Online Shopping Reviews

Focalprice 5th Birthday Promotion Upgraded with Deeper Discounts

In late May, Focalprice.com started their first round of 5th anniversary sale with attractive discounts offered at a range of products. Now the website has already launched the second round sale for their important event and greater discounts are honored for more products with up to 39% off. Let’s just say: the Focalprice anniversary celebration promotional carnival has just begun.

I notice that this time they include three hot-selling Android smartphones and two widely sought-after tablet PCs into the anniversary sale collection. Here are the details:

Note 2 5.3″ Android 4.2 Quad Core MTK6589 1.2GHz 3G Phablet Smartphone with Wi-Fi, 8.0MP Camera, Capacitive QHD Touch

At $149.99 after 24% off, free shipping. See more info >>

Q27B 7″ Android 4.0.4 A13 1.2GHz Tablet PC with Wi-Fi, External 3G & Capacitive Touch (4GB)

At 49.99 after 25% off, free shipping. See more info >>

AMPE A90 9.7″ Android 4.1.1 Quad Core A31S 1.2GHz Tablet PC with Picture-in-Picture, External 3G & Capacitive Touch (8GB)

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Milanoo Limited-time Deals: 2013 Graduation Prom Dresses on Sale

Looking for nice graduation prom dresses at discounted prices? Then the 2013 graduation prom dresses on sale may deserve a look. As a popular name on the global fashion trading market, Milanoo.com carries a huge selection of gorgeous graduation dresses that will make you the focus of attention at the important spot of your life. This time, only a small collection with select items is included for the promotion with an extra 20% off each item.

The prices you see at the promotional page are already reduced by the discount. The offer is ending on June 4, 2013. If you find a dress of your dream that, you may need to hurry up. Actually you already have little time to prepare for the graduation celebrations and even if you don’t care much about the discount, you must buy a prom dress for the graduation event as early as you can. Otherwise you may end up having nothing proper to wear to attend the graduation parties.

Let’s make sure whether the processing time and the shipping time for each graduation dress on sale at Milanoo.com will be a problem for a late arrival or not first. Generally, a custom-made prom dress offered by the store requires a 28-day processing time (including order verification, product manufacturing, quality check and packing) and 1-3-day shipping time.

Then let’s compare the prices of the discounted 2013 graduation prom dresses offered by Milanoo.com to those offered by a few other well-known Chinese stores:

Milanoo.com 2013 Graduation Dresses: $29.99 ~ $308.99
Lightinthebox.com 2013 Graduation Dresses: $59.99 ~ $149.99 (with lots of widely-rated popular graduation dresses)
Fancyladies.com 2013 Graduation Dresses: $86.26 ~ $259.72

It seems hard to see any big pricing differences among the China-based sites in the product line of graduation dresses, especially when other factors are counted in, e.g. quality standards. Comparatively, Lightinthebox.com and Milanoo.com are more dependable in terms of quality as they have their own factories for manufacturing the special occasion dresses they list online for the international market. Besides, you also need to pay attention to the shipping costs they offer for the dresses when you calculate the total cost for ordering a graduation prom dress online from a Chinese supplier. The good thing is, they all make these details clearly indicated on the product pages. Or, you can choose to live chat with their service people to confirm on every detail that concerns you.

For more information about the best graduation dresses for summer 2013, please read here.

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Top Wholesale Electronics Online Shopping Sites

As the most famous manufacturing hub of all kinds of electronics, China has a lot of online stores that offer wholesale electronics. In this post I am going to introduce some top wholesale electronics online shopping sites based in this country.

Before I talk about the names of the specific stores selling wholesale electronics, I would like to remind you that if you are looking for genuine name brand electronics, don’t consider China wholesale online shopping websites. Likewise, if any Chinese supplier tells you that he or she offers world renowned branded electronics like Apple iPad, chances are they are fakes. My advice is: when you see the price of a so-called name brand electronic gadget is too good to be true, don’t trust it. Then, what kinds of wholesale electronics are the best-selling on the China wholesale shopping websites? Made-in-China electronics that are designed and manufactured with popular features are definitely the bestsellers. Such products are generally advanced in features and functions while extremely cheap in pricing. Being good to use and easy to afford, these types of electronics are very popular among common consumers. With high re-sell margins, they are usually the best options among electronic store owners who purchase them for their inventories and then sell them at good prices.

However, top wholesale electronics online shopping sites don’t necessarily mean that they just target store owners or merchants. Now more and more individual consumers choose to purchase products from online wholesale stores, attracted by the great wholesale prices. It has become a fashion, actually. Likewise, most China wholesale stores that offer electronics accept retail orders – even if you buy one piece of item only, you will get an equally low wholesale price.

When it comes to shopping for wholesale electronics at China online stores, the first and foremost issue is security. You must first of all make sure that the stores you are going to buy electronics from are reliable and legit. Anyway, as this may require you to do a lot of research work, below I will list some of the trusted and top wholesale electronics online shopping sites located in China for your reference.

Miniinthebox.com: When it comes to buying small electronic gadgets from China, Miininthebox.com is particularly worth checking out. Just as the domain name suggests, the site is doing very well in supplying gadgets that are small in both sizes and prices. Plus, their subsidiary relationship with the top Chinese international online retailer Lightinthebox.com further makes the site a good choice. When shopping with the site, you don’t need to worry about issues like security, returns, refunds or any other pre-sales and after-sales services. Just check out the catalogs, find out what you want, and then place the order. It rarely happens that you would be unsatisfied with the prices they offer.

