Online Shopping Reviews

China Wholesale Electronics Shopping Guide

If you happen to be interested in buying electronics from China but get lost in so many China-based online shopping websites, my shopping guide to China wholesale electronics marketplaces or stores below may help you out. You have reason to trust me—I’ve been focusing on writing reviews and guides about China wholesalers for over one year, and I am still happily blogging about more China wholesale reviews for my readers all over the world.

As the world’s manufacturing hub of electronics, China has an outstanding manufacturing power for all kinds of electronics, including cell phones, DVD players, MP3/MP4/MP5 players, car electronics, cameras, security equipment, etc. Every year, China exports to the world a huge number of electronics through both traditional and online trading. Over the past decade, more and more online retail and wholesale shopping websites targeting overseas customers emerged and developed quickly in China. Some of them are specialized in selling electronics only, while some provide more items other than electronics.

To make a smart purchase on electronics from China, you should first of all choose an online China wholesale electronics store or marketplace that fits your taste. Here I would introduce some famous China wholesale websites that offer electronics to global buyers for your reference, through a featured shopping guide series.

Series 1. Lightinthebox.com

As a cross-border online retail and wholesale store, Lightinthebox.com is a little bit like Amazon, though its catalog is not so extensive as the latter. Based in Beijing, Lightinthebox is very famous in the international e-commerce arena for the growing market share it grabs. Electronics especially cell phones are one of the biggest categories in the China wholesale store. You can find a variety of cheap wholesale ectronics there and all of them are offered at flexible prices—the more you order, the lower the price you will be able to get. Continue reading China Wholesale Electronics Shopping Guide

Best Chinese Online Stores to Buy Cheap Spy Cameras 2013

Spy cameras are also called hidden cameras as they are meant to film people without their knowledge. For this reason they are often disguised as another object and it is hard to notice its photo or video shooting function. The majority of spy cameras are mini and portable so that they can work in a more invisible way.

Though some people may use spy cameras for unlawful activities such as prying into other people’s privacy, most spy cameras are use for household surveillance just like IP cameras do. While IP cameras are generally clearly visible and people can manage to hide themselves from the filming, spy cameras can do the filming without being noticed at all. In practical, it is very hard to find out a spy camera as it is usually built into a very common object. Now on the Chinese foreign trade market, we can find watch spy cameras, pen spy cameras, hat spy cameras, handbag spy cameras, thermometer spy cameras, mobile phone spy cameras, glasses spy cameras, belt spy cameras, switch spy cameras, button spy cameras, keychain spy cameras, universal charger spy cameras, metal lighter spy cameras, car DVR video spy cameras and lots more spy cameras that are shaped in conventional objects.

2013 Spy Cameras at Focalprice.com

However, most IP cameras are wireless and can be connected to a smartphone, a PC, an iPad or an iPod Touch for monitoring from any distance around the world but even a wireless spy camera can be used to transmit a video signal to a receiver within a small radius (up to a few hundred feet). Comparatively, an IP camera is better for security surveillance monitoring of the house when people are not at home and a spy camera may work better for watching over the household within or near the house. For instance, some people use spy cameras to make sure their nannies are taking good care of their little babies though the legality of such activities is still quite controversial. That is why spy cameras or hidden cameras are nicknamed “nanny cams”.

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Dinodirect May 2013 Sales

The Chinese online shopping mall Dinodirect.com is truly a coupon giver – they release coupon codes so frequently that I have to keep checking out them in order to dig out the information in time for my readers. May 2013 is nothing special for the store but it seems they have gone crazy about launching deals this month. I’ve been compiling the coupon codes and specials in other forms of Dinodirect.com for May 2013 so that you can better take advantage of the sales when shopping with the site. Below you can find the results which will continue to be updated till the end of this month.

Dinodirect May 2013 Sales (from the latest to the oldest):

Use coupon code “FRIENDSANDFAMILY” to get 20% off women’s clothing, men’s clothing and sunglasses for Friends & Family sale; no minimum; Ending May 31, 2013
Use coupon code “DDMAY14OFF80” to 14% off orders of $80 or more on anything available at Dinodirect.com; Ending May 31, 2013
Use coupon code “DDMAY12OFF” to get 12% off anything sitewide; no minimum; Ending May 31, 2013
Use coupon code “DDMAY8OFF60” to get 8% off orders of over $60; Ending May 31, 2013
Free shipping on men’s 2013 trendy watches. View the deals >>
Free shipping on hot-selling wedding accessories. View the deals >>
Up to 20% off tablet PCs, cameras and camcorders. View the deals >>
Rare discounts for tablet PCs, dresses, handbags, shoes, cell phones and much more in Daily Deals.

