Slap Me Why Dont You?

Stinky Partner

2010-09-09T16:26:00.000+08:00

OMG. I got cheated by my “friend” and ex-partner. We managed a blog selling perfumes and all this drama started from there. She handles the email, orders and postage. I deal with the supplier. But the thing is, customers are to make payments to my bank account since then it’ll be easier for me to directly transfer the money to the supplier.

I thought everything was going well until my cousin found a blog where my name is posted, apparently I’m a “penyangak”. It seems that she ordered perfumes and she never received the items. Of course I was shocked, since all this while, I checked the email for the perfume blog, there wasn’t a single email from anyone saying they haven’t received anything. I guess she must have deleted them before I had the chance to see them.

So anyway, I confronted her and after a hell of a fight, she admitted that she actually did take a few perfumes from 5 different orders. But get this, some of them she just didn’t post it out because she was too lazy to go to the post office. Ugh, I could just slap her there. If she was so lazy, I can send it out myself!

I found tons of vials on her table, but most of them untouched, just left there, all nicely wrapped. It is really weird, she doesn’t really want it since it’s unopened and unused, but I think she’s plain lazy. It’s not like she cheats customers of their money, since everything is ordered after customers pay, but she just don’t send it out. I already retrieved the vials and a few miniatures, and now I’m on the course to sending it out to the respective owners.

The thing I’m really really angry about this is the fact that it is MY name that is tarnished. Since customers are to pay to my account, of course they would think it’s me cheating them, not this selfish lazy bitch. I’m so tempted to reveal her name here, because her action got my name posted out on people’s blog.

Editor's note : To those who may have bought some perfume lately and have yet to receive them, please do refer back to the blogshop. I will get the blog owner to put up an announcement.

Some people just dont get inquiries...

2010-09-07T16:40:00.000+08:00

Dear SMWDY, Its kinda' routine for me to do monthly update with my closets cuz like any other girls out there, I just love shopping but due to hot weather nowadays, I prefer to do it online. And so, few weeks ago I met dis one online blogshop, selling hot dresses which offer lower price compare to other blogshops.

Well, I did bought from her before and as the transaction before ran smoothly and the parcel arrived perfectly on time, there is no where in my mind that dis blogshop gonna trick me. :( like any other buyers, I did leave comment on one of the picture (*just leave your comment and i'll get back to you a.s.a.p* method), as far as i got my self fall in love with the lovely design of one of her dress, Im asking her to give me measurement details of that particular dress. and later she replie! d my comment, together with complete measurement that i asked for.

Well, unfortunate me, the dress only suitable for S size and from the measurement dat she gave me, I perfectly know that dress wont fit my body nicely. So, I ended up my comment saying that the dress is nice but sure as hell wont fit my body. No reply from the blog's owner and I guess our transaction just now comes to an end already.

Last week, I was so surprised to received Poslaju parcel and surprise to the max when I opened the parcel and guess what, the lovely dress that I've found from the blogshop a week before were in it. I was like, ehh, since when plak I confirmed to buy dis dress with the blogshop owner? The dress wasn't my size and our last conversation clearly told her dat i am not gonna buy the dress. Plus, I dont even pay or transfer any payment for dat dress. And so, with confusion filled my head, I browse her blogshop just to get her phone number. as I try to call her, the lines is surely not busy at all but she didnt pick up. So I try to text her, hoping that she read and reply my message.

I've wait about 2-3 hours for her replied. and her replied really shocked me to death. Below was conversation between me and the blogshop owner.

Her :Oh Sori Miss H (me) i dont pick up ur phone call, ive been busy handling new stocks. Well, the parcel u receive is what u had ordered from me last week. You did leave comment on one of my dress and I consider that as confirmed order as u asking for measurement details. So, please bank in the payment of RM50 to my account, xxx xxx xxx within 3 days. Do inform me when you already make the payment. Tq

Me : But I never confirmed with you to buy that dress. Of course Im interested with dat dress at first place, but after knowing the measurement details, Im perfectly sure the size wont fit my body. and I clearly state dat in my last comment on the picture.

Her : Dont you read the T&C? Only for serious buyer. and I consider you as serious buyer the moment you ask for measurement details. so dear, just bank in the payment okay? as the dress is already with you. and mind you, item sold are not returnable or refundable. tq

And that was her last replied. ever since that, I was unable to contact her phone number. I guess she already change it.

Up until now I dont know whether I should just pay for the dress eventhough I know it wont fit me at all!. But keeping the dress with me at the same time makes me feel guilty towards the blogshop owner. sedangkan I never confirmed to buy that dress. Am I the one who did mistakes here just because im asking for measurement details?? :( SMWDY, plz help me!

Grrr... You stepped on my tail

2010-09-04T01:56:00.005+08:00

Over the last few days, heaps of comments came in for the post "It's my Mommy's birthday copycat" and while I usually approve all comments in the past, this was one instance where i rejected heaps too. It's sad to say, a lot of the comments came from people who barely understood the meaning of plagiarism and some were even supporting the acts of plagiarism.

I do not condone such acts.

For those who wrote in not knowing what plagiarism means, please read here : DEFINITIONS OF PLAGIARISM

I am in no means trying to insult anyone's vocabulary here but unfortunately, I was insulted by all the comments I received. Nevermind the ones who lost the plot entirely but there were readers who thinks plagiarism is right, some said it was cool and smart to steal some one else's work. One even said, to steal other people's work is not lazy, it is the key to success. And more of such immature comments are still piling in!

I am beyond appalled. For once in these 7 months of running SMWDY, I screamed "WHAT THE *bleep* ARE THESE PEOPLE TALKING ABOUT?!" My blood boiled.

To those out there who has yet to see your comments being approved and published, it is highly likely I am talking about you. Yes, those comments have been rejected. I will not allow your comments promoting plagiarism to be immortalized in my website.

But with that said, some earlier comments were approved unfortunately. I wont take those down though. Those will serve as the reason for this post I am writing.

While this blog was started to poke fun at oddities of the online shopping community, it has evolved to helping and hopefully educating this community to grow. Hence the banner changed from "the place to bitch slap without them knowing it" to "weeding out the bad as gently as we can". Your not so witty comments about plagiarism are "a 2 steps back to caveman land".

Yes, I strongly believe in anonymity but I do make exceptions. Look top right corner. It has not been an 'unethical' thing for me to reveal the culprit's name in the past and it is still not now.

Dear Anis,
I know you have been leaving comments anonymously. If you want to defend yourself in this matter or feel you have been wrongly accused, it is strongly advisable that you write to me directly.

I do not take this as a monetary fraud incident. I do not care who is making what sort of profit. It is how the context of the author's website being copied word for word by the buyer and used without consent that frustrates. I take this as an intellectual robbery. Plagiarism. How many times do I have to repeat that word? In my books, plagiarism is a punishable crime.

And the author was fooled into believing her act of goodwill was all for a filial daughter wanting to buy a present for her mom. An abusive act of manipulation. What is wrong with being transparent of your true intentions?

I sincerely hope everyone can now understand the situation... at least from my point of view. BUT dear Author, do correct me if I'm wrong!

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Is this post offensive to you? Have I gone overly stiffy? I just thought if everyone could have a say in the last 7 months, this is where my 2 cents shall be deposited. To that person who commented "Plagiarism is the key to success", congratulations!!! You have successfully won SMWDY's most coveted title "THE SCUM THEY SCRAPE OFF SCUM"

Rawk on!

I am not immortal and neither do I want to be treated like one so you may slap me if you like but spare me all the "criminals are my heroes" comments please. okthxbai!

Free is chargable?

2010-08-31T17:34:00.002+08:00

There was this blogshop out there that I ordered something from.
I asked her how much should I be paying.
And she told me the total amount (item + postal fees)

I showed my friend what I was going to buy and she told me there was a free postage promotion going on.

I went and checked out the blogshop again.
and yup I found it.
there is this quite-hard-to-find post clearly stating free postage. (for any items)

Nice way of trying to take advantage of an "ignorant" buyer.

(trust me, it wasn't a mistake, she knew what she was doing)

"Its My Mommy's Birthday" Copycat

2010-08-31T16:12:00.004+08:00

Editor's note : Here's one case where the cover must be blown over. I have no problems with buyers becoming resellers but when lies and deceits are involved, I just give them what they deserve. Be honest with your intentions and as my daddy would always say "DONT INVOLVE YOUR MOTHER!"

So here goes... *the story has checked out*

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Dear Slap Me Why Don't You,

I need a real BIG favour to expose the deceit of this particular blogger whom I believe has be conning her clients and other online blogshop owners for that matter. I am confident that I am not the only victim. Hold on to your seat and here goes. Warning..it is an EPIC!

I was first contacted by this lady on 5th July 2010 as shown in the following email,

"hai..
wana ask bout the items listed below

i wana know the bestest price u can offer for these items

1) AUTHENTIC GUCCI all the way brought to you directly from MILAN
2) AUTHENTIC BALLY all the way brought to you directly from SWITZERLAND

thnx"

As always, I responded to the inquiries as I normally do and gave her my quotation. Here was answer,

"Here are the bestest price that I could offer you.
1. Gucci Tote is at RM1580 inclusive of Poslaju / COD

2. Bally Bucket is at RM800 inclusive of Poslaju / COD"

She replied by asking for BOTH bags to be released to her at RM2k. I should have suspected something amiss here but then, I am after all born and taught by a lovely mother to being respectful of others, hence, I politely told her that I could not meet her price and even apologise for it.

Then she inquired GUCCI tote and BURBERRY Heart Tote and without reservation I quoted her the price and as expected she haggled for a lower price because her excuse was,

"sorry for asking u alot.
as i am not working, still studying...
only hubby working =)
i have really tite budget.
so, purchasing 1k handbag requires time for me

thnx again"

Then she at last settled for TOD's, which I successfully delivered it. Least to say, it was a difficult process too. She said she was studying at IIUM Gombak and commute only on Mondays and Wednesdays from her house in Sepang to Gombak for classes and insisted me for a COD at the Curve during her lunch break. It is made clear in my website that COD is only done on weekends at the Curve or 1Utama, so I has no choice but to use Poslaju instead. Again, she was very persistent asking me to dispatch the time during a scheduled time so that she would receive the item on time. I complied because rule #1 in business, customers are always right.

She was happy with my service and immediately made another purchase, in this case it was a BALLY Bucket and repeatedly she was in a hurry to get the bag, which was dispatched yesterday 30th August 2010, in order for it to arrive on tomorrow, Wednesday 1st September 2010 after the Merdeka Day holiday, as the BALLY according to her was a birthday gift to her mother.

This is where and when the plot thickens. When I got back home yesterday, 30th August 2010 after posting the BALLY Bucket via Poslaju, I went back to checking my emails and started my daily ritual Google activities. Call it destiny, sixth sense, or what ever it was, I bumped into some images of products which uncannily looked like mine. These images brought me to a Malaysian online blogshop by the name of shoPPe LISTa.

I am almost always a calm and collected person who always rationalise with things positively but what I have stumbled with my discovery unleashed my anger. I approached this owner of shoPPe LISTa with a stern warning to delete all postings which was plagiarised from my website. I did not even care for credits. They were:

1. GUCCI Hobo

2. BURBERRY Heart Tote

I reckon because I told her that I would report her blog to the Suruhanjaya Syarikat Malaysia (Companies Commission of Malaysia) for doing illegal online trading and also to other blog Reviewers of her actions, she immediately took the two postings out and answered my email,

"hai..
oh, sorry..
will surely change"

Don't take me wrong, I am not at all a revengeful person but the manner of her reply was such a mockery to my intelligence that I am obligated to do something. With the influence of CSI, NCIS, BONES, WHITE COLLAR and alike, I began with my investigation. I immediately wrote to them pretending that I was interested on something and this was the reply,

"hi dear,
one last piece left (in black)
two already been reserved

maybank
XXXXXXXXXX
nik anis bt nik mohd zainuddin

kindly inform me once u've made ur payment.
if payment made today,
i'll send ur package tmrrow

thx"

GUESS what!? It is none other that the TOD's and BALLY Bucket buyer!

No wonder she insisted on me taking out the postings of items she has bought, to eliminate competition. Customarily, all postings of sold out items will be taken out from my website but pending to this case, I have decided to activate them all back again but this time at the discounted prices, which I offered to Nik Anis bt Nik Mohd Zainuddin. Original posted prices of the purchased items by Anis are as follows:

1. TOD's - RM1750 reduced to RM1550 for her
2. BALLY Bucket - RM900 reduced to RM800 for her

I only managed to get a glimpse of BALLY Bucket being sold to some Kakak but it was taken out at the same time of the GUCCI Hobo and BURBERRY Heart Tote, even without me instructing so. I wish I know the BALLY Bucket buyer, so I could tell her that she has been conned. I bet you the price would be an increase by RM300 or even more because the retail price of BALLY Bucket is about RM2.8k. The insane amount of profit she would be making and the audacity of her to say it was for her mom's birthday to get the bargain price from me. How low can a person be to use MOM as a business strategy shamelessly?No wonder she insisted on the urgency of getting this particular because she has secured her deal with this Kakak on the other end. I have no idea what fate belies the TOD's because I don't seem to see it under the list of bags on shoPPe LISTa.

ALL the following postings that she has currently on shoPPe LISTa marked as Sold Out/Sold were once asked by her but because I have sold these items myself, she indicated them as Sold Out/Sold too. I didn't highlight to her that these images were mine too, thus, they still exist as part of her old postings.

