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:
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