For more Dinodirect coupon codes, please click here.

Note that the Dinodirect.com coupon codes cannot used on discounted products and cannot be used in combination with another code. For more details about how to use the coupon codes at Dinodirect.com, you can read their official instructions here.

Vintage Watches and Vintage Sunglasses on Sale at Priceangels.com

I am a vintage enthusiast of styling and decorating. Earlier this month I have just shared a sale on vintage prom dresses offered by Chinese stores. When I see a vintage style thing, I just can’t help but love it – if it is for sale and I can afford it, I always get it home without hesitation. Even my coffee table is a vintage one I purchased as a second-hand product from my neighbor for only $10. Truth be told, I am getting more and more obsessed with it instead of getting tired of it. So when I happen to see the vintage watches and vintage sunglasses on sale at Priceangels.com, my instinct tells me to share the deals, right now.

The promotional collection of vintage stuff is very small with only 16 items. If you are a person into vintage styling, I bet you will like it. The following retro round dial hollow alloy bracelet watch is my favorite among all:

The strap of the vintage watch is shaped into a stylish bangle. This watch will be a perfect accessory for cool outfits, especially if you want to create a smart or an elegant look. It is available at $5.12 only after 8% off. The sale is ending May 10, 2013. Anyway, even the full price is very attractive, isn’t it? If you miss the sale but really like it, just go for it. The small discount won’t help you save that much so you can just completely ignore it and pay a little more for what you love. It is totally worth, trust me.

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Tmart Review: A Hong Kong-based Electronic Gadget Store?

When I was compiling the list of China wholesalers of electronic gadgets, I found Tmart.com. At first glance, Tmart.com looks no difference from other online electronic gadget stores. Anyway, the Nextage Seller mark displayed at the bottom of its homepage caught my attention. I did some research then, trying to dig out more valuable information about the shop. Here I would like to share my findings, though what I finally got is quite limited.

On the Tmart.com website, I noticed that no phone call information is indicated. Instead, I only found a Hong Kong mailing address. I asked one of their customer service representatives, the girl told me that their head office is indeed located in Hong Kong, but they have some warehouses across the world and their biggest warehouses are in the US, the UK and Hong Kong.

I believe Tmart does have warehouses in different countries and regions as the store provides worldwide free shipping. Based on my knowledge, many other China wholesale shopping websites of electronics or electronic gadgets do the same way: they cooperate with overseas warehouses to stock and deliver their goods while running their business through their websites and working at offices in the mainland China or Hong Kong, e.g. DinoDirect.com.

However, for their Hong Kong-headquartered part, I still have my doubts. At Tmart, you can use live chat or email to reach their customer service team, but you can’t find any phone call number. Besides, Google tells me that the company address is used by different companies. Anyway, I didn’t mean Tmart is probably a scammer. One of my Chinese friends registered her small firm in Hong Kong while doing business with her global customers in Shenzhen. I know she is a completely honest person and doing serious business. Many Chinese people choose to register their companies in Hong Kong simply to reduce all kinds of costs and to raise their customers’ confidence. After all, Hong Kong is an internationally famous city with high enterprise credibility. Tmart may be one of such companies. From my research, the Tmart office should be located in Fuzhou, Fujian Province of China – I am not quite sure though.

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Is LightInTheBox A Scam?

Some people are complaining either on forums or blog comments that LightInTheBox.com is a scam, and as a webmaster of Danviews.com, I’ve made careful research on these complaints trying to find some useful information for our readers. So far, to my best knowledge, I find that these scam complaints can be summarized as three major types:

Complaints about Lightinthebox customer service: slow response, unprofessional service representative, inefficient live chat system, etc;
Complaints about Lightinthebox products: poor quality, not completely as described, weak after-sales technical support, etc;
Complaints about Lightinthebox shipping service: not as fast as advertised, etc.

However, interesting enough, if you read carefully any of the above complaints against LightInTheBox, you will see a lot more thumb-up comments, who claimed they had bought some item from Lightinthebox.com and are very satisfactory with their purchase with LightInTheBox in terms of item quality, customer service, shipping speed, after-sales support, or any other aspect. Continue reading Is LightInTheBox A Scam?