Online Shopping Reviews

Finding Top Deals: Discounted Lace Wedding Dresses at Chinese Shops

If you are a bride-to-be obsessed with wedding dresses embellished by lace, this post may help you find the best deal. To shop for any style wedding dress at a low price, online Chinese shopping websites, especially those fashion stores, are really a good choice.

I’ve introduced several big Chinese names who offer quality but cheap wedding dresses at my site again and again: Lightinthebox.com, Milanoo.com, Aliexpress.com and more. In fact, I can almost impossible to avoid mentioning them when I share the information on made-in-China wedding dresses here. In addition to the competitive original prices, the great discounts they regularly and also frequently offer are definitely a great attraction to global buyers. That is why both individual consumers and bridal apparel store owners like to purchase wedding dresses from China.

Milanoo.com

I noticed that Milanoo.com is offering a collection of twenty-five styles in lace wedding dresses with 10% off. Now the after-discount prices range from $76.49 to $215.09. There you can find the latest trends, including fall 2012 wedding dresses and spring 013 wedding dresses. At the same time, they have slashed down the prices for a variety of other lace wedding supplies such as lace wedding shoes, lace veils and lace gloves. The sale ends November 6th. Here are some of the amazing styles I handpicked from the collection:

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Lightinthebox.com

Although Lightinthebox.com does not offer any exclusive sale on lace wedding gowns at present, I do find some really attractive deals on such dresses through filtering my search result by lace wedding dresses. Continue reading Finding Top Deals: Discounted Lace Wedding Dresses at Chinese Shops

The 112th Session of Canton Fair 2012

Canton Fair, also known as China Import and Export Fair, is held biannually in Guangzhou, with a history of over 50 years since 1957. As China’s biggest and most prestigious foreign trade show, Canton Fair boasts of the broadest distributions of Chinese suppliers as well as global buyers. With two sessions held in spring and autumn every year, each session includes several phases, which cover different fields of products so that buyers can better arrange their visits to the show.

The 112th session of Canton Fair will be held from October 15 to November 1 in autumn 2012, composed by three phases as listed below:

Phase 1: Oct. 15 – 19, 2012 9:30 – 18:00

Major categories on show:

Building Materials
Chemical Products
Hardware & Tools
Electronics & Household
Electrical Appliances
Lighting Equipment
International Pavilion
Vehicles & Spare Parts
Machinery

Phase 2: Oct. 23 – 27, 2012 9:30 – 18:00

Major categories on show:

Consumer Goods
Gifts
Home Decorations

Phase 3: Oct. 31 – Nov. 4, 2012 9:30 – 18:00

Major categories on show:

Medicines, Medical Devices and Health Products
Food
International Pavilion
Textiles & Garments
Shoes
Office Supplies, Cases & Bags, and Recreation Products

Venue Address: No.380, Yuejiang Zhong Road, Guangzhou, China

Now the first phase of the 112th Canton Fair has ended. Based on the report, the number of buyers who had attended the super show fell off by 11.4%. Anyway, the emerging markets show a robust trend and the proportion of Middle Eastern buyers, Asian buyers and Latin American buyers increased. As far as I am concerned, the performance of 1st phase of the 2012 autumn canton fair indicates that the new markets are a great potential to the development of the future international trade business. At the same time, the fast progress the online foreign trade industry has been making is probably a can’t-be-ignored reason for which the total quantity of the buyers decreased so significantly.

Being China’s most comprehensive foreign trade show at the highest level, Canton Fair targets mainly big buyers who purchase by large bulk (generally 100 pieces or more for a single order). Such a traditional international trade model is seen a gradual decline in terms of attendance number as well as turnover.

Meanwhile, more and more buyers turn to online suppliers as they can procure products in much more flexible ways by doing so. Today China has many online stores that offer whole prices for small orders with MOQ low as 1 piece only, e.g. Lightinthebox.com, Aliexpress.com, etc. Besides, buyers can shop directly online without paying any visits to the trade shows or to the factories and are able to save the time and the cost. Just click on the mouse and the orders will arrive at the door!

360buy Has An International Site

Yesterday I read from the news that the English site of 360buy.com (Jingdong Shopping Mall in Chinese) has gone live. This means the Chinese online retail business leader has started their journey to grab the global market share. Through the international site http://en.360buy.com/, buyers around the globe can shop for quality-guaranteed and low priced products from the company in an easy way.

After this famous Chinese online retailer officially joined the foreign trade arena, the competition among online Chinese international shopping sites is surely getting more and more intense. Today we are witnessing a robust growth of Aliexpress.com, Lightinthebox.com, Milanoo.com, Dinodirect.com and a few more big names on the global markets, who are enlarging their customer bases as well as enhancing their international reputation by offering quality and reasonably priced products. At the same time, they are endeavoring to perfect their service standards in order to attract and keep more customers.

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Sale Alert: Aliexpress First Big Christmas Sale for Small Re-sellers or Merchants

Aliexpress.com is offering a big holiday sale for small businesses from October 15 to October 21. To kick off the site’s first Christmas promotional campaign of the year, the products on-sale are now offered with huge discounts plus extra values based on a certain threshold of order values. Minimum order quantity (MOQ) required is as low as 1 piece only. For the majority of products there, you can get the super low wholesale prices with great discounts for a single order of less than 10 pieces.