1. http://shoppelista.blogspot.com/2010/04/longchamp-planetes.html
2. http://shoppelista.blogspot.com/2010/04/caps-for-sale.html
3. http://shoppelista.blogspot.com/2010/04/xoxo-adina-oversized-hobo-handba.html

Should we recall the crime that she has committed by far since 5th July 2010:
1. Haggled for ridiculous prices with a pre-meditated intentions.
2. Using that sympathy vote, i.e. "it's my mom's birthday" to get that cheaper price.
3. Plagiarised photos and descriptions from my website and using shoPPe LISTa as a bait, not to mention offering marked up prices.
4. She still made a profit of between RM100 - RM350 or more, even after buying from me because we are an honest online business based on trust and offers reasonable prices below current Malaysian RRP. One would still make profit buying from me and then selling them off again. I know it is the prerogative of my buyers to do whatever they want with their purchased items but it is also my right to highlight to customers of such dishonesty.
6. The manner of Anis' apology. Non sincere, non committal and nonchalant.
7. If you could think of more, please add...pleasseeee.

IMPORTANT DETAILS:
Name of blogshop : shoPPe LISTa
Url : http://shoppelista.blogspot.com/
Owner name: Nik Anis bt Nik Mohd Zainuddin

So you see SMWDY, you have got to warn people about this blogger. It is the most ethical thing to do, don't you think so?

Is that you?

2010-08-26T19:35:00.000+08:00

Editor's note: .... I'm assuming you're the seller from Unnecessary punishment!

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I came across a buyer a few days ago.
She mailed me saying she needed to collect the bag asap as it's a present for someone.
I replied her 1 day later saying she can collect it by Monday as soon as she pays me.
She didn't reply until next week(1-2 days before the collection date) saying it's too late, she'll cancel it.
My t&c stated "No last minute back outs or else blacklisted".
So is it unfair for me to b/s her?
I don't think so.

Post 372 - Sold!

2010-08-25T23:59:00.000+08:00

I get so frustrated on lowyat forum when you're browsing for something that you like and when you finally do find a good one, the seller only mentions that it is sold in the last, last, last, lastest post of the thread!

Couldn't they bother to change the title of the thread to SOLD?!

Argh. It's driving me nuts :o

Madame Blahzey

2010-08-25T23:57:00.000+08:00

Quite long ago I ordered a whole set of storybooks from this blogshop in Singapore. I live in Singapore too, by the way. Since she was offering a discount with more books purchased, I decided to get the whole set in the series. Problem was, she only offered meetup for both payment and collection. No postage, no internet banking. AND she insisted on a location to her convenience!

Since I was really obsessed with that writer then, I decided "Why not? Singapore isn't THAT big". Turns out, her meetup location was on the other end of the island!! On that day itself, I spent 2hours on the public transport going to a place of her convenience.

I did contact her to let her know I was on my way when I left my home and when I was on the way and when I was reaching and she did reply. However, when I finally reached the destination and tried contacting her - thru SMS and phone calls - she did not respond! Waited for her for about an hour and decided to leave after that, since she was totally uncontactable. Worse was, the place we were supposed to meet at was boring and unfamiliar to me!

When I got home, I talked to her on MSN and asked why didn't she turn up and she actually told me "my phone spoil, so i didnt turn up".

!!!!!!!!!!!!

I traveled 2 hours to HER convenience and she just decided not turn up because of a spoilt phone when the place was probably only 5 minutes from her home?

Oh, there wasn't a sorry or an offer to meet again at a location convenient to mine or anything. She actually told me we can meet again on another day to HER convenience. Totally ignored her after that. The same thing might happen again.

Also, I told my friends about her blogshop - since it was quite famous - cause we all lived near each other. By the way, the entire set of books I intended to buy from her costs about SGD$150 if I didn't remember wrongly. Lucky payment was not required beforehand! Too bad she lost me as a customer! And also maybe a few of my friends....

Unnecessary punishment!

2010-08-25T23:54:00.000+08:00

As you can see, I'm a buyer. Not a very happy one too -.-
I'm a first time blogshopper and I found interest in this bag from http://xxxxxxx.blogspot.com

I find the blog-owner, rather rude. When I first emailed her, she replied me quite rudely. After talking for awhile, I said I might buy the bag from her. Then only she started having a better attitude.
I decided to buy those bags for my sister. So, I asked my aunty to help me.

When, my aunty called her, she was told that she does not take orders through telephone. Being told so, my aunty emailed her the order form. My aunty also told her that she needed it by Thursday so that she could post it to me.

She told my aunty she could only get the bags on Saturday, so my aunty told her to call it off. She then blacklisted my aunty just for that! She even put my aunty's number on her blog!! Aren't phone numbers P&C?!

We should all BOY-COTT this blog. Thank you.
Fxck her. Bye :D

Confession of a Blogshop Addict

2010-08-20T14:46:00.002+08:00

Heeeee! As you can see, I iz teh buyerrrrr. :)

Anybody getting TOO addicted to blogshopping? );

I AM.

Now the question is, HOW DO I STOP? ):<

I have tried thinking of ways to stop such as;
a) Throwing away measuring tape
Comeback: I need the measuring tape to measure stuff.

b) Throwing away my modem
Comeback: Need to check mail and facebook! X:<

c) Don't open blogspot!
Comeback: I NEED TO DO SMTH WHEN I'M BORED.

Besides, I only buy preloved stuff (student buyer. ;P). ): But I buy a whole lot at one go!

And just before writing this, I saw cheap RM20 ballet flats worn a few times, RM5 clothes, cute accessories!

FML.

Please help me cure my addiction. );

So brand conscious!

2010-08-11T00:30:00.000+08:00

This is my second time COD with this blogshop. Yesterday, I suppose to meet the seller at OU. When I was there, i texted the seller to ler her know that I already arrived.

She replied me and told me that her bf will pass the stuff for her. And her bf will reach there in another 10 mins.

Then I said okay. I told her that I'm wearing blue dress with black handbag. So it is easier for her bf to find me.

She replied me back, ' My bf is wearing TOPMAN Tshirt in black'.

Ouh ok, should i tell my dress' brand as well? LOL!

Backouts of the XY Chromosomes

2010-08-09T21:34:00.000+08:00

Am wondering if am i the only one who encounters this weird guy.

He places orders quite frequently everytime i have new arrivals, claiming that he wanna buy it for his girlfriend, and will ask questions regarding color / material of the items he ordered.

But he'll disappear after i provide him all the info to his questions and payment details. then he'll be back again placing orders and asking questions when i have new updates.

And his starting line is always ... "hi there, i am interested in buying this, this and this for my girlfriend ^_^"

I googled his email, and he's actually a real guy. (not some made up email or watsoever) cus i found his pages and blogs and stuff.

Have any of you sellers encountered him? Is he like some serial back-out "boyfriend" that just likes to browse around girly blogshops and place orders and disappears?

Gees....

Creepy Blogshop Connoisseur?

2010-08-09T21:31:00.001+08:00

If anyone has ever COD-ed with the seller of this certain blogshop, you'd agree with me that she's quite a nutty person. I wouldnt call her a psycho, she's a nice and friendly girl, but quirky and somewhat weird.

I happen to buy a lot from her and hence we had a lot of dealings via COD. To top it off, she stays just 5 minutes away from me.

One day, she asked if I could meet at her place for COD instead of the Shell station we usually meet at because her car was not around. So I thought, why not, it's just 5 minutes away.

When I got to her place, she told me to 'come in'. It was a nice gesture, but unnecessary, really. But I complied anyways because she seems nice despite her quirky ways.

I went in and she showed me around (ive no idea why) and showed me all her new clothing stocks which were not posted onto her blog yet. She asked if I would like to purchase some on the spot, I am even allowed to try on. Obviously I was glad, like wow, I have the privileges of trying and buying firsthand. I picked out a few additional pieces which I liked, and paid her. (I even got super discounts)

Then she showed me a scrapbook of hers.
A burn book to be exact (remember Mean Girls, the movie?) Except that its not pink and have photos of people in it.
It's a whole collection of blogshops' printed logos and some of their photos in it.
At first I thought it was some sort of fashion lookbook but then, I saw some nasty things scribbled below some of them. For example:

Blogshop X
[photos] [photos]
- lousy photos with bad lighting
- ugly shoe collection
- quite a few hot sellers
- shouldn't show face, not pretty at all

Those were some of the things I happened to read, but they were all about different blogshops. That book was like over 200 pages thick, more or less about Twilight's Eclipse thickness.
If you're a seller, you're definitely in there, I promise you. It was like a whole blogshop directory, printed and pasted in one book.

She just flipped through the book as she showed me, telling me that this blogshop needs to improve her services and this needs that and so on. I just made an excuse saying I was late for something and dashed.

That was weird. I mean it's okay to keep tabs on your competitors, but not like a whole burn book about each and every one of them! That's crazy!

Although I'll still shop with her, Im never ever doing COD with her at her house again, no matter what privileges I get. :s

Bicycle Belts

2010-08-09T00:36:00.000+08:00

For the last time, it is CINCHER! CINCHER CINCHER CINCHER! I get so sick and tired of blog shops labeling their cinchers as clinchers!

A simple search on google would tell you that a clincher is:

clinch·er Noun /ˈklinCHər/
1. A fact, argument, or event that settles a matter conclusively

2. A bicycle or automobile tire that has flange beads that fit into the wheel rim

Not only do you not know what you're selling, you're misleading the rest of the online community with your so-called clincher. The last time I checked, people don't wear bicycle tires around their waists.

Sometimes I really wonder who on earth started the whole clincher madness and why no one bothered to google before they post.

Oh the DRAMA!

2010-08-06T22:18:00.000+08:00

I don't know if I should post this story up but I think I should because I will not be revealing anyone and any assumptions can be made but I will not verify anything just to allow the people involved to stay anonymous here. This story was told to me by one of the blogshop owners mentioned below.

So, as some of you may know, Blogshop A and Blogshop B have quite recently (this year) joint forces to run Blogshop C. They weren't friends to begin with, but they made friends when their stall happens to be next to one another in a bazaar. They met again at a 2nd bazaar and later on decided to join forces to create Blogshop C. Mostly I think because they could benefit from one another as A had good connections with suppliers with hot-selling, hard to find items and B has popularity. Which would make Blogshop C a definite success when you have everything combined into one.

Sounds like a business-dream-come-true right?

Seeing as A has the connections, she will handle the money and shipping. As for B, she will handle the emails and CODs.
Little did B know that A's family had financial issues and have been leaning slightly on her blogshop's profits previously. And with Blogshop C now, they begin to lean more on A for financial support. A, obviously did not tell B. She would take a little from Blogshop C without B knowing and would replace it when she has the cash. Sometimes she would even 'swallow' some of the extra cash from shipping.

On B's side, she had been going out with a guy (we'll call him Z) who, coincidentally is someone whom A really likes, and goes to the same classes as her. B is from a different college and so she does not know how much A likes Z, because at the end of the day, Z likes B more than A.

Everything has been going on for about 3 months without either party knowing cos like I said, they were not exactly friends, just business friends. So it's not like they have a same group of friends whatsoever.

Until one day at Blogshop C's first ever bazaar, A & B decided to open 3 booths. One for Blogshops A, B, and C. So that's two people running three blogshop booths. Talk about madness.

So, B decided to get Z to come help them. I was also there to help out. When Z arrived, A got a shock. Even more shocked to find B going out with him. A misunderstanding followed which led to A thinking that B started Blogshop C just to get to Z through A, when in fact, B knew Z way before meeting A. Complicated stuff. I didnt know much about B cos I am A's friend, and I knew how much she liked Z. So I talked to B about it and B got mad and started accusing me for trying to help A steal Z from her. (she apparently has some issues when it comes to boyfriend stealing, cos she totally overreacted)

B started screaming at A, and they started accusing one another of this and that, some things that were not even related to blogshops. Seemed like a business deal gone sour. Thank goodness the stall was somewhere at the side of the building, away from public attention and other blogshop booths, that would've been embarassing.

During their screaming matches, A started going like in-your-face, I stole about 50% of our profits and you didnt even notice. And B got mad and started asking for her money back and giving low blows that she has done this and that with Z.

It was all very highschool. I had to drag A away and Z had to drag B away. We closed up the bazaar booths and thet was the very sad and abrupt end of Blogshop C. The closing down post on the blogshop made it sound like they were busy on hiatus when in actual fact, they have split everything and are never talking again.

I don't know whether to laugh or to cry at their situation.
Eventhough you may not know which blogshop A B or C is, at least you know that shit like that, it happens. :s

RipBook

2010-08-06T18:46:00.000+08:00

Am I the only one sick of blogshops stealing pictures from Lookbook ?

Dragging in the world

2010-08-06T17:53:00.000+08:00

I'm a buyer but you know what i find MOST UNETHICAL?

If the seller is a shitty seller who cheats you sends out your parcels late and also is unfriendly.

Complain about her! its totally fine.
Spam her cbox complaim about her to reviewers, heck write it on their cboxs and let ppl know about how much she sucks.

But cmon, cut her some slack and leave out the part about her relationships,her parents,her work?!

I mean business is business.bad service is bad service but personal lifes should be kept personal.

She may be horrible but digging out personal details about her is equally as bad or worse even.

Calling Sharp Eyes

2010-08-06T17:45:00.000+08:00

Hey girls out there , need your help, is this a neat cut purposely cut by the buyer ? or do you think this one was damaged during pos laju delivery?

Check the photo here.. Thanks lots!!!

