Online Shopping Reviews

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?

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

For other latest Priceangels.com coupon codes, click here.

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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