Online Shopping Reviews

St. Patrick’s Day 2013 Coupon Code from Dinodirect.com

Some Chinese stores have launched their St. Patrick’s Day 2013 deals as a way to cater for the convention observed by their global customers. Usually they either offer discounted products in green or distribute coupon codes for buyers to redeem on a selection of green stuff. This year, Dinodirect.com (read the detailed review) choose to offer a coupon code to reduce the price.

From March 12 to March 18, shoppers at Dinodirect.com can use the 2013 St. Patrick’s Day coupon code “ST” to get $5 off instantly at checkout when their order value reaches $40. Note that the coupon code can only be redeemed on products listed on the St. Patrick’s Day promotional page.

Not surprisingly, all the St. Patrick’s Day deals are colored in green, covering categories like women’s clothing, men’s clothing, home décor & accents or lucky clovers. If you love to wear something green or decorate your home with a green flavor on the St. Patrick’s Day, you might be interested in the products they offer. Here are some lovely green St. Patrick’s Day items I personally fall in love with:

Ruffle Long Sleeves Sweet Green Dress for Women, at $14.99 before discount

Floral Printed Men’s Board Pants (I am considering buying this style for my husband), at $17.39 before discount

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Affordable Formal Dresses for Fall / Winter 2010: All Set the Color Trends This Fall / Winter

The sizzling summer is drawing to a close and it’s time to refresh your wardrobe with the latest fall and winter fashion. In addition to the necessary daily wear, you may need several gorgeous formal dresses to prepare for parties or banquets this fall and winter. Wanna see which colors set the trend of formal dresses fall/winter 2010?

The following formal dresses are selected from the special issue of fall/winter 2010 delivered by Lightinthebox, the popular fashion shopping website based in Beijing, China. These formal dresses are all inspired by high fashion runways for fall/winter 2010. All the colors these dresses feature are expected to rage this fall and winter, including bold radical red, subtly delicious olive, mystical dark purple, defining absolute black, undeniably graceful camel and quiet pale blue. Also, there you can find some beautiful fashion accessories that match each color motif of the formal dresses.

Though featuring high fashion designs, the formal dresses fall/winter 2010 offered by Lightinthebox.com are remarkably affordable. Simply by spending a small amount of money, you will be able to make yourself look stunningly beautiful. Just take a look!

1. Bold Radical Red

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Creative Home and Garden Item: Mini Portable Sewing Machine

Every day I receive dozens of newsletters or promotional emails from online Chinese stores. I subscribe to these emails just to get myself alert to the latest great offers as well as the interesting products. A few days ago, I got an email from Focalprice.com (a Shenzhen based shopping site), which promote their collection of Creative Home and Garden products and was impressed by the portable sewing machine.

Coincidently, the next day one visitor of my site asked me about my opinion about this kind of product. Be honest, as a housewife I myself am not familiar with the mini sewing machines. I am not a good housewife and I never do any sewing with a machine – I do some quick fixes on clothes or bags with a needle anyway. Besides, I never see any people around me use this stuff to sew clothes or do fixing jobs. Considering that this machine may help me somehow with my housework and also a good item for re-sellers, I decided to do some research on it. Below are my findings:

The machine is compact in size, fitting well in hand being portable and easy to use.

It’s great for quick repairs or jobs that conventional desktop machines can’t handle, like sewing curtains while on the rod, or seal up a torn pocket without having to remove your pants.

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My Criteria for Reviewing Wedding Dresses Offered by Chinese Suppliers

Regular visitors of my site Chinawholesalereviews.com may have noticed that I have been posting a series of reviews of wedding dresses offered by various Chinese online shops. Some may be wondering what kind of criteria I have been adopting in writing the reviews. Below I will introduce my criteria for choosing target suppliers as well as reviewing their wedding dresses.

Credibility of Suppliers

First of all, when I choose target suppliers, I put the credibility issues at the top priority. In order to introduce the best Chinese suppliers of wedding dresses to my readers, I usually select the top-rate suppliers who have a built a big name on the global market. Anyway, to warn people against those scams, I also post some reviews of the dishonest suppliers from time to time. The biggest difference is: reviews of good suppliers include all important details of the companies and the wedding gowns they supply while those of bad suppliers focus on the scam cases people have encountered with them. So far, I have published three trustworthy Chinese suppliers of wedding apparel:

Lace Mermaid Trumpet Wedding Dress — Image Courtesy of Milanoo.com

Prices

As unbeatable pricing is one of the greatest attractions of made-in-China wedding dresses, I always emphasize the prices for the wedding dresses in my reviews. Within the Chinese international market of wedding clothing, the price difference can be huge based on quality standards and stores you choose. If you are on a tight budget and want to get a really cheap wedding dress, just stick to the low price tags. Generally, you don’t have to stick to one particular supplier as every supplier offers wedding dresses at various levels of prices. You will find that you have plenty of choices and it is not hard to find your dream dress at a price you can afford. If you do not care much about pricing, I would recommend you to consider the wedding dresses for sale at Lightinthebox.com first. The site is always my favorite when it comes to introducing Chinese suppliers of wedding gowns. They have a wide range of high quality wedding dresses that come in the latest styles to choose from. Especially if you are looking for luxury wedding dresses or celebrity wedding dresses, the store is worth a try.