Shit Stirrer

2010-07-31T00:17:00.000+08:00

It's so annoying when people complain about prices, but even more so when they complain just for the sake of complaining.

There was one time this facebook shop was selling original crocs accesories (jibbitz i think they're called ?) for RM3.50, got free 1 some more if buy 3..so quite cheap right ? Then this one girl commented, complained that it was expensive and that she can buy at the roadside for RM1, so the buyer said that those are fake, the ones she's selling is original.

The girl then said that it's all the same, so this other person commented and said that the original lasted longer and had better quality.

The complainer said, no, all the same. So this other girl said "Then buy la the RM1 one and you know what the complainer says ? "Takpelah". She doesn't even want that thing and yet she's complaining about it! Like what the!!

I speak Engrish

2010-07-30T16:39:00.000+08:00

Just for laughs. Seen in an online site selling designer bags in Singapore –

“Chanel lambskin vintage correction in medium(10")WGH-price reduced S$1990 firmed! “

Hmmm, 'correction'? Blur, what does she mean by 'correction'? read on, copied exact word for word -

“Hi I am selling my 100% Authentic Chanel flap lambskin vintage correction medium size with gold hardware, only comes with dust bag. Sorry i misplaced all the card and i really do not know where i keep it since i sifted to new place and due to i have too many bags that is y a bit messy but i guarantee 100% authentic. This is 1 of my own correction and…..”

Ok I get it now….Seller actually meant ‘Collection’..lol

Rusty Junk

2010-07-29T17:46:00.002+08:00

I recently purchased a AX bracelet from a preloved blog..
Too good to be true,it costs only RM35..
The seller claimed that it is brand new..
I trusted her and bought the bracelet..
Gosh..upon receiving.there are obvious scratches all over and the bracelet kinda rust and oxidised.
How can the seller claimed that is brand new?!
I msg her explaining the prob and requested for a full refund yet she was being very rude replying me that the colour is actually like that etc...And its brand new..
Come'on..do u think I'm blind/a kid to see that the bracelet is used?
The seller was also being very rude in her msg..saying that she will not refund and its up to me to fail a complain to all reviewers..
I will definitely blacklist this blogshop for the rest of my life..
This is a rotten seller..dishonesty in selling her items.
Those who wants her blogshop name..kindly email me:
babezane@gmail.com
Thx!

My top 5 peeve

2010-07-28T00:40:00.002+08:00

5 things that make me sigh in frustration.(aaaaghhhh)

1. When the cod spots are right at the top of my page and i get emsails saying "cod where?"
(right in the middle and the first thing you see on my site.i thought that it might be because they couldnt see it on the sidebar so i moved it right below the header, guess that isnt the case)

2. when they say i wanna COD in ************ when i've stated on the site ( the one below my header) that i do not do cods there.

3. when the items that are sold out are marked SOLD OUT(bold and capitalized) and they order it and even say "discount can?"

4. when i get an sms about a cod and i tell them that i am not free on that day and they ask me what my entire days schedule is like.calling and emailing me throughout the day.
(ACTUAL CONVO)

b: hi girl can we make the cod today instead of tomorrow?
s : sorry dear, im busy today. :( so i'll just meet you tomorow wil you still be free?
b : what time you free today?
s: sorry, but im not in kl at the moment wil be leaving later tonight so will still be able to see you tomorrow :)
b: ok what time you come back tonight?
s: sorry but im in seremban now and will only be back pretty late
b: ok what time?
s: maybe 1am?
b: cannot earlier?
s : no sorry but im here for a function. *exhales
b : ok see you tomorrow

- so redundant when she could meet me the next day -

5. sometimes people have different names on their emails than their real names.and they send in an 2 emails (maybe theyre too excited) ordering something with their email ad.and another order form with a different name??this one is rather confusing esp when a few people order the same items.

Oh wise ones needed #9

2010-07-27T13:11:00.002+08:00

This is more of a question really, because I can't seem to find the answers by Googling it. Heheh.

If a seller says that the items are not of pre-order nature, does it automatically mean that the items are ready stock? I thought it does, so please correct me if I am wrong because I'd really like to know so I can avoid the items which are "not pre-order but not ready stock either" in the future.

My case is that I don't usually buy the items if I know they have to be pre-ordered. So I have asked the seller first and she said "No, it is not a pre-order". So then I continued to purchase the items which was on Thursday last week. Since I thought they were ready stock, I estimated I should be receiving the items within this week. But then again, that was under the impression that the stocks were on hand.

So I did give her a message on Monday, asking whether she has posted out my items. She replied that I should be receiving them within NEXT week. When I mentioned that I thought it was quite longer than I expected, she replied that it was because the items are not ready stock. Hence my question earlier.

Can anyone help me? :D

More Woofs

2010-07-25T22:29:00.000+08:00

So if there's one thing I really can't stand, is INSENSITIVITY. I'm sorry, but I do not appreciate seeing your dogs pictured amongst your stock. I really don't. And I'm pretty sure this is not the first time, the infamous seller has done it again..

There's also a famous shop in Bangsar that lets her dog run amok in her shop going through all the maxi dresses that happens to be touching the grounds. Umm, hello? It's not nice okay sellers. Even if it were a cat, I still would not appreciate it, let alone bigger animals like dogs.

Updates #9 ~ Who are you to tell me a bout effiency? - AUTHOR

2010-07-24T01:52:00.000+08:00

I'm not going to explain any further as this is just blown way out of proportion, and honestly, is a waste of time.
The reason why i posted the story, was cos of ranting.
I wanted to share the story to others who were interested in knowing the seller and this is what happens.

Gosh.
Girls, some times, when it's got nothing to do with you, please stay out of it la.
It was a rant, and now see what happened.
So, whatever it is, im going to reply know.
This is the last mail im sending in response to this.

I'll let the pics do the talking.
I'm done explaining/clarifying/arguing.
And the ebay one.
I mailed her and waited for a long long time.
It took her a few days, and i researched and found better sources.
What would you do?
If she replied me earlier, whether or not, it went to spam mail or wtv, i wouldn't even consider buying from other ppl.
When you found somewhere cheaper, what would YOU do?
Answer that question honestly.

Also, seller wrote this.
Buyer thinks that I want to save on the FOC Registered Post which was offered to her for Nail Polish + ‘Blush’. Both items arrive on the same day and to be shipped to the same address hence to be sent out in 1 package. If that is not called efficient, then what is?

Firstly, it was suppose to reach due with my lipsticks which arrived a long time ago.
Your supplier messed up, i thought of giving you a chance.
I waited patiently and i even said i dont need a tracking number cos i trusted her enough.
Then, okay cool. waiting, waiting.
Another mail shows up, telling me that it might not have been in the latest package.
How do you expect me to feel?
The next mail, suddenly saying, it's going to arrive with the nail polish, which i ordered much later.
I've no complains bout the nail polish's delivery time, that is fine.
I'm having a problem with the blusher.
Seller, please ask yourself, when did you promise the blusher for me.
And how long have you delayed.
The reason why i ordered was cos i wanted it really badly, cos i loved it.
When you said it didn arrive the first time, and offered free registered post, i accepted cos i really loved The blush, and would wait.
Then, you tell me that it might not be in the next package again.
How do you think i would feel?
I dont feel cheated by you, dont worry.
I just felt, irritated waiting for so long.
I know you offered me refunds and stuff.
But, as i said, i wanted the blush more than the refund.
And the long and much awaited blush just kept being delayed over and over again, and it irritated me to post this here.

I'm done with this.

Updates #8 ~ Who are you to tell me a bout effiency?

2010-07-23T23:59:00.003+08:00

Editor's note : The following is all the email correspondence between the author of "Who are you to tell me about efficiency?" and the seller. These are sent in by the SELLER who stands her ground that she is being defamed by the author. It is one helluva long post. Reader : you be the judge in this ok?

Picture 1

17 June 2010
Buyer emailed me to order a few items. Refer below. My reply was sent to Buyer in less than an hour.

Picture 2

I then explain to Buyer about the ‘Spree Procedures’.
Part 1 – Spree Procedures.
Part 2 – Buyer agreeing to the procedures. Buyer requests for ‘Discounts’.

Picture 3

This clearly states that I did inform buyer on the arrival of her order.

Picture 4

Referring to the picture inserted at the following page, Buyer has yet requested for ‘discount’ whereby I gave her FOC Registered Post. Buyer agreed.

Picture 5

Buyer mentions she won’t back out. I’ve already explained to her on when it’s arriving.

Picture 6

Note the time: I emailed Buyer on the arrival of her order but 1 of the item ‘Blush’ is not in the package. I waited for her reply until about 8pm that night & she still did not reply. I sms her instead ( I do not have pictures of the sms because I will clean my sms inbox/outbox every week to avoid from inbox/outbox being full, hence not receiving more recent sms). Buyer agrees only I send this out via Pos Ekspress. Otherwise I wouldn’t have sent it out. This charges of Pos Ekspress is given FOC to the Buyer.
As you can see after my last email – there wasn’t any reply from the Buyer.

In the sms, I did mention to her that I will get my seller to send the ‘Blush’ during my next shipment and asked if Buyer was ok with it. She said OK. I order from my seller weekly/bi-weekly as mentioned earlier. Buyer expects the ‘Blush’ to arrive the following Monday (Jul 12th) from the US which is not possible. Even courier companies like DHL will take at least 5 days to arrive, what more USPS First Class Mail. I am lucky my seller lives in California and mails/packages from California is one of the main hubs in the US (the other being Florida). Hence, don’t need to stop by any other states in the US for transits, hence it takes about at least 1.5 weeks to Malaysia. If I’m lucky enough, package will arrive in 8 days time.

Picture 7

Obviously, it’s myself that has offered to refund her. She claims in the post that she ASKED for a refund.

Picture 8

Buyer then purchase nail polish from me. As per below, she did not provide a new address and did not mention that she wanted it to be sent to a different address (to her friend as she claimed in her post). I sent her an invoice & she paid for it. There is a billing address + shipping address in the invoice, hence agreeing to it since she has paid for it.
She also mention that she received the nail polish from me and did not include the makeups which she purchased – as per notes above. She has only purchased under Spree15 for nail polish, how can my nail polish arrive before the closing date?
Looking at the last reply to her on if she really did receive the nail polish from me, she didn’t even reply to say that if it was from me or another seller. I checked my past list and didn’t even find her invoices, hence obviously she didn’t purchase from me.

Picture 9

Buyer thinks that I want to save on the FOC Registered Post which was offered to her for Nail Polish + ‘Blush’. Both items arrive on the same day and to be shipped to the same address hence to be sent out in 1 package. If that is not called efficient, then what is?

Picture 10

Buyer still accused me of saving on FOC registered post saying that my supplier is inefficient. She still does not understand why I suggested to send both items together (when it’s arriving from the US at the same time and then be sent to her with the same address).

Conclusion: All has been explained and you have seen the difference of her testimonial and mine but mine comes with proof.

This is another proof of what she did in Ebay.

Ebay1

Buyer pressed BUY IT NOW and then in the end cancelled the transaction because I did not reply her but if you refer to the pictures below, all replies are recorded here.

Ebay2

I replied her – look at the date & the reply.

Ebay 3

Buyer accused me of not replying but referring to the picture above – I did reply. Most probably she did not receive or see the message.

England gone wrong

2010-07-20T23:36:00.002+08:00

Don't u find this word funny?

"I'm selling SHORT MAXI DRESS"

A blog uses this phrase. U better change it girl!

It all leads me back to you

2010-07-20T22:54:00.001+08:00

I have a blogshop doing pre-orders for shoes, and the way it works is that we require a RM100 deposit PER pair of shoes ordered..

Sometimes when customers order in large quantities, but only pay up the deposit for 1-2 pairs instead of for all, I allow it.
I know this is bad judgement and I should be more strict about this rule, but I understand that sometimes the timing of my batch is in the middle of the month where people haven't received their pay yet and so on..

but then i ended up with these 2 customers:

Customer A : 2nd time customer, ordered 5 pairs, paid RM60 deposit (instead of RM500 required), gone MIA and still owed me RM733.

Customer B : New customer, ordered 11 pairs, paid RM200 deposit (instead of RM1100), gone MIA and still owed me RM1651.

I emailed and texted them both, giving them 1 week to reply before I forfeit their deposit and sell off their shoes. I did say that we can work out an installment plan, or if they have any other ideas, to feel free to suggest them to me and maybe we can work something out.

And then I got a reply from Customer B who said "i'm no longer related to this. please contact anything to this new number 017-xxxxxxx.tq"

So I did, and forwarded the earlier text to the new number provided, and got no reply. surprise surprise.

Then i decided to do a search of Customer A on Google. And it turns out, she owns a shoe blogshop too! And she has been active on her site and her personal blog recently, which goes to show she's still around and very much capable of replying me.

So following advice from SMWDY, I emailed Customer A's blogshop's email address and acted blur saying
"hey babe, just wondering if youre the same XXX that ordered from my blog?
Cos i'm looking for a buyer of mine called XXX but I havent been able to locate her.."

And just like that, within an hour, I received a reply to my much earlier text saying
"hey there. XXX here. Sorry for the late reply. I've bank in the money RM733 just now. 5 pairs right? thank you."

ONE DOWN, ONE MORE TO GO!

So since Google has been awesome to me the first time around, I thought what the heck, lets give Google a go with Customer B too..

So I Googled the “new number” as provided by customer B.
And voila! I found an advert on mudah.my with the “new number” and an email address attached!
I facebook searched the email address and found only 1 listing for a girl’s FB profile. When I clicked on the profile, guess what I found?
She is also the owner of the exact same blogshop as Customer A!

