Online Shopping Reviews

Sorting Chinese International Shopping Sites by Business Model

Chinese international shopping websites can be sorted by whether they sell products or offer services. The former is the traditional business model and is more widely adopted by Chinese merchants while the latter is getting more and more popular these years.

Type 1: Sites = Suppliers

Sites offering products to customers with their own warehouses are the most common in terms of quantity. Such sites have their own product sourcing teams, product management teams, pre-sales teams and after-sales teams and marketing teams and handle orders by their internal staff instead of manufacturers or suppliers cooperated with them.

Generally, this type of stores focuses on a rather limited number of product categories. For instance, some mainly sell fashion and accessories, some offer electronics while some others may be famous for toys, home and garden supplies, car parts and accessories, lighting supplies, luggage and bags, jewelry and watches or any other field(s). These professional stores may also carry some minor categories other than their major ones. For instance, as a store well-known for women’s fashion, Lightinthebox.com also sells a variety of electronic gadgets like tablet PCs & accessories, cell phones & accessories or car electronics. Here is a short list of the most popular Chinese online shops that fall into this type:

At the same time, there are a small number of Chinese shopping malls that cover a broad range of categories. Anyway, the really strong ones of this type are very rare in the Chinese cross-border trade arena. So far I personally only know Dinodirect.com is doing a good job in this area. The site have several warehouses around the world and the major one is based in Shenzhen, China. Let’s just take a look at what they are offering: men’s clothing, women’s clothing, tablet PCs, Android phones, flashlights, handheld game consoles, OBD2 & diagnostic tools, iPhone accessories, baby, cameras & camcorders, car & motorcycle accessories, computers & networking, cool gadgets, security & surveillance, electronics, gifts & holiday supplies, health & beauty, home & garden, jewelry & watches, novelties, office supplies, sporting goods, toys & hobbies, video games and books.

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PriceAngels Review: All About Cool Gadgets

On this site we have introduced several well-known China electronic gadget online stores, including DinoDirect, FocalPrice, MiniInTheBox, ChinaVasion, Tmart, DealExtreme, Lightake and more. PriceAngels.com is yet another legitimate company that sells cool gadgets to foreign countries via internet. It is, like most of its biggest competitors, based in Shenzhen, the manufacturing hub of consumer electronics, computers & accessories, and communications products. This research-based PriceAngels review is simply intended to help you learn more about the company.

electronic gadget store priceangels.com

In the arena of China international e-commerce, PriceAngels is recognized as a fast-growing online shopping website of electronic gadgets that keeps a low-key stand. I used the biggest Chinese search engine Baidu to search for related information about PriceAngels, but got few useful results. It seems that the company is not mentioned much among people who work in the e-commerce industry. However, with rapid growth in daily turnovers and annual revenues, it is definitely not to be neglected for those who share the global electronic gadget market, such as DinoDirect.com and FocalPrice.com.

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How to Find Discount Offers on China’s Online Shopping Websites?

Discount offers are one of the most common special offers. All Chinese online stores offer discounts on various items regularly or irregularly. However, different stores may display their discount information in different forms or places. If you want to find out the discount offers in a new online store, our special instructions below may help you out.

Most often, you can find discount offers from the banners posted on the homepages of different websites, usually at the middle top, the most visible place. Of course, discount offers can also be found on other banners positioned in other places, or in some featured sections. Some stores even put the logo labeled with specific discount amount right on some product images on the homepages. For example, on the homepage of Lightinthebox.com, when you see a product image marked with a “10% off” logo, it means the product is currently on sale with a 10% discount.

However, sometimes discounts are not shown in the form of specific percentages of discounts like mentioned above. Instead, a cut-down price will be shown under its original price (usually with a slash mark) to indicate the exact promotional price for the item. Both Lightinthebox.com and Milanoo.com often showcase their discount offers in this way. Continue reading How to Find Discount Offers on China’s Online Shopping Websites?

Priceangels.com Limited-time Deals on Baby and Kids’ Apparel

I hadn’t noticed that Priceangels.com, a website well known for electronic gadgets and accessories, also offer clothes and accessories for babies and kids until I got the alert about their latest sale on baby and kids’ supplies days ago. I decided to share this piece of information as I know lots of my readers are interested in sourcing quality baby and kids’ clothing from Chinese suppliers.