Quality & Manufacturers

As for quality, you need to understand that you can’t expect the same good quality wedding dresses as the designer dresses offered by local boutiques. This is simply impossible based on my knowledge. However, it is necessary to learn what kind of materials the suppliers to tailor the dresses and how good their craftsmanship is. My reviews always mention these details for your reference.

v-neck court train wedding dress — Image courtesy of Lightinthebox.com

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Reliable Chinese Suppliers of Wigs and Hair Extensions

As always, when I am asked to recommend some reliable Chinese online suppliers of a certain product or category, I would tell you those I personally have more confidence in. At least I are pretty sure they are doing serious business and have already built a rather big customer base around the world. However, if your definition for a “legitimate site” is that it has few complaints, I am afraid I can’t count even one for you. As for reliable Chinese suppliers of wigs and hair extensions, I meant the same.

Again, I am writing this post as a response to an email from a reader of my blog. Actually I have talked about a number of topics about made-in-China hair wigs, hair extensions or hair wigs here at my site. You can use the search box at the right top of my site to find related posts. In particular, one of the posts has a good ranking in the Google search organic results by the long term “hair wigs for women online shopping from China” sometimes. Titled ‘Hair Wig Review: Update Your Look with Stylish but Cheap Hair Wigs’, the post introduces all key information within my knowledge about wigs or hair extensions offered by Chinese manufacturers or suppliers.

It seems such hair styling products are now a hot line on the global wholesale or retail market. I notice that more and more Chinese wholesale shopping sites start to usher the new category into their major field – even some electronic stores are doing so too. Tmart.com is a good example then. The site is mainly selling cool electronic gadgets, such as tablet PCs, cell phones, accessories for iPhone, iPad or other world renowned mobile devices, creative lifestyle gadgets, etc. I was a little surprised when I saw that they are promoting a big collection of hair wig-related products, which is sorted into three subcategories: fashion wigs, cosplay wigs and hair extensions & snood. Generally, I don’t think it a good idea for a specialized shopping site to extend their product line to unrelated domain. For this reason, I won’t put Tmart.com at the top of my recommendation list though I would encourage you to take a look at their listings since their prices can be a big appeal to you. Here are some examples for your reference:

23.6″ Natural Side Bang Coffee Brown Fluffy Silk Long Turnup Hair Wig, $16.85 with free shipping worldwide

12.99″ Kanekalon Popular Europe and America Short Curl Brown Hair Wig, $18.76 with free shipping worldwide

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Top April Fool’s Day 2013 Ideas

April Fool’s Day 2013 is just around the corner. How are you going to fool people around you this year? If you are still looking for top April Fool’s Day ideas for inspiration, the April Fool’s Day deals available at some online stores may help you out.

As I always recommend, when you are hunting for a great holiday idea, you can refer to the item catalogs hosted by online shopping sites, especially their special collection of deals targeting the holiday. You don’t have to necessarily buy the stuff from the sites if the prices do not meet your budget. You can simply use them as a tool to get yourself inspired. And then, you can either DIY it by yourself or purchase it from other sites which offer a better price. However, if you decide to shop with a Chinese site, make sure to confirm on the delivery time. Otherwise the item you order may not arrive in time for the Fool’s Day.

So far I’ve found two Chinese sites offering April Fool’s Day 2013 specials. In particular, as I mentioned in the old post “2013 Women’s Day Deals from Priceangels.com”, Priceangels.com launched their April Fool’s Day very early– the site is definitely a early-bird for all kinds of holiday promotions. They offer 10% off a range of April Fool’s Day supplies, including electric shock handshake toys, electric shock ballpoint pens, electric shock lighters, shocking gun toys, electric shock wireless mouse, electrostatic dummy digital cameras, poo-poo farting whoopee cushions, realistic poo-poo shits, nipple balls and much more. Just take a look at some of the product images below.

Have you got inspired? Honestly, some of the on-sale April Fool’s Day products at Priceangels.com make me feel really sick. But that’s probably why they are so popular. By the way, to get 10% off the items listed on the promotional page, you need to enter the coupon code “APR10OFF” at checkout.

If you can’t find what you like from Priceangels’ April Fool’s Day 2013 deals because of the limited range of products, then Aliexpress’ April Fool’s Day collection won’t get you down. The wholesale trading site is best known for carrying the widest variety of products in each field. As for April Fool’s Day supplies, they are absolutely a one-stop shop. Currently, their April Fool’s Day sale is on the go, with a vast array of toys or pranks inspired by the wild world to choose from. All are offered at discounted prices. As a tradition, Aliexpress.com invite the best suppliers at their site to launch a holiday promotion and requires them to offer a discount on each product selected for the sale.

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