So following more advice from SMWDY, I screen-shot every single step I took to find out all this and sent it all to Customer A, explaining what I had found and the proof I had and that I absolutely didn’t believe this was a coincidence.

And the second miracle of the day happened! Within half and hour the “new number” replied me to say she’ll bank in the money tomorrow.

That was yesterday and true enough, without any reminders/pushing on my side, she banked in the money early today. All RM1650 of it!
And she told me to send all 16 pairs to Customer A.

Just thought I’d share this so no other seller would fall for these tricks out of sympathy, and get burned like I did.

Editor's note : This post was done after much consideration from both author and myself. And thanks to Xash for her very level headed advise, I have decided the identity of the buyer will not be revealed to everyone. Here's the thing, she still runs a legitimate business and her only wrong doing here is as a BUYER and not a seller so I will not be revealing blog name.

The objective of this post is to reach out to those who may have experienced the same predicament as the author here. For those who feel that they may have been through the same experience esp involving very large amount of money and shoes, please write to me. Tell me the name of the buyer who placed the order, the email address, phone numbers and blog name. If any of the info matches then I will reveal my info to you.

I think this is fair to all parties. ~ slapmewhydontyou@gmail.com ~

Who are you to tell me about efficiency?

2010-07-20T16:57:00.000+08:00

I'm a seller myself.
I previously bought some cosmetics from this site on lowyat, and she has another shop on blogger.
She seems like a nice girl, replying mails all politely and all.
But, being polite, doesn't mean you can delay delivery and give all sorts of excuses right?
It doesn't make a difference delaying delivery, or delaying delivery with a smile.
The thing about this seller is, i ordered a bunch of stuff from her, more than a month ago.
Okay i get it, pre-orders blah blah needs time to arrive.
Okay, im cool with that.
She sent out the items to me, and i counted them.
EH, SOMETHING'S MISSING!
I mailed her about it, and she said,

"Oh. Sorry. My supplier did not send it out to me. I will send it out on monday, free registered post."

Sounds sweet of her right? Okay cool.
I'll take it, and give her a break.

Today (one week later from the monday she promised, it's tuesday actually), i mailed her with annoyance in my tone.

"I thought you said it was going to arrive on monday LAST WEEK? it's tuesday THIS WEEK. you didn't even bother to mail me about the delay as well."

Hey, no matter how polite she replies, this is a lil too much. i waited for almost 2 months for my item??

She replied, "Oh. I have too many mails to reply. I'm sorry."

I was like, ???? WTF. Can't handle it, don't sell.
The fact that you have so many buyers, GOOD FOR YOU but make sure you can handle all of them and not just the ones that are paying you.
THE ONES THAT PAID YOU AS WELL.

She then said, she will post that blusher which i was suppose to receive a long long time ago, with a nail polish my friend asked me to buy from her as well 2-3 weeks back.

HEY? THEN WHAT ABOUT THE FREE POSTAGE YOU PROMISED ME?
SO, YOU JUST TAP ON MY FRIEND'S POSTAGE NOW?
That was going too much.

I requested for a refund and she dare tell me, "I'm just being efiicient to send two things out together."

Hey babe, of all people, you want to tell me about efficiency?
If you were that efficient, you wouldn't have delayed the postage of my item for 2 months and not even informing me and the best part, telling me you're efficient.

HATS OFF TO YOU.
P/S i even wanted to be a reseller of her items.
i will slap myself for that.
Not that her stuff are THAT cheap neither. Just thought she was friendly.
That's friendly with a motive right there.

Nice trap!

2010-07-18T01:33:00.000+08:00

I was chilling out at starbux, and being at the right place at the right time, i had a damn hell entertaining free show.

I saw a seller who own quite a popular blog (and quite popular of having a bad reputation too). I know her 'cus have met her several times in bazaar as im a seller myself.

We just exchanged smiles and a wave of "hi". She was obviously doing a COD cos she had a big bag of clothes on her hand and was apparently waiting, and anxiously sms-ing and calling. Looks like as if her buyer was late. (and i was guessing that it must be a big client cos of the big bag of clothes)

After 30 mins, she finally decided to leave.

But just as she was turning away, a few girls came up.

She was just bout 6 feet away from the table i was sitting, so i could hear their conversation loud and clear.

Seller: Hey hey, i tried calling you but couldnt reach you.
Buyer: Oh yea sure i know. I was already here an hour ago. I purposely did not pick up.
Seller: *shock* What? You purposely make me wait here?
Buyer: Yea i did just that.
Seller: *still in state of shock* I dont understand.... ?
Buyer: So do you know now how it feels to be purposely ignored and stood up for COD? it's been 3 f*king weeks since I paid for my clothes and u f*king ignore me for my tracking no and my requests for a refund! I'm (Girl's name) you b*tch! Now give me back my 135bux!

That cornered expression of the seller was priceless lol!!! She angrily took out RM135 for the buyer, and stormed off.

But seriously, sometimes i cannot understand how sellers can run a blogshop with such bad repo going around, and they still dare to show face during CODs, and even bazaars.

Arent they afraid buyers will just come and throw banana skin at them?

Auto Deduct is not cool

2010-07-18T00:59:00.000+08:00

Sometimes it gets sooooooooooo annoying when buyers auto deduct their banking fees from the amount you charge them.

Example:

Buyer A bought item B from my blog. Total inclusive of postage is RM48. Since i only used maybank and she uses public bank, there is a bank fee of RM2 right? So she replied she paid with transaction number XXXXXXXXX.

Few days later upon receiving payment, i check and it was RM2 short. I asked her whether its from her or not coz i have another customer, Buyer B who's total is RM46 and uses CIMB online banking instead. And Buyer A said 'yes'

Then i told Buyer A that her total was RM48 and not RM46. And there she goes telling me, 'Oh, i am going to be charged RM2 for interbank transfer, so i do not want to pay RM50 for a dress. Give me RM2 discount la can?'

Pfft... i did give her the discount coz it is too troublesome to ask her to pay another RM2. But i never bothered dealing with her anymore after that. Slap her!

The first of its kind...

2010-07-17T21:44:00.000+08:00

Ferocious me! I've scribbled your blog link & also yr name on Louis Vuitton store in singapore. I didn't scribble it on starbucks' toilet seats, cos I thought people might pee on it. Haha! xo

Robotic argument

2010-07-16T20:08:00.002+08:00

I was away on vacation for about 2 weeks and since the destination I was headed had no Internet at all, I set my email to autoreply to let my customers know I couldn't return their messages;

When I just got back an hour ago, I was greeted with a wonderful surprise by a customer who took the liberty to argue with my auto-reply with 8 new emails!

In each mail she seemed more pissed off than ever since each of my auto-replies remain the exact same, word for word
I still haven't figured out what to say to her now...

It's auto-reply la dear, i'm not hiding from you under a rock!

Unique price list

2010-07-15T22:40:00.000+08:00

I found an online wholesale provider. The clothes are nice and cheap, so i decided to bring some in for my shop. I mailed her to inquire stuffs and so on, because everything in her site is in chinese and i can't understand. It wasn't quite a friendly reply though but i don't expect much since we're dealing for business.

I asked her about the bulk price, quantity and stuffs but in her reply all she said was minimum purchase is 50 items. I asked her about the wholesale price and she replied me with an order form. Which also have some codes for the items but beside the codes are some chinese words which i can't understand. I keep staring at the screen, hoping it will automatically translate itself in english or something.

But it didn't happen.

Politely, i asked again for the wholesale price. Maybe she don't understand what i'm trying to say because i was communicating with her in english and her replies was short. Like, she don't really know how to speak english but its okay for me, i don't mind. As long as i get what she's trying to say.

Then in the next reply, she replied me with a list of "WHORE SALE PRICE"..

Seriously..

It came with a song

2010-07-11T02:03:00.000+08:00

CODS are really awesome. Why? Lemme tell you why. It's because you can see the seller's face, which you can't really see in most blogshops and besides that, you can see their TRUE COLORS.

Here's my story,

I was at ******** to pick up my high waist skirt from this one particular blogshop, waited in front of **** shop. She told me she was wearing a floral dress with lace pantyhose, and oxford heels. Didnt see anyone with that kind of outfit except for this super duper-hyperactive-girl-jumping around-and swinging her handbag and - a plastic bag.

She saw me, jumped right in front of me and started to sing a song that im not really sure of. She gave me the plastic bag, which contains my items, and bowed and left. She didnt say thank you, but i dont really care cause i burst out laughing.

I guess she was drunk or something but who the hell gets drunk at 4 pm? in a shopping mall? LOL.

Well maybe she's the hyperactive type, who knows. She's kind anyway and her stuff are awesome. hehe. That's why CODS are waaaaaaaayyyyyy coolerrrrrrrrrrr .

Lens lens oh where for art thou LENS

2010-07-07T01:27:00.000+08:00

Bought contact lens from this blogshop a few times, and every time it goes on well till the last time.

The last time I ordered 4 pairs of lens but when I received the parcel, it only contains 3 pairs of lens. So I asked her why, she said one of them is out of stock and she will send to me in another batch. So it is okay to me even though I feel that she should have inform me in advance.

Later when I try on the lens, one pair is defected and so I tell her. She said she will replaced it. Again I am okay to hear that.

So after 2 months of waiting, no news from her. I tried to email her a few times, no reply. Then I try to leave a message in her chat box, immediately I received a reply of her asking me why am I haven't receive her lens yet. How I know? Because she didn't send or update me with tracking code?

She told me she will check on this and revert to me. 4 days passed. Still no news on her. Sent her another email, still no reply. Then try to leave message on her chat box again, and now she banned me! FML

I see that her blogshop is still operating. I mean it is not a big amount but I expect to see my lens here ASAP. Can someone help one this??

When I REALLY want something - Updates from the AUTHOR

2010-07-06T23:38:00.002+08:00

I am regretting sending this post at first. I never thought it would lead to other stuff like trash talking others on religious/state view.

I genuinely feel this post should be deleted. I have never felt this guilty before.

I mean seriously, I thought it supposed to be funny or a black humour and a guideline, instead people are like throwing brick at each other.. I do not want to carry all this sins here all by myself..

I beg to you all please stop hating, if you wanna slap buyer or seller I wouldn't mind. But seriously? Taking other issues together here, that's just absolutely not wise :(

I AM SO REGRETTING POSTING THIS UP!
I will never ever post anything here anymore. Learned my lessons.

*I guess my sarcasm in this post is somehow only bringing sins*

Editor's Note : While I have tried to talk the author out of deleting the post, it seems to have caused her much grief and thus, I have removed the post. I will however leave the comments.

I cant do 'NOW'

2010-07-05T21:51:00.000+08:00

I'd like to know what some buyers are thinking when they demand that we post their items out immediately upon receipt of payment, just because "they can't wait to receive it!"

It gets very, very frustrating, because as a seller, my life does not revolve around getting ready to post your item when you want me to (and believe me, A LOT of buyers demand this) especially when I have work to do, and yet still find the time to go to the post office every single day to post out the day's orders. So I can only post it after I finish work, but at least I do it within the same day of receipt of payment.

Please, to the buyers out there, have a little consideration for your sellers, we're doing the best we can, but due to our every day lives, find it difficult to adhere to all your wants and demands.

5¢ boo boo

2010-07-03T00:14:00.000+08:00

I was just closed a deal with a nice buyer. However, after I received money from her I only realized that I have did a very stupid mistake! >"<

The order amount is RM163.05 and I was planned to offer her RM160 in total...but I had accidentally written this in my quotation to her " (RM163 - further discount for first time buyer) " The buyer didn't say anything and still pay me promptly with nice reply to my email....

Gosh!!! I feel so "paiseh" now cause I only give 5 cent discount!!!! T___T

Imported Material

2010-07-02T22:39:00.000+08:00

It does not make it sound more impressive when you say imported yada yada.

There's this store that sells her items and in the descriptions whether viscous, lycra, thick cotton, thin cotton, jersey cotton, in the descriptions it says "imported cotton"

I had previously made an order from her. It was just thin cotton.

And where is this cotton from? Imported from China?

I find it some what misleading especially since some of the pieces are in FACT lycra.

AHCAHHH!

2010-07-02T11:04:00.000+08:00

I got an enquiry from a customer. the email goes:

Buyer: Abc Top cheapest how much?
Me: RM1
Buyer: Serious?
Me: No.
*never heard from her since*

I wanted to laugh my ass off HAAHAHAHA!!!!!

But ofcors, i googled her email before i replied the "RM1". (i'm not a rude seller).

I found her as a blacklisted buyer in the other blog (if you which blog dishes out blacklisted buyers). And what made me google her first before replying, because it's just really rude. No "Hello", no "please", no "Thank you".

If she structured her sentence with some manners, ie - "Hello, i really like Abc top, can i ask if you're able to give me a better price? Thank you very much!"

I would have really considered in giving her a discount.

That mere spare change

2010-07-02T01:06:00.002+08:00

Sometimes i do not get it.

Usually when there is a sale, people will rush to grab items at a bargained price.

But what is the use of having sales when items are only discounted RM1-RM3? =.=

Religious Querie

2010-07-01T22:18:00.001+08:00

** Post has been deleted for the time being but I will leave the comments visible to all. For the ones who want my opinion on this matter, I do have a lot to say but time is not actually on my side sadly. It is the sale month on my end and work load has been swamped. Will voice out in 2 days. **

Penny for your thoughts... anyone?