If you are a merchant of a small or medium-sized store, don’t miss out this amazing opportunity to stock up on high-margin Christmas supplies for your inventories. As they advertised, with up to 60% off, now the margins are as high as 300%!

The Aliexpress Christmas 2012 sale offers discounts mainly in three forms:

Huge discounts on specific products. The prices you see are already slashed down by a detailed discount. You can also compare their current prices with their original prices so that you can ‘feel’ exactly how deep the discounts are.
Fixed discounts store wide. Each on-sale category page lists a number of stores which are selected to join this promotion by Aliexpress.com. Each store offers a fix discount on a certain order value threshold, e.g. $15 off per $100 or more.
Extra discounts based on a certain order value threshold. This type of discounts is offered by the site instead of by the suppliers. When your order value reaches the designated threshold, you can input the coupon code indicated on their homepage top banner at checkout to get the extra discount. For October 15, you can get an extra $10 off $150 or more by using the coupon code “christmasone”.

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Novelty Items: A Good Choice for 2012 Christmas Gifting

For individual shoppers, it is a little bit too early to plan the 2012 Christmas gift list now. However, for resellers or store owners, it is not. Many suppliers have already started their Christmas 2012 early-bird sales. If you are looking for Christmas supplies to get ready for the biggest shopping event of the year, you may find some really good deals from the various offers online around the world.

In one of our previous posts, we have introduced the Christmas 2012 shopping guide for merchants (read the post), in which we shared our knowledge about where to purchase made-in-China products for the Christmas season and how to stay safe with the international shopping. Although the guide basically targets merchants, it fits for end consumers who are prowling the web for best deals on Christmas gifts or other Christmas supplies.

Seeing that both consumers and resellers may need some inspiration to learn about the best Christmas 2012 gift ideas, we decide to research the market and deliver a helpful gift idea guide series for our readers. Here let’s start from novelty items as they are the No. 1 good choice for Christmas gifting based on our research and analysis.

Standing out by creative designs, novelty items can always bring great surprise to gift receivers. Generally, they look this way but work totally the other way. This is the very charm of such products. When you see them at the first glance, you find it hard to identify their real functions. Then with great curiosity you try to dig out what they are and how they work. The whole process can be really exciting. In addition, they are always an amazing decoration for your room, your office or your home. Finally, they are usually easy to afford! Now you understand why we believe novelty items are the top choice for Christmas 2012?

If you do not take a good look at the novelty items yourself, it is hard to image what kind of products can be “novel”. So the best way to get inspiration is to check out the novelty item collections one by one. Generally, you can get a basic idea about what the product is or what it is used for from the item title. Anyway, you need to read the item description in order to uncover the details on how they work.

Though lots of Chinese online shops carry novelty items, most put them under various categories and you have to spend much time and work very hard to spot them. So far we have only found two sites that have an exclusive channel for all kinds of novelties: Aliexpress.com and Dinodirect.com. Both sites are well-known big players in the Chinese international online trading arena. In particular, the Novelty Items zone at Aliexpress.com seems to be one of their most widely visited areas and they have been giving great prominence to this category since they were founded.

Aliexpress.com

The novelty items at this site are sorted into three major categories: novel toys, novel households and novel consumer electronics. Here are some of the most popular novelty items there:

Page-by-page LED Lamp

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2012 Halloween Deals from Online Chinese Suppliers

This year Halloween falls on Wednesday, October 31, 2012 – it’s only weeks ahead! Anyway, if you are looking for 2012 Halloween deals from online Chinese suppliers, it is still not late. On the contrary, it is now the perfect time to hunt for the best deals with the deepest discounts on a variety of Halloween supplies, including costumes, wigs, masks and lots more products that feature horror, fun or sexiness.

Low pricing is generally the very attraction of made-in-China Halloween supplies. The vast array of categories and styles further popularizes the Halloween products offered by Chinese suppliers. If you want to buy such stuff from online Chinese stores, do remember to choose legitimate and reliable websites with good reputation. Otherwise you may lose money simply because you encounter a scammer.

Here we would like to remind you that it is always necessary to confirm the nature of a China-based online shop before you invest the first amount of money in them. Though doing much research on the shop you are interested in may kill you a lot of time, you will find it totally worthy after you discover a good supplier for your business or for your personal needs through a thorough investigation. Also, if your friends or family recommend some good Chinese shopping websites to you, you can give them a try as they probably have used them and benefited from their shopping.

As a professional review website, we will list some popular and tested Chinese sites offering Halloween 2012 deals below. Again, we encourage you to do further research on them even though they are basically trustworthy based on real customer reviews. Each and every store recommended has their own pros and cons. For instance, some stores may stand out by quality while some others by pricing, service or item variety. Doing research can help you uncover the details so that you can make a better shopping choice.

Milanoo.com

This site is, based on our personal criteria, the best Chinese destination to shop for cheap costumes and accessories, including cosplay costumes, zentai costumes, pet costumes, wigs and more. They carry a huge variety of costumes and accessories that fit perfectly the Halloween themes. Besides, they are a big name on the global market and have built a big customer base around the world since they were founded in 2008. For Halloween 2012 only, they have 500 plus styles in costumes to choose from, all offered at super low prices.

FTCline.com

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