Focalprice.com: Based in Shenzhen, the professional electronic shopping site was founded by a genius Chinese young man who had made big money from selling electronic gadgets at eBay. They are experienced in sourcing the best quality consumer electronics from reliable manufacturers at best prices. As a result they are capable of offering the most competitive prices to their customers all around the world. They are not the biggest in the arena of Chinese electronic gadget foreign trading, but absolutely one of the fastest growing. There you can find a paradise of cool gadgets including Apple accessories, cell phones, tablets, car accessories and more.

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eForChina Review: Key Messages to Help You Evaluate the Chinese Electronic Supplier

When you search the internet for customer reviews of eForChina.com, you may get few helpful results – there are lots of video product reviews posted by eForChina though. As a professional review website, we never use the site to buy anything. However, as we review other China-based international shopping websites, we know well how to dig out the most useful information about the site. The following eForChina review is written based on a thorough research on the company. Hope this helps those who are interested in doing business with the site.

An Overview of eForChina

I notice that the office of the website is located in Huaqiangbei, the famous electronic shopping centre in Shenzhen. That makes senses as eForChina.com is an online store of electronics. I used Google Map to search the contact address they indicate at their site and confirmed that it is a legitimate office building.

In the popular Chinese foreign trade forums, I found some topics talking about the China-based online store. In addition, I read carefully all the important details indicated on their official site both in English and Chinese. As I always do, I used different search engines to hunt for related reviews or comments on the site. Here are my summaries:

The website was launched in 2008.
Their company size is no more than 100 full-time employees.
Seeing that few reviews about the site exist on the Internet, they are not a big name on the global market.
Their registered Chinese company name is: Shenzhen Yuekeda Technology Co., Ltd
Although not famous among the Chinese international trade arena, eForChina is a legitimate company that does serious business with buyers around the world based on my personal judgment.
Complaints or negative reviews about eForChina can be hardly founded online.
They are doing pretty well in video marketing by using world-famous video showcasing websites like Youtube.com.
Their contact phone number works, in a professional way – I’ve tried the number myself! This is an important sign that further proves that the company does exist and provide services.
The site is easy to navigate or place an order. Each product is very clearly showcased with high-resolution images, specifications, prices for different order sizes, shipping methods and time and the like. Based on my testing, it takes only a few minutes to complete a checkout process.
Some on-sale products are available with one or more free gifts (usually related accessories).

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Review of Lightinthebox TS Clothing

TS Clothing Categories

Under the Fashion broad category of Lightinthebox.com, you can find a subcategory called “TS Clothing“, placed in the first column of the menu. TS is the abbreviation of “Three Seasons” (“三季” in Chinese). The reputable Chinese fashion brand focuses on designing and manufacturing trendy dresses, tops, bottoms and outerwear in European or American style. Their fashion dresses balance quite well between special occasions outfits and daily wear. Most of the dresses fit both formal parties or gatherings and casual occasions, e.g. you can wear a TS dress for a dating, a trip, a cocktail party, a wedding ceremony, etc. Meanwhile, they have a range of dresses, shirts, blouses, jackets, blazers and coats that can bring you an amazing office look.

TS Clothing Stores

I’ve posted an article talking in detail about the backgrounds of TS clothing, and you can read the TS Brand Story to learn what kind of relationship is between TS and Lightinthebox.com.

Actually, besides the TS Clothing channel at Lightinthebox.com, TS apparel is also available international buyers at Aliexpress.com though it does not create a special brand channel at the well known Chinese wholesale trading platform. Technically, Lightinthebox.com and Aliexpress.com are big competitors to each other as both sites are trying to win more global buyers for categories including women’s fashion, men’s fashion, handbags, shoes, electronic gadgets, home and garden, health and beauty and more. I don’t think TS will open a store at Aliexperss.com in the future either. Anyway, some individual resellers are using the Taobao Go Global function featured by Aliexpress.com to re-sell the TS clothing and that is why buyers are able to find a small selection of TS dresses, TS tops or other TS apparel for women at Aliexpress.com. So far I haven’t found any other international shopping sites offer TS clothing yet.

The Chinese domestic market is another story when it comes to TS fashion. The brand has been extensively creating official stores through various famous Chinese shopping sites to promote and sell their products. In addition to Tmall.com (brand channel of Taobao.com), they also have stores in Jd.com (was formerly named as “360buy.com”) and Amazon.cn. Plus, the official website of TS clothing Onlyts.cn sells stylish clothing for women directly to Chinese merchants or consumers too.

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Discounted Floral Printed Dresses for Summer 2013

In case some of you are particularly interested in floral printed dresses or any other type of clothes embellished by a floral flavor, I decided to do the compiling work for discounted floral printed dresses that are supposed to be popular this summer. Besides to the great sources to get amazing floral style dresses, I will also introduce how to get the best deals from the sites so that you will get the dresses you desire at a discount you love.

First of all, let me tell you which Chinese international shopping sites are worth checking out when it comes to floral summer dresses, shorts, skirts or other fashion stuff for women. As always, Lightinthebox.com, Milanoo.com, Dinodirect.com and Aliexpress.com are ranked the top choices in my personal list for any made-in-China fashion products. As for dresses that come in floral prints, Lightinthebox and Milanoo are definitely the best of the best.

Below are the posts introducing the details about the floral dresses for summer 2013 available at the shopping sites. Or, you can just go directly to the stores for a quick look at. That’s usually the way how I do. When I am told some reliable sites where I can buy stuff I want, I always go straight to check out the styles and prices instead of further researching on the credibility of the site. This is, definitely, not a good habit though. Continue reading Discounted Floral Printed Dresses for Summer 2013