2010-06-29T21:45:00.002+08:00

Not a rant, but would like to get people's opinion on what to do.

I run sprees and take partial payments as deposit. There's 1 customer who ordered about RM1k worth of stuff, and paid the deposit of RM800 quite quickly (before it was due).

She was a great customer. Didn't rush us, didn't harass us for updates (though we do send updates to her quite frequently) and totally understood when her stuff got delayed (some stuff got damaged and we had to get replacements reshipped).

Finally her items arrived to our hands (a couple of days before the due date we set) and we emailed her about it to get the final payment before we sent her stuff out.

There's where the headaches started.

We emailed her multiple times (she used to reply within 3 days) but no reply. Then we SMSed and emailed, no reply. We got impatient by the third week and emailed and SMSed her saying that we need to know when she can pay us, or we'll forfeit her deposit.

A few days later she replied via SMS saying that she forgot about it (RM800 paid can forget ah?) and would pay us by the end of the week.

Nothing for the next two weeks.

We sent another email and SMS which were basically repeats of the previous one, but with a due date set. We also put in a note that if she can't pay us by then, she should get back to us on when she can and we'll hold her items for her until then.

Again, she replied only a few days later saying she will pay us within the following week.

So, we agreed and even gave her a few more days to pay up.

That day was today, but no sign of the money.

Now her stuff has been sitting in my room all nicely packed up for the past 1.5 months.

Should I give her another chance? Frankly I'm fed up already since I've given her >5 chances, but then again it's a lot of money to forfeit.

iPaid

2010-06-29T21:44:00.001+08:00

I was helping my sister to buy an iPhone cover on eBay cause i told her its cheap but good and i got my phone covers 2 weeks after i paid so i trusted eBay.

HOWEVER! this particular seller actually got me annoyed at the very beginning already. he replied my emails so late and i was very anxious to pay and get it fast. but it was a nice cover so i proceeded with paying thru Pay Pal anyways.

Paid, waited 3 weeks. Haven't gotten it. Emailed the seller and he said sometimes parcel gets delayed. Okay fine wait somemore. 2 weeks later, still haven't gotten it (thats 1 month and 1 week), he said he'll check on it and at the mean time, let him know if i received it. UH NO. What happened to checking on it? He didn't come back to me on that!

Just last week I emailed him again, and that was already more than 2 months, saying that I got my items coming all the way from HK thru NORMAL air mail which is free postage only 2 weeks after i paid. And I said i wanted a refund (i knew i wasn't gonna get a refund).

Until today he did not reply, and i decided to go to his page on eBay to give him his feedback he wanted a month ago. AND WHAT DO YOU KNOW! he's no longer a member on eBay. GREAAAAAAAAT! >:(

before buying, i saw "Item Location : KL"

SO YEAY i thought, i told him i wanted pos laju since i'm also from KL. he said "oh sorry the item from HK."

uh, why the false info? (clearly a con there already)

okay fine i proceeded anyways. another thing i read on the information part, "Tracking code will be provided only if customer pay".

Uh why is that? don't you get your tracking code once you send out items? Why must I pay you for it? -.-

SO NOW IT MAKES SENSE. He's from KL. The item is IN KL. If he gives out the tracking codes, people would know that he's posting out from MALAYSIA. Cause you know you can tell from tracking codes, i send out stuff so i'd know how postages tracking codes are like.

So yes. I got conned and i dont want any of you to get conned the way i did. Be smart! Don't believe the buyer if he says the item is actually not where it is stated to be. If he replies really slow, don't bother! The other eBay buyers i bought from replies fast. SERIOUSLY!

RM22 iPhone casing btw. so much for a cheaper casing.

Update : Seller is indeed AWOLed
Ebay ID : sos77
Email : jybe77@hotmail.com

Having the LAST say

2010-06-27T14:32:00.002+08:00

We sell bras in big quantity to international ebay sellers, who will in return sell them in their local market.

I recently had a buyer from Australia who turn out to be quite silly actually.

She was interested in a few models which we are offering and ask me to send her more photos of their labels and described in detailed how the brand names were cut/removed.(we sell off season branded bras so we have to cut the labels away).

I took all the photos and did what she requested and in return, she asked me if I could show her more models since she wanted to buy more.

Happily I obliged because I tot I could make a bigger sale, so I referred her directly to our website.

Then a few days later, she emailed me to ask for samples, saying that she will pay for sample fee but will not pay for postage.

I was already thinking in my head, you want 2 samples and it's only USD 4.00 but I have to pay for postage to send to Australia. So immediately I told her we don't give free samples nor we fork out the postage from our own pocket. But to be nice and professional, I added, "why don't you pay for the postage as well, and when you place an order with us, I will deduct this amount from your total invoice?"

Fair right?

She then replied and say that she only wants to buy 12 pieces out of each model. Meaning 2 x 12 = 24 pieces of bras!!!

What a joke!!!!

With this small quantity, I wonder why she is expecting such a high level of service? Furthermore, this is her first purchase, she doesn't have a rapport with us like a regular buyer yet.

I told her that our last buyer from Australia bought USD 600 and asked politely if she could keep her demands to reasonable level since she is a first time buyer and her quantity was small.

She took offends and said that she was a power seller and that I should specify that I don't do small sales. She said she was not going to buy from us anymore.

Ok, I lost a sale. So I ignore the email and move on with my life. Since she was no longer a potential buyer, I shouldn't waste time on her anymore. Her ego is not mine to stroke since she was not buying from me.

I think she must have felt insulted that I didn't give her face or didn't email to save the situation. As if she still deserve my attention, she emailed me 1 day later to tell me to NOT TO EMAIL HER ANYMORE.

Some ppl are just sour grapes.

Uber motivated

2010-06-27T14:29:00.000+08:00

I'm currently selling a chiffon dress that size at uk8-10. There is one buyer said she very like the dress and request to confirm the size from me again and she said she is looking for UK12 but this dress is only 1 size eh.

So i replied her that the only size for sale with the measurement in detail.

Few days later, this buyer said confirm to purchase the dress but i am a bit doubt, because she said she is UK12... So today i emailed her again make sure she want to purchase this dress as it is size UK8-10 only.

And i got her reply: "Yes, i am UK12, and your dress is UK8-10 only, now I am losing weight to get myself fit in this dress, so it should be FINE for me"....

Sorry not to offend as i really hope that she can fit this dress too but UK12 to UK8/10 is so big different...I dont want she complaint at me later she cant lose her weight to fit in this dress...

Obnoxious Nilai-an

2010-06-27T14:25:00.000+08:00

So yesterday, was Urbanscapes.

There was this customer who walked into my booth, and started to pick off clothes from the rack. I was so happy cos she chose bout 8 pcs.

The total amount was RM340.

Buyer: Ok i pay you half. The other half i pay you when you deliver it to my house.
Me: May i know where exactly is your house?
Buyer: Nilai
Me: Er... i'm so sorry but that's too far. Im afraid i cant deliver it to you. Why don't you bank in the remaining and i will mail the items to you (assuming that maybe she don't have enuf cash right now)
Buyer: Ok i pay u full now, you come and deliver it to my house on Wednesday, 3pm.
Me: I'm so sorry but Nilai is really too far and i dont know my way there. And plus, I've got work on weekdays. Can i mail it to you via pos laju? I'll give you a free postage. *smiles*
Buyer: Don't know the way then find your way la! i will give you address what! What work on weekdays? Isn't this shop your work and your responsibility as well?
Me: (and then i suddenly realised) - If you can pay full for the clothes, you can bring back the clothes now.
Buyer: No. I don't wanna bring it home right now. i want it to be delivered to me. on wednesday, 3pm. Gimme pen n paper i give u address now.
Me: Really sorry but i'm really not going to deliver it to your house.
Buyer: Eh! I'm paying for these clothes ok and i have the right to request for a home delivery.
Me: *Grabs all the clothes back from her hand and put back into rack*

That crazy biatch was shocked with me grabbing back the clothes, she just stood there staring at me hanging back the clothes. My neighbour vendor witnessed this, and she came over and said to the buyer:

"Eh excuse me, you are blocking the way of our potential customers la. Can please go go go!??"

Weird ppl.

Should I Should't I?

2010-06-25T17:08:00.000+08:00

Someone commented on one of my sold out item: "This is nice, you should restock this!"

Why should I? You want to buy meh? If you are interested, send an email to me to request for restock. If you are not, then why should I restock and keep stock?

Do you buyers know that we seller's money are stuck on the stock we have?

Well I sayyyyy...

2010-06-25T17:05:00.002+08:00

I was at a bazaar recently and I was nice enough to allow customers to try on the clothing before purchasing.

But I BELIEVE that I have my right to refuse anyone from trying on my clothes, even if they're a prospective customer. Based on reasons within reason of course. Don't you think so too?

There was a girl, really overweight, and who believes that she's the hottest thing on the planet.
Why do I say so?
Cos she walks like she's a model, talks in a very fake Brit-American accent and swings her fake LV bag around. (hello, it's not that hard to tell between a real LV to a fake one). Her tattooed shoulders (yes omg she was wearing a halter top with her fats bursting out everywhere) even reads 'hot stuff'. WTF, how tacky.
That was my impression of her, but I was nice and all smiles when she and her mousey friend stopped by my stall.

She picked a particular dress, which was 3 times smaller than her.
The material was stretchy but I doubt it was stretchy enough to fit her, seriously. And she held it, looked at it like it was love at first sight and asked me, "ini boleh try ke?" [Can this be tried on?]

I was like, "Boleh try, tapi.. err.. No offense la but I think this dress can accomodate sizes S-M only. The material is not that stretchy."

She spoke with her fake brit-american accent,"Oh, nonsense. I think it can fit me perfectly fine. After all, a size L is only slightly larger than an M size. I want to try."

If anyone had seen her, she's definitely a size XXL.

Me: Umm, sorry miss but I don't want to risk my dress being damaged. I really don't think it can accomodate you as it has a small cutting.

Her: Hey, how you know? I never try it on yet, how can you tell?

Me: So if by any chance IF the dress gets damaged like ripped or torn, then how?

Her: Hello, you're in the fashion business, don't you have a sort of back-up plan to cover damage costs?

Me: No, I don't. I buy and I sell, that's about it.

Her: That's wrong. Let me tell you, as a business major from the UK, you cannot start a business without any back-up. Like what if your shop burned down or something and destroys your clothes? You need the insurance to cover that.

Me: [WTF] My shop's online by the way. And if my clothes got destroyed in a fire, I'll bear the cost myself. And right now, as my own way of ensuring I don't need to make any losses, I'm not allowing you to try this dress on.

She then went on a bout how unprofessional I am and yadayada, then left with her mousey friend. How rude!
I'm no business major and I don't have much knowledge on that, but I don't think I even need that sort of insurance as a part time blogshop-owner. Am I right?

Can someone clarify this with me please? Thanks.

You dont care?

2010-06-24T00:38:00.000+08:00

I'm kind of frustrated now because there's this seller is super ridiculous. Here's the story:

I'm interested in one of her dress which is branded and brand new. She bought it in hong kong and guarantee every item in her blog is authentic.

Her price is really attractive, yes. I planned to buy 3 dresses from her and guess how much of postage fee she charge me? RM18. All 3 dresses don't add up to more than 500g also and she's sending through pos laju, why charge so expensive?? Maths seriously fail.

A rude one too. I texted her today saying i'm interested to add on orders, she replied me rudely!

me: but your blog didn't say anything about charging RM6 per item (including pins/hairbands etc) :/
her: I don't care whether you can find it or not, my policy is like that.

Such a great turn off. Slap me if you want but the charges for postage is preposterous.

Lost in Electronic Transition

2010-06-23T00:28:00.002+08:00

I'm a buyer and have been purchasing stuff online for i dont remember how long. This time i've met the worse seller i've ever dealt with.

Its a pre-order site on facebook and mostly are men stuff. Before i ordered i made sure that the date it reaches me would be before my whole family leave KL back to my hometown.

Placed my order and confirmed purchase in mid-may and seller told me that it takes at least 25 days to reach. fine, done the math, i would able to receive it before i go back. Texted her last week and seller said that item will reach on the 20th of June and items will be sent out this week. Texted seller again just now, and guess what? Apparently an SMS was sent out to all buyers from this batch of items informing that the suppliers left out all our items and had to re-post it. now item will only reach us on the 5th of July, that's if the supplier is not smart enough to miss out the items AGAIN!!

So i replied the seller's sms nicely telling that i didnt receive the SMS. To my surprise, the replies i got were ubberly rude!! "but i sent out the SMS to all my buyers on the 19th, no point lying right? thx"..."so do you want me to screenshot the page to prove to you that i have sent out the SMS"...

Excuse me, if i got that msg and received it that day, wont i reply you on that instance if i cant receive it on the 5th of july? Why would i wait until today to find out this good news that the items werent sent!!

Seriously, SMS is not a perfect tool even thought it is convenient.

So what now. Do i at least deserve a sorry for the delay and the rude replies or a compensation on the postage?

There are such people around...

2010-06-21T23:40:00.000+08:00

There's this buyer who kept asking me on sold out items. After the 7th email (all asking for different item) i ignored her.

After about a month, she strikes back. But not wanting to offend or ignore any potential customer, i politely replied her enquiries and request. And finally, she bought a dress (and i was like FINALLLYYY!!!).

and then for some unfortunate reason, after 4 days, she emailed me asking me why i had not send out the parcel.

