deals from Ahappydeal.com

Some online stores never miss out any single festival, holiday or event to boost their revenues by launching themed promotions and Ahappydeal.com is one of them. As a popular shopping websites serving international buyers, Ahappydeal.com have been selling all kinds of cool gadgets since 2006. They lunch sales quite frequently and offer special discounts on select products even for a not-so-widely-observed festival. Currently, they are hosting a promotion for 2014 St. Patrick’s Day with up to 50% off a range of gadgets, most of which are in green color. Even if you are not an observer of this festival, you are encouraged to take advantage of such promotional campaign to get best deals on products you like.

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The 2014 St. Patrick’s Day deals released by Ahappydeal.com include Android tablet PCs, Android smartphones, LED flashlights, heavy bass in-ear earphones, data transfer universal cables, USB solar battery chargers, IR sensor welcoming door chimes, silicone protective back case for tablet PCs, mini USB bullet car chargers, silicone robot-shaped sucker stands for iPhone, woven texture style micro USB cables for Samsung, HTC or Blackberry, tire wheel valve caps with ultra bright green light LED, portable mini Bluetooth speakers, mini disco green red projectors, keyboard leather cases with stylus for tablets, expandable flexible multi-functional pocket hoses, multi-functional personal hair removers and novelty beer bottle shaped USB.

Unlike the big names like Lightinthebox.com, Ahappydeal.com keeps a low-key profile and seldom appears in the public media. However, almost all e-commerce foreign trade people know this website as it is backed by a big company based in Shenzhen, which owns a great number of popular international online stores in addition to Ahappydeal.com, e.g. Sammydresses.com or Everbuying.com. Some sister sites of Ahappydeal.com are also offering 2014 St. Patrick Deals and Everbuying.com is a typical example:

You might encounter some issues when shopping with their sites as they are far from perfection as an online shopping platform, but you have to admit that they are legitimate sites doing serious business. Of course, if you don’t think the products or service they provide meet your expectations, go for other sites without hesitation. You know, there are tons of China-based online stores to choose from.

Banggood.com Now Accepts Credit Cards

The Guangzhou-based international online shopping website Banggood.com started to accept Credit Cards as one of their payment options in early February, 2014. Before this new payment method was added, they only accept Paypal, Western Union and Wire Transfer.

More specifically, the credit card types they accept include Visa, Visa Debit, Visa Electron, Visa Delta, Master Card, Debit Master Card, Diners, JCB and Discover. Allowing customers to pay directly via credit cards means this online store is more powerful and usually, more trustworthy. For more details about their payment policies, please click here.

Only trading companies with better capacities dare to use payment methods that are of higher risks to themselves. Paypal protects both buyers and sellers and either side bears 50% risk; Western Union and Wire Transfer are totally safe for suppliers such as Banggood but highly risky for buyers. For this reason, I usually put the two payment methods as the last options while guiding buyers to shopping with Chinese online shops; As for credit cards, I think it is the safest payment option for buyers while it can be quite risky for sellers since buyers can request a chargeback from their credit card companies when they believe that they are ripped off, scammed or have paid for something not worth the dollars.

With credit cards, now Banggood.com has more payment options to choose from and you can use any one at your convenience. It is a legitimate trading company selling varieties of products to buyers all around the world. In recent years, we as a third party have been witnessing its robust growth in terms of product range, service standards and company size. If you ask us to introduce the best Chinese online stores to buy best-valued electronic gadgets or RC toys, Banggood.com is definitely one of our top recommendations.

Review of IK 98005 Men’s Mechanical Wrist Watch from Banggood.com

Be honest, before we received the IK 98005 men’s mechanical wrist watch from Banggood.com as a 2014 New Year gift, we never realized that wearing a watch can be so convenient and cool. More exactly, it is how my husband feels as he becomes the real owner of the gift and has been wearing it for one month plus. In practice, he has got many compliments with that watch.

Every time we get an awesome product, we just can’t help sharing it with friends or relatives around us. As a review website, we are also more than happy to let more people know the outstanding products based on our own knowledge or experience. Just in case you might be also interested in purchasing a quality made-in-China men’s wristwatch, I decide to give a full review of the IK 98005 men’s mechanical wrist watch here.

First, let’s see the basic specifications of the watch:

Item Type: Wrist Watch
Dial Window Material Type: Hardlex Glass
Brand Name: IK
Water Resistance Depth: 50m
Movement: Mechanical Watch
Dial Diameter: About 4.3cm
Dial Thickness: About 1.3cm
Clasp Type: Needle Buckle Clasp
Color: Black
Style: Fashion & Casual
Gender: Men
Dial Display: Analog
Feature: Waterproof, Calendar, Week Mode,12/24 Hour Display
Case Shape: Round
Pattern: Skeleton
Model Number: 98005

Note: the specifications are excerpted from the product description page of the official website of Banggood.com (read review of the website).

According to the user experience of my husband, the time of this watch has been running accurately after he set it according to the correct official local time to start using it. Besides, it is 100% waterproof as it is described – he never takes it off even when he is washing hands or taking a bath but the watch stays perfectly the same as before without any moisture problems. The leather-made strap of the watch looked a little stiff when he opened the package and he was worried that it might be uncomfortable wearing it. However, after wearing it for several days, he became totally used to it and the strap was getting softer and softer. “Now I even always forget that I am wearing a watch on my wrist”, he often says.

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