The Priceangels.com sale on baby and kids’ clothes offers an 8% off discount on select items under the Baby & Kids category. On-sale products include girls’ dresses, suspenders dresses, t-shirt and pants sets, climbing clothes, baby bib pants, vest and pants sets, baby apron pants, tops and pants sets and more. By inputting the coupon code “PAM5TE8OFF” at checkout, you will get the price reduced instantly. Plus, every order is honored with free shipping.

Coupon Code:

PAM5TE8OFF

Discount Description: 8% OFF & Free Shipping on Baby & Kids’ Supplies
End Date: May 31,2013

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A deeper look at their Baby & Kids category reveals that the site are enlarging this product line though currently the listing is still quite limited in terms of quantity. What Priceangels.com impresses me is their cool gadgets and accessories and for this reason, I am more willing to rank them as a professional electronic supplier.

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Recommended Online Stores to Shop for Cut-out Dresses

Are cut-out dresses your cup of tea? I should say I personally don’t have any particular preference for this type of dresses but this is simply because my body shape does not deserve the sexy looks it features. OK, let me be straight: I was not bestowed with a figure that I am proud of. Anyway, I do envoy those perfectly-curved bodies and I always think cut-out dresses look extraordinarily amazing on them. Just in case you are the lucky lady with the blessed figure shape and you happen to love dresses in a cut-out design, I’ve dug out some good online places to shop for stylish cut-out dresses for various occasions.

First of all, I have to admit that my inspiration of delivering this post comes from the Cut-out Dresses sale currently hosted by Milanoo.com, which is meant to end May 20, 2013 with 20% off. I believe I am an overqualified witness of the development of Milanoo.com – the Chinese online distributor of fashionable products is getting more and more popular among global shoppers. I have been doing research on the website since it was founded in 2008 and as a Chinese, I am glad to see that it is getting better and better in terms of service standards and global popularity. By the way, I recently heard that a few old colleges of mine have jointed this company. This further reinforces my confidence in them as I know the colleges I worked together with are all elites.

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Now let’s back into the topic: where can we get 2013 trendy cut-out dresses at cheap prices? As a tradition, here I will focus on introducing some Chinese sites only, all of which are ranked top at my personal list when it comes to shopping fashion and accessories with Chinese suppliers via internet.

Besides the deals on cut-out dresses, Milanoo.com carries a huge variety of other cut-out dresses, which are also reasonably priced even without an extra discount. There you can find cut-out club dresses, cut-out maxi dresses, cut-out evening dresses, cut-out cocktail dresses, cut-out prom dresses, cut-out casual dresses, cut-out mini dresses, cut-out long dresses, cut-out party dresses and more. Under the cut-out dresses collection, you have over 4,000 styles to choose from. Prices are as low as $11.99 while most are highly competitive compared to other China-based stores. In addition, some of the cut-out gowns are inspired by the outfits of celebrities.

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Best Chinese Sites to Buy Baby and Kids’ Clothes, Shoes and Other Supplies

Aliexpress.com

At my site I have mentioned for times that Aliexpress.com is the best online destination to shop for made-in-China clothing and accessories for babies and kids. The site is a huge trading platform and you can find countless suppliers selling this kind of products there. The good thing is, you have a wealth of styles and prices to choose from based on your taste as well as budget. However, the risk also exists: the site only provides payment protection service and cannot give any guarantee on the quality of the products or provide any after-sales service. When a dispute between you and the seller happens, they act as a third-party to rule the case and to provide a solution. If you choose to use the site, you need to do research on the seller as much as possible in order to avoid encountering rip-offs or scams.

In the case you are not satisfied with the goods you receive from the seller, do remember to submit a dispute to the Aliexpress.com through your account. Never trust the seller or do what he or she instructs you to do in order to solve the dispute. Chances are you won’t get your problem solved after you delete the negative feedback you left for the seller as he or she requires in return for offering you a full refund. If you trust the promise, you will end up getting no refund at all. After you confirm on the completion of your transaction with the seller or when the deadline of submitting a dispute is due, the Aliexpress.com site won’t be able to help you anymore. Whenever dispute occurs, you should resort to Aliexpress.com for a solution.

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