I replied her that i already sent it the very next working day after her payment, and even emailed her to the delivery tracking number on that day! So i tracked her parcel online, and cut and paste the status of the parcel to show her. It's stated "Item arrived at processing center", and advised her to call the hotline and find out the reason of delay (as im from KL, and the parcel is already in Sarawak)

After 2 days, she mailed me again telling me that she still haven't receive the parcel.

I really wanna provide my customers good service, so i called Poslaju for her. Filed a report, and updated her. I gave her the complain repoert numbr (so that if she wants to call and know the status of the parcel, she'll just have to give them the report number), and told her and Poslaju will take 3 days to rectify the problem.

And plus, since the parcel is already in Sarawak, it would be easier that Poslaju contact the recipient straight in any case. So i provided her number and person in charged and everything.

1 day later after that, she email me again she havent got the parcel. i asked her whether did she receive my mail earlier on the update, she just reply "Oh yea... im just waiting..."

2 days later after that, she continue to bug me. i don't know what's so hard to read "POS LAJU WILL TAKE 3 WORKING DAYS TO RECTIFY PROBLEM". My dad don't own Pos Laju helllooo!!! and if she's so concern why can't she just CALL herself la!

Thank God that she received the parcel after 3 days.

And this is her mail to me:

"Hey i received the parcel! Just it's the WRONG dress! This is not what i wanted! i ordered the wrong dress! Can i send it back to you and change it please please please! I really want to change it! Oh please!"

Do you all think i should let her exchange?

Over Accommodated

2010-06-21T21:53:00.000+08:00

I run an online blogshop and I think the pricing of the clothes I sell are very reasonable.

I had this customer who was very interested in a dress I was selling. She said she was away for the week and begged me to reserve it for her till she gets back to COD. I thought whattheheck, it's just 1 week so I reserved it for her.

Texted her the next week and we agreed to COD at place A on Friday during her lunch break. I informed her that I was on my way 10 minutes before I arrived and she said 'Okay'. Called her when I got there, and she said she's having lunch at place B. It was 10minutes away, so I thought okay nevermind, I'll go meet her there as I didn't want to really make her stop eating her food and drive up to place A just to meet me.

When I reached place B, I called her up, and she said she and her colleagues changed their minds and they're all now having lunch at place C! It's someplace I wasn't very familiar with, but she insisted to give directions and that I meet her there. Fed up, I just agreed. It was at least another 10minutes before I got there.

She checked the dress, said it was really pretty BUT, she didn't have enough cash on her atm!! She suggested that I give her the dress, she'll give me a RM20 deposit there and then, and cash deposit the balance when she gets a chance to. She begged and begged because she needed to use the dress the next day(Saturday) for a themed party she was attending. She seemed nice and innocent and since she didn't ask rudely, I agreed.

Gave her the dress and my bank details. She said she'll make payment on Sunday. Waited for payment, nothing. Contacted her on Sunday night. She told me that she spilled juice on the dress(even gave me a photo to prove it) and that the dress was stained(it was) and can no longer be worn so she'll not pay the balance.

I was bloody furious, but told her politely that it wasn't my problem that SHE ruined the dress and not me. Then she started telling me the quality of the dress was bad and it was only worth the amount she already paid, RM20. HELLO?!

She AGREED to buy it earlier at it's original price, she has touched and held it before making the deposit, she has worn it, and now she's telling me it's made of bad quality when SHE was the one who ruined it? And yet she thinks I'm dumb enough to not know that she's just giving me excuses not to pay up the balance that she owes?

I was being nice agreeing to drive around because she changed COD location THREE times, I let her deposit RM20 because she REALLY needed the dress, and she's blaming me for HER mistakes? What does bad quality have anything to do with how SHE stained it anyway? PFFT.

And yes, obviously she's gone MIA and is now completely uncontactable.

So bling?

2010-06-21T18:02:00.001+08:00

I see a lot of japan/taiwan pre order/ready stock items with the description:-

Material: crystal ma

What type of fabric is crystal ma? Anyone care to enlighten me?

Like my props?

2010-06-21T18:01:00.000+08:00

So, what's the point of posing with your LV, Gucci, Dior, Burberry bags when really, they are actually not for sales?

What are you trying to proof?

Peace Call

2010-06-20T23:17:00.002+08:00

To all Sellers,
Let's all say NO to price war okay?

I'm a seller and there are some recent hot pieces which one blogshop brought them in first selling at RM45, then another one updated and selling them at RM40, then another one selling them at RM35.

Please, if you only want to earn RM5 for a piece, then might as well ask your customers to buy in bulk from your suppliers.

Price war is not good for anyone of us, because if you sell at this cheap, your customer expects you to sell at this price range even when some pieces you bring in are in margin price range of RM30-RM35. Then what are you gonna do? Sell them at margin price?

No slapping required. Just a friendly advice to sellers out there (who are doing this).

Thank you.

You hurt my eyes

2010-06-19T18:39:00.000+08:00

I'm all for good web designing and great looking sites but please la sellers, don't put the background of your blogshops a bright green colour and the font in stunning red.

No matter how pretty your clothes are, I'll still close the window to protect my eyes.

Do us all a favour and change the template, pretty please?

Little princess got angry

2010-06-19T18:30:00.000+08:00

I sell contact lenses , so last week , I had a customer. She ordered three pairs .

Then we met at Curve, she brought her 10 year old daughter (around that age lah , not sure) along . I was complimenting her daughter, saying how beautiful she would look when she grows up and wears my contacts ( i was being cheesy , cos i am always that way ;) ) and then , her daughter said , OH YEAH? WELL , WHY DONT I TRY THE CONTACTS NOW ? "

Then the mother, which is my customer said "oh darl no you're just too young. The daughter went mad and broke my contacts into two. The mother said to me, this is all your fault! If you hadn't compliment her she wouldn't try the contacts and break it! I want my refund! Now!"

I said no, you cant do that, then she started complaining so I just gave her the refund and told her that the other two pairs are still okay, so i should just pay 35.

She said fine. Whoa. I was so devastated :/ BUT NOW, IM ANGRY AND THAT WOMAN AND HER DAUGHTER . IS . BLACKLISTED . FROM . MY . CONTACTS . BLOGSHOP .

Sorry for being so rude to a such gorgeous lady, but being unfair is not my thang .

Who's having the last laugh?

2010-06-19T01:07:00.001+08:00

Me and my friend like blogshops. So one day my friend just opened her on blogshop. I was really eager to see what she sells and to be honest, it wasnt what i expected.

She wrote in her description clothes, shoes, and other merchandises are in good condition but it turns out to be really defected. I told her she can't sell those kind of stuff cause it's not right and she was all "oh b**** I know you're jealous of me cause i've opened a blogshop before you did and you wouldnt want me to successful hah?!" and I WAS LIKE WUTT IS SHE TALKING ABOUT?

I mean, I'm her bestfriend. She should know that i'm saying is for her own good. She shouldnt be rude. No wonder she hasnt received any orders these days. RUDE MUCH!

Anyways, I opened my OWN blogshop under MY name and my friend, the rude one, said, oh we should really share that blogshop and share the money! Dont you think so? I mean, my blogshop is closing, cause no one purchased anything" and i was like, uhhh you were so mad at me back then and now when your blogshop is going down you want me to help?

Oh c'mon. thats why, think before you act/speak. I said no, because since im so 'jealous' of her i should make her 'jealous' too.

Take note please

2010-06-18T16:54:00.000+08:00

Ok, maybe this is just me but it annoys me when I see sellers describing their item on discounted price as sales.

Sales here sales there, sales price this sales price that.

It's just SALE without s please.

Eg: This top is on sale. XX shop is having a sale!

Sales - quantity/amount sold, the action of selling something, business of selling products.

When referring to an event for goods at reduced price concerning just your own products, it is just sale/clearance sale.

If it is used in right term it is correct but most of the time, many of the sellers misuse this word.

Thank you.

One topi penyet coming up!

2010-06-18T16:51:00.000+08:00

This blogshop selling straw hats but dont send out in a box.

Doesn't make sense right? You're selling things, of course you want people to wear it.

If it's smashed... what's the point?

Offline Rudeness

2010-06-18T16:50:00.000+08:00

Not an online shopping story but I guess this could be an example for all shop owners to watch their motor mouths.

My sister always frequent this boutique near to our apartment. I went there twice and I really do not like the way the owner talks because she is really snobby and whatever you wear she will say nice nice nice nice and convinced my sister to buy it although she looks horrid in that dress.

One Sunday, as usual, during my weekend, I am too lazy to put on make up, contact lens and even dress up pretty coz I do that every day on weekdays. I don't know if it applies to you girls, but sometimes can get real tired of dressing up.

So I tied my hair up nicely, wore dark-rimmed spectacles, a loose top and a pair of my favourite jegging. and somehow I followed my sister to the stupid boutique. Then as my sister and I were browsing through her items, she said this really loudly : "You know, Farah*(not really my sister's name), your sister is not as fashionable as you!"

-___________-

I was this close to buying a RM89 boho skirt from her. Then I decided that I would rather give the money to a beggar on the road side who said that I am pretty instead of her.

Yes yes yes, I am vain and cannot receive criticism blah blah. But seriously, WHAT makes you think that you have a right to say that I am not fashionable when you only see me once every 6 months? I may not be a trend setter but I dress as casually and comfortable as I like. I also dress as suitable as I can. Unlike you, 3-foot midget who wore maxi dress that is obviously too long for you, fake tan and hair color that suits your stupidity.

That's why I love dealing online than frequent a boutique because you can buy whatever you like and you can look like a piece of shit in front of your monitor and nobody will discriminate you. I will never ever step into that midget's shop anymore.

Stating the wrong size

2010-06-18T02:31:00.000+08:00

I bought this stripey dress from an unknown blogshop. She told me the size was L.

I am fat, so yeah i said okay well thats good. Then when she sent me the dress at starbucks, she just took my money, said thanks and walked away. So i went home tried on the dress and it was TOOOO SMALLLL.

It couldnt even pass thru my leg. Texted her, she said oh didnt you read the policies? I said no refunds. and you should've known i said S. (WTF YOU SAID L!!)

So i said that she said L, then she didnt reply and now i cant find her blogshop cos she changed the name. ugh, FML. I spent 95 for it.

I'm on my way you fool!

2010-06-18T01:24:00.002+08:00

I had some bad experiences with this blogshop which i wanted to buy dresses from them. TWICE!

We had already agreed to meet up for COD about 3 days before the particular COD date.

Only on the very last minute before the agreed time they will only sms me telling me that the item had sold out! Which I'm already on my way to the place. =.=

You're not funny!

2010-06-17T23:47:00.000+08:00

I don't know whether I'm at fault or not but this is what happened. I saw a top selling at a pre-loved blogshop. The top as she claimed is brand new and I'm really interested so I sms her. The top is priced at RM75 and Beside the price she wrote is negotiable. So this is what happen :

me : Hi dear, I'm interested in top A, may I know is it negotiable? thanks.

seller: Hey babe. the top is negotiable. whats the price you can give?

me: Is it ok RM70 excluding postage?

seller : Sorry my dear, thats too low. i'm already making a loss

me: Oh, ok , then may I know whats your best price? :)

seller : Sorry RM75 (without postage) is the best price I can give.

HUH?! I thought you said its negotiable? Then now you tell me RM75 is the best price?!

Might as well tell me earlier then I will not need to send so many sms wat!!

Stolen property

2010-06-17T18:11:00.000+08:00

When i was at a reviewer's site, i happened to notice this blogshop at the sidebar using a picture i modelled, so i clicked to have a look.

That blogshop used ALL the pictures that i took, and she didnt even buy that from me. Ok, thats still fine with me but here's the punch- this blogshop sold her item at a much higher price than mine when SHE DIDNT EVEN PUT ANY EFFORT OR TAKE ANY PICTURES.

All she did was use MY pictures and some from another blogshop and she had the cheek to put much higher than mine -_- slap me if im wrong, but yeah..just annoyed.

The ultimate NO LIFER

2010-06-17T17:28:00.000+08:00

I've recently received emails from sellers confirming my purchase when I did not even sent an order form! normally I'll email them myself.

Worse of all, all the items ordered via order form are always a lot and expensive! and sometimes when I ask the seller, they always say either someone sent in an order form or leave a message in chatbox with MY email!

So when I explain to the sellers saying i never ordered, some is nice and understanding, some just fire back to me with

"You think this is funny ah? don't lie lah, and stop playing with the order form!"

It's really annoying, some more most of the time is the same seller, really pity her :(

So to the person whose playing with my email, stop it!

A little extreme...

2010-06-16T22:38:00.000+08:00

I chanced upon this blog having a mega sales now. The prices are really slashed low but below its blogshop banner, there's this really big announcement stating on the sales and there's a sentence that goes like this:

"Customers with fussy questions requesting measurements and additional pictures are NOT entitled for the lowest price placed. No offense. Thanks! :)"

Asking for measurements is rated as fussy? Asking for measurements and extra pictures are not allowed to be given the discounted price?

I'm offended but then again, I won't buy anything from her with this kind of condition. No way.

No offense too. Ha!

Not a charity program

2010-06-16T20:43:00.002+08:00

I'm this seller, selling preloved stuffs in a reasonable price, example a over thousand ringgit high end clothing I'm letting go at RM150, reasonable enough? ;) So I have this case, that this girl, she wants to purchase two tops from me. Now, this girl is also a seller herself but she's an unpopular one cause there are stories about her in SMWDY.

At first she agreed to COD but she wants me to go all the way to her place with no additional charges. I refused cause even the clothing price itself cannot cover the petrol charges. So I ask her to opt for postage instead but she said she's leaving to the airport soon. Then I told her I can only go down to a place near hers, she might as well meet me there cause I have a meeting scheduled there. She doesn't want to. I know you girl would think why couldn't I just drive to her place and all but her place is seriously far and out of the way plus I have to rush back home for dinner.

So she said she wanna buy one RM30 top for her friend and I said okay. She ask for postage charges for pos express and I told her its additional RM5. Guess what. She ask if I can discount the postage charges or not! Pos express rate has been increased to RM4.50 and the pos office is far from my house and I'm being reasonable right? Plus that top cost me few hundred bucks and I'm willing to sell it at RM30 is already very nice of me, now she's asking for postage discount?? My gosh, I can't discount it for her even if I want to cause I don't own Pos Malaysia =.=

** Editor's note : I know this is just another repetitive post but 2 things here. I'm curious who this buyer is since she's been ousted here. THEN, I'm a silly shopaholic. I'm ALL for "thousand ringgit high end clothing I'm letting go at RM150". I'm HORRIBLE, I know!! Mail me love!

Medic Alert

2010-06-16T18:03:00.001+08:00

I inquired about an item from a blogshop and the owner informed me that it's available. However, a few minutes later she emailed me to say that the last piece is not in a very good condition and she rather not sell to me. "However, i will let u know if anyone blacks out ok? thanks!"

LOL..I'm tempted to tell her that I'm not a nurse or a doctor.

I know it's a typo but it's really kinda funny ;p

The other girl??!

2010-06-16T13:34:00.001+08:00

My friend introduced me to this site and I love it!
I wanna share one of my bad experience here.

Earlier this year, I had to COD with a customer, but I can't make it cos I have a rehearsal class in KL and she wanna COD at KDU college, which is very far and jam. So that morning I pass the clothes to my BF cos he live in Bandar Utama, very near.

And you know what? End of the day I got my money, but I lose my BF!

I keep calling and calling him all evening and he just text me back saying 'sorry, busy now.'
Later I keep asking, he said 'im in the movies now, talk later.'
And he was in there with HER!

Later at night he came and pass me my money and he say that he found his true love! WHAT THE HELL?
And guess what, it's my buyer! And he gonna leave me for a girl he met less than one day! How is this love la?!
Dunno what kinda jampi she put on him, could it be nasi kangkang? Or a love potion? I dunno, that girl use black magic i think.

But whatever, karma will come for them.
Never am i sending any future BFs out to COD again.

~~~~~~~~

Editor's note : OMG... Are you the other girl from the post Well Hello There Boyfriend??

Updates #7 ~ Still a no show

2010-06-15T23:46:00.000+08:00

This is from the post Patience The Size of Grand Canyon

Since the time of post till now, apparently the seller is still a no show. I have even personally emailed her myself seeking for a closure. Nyahhdah!

So, here a public cry for attention (if you may call it that)

Anyone knows the owner of Twenty Bow Boutique?

Need directions to the Hall of Shame

2010-06-15T23:30:00.000+08:00

Lately there have been many so-called buyers who initially were always very interested and enthusiastic. Responded very fast and asked a lot of questions and asked for photos of the actual products and bank account details.

BUT when it comes to actual payment, they will disappear and MIA. Emails, messages and SMS were all unresponded.

We as sellers understand that there could be last-minute change of heart. All we ask for is some courtesy to say that they are not interested anymore.

Do you think that having a blacklisted master list that the sellers can update and refer to would help? Kinda of like those that the banks use.

Frustrated, frustrated...is it just happening to the unfortunate me or it common nowadays?

Natural born nonsense

2010-06-15T23:16:00.002+08:00

I own a pre-loved blogshop selling all my pre-loved stuffs and some impulse purchase items. This day, I checked my mail before I went to bed. It was about 1am. I was replying mail that time and received one new mail from this buyer who interested in one dress.

In the mail, she said she wanted to COD and contact her ASAP through mobile phone. Immediately, I SMS her since she just sent me that mail and I assumed that she's still awake. There were about 5-6 SMS discussing about the COD venue.

She wanted to COD at Shah Alam. And in previous SMS, I already told her that I only available to COD at somewhere along LDP like Sunway and etc. Between, I stated in my blog that I will charge a minimal fees for petrol which I didn't charge on her at all.

I was thinking that I wanted to clear off my closet quickly, so I told her that I can ask my BF to COD with her at certain area of Shah Alam but had to depends on time as we are both working adults. In the next SMS she replied, it made me felt really ridiculous. She requested to send the dress directly to her house. At this point, I really couldn't stand her anymore as it's was about 2am due to her slow replies. But I still replied her very politely saying my BF will just drop by there only, so no home delivery, otherwise choose for postage. She then asked about the time to COD. After my reply, she went MIA just like that even the next day I sent her another SMS to confirm the COD.

I have no idea what is she thinking. Do you think I'm such free to deliver the dress directly to your house just like the postman? Hey, don't forget you didn't pay any transport fees to me! And yea, the dress is only RM20. =.=" It's really ridiculous! I don't understand why such people exist in this world?!

How the world worked out

2010-06-15T22:00:00.000+08:00

Kudus to this girl in www.blogshop-name-that-im-not-going-to-reveal.com

Ive started as your customer
Now
Almost 2 years later
You're one of my BFFs

What a way to meet somebody eh?

If you insist, I wouldn't resist

2010-06-15T21:58:00.000+08:00

Last year, I purchased a dress from a blogshop worth RM45.
At that time, they were having a promotion - you can either receive free shipping or a free mystery gift.

I emailed the seller and said I wanted to purchase the dress. Her reply:

"Thanks for your order, your dress is RM45. Since we're having promotion now, you can either have free pos ekspres, or pay for pos ekspres and receive a mystery gift.
If you want free pos ekspres, please bank in RM41 (RM45-RM4).
If you want the mystery gift, please bank in RM49 (RM45+RM4)."

At this point I went "huhhhhh?!!!" if I wanted free pos ekspres, then shouldn't I pay for the dress, which is RM45?

I emailed the seller again asking her whether she's sure that I should pay RM41 and not RM45 if I wanted free shipping. I DOUBLE checked with her, and she still insisted it was RM41!!!

So I paid RM41, got my dress and free pos ekspres! :)
Was very happy, the seller was super nice, however, I must say sadly, her maths damn fail -_-"

Yet another Refund MIA

2010-06-13T12:52:00.001+08:00

** SELLER RESPONDED **

I had a bad experience with this blogshop. Firstly, my friend was interested with the cardis that she was selling. She asked me to help her to buy that cardi using my email.

me : Hi is it white and dark grey cardi still avail?

seller : Yes.it is.

blablablabla..

me : Hi. I already bank in RM90.

seller : Thx. dear, i'm so sorry the dark grey cardi is a bit torn. so, i dont want to sell it to you. Would u like to buy other cardi?

me : My friend says, no. She doesnt want the other cardi.

seller : Alright. I'll send out the white only ya.. and i'll refund the balance. Please gimme ur friend acc no.

me : Here's her acc no. ******

Few days later

me: Hi dear, u ady refund? My friend really need cash rite now.

seller : Yes. I ady refund RM40. Please wait for 3days working.

After one week

me : Dear, till now, my friend still didn't get her money back.

seller : I'm so sorry dear. My friend salah refund. Thank god that user account is deactive ( boleh ke macam tu ?? ). I'll give u free postage for the next purchasing ( ANYONE WANT HER FREE POSTAGE?? HAHA)

me : Its okey. Please inform me once u refund.

Few days later

seller : Hi. I ady refund. This is the transaction no. ***

1 week later. Me and my friend checked again. Still, there's no transaction into her account! OMG.

me : Dear, there's no transaction into her acc. Are u sure u ady refund??

No reply

Until now, she still didn't refund my friend's money and I had to pay back RM40 on behalf of that liar seller! geezzzz.

GIMME BACK MY MONEY OY!

Where's your manners? #2

2010-06-13T00:39:00.002+08:00

i hate it when sellers dont say THANKS when we purchase something from them. its like, common courtesy for gods sake. i bet the buyers say thanks more than the sellers themselves. whats so hard abt typing up the 6-letter-word when replying your customers? JEEEEZ!

exhibit A, i bought an item from this blogshop, known for its PRICEY goods, always a notch higher than the rest and lately it keeps updating PRE ORDER designer inspired heels. i managed to say thank you at the end of every email but the seller, even after i paid promptly for my top simply said OK GOT IT and thats that. no 'THANKS' at all, NOT EVEN ONCE in our back-and-forth emails. i know it aint a big deal for some of you, but it just bugs me so much! cos saying please and thanks are supposed to come naturally. ya know?

SLAP THAT, THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT!! :P

Oh wise ones needed #8

2010-06-11T19:01:00.000+08:00

I am seller,selling vintage clothes and im planning to expand my business by selling vintage+new clothes and upgrade my page to .com.

however, i still in dilemma because of several reasons:

1-i notice that if we go .com, there is no rss feed, means if we update our new items, it will not appear in the blogroll of other blogshop who link us.or can we do that even in .com?

2-i need opinions from buyer and seller. which one is better: shopping cart or just emailing order form? for me, shopping cart is convenience for the seller as all the details will be kept in database. but by emailing also actually we can know and be close to our buyer more, which i think is good because they will become our returning buyer if they like us.

3-which one is convenience for the buyer: scrolling down the page and click on older post for more items (which full detail appears on one post) or all items in one page but have to click on the item to see the details?

4-which one is better: items on real model or on mannequin? because as for me, im UK6 but mostly selling plus size items because of market demand. i did put the measurements and all the details.

5-i notice that we can create free sites on google (googlesites), but the url would be www.sites.google.com/xxx. has anyone use this before? can we change the url to only www.xxx.com? or anyone know any sources that offer .com for free? :)

im sorry to have so many questions but i need opinions so that we could have a great experience in shopping online. and sorry for the bad english too. hope you guys can help me here :)

thank you SMWDY for posting this and thank you to all who give suggestions too! :)

Snug disaster

2010-06-11T18:58:00.002+08:00

I had one experience with and online shop early this year. It was a dress I was dying to wear for my birthday in January, hence I ordered the dress a week before and I got it promptly after 2 or was it 3 days (I can't really recall). I even told the seller that she is my lifesaver as I haven't found the perfect dress for my party!

Excitedly, I put on the dress as soon as I got it, however, it was a bit snug. I clearly stated to the seller that I was abit busty and I normally fit into a UK10 sized clothes from Topshop. (Why do sellers state sizes on false pretenses a.k.a saying it fits from sizes UK8 to UK10 when it clearly fits a UK size 6?)

Nonetheless, I since I still fit in it anyways, I could go always go without eating the whole day just to wear it. With a smile on my face and as I happily count down the days to my birthday, I hung the dress up and stowed it in my closet – tag still intact. (Once in a while, opening up the closet to admire it :P).

And.... as the days went by...

The day finally came! You wouldn't know how excited I was!! My girlfriends planned a night out for me and I was all fired up! Dress - check! Shoes - check! Accessories - check! Bag - check! Makeup - check!

But...

All hell broke loose when I was waiting for my friends to arrive and pick me up when.... the zipper on the back of the dress gave in! OMG this CANNOT be happening to me NOWWWWW!!!

I called my friends and literally had a panic attack while I attempted to salvage the broken zipper – to no avail!!! I texted the seller about the problem and she replied that there was nothing that she could do! I asked again, nicely if she could please help me. She said that she would try to contact her supplier. In the end my besties had to talk me into wearing another dress. ( Btw, I had a great birthday night out anyways! :D )

2 days had passed, the seller did not get back to me on the status of an exchange or a refund of the dress. Hence, I texted her. I constantly had to text her to get a reply and it went on about a week. In the end, she told me that (back to square one), there was nothing that she could do.

Perhaps it is partly my fault, but then, I felt that the seller was just ignorant to the problem and like she didn’t give a damn. But then, I am still frustrated (who wouldn’t be?). For the amount I paid for the dress, it doesn’t size up to the quality of clothing she is selling.

I still return to her store to check out the clothes that she’s selling (she is currently trying to get rid of her own clothes now since she’s in Australia) cause no doubt I admit that she sells gorgeous clothes but I’ll never purchase anything from her ever again.

Clinch me!!

2010-06-11T01:46:00.002+08:00

A MESSAGE TO ALL SELLERS OUT THERE :

I (speaking on behalf of the people who feel the same)
hate it when theres a nice dress, but we cant really see the details because you place big chunky cinchers on it, and in every photo is a pic of you modelling it with the cinchers..which BY THE WAY!!! DONT COME WITH THE DRESS.

Is the dress that fugly that you have to disguise it with cinchers in every of the 5 photos you post up of said dress?

Releasing a TAD bit of frustration...

2010-06-09T22:47:00.000+08:00

All this while have been reading stories from sellers / buyers. Sorry SMWDY, if this is not the right place for a reviewer to rant. I just can't 'tahan' where some of these people is being so ignorant and rude!

So i have 2 review blogs, one for PRELOVED and one for ONLINE BLOGSHOPS (selling brand new apparels). I created 2 review sites so that it looks more tidy and is easier for me to differenciate the blogshops. I have wrote in BOLD at the T & C that the ONLINE BLOGSHOP REVIEW SITE is just for blogshops that sells brand new ready stock apparel and YET, there is sellers that's so ignorant for not reading it and sending me like 5-6 times of the linking form telling me to link her up. I even created two emails for each of the review site to make it easier for me to browse thru the linking forms. Come on people, we, reviewers are doing this for FOC. Perhaps u guys can read the T & C before sending me the linking form?

And as for the reviews, sigh.. Do understand that i'm not like 24hrs x 7 days in front of the computer, stick to my review site and immediately do a review whenever there is a site updated! I usualli review according to my time and the things which im attracted to. Please do not ORDER us to do review on how many of the items or why we don't do review on ur site... is probably i've missed it out... or there's nothing that catches my eye (sorry to say so, but to be honest, its not like there is always SOMETHING that i WILL like from the blog, isnt it?) I guess reviews is a very personal thing... if i do what you say...and simply review on all items... then it will not be MY REVIEW blog... must well make it a public platform for all of you guys to do reviews yourself...

And for those who pay for the ad service, yes i know, because u're paying us... we gotta make sure we have reviews almost everyday... and probably pay more attention to your updatez... but dear, if i have missed out ur updatez, maybe u can send me an email to notify me... instead of being so harsh telling me "HEY. I'M PAYING YOU AD FEES! Y DIDNT REVIEW MY BLOG?!" Thats a bit rude dun u thk so? Please people... yes, we reviewer probably didnt buy from u guys before but we deserve a bit of respect alright...

But there is always some sellers which is really sweet and appreciative! At least i know what i do is worth it and is BEING APPRECIATE!

What's with the guessing game?

2010-06-09T21:56:00.000+08:00

I am very ANNOYED with sellers from pre-loved blogshops who put their prices as 'Offer Me' or 'You decide the price'.

Obviously, I do not know how much you paid for it originally, and thus I do not know how much you're expecting for it.
So anyways, I saw a really nice zippered skirt (never worn before except for trying) which I have been looking for. And the price was 'Offer me'.

So based on my research in the blogoshpere, it seems that prices for a skirt like that are usually about RM38 - RM60.
Seeing that the price was not set, I did what any other buyer would do, go for the LOWEST PRICE.

I emailed the seller and offered RM38 (without postage).

She replied: Sorry dear, that's too low. Try again.

Me: Okay, what about RM40?

Seller: Hmm, still too low, it's only RM2 increase.

Me: RM45 can?

Seller: Still pretty low la dear, just look at the good quality and the nice material. How is that worth RM45?

GRRRRRRRR, RM45 STILL LOW???
I decided at this point I do no want it anymore, but Im gonna try and see what is her expected price.

Me: Okay RM50 then.

Seller: If you purchase it at RM58 I will throw in a free gift. :)

Seriously WTFF?
Pre-loved blogshop selling this skirt wayyyy higher than blogshops selling it as brand new. For all I know she could've worn it out before.
Mind you that the RM58 she offered was not inclusive of postage either, which means I get skirt + stinking free gift for RM64.

F21 has skirts nicer & cheaper than that missy!

My final reply: You know what, your price expectation is ridiculous. Just do everyone else a favor and STATE the exact price you want and stop wasting our time. If I wasn't a serious buyer, I'd offer you RM5 for that, just for fun.

Permanent HIATUS

2010-06-09T00:04:00.002+08:00

This pretty reputable Singaporean shoes customization blogshop claimed they are on hiatus. But come on! If you've promised your customers who have placed order and made payment before your announcement that you will get the orders done and sent out please do so!

I made my order and paid full amount back in June last year. She said approximately it will take about 2 months to get the customization done. But I requested for her to send them over to me in about 1 month or so seeing that I'll be moving from the said mailing address soon plus the design was ready-template design all she needs to do was to replicate it. A month past, I moved to another state but I told my mum to keep a lookout for a package from the said shoe blogshop.

2 months later, I emailed her to check on the progress(by then the blog was announced 'on hiatus'). She was suppose to return from this so called 'hiatus' or MIA by November 2009 so I waited like a fool for months and months to pass hoping that she will finally reply my tonnes of email sent to her but all I got is this f***ing on hiatus automated reply. Soon I found out from a friend of a friend whom also dealt with this certain shoe customization blogshop where she too did not receive her order. I'm not too sure when she placed her order and everything but it was definitely just a month or so after I did.

I can officially celebrate my 1 year anniversary of being cheated by this 'was famous' blogshop. Before this I still do check on her site every now and then to see if she has return but tonight, before I started on this story I googled her blogshop and not to be surprised this popped up:

'THE BLOG YOU WERE LOOKING FOR WAS NOT FOUND.'

Lesson learnt I guess. I'm mad coz it was my first online purchase and what more a purchased made in $SG. Tell me how many 'on hiatus' blogshops you can depend on to return or to have a clean ending before taking a break?

Turning the table around

2010-06-08T22:03:00.002+08:00

All this while I'm just the reader of SMWDY, never thought that I will be one of the authors right now.

I've been doing online shopping for quite some time and met a lot of nice, professional, high efficiency and responsible sellers. Who knows I just got into this irresponsible seller for the very first time.

Most of the time we heard a lot of backout buyers right? But this time, me as the buyer, am not the one. Fyi, I always make payment promptly after I confirm the purchase and never FFK any COD sessions.

The story started when this pair of pumps catched my attention and I've been looking hard for it. And finally I saw there's ready stock in this blogshop. Very quickly I texted the seller to enquire about the sizing and stuffs. I afraid it couldn't fit me, so I requested to try on before I buy as she stated in her blogshop that returning buyer can try out before buying. Although I'm her first time customer, still she allows me to try out. I was so happy at that moment.

Thus, I asked her to reserve that particular size for me until I meet her on Saturday. But she said there's another buyer who's interested in the same pair and same size too which is going to pay her on Wednesday. Oh Wednesday, so I told the seller to meet up on Tuesday (it's today, means I dealt with her yesterday night) around 5pm, exact time will let her know the next day. She replied yes.

Today, I texted her at 3pm something to confirm the exact time to meet up is 5pm later. I got no reply. May be she was too busy to reply. Fine, before I leave my workplace, I texted her again to inform her that I'm going to the meet up place. Yet, no reply again. I was a bit worried, but somehow I still went to the venue in case the seller went there too.

Disappointingly, I waited at the venue and called her up. At first I called twice and then I texted her saying I reach the place. But there were nothing from her. Nothing! I got no texts or whatever shit from her. At this point, what would you do? I just tried to call and call again, call until 6-7 times. Still, I got no news from her. The call was reachable but there was no one picking up the phone! And there was one time that the phone call was being ended if I'm not mistaken. Ish.... At last, seeing the road condition getting more congested at the peak hours, I decided to go back straight.

Until now, I got nothing from her, not even an apology or whatever. This is how you treat your customer? This is how your services given where you gone MIA when you are supposed to meet up with your customer? What you bring to your customer is only disappointment. How sad is that?! Your act just bring down the image of online business. Don't you know reliability is the crucial factor to run an online business?!

By the way, my bf said may be she already sold it to second buyer, that's why she dare not to pick up my call or reply me! Yea, the possibility is quite high since there's another buyer appears as she mentioned.

Alright, just to share my first bad experience during online shopping. Don't hope to meet such seller in future anymore. For both buyers and sellers out there, please be a responsible person all the time as to reduce this kind of things happen again.

Beyond Negotiable

2010-06-08T18:40:00.000+08:00

So what's the meaning of "price-negotiable"? Perhaps you guys already heard this before... but this happen to me for the first time after selling for almost 2 years. I owned a preloved blogshop and all this while i do allow buyers to nego the price with me as long as i think is reasonable. But still, there is this buyer, whom i think really ridiculous and wasting my time. She thought negotiable means "almost free of charge"

So this buyer like a dress from my site, which i bought it for RM 55 and selling it at RM 40. Another impulse purchase where i didnt even wear it before. Anyway, she say its a bit too expensive for her but she loves it a lot. So i told her that i can give her RM 40 inclusive of pos laju... but she say still too expensive... so i asked her at what price can fit her budget... she say RM 20!

My jaw straight drop on the floor and i can vomit a bucketful blood at that second. What the heck? I already reduce RM 15 for a piece which i didnt even wear it before... its like i open the package, take it out, look front and back, then put on top of me and look at the mirror, then put back into the plastic bag... this actions already cost me RM 15 and she asked if i can sell it at RM 20... and INCLUSIVE POS LAJU. Tell me, might as well i just give her FOC right?

But i replied her patiently telling her that the lowest price i can give her is RM 38 inclusive POS LAJU. I only get back RM 32.00 minus the postage fees. Then she asked if she can get a discount on POSTAGE! ARLOOO???? I DONT OWN THE POST OFFICE... I DONT SET THE POSTAGE FEES. HOW THE HELL I REDUCE THE POSTAGE FEES????

She says she wants the cheapest delivery way. I say registered post but she say she wont be at home to wait for the dress. At that time i feel like sharpening my butcher knife... r u kidding me? U want by post but u wont be at home to sign the package? So how i sent to u?

Den she say wat abt COD? I say i dont do COD bcos i dont have car... SHE DARE ASK ME GO TAKE LRT MEET HER AT SUNGAI WANG... ok, is not like i dun wan to do her business but if for a RM 30 item i gotta take taxi to the nearest LRT station, change to monorail just to be at SUNGAI WANG and then come back the same, i think the it just didnt worth it! So i told her, i can oni send by pos... and then the most BOILING part is when she tell me this..

"U say u didnt wear it before only. How i know if u're telling the truth!"

Wow... kacaaaang~straight to my heart. Thats it! Buying online is all abt mutual trust. If u dont trust what i have written, what's the point of buying from me the first place. I show the label, i take shots at every corner of the dress, all the specific details... and yet she dont trust me. So sorry, perhaps u can get it from another blog which U CAN TRUST! Argh!

Who is this again?

2010-06-08T11:33:00.000+08:00

I bought from this blogshop and I am so pissed off with the owners.

I initially wanted to get a bag, and opted for registered post. It was written at RM3 for 1-2 items on her site, but she told me to pay RM5 instead as it was a bag. It was a small and light bag, but fine, I paid RM5 instead of the RM3 stated. I also told her to hold on to it for me and to inform me when a dress that was being restocked arrived, as I wanted everything to be sent together.

A few weeks later, no word from her. I e-mailed her once or twice just to check, in case she forgot, and she just said she doesn't have the dress in stock yet. One day, I decided to check her blog - lo and behold, she has updated with the dress and sure enough, did not e-mail me. She doesn't really care about her business, does she? I had to e-mail her politely to remind her to add that to my order together with another item, making it 3 items altogether.

She told me to add another RM1 for registered post, making the postage charge a total of RM6. The shocker was, when I received my parcel, she actually sent it using the RM2.50 domestic parcel! She's actually making MORE THAN 100% PROFIT ON POSTAGE ALONE!

I was furious at being cheated like that. If you intend to use domestic parcel, why charge me RM6?!

I e-mailed them twice and texted them a week ago, and till now no reply (although they seem to be able to update their blogshop several times!). They're so totally avoiding this.

Yes, this cheater of a blogshop has been mentioned on SMWDY before. This is the blogshop who pins her loose clothes to make it look body-fitting when it's actually not, mentioned by reader Cynthia in one of the posts. I've checked with Cynthia and it looks like we're talking about the same seller here.

I'm choosing not to expose my email (although the blogshop would know exactly who I am, but who cares) and Cynthia has agreed that whoever who would like to know this blogshop's name/url, can email her at cynthiachengjl@gmail.com

Dumb Blonde

2010-06-03T22:51:00.000+08:00

I am seller of a not so famous blogshop, but I guess I'm selling items at reasonable prices.

This one girl add me through YM and asked me whether I can GIVE MY Supplier's' NUMBER to her. She said,

"I really loveee dresses and your dresses are quite cheap. If i can buy in bulk with u, I can get cheaper price, right? Oh Oh! WHY NOT, U GIVE ME YOUR SUPPLIERs NUMBER so i can BUY FOR MYSELF. I really need a lot of dresses. Pleaseeeeeee Pleaseeeeeeeee Pleaseeeeeeee"

WHAT THEEEEEEEEE??

Patience the size of Grand Canyon

2010-06-03T22:46:00.000+08:00

I've bought a dress and sling bag from a blogshop.
I know that she is working, and only post the item ordered by customer on saturday. But, it has been 1 months. She has received my fully payment, and promise me to post it last 4 weeks. I never had a glimpse of the items i bought. I guess this is a situation where, patience is a virtue.

Your chance has been revoked

2010-06-03T18:24:00.000+08:00

I've recently purchased from this blogshop who was made famous due to the announcement of closing down her blogshop. i've read her apology on her blog and thought, fine everyone deserves a second chance. My first experience shopping from her blogshop wasn't a pleasant one as well.

I made prompt payment for this item that i've purchased from her and up to date, it has been 11 days and i've still yet to receive my item!

Emails sent to her were not replied as well. and thankfully, based on the advise of the pos malaysia staff that i called via their hotline, she advised me to file a complaint regarding this incident.

And i got a call from pos malaysia this afternoon and guess what? she wrote my shipping address wrongly omg! and that's why i still haven't receive my item to date.

And the pos malaysia staff who called me saying attempt made to call the 'recipient' number which was her number by the way, were futile. and what got me mad as well was i've given her my contact number and why didn't she fill the recipient's number as mine. At least, i would have known there's problem with the delivery.

Last chance taken back! Change- yea right!

Oh no....

2010-05-31T23:06:00.000+08:00

Crap... i think something is wrong with the Slap Me form.

In the last 3 days, i have received 18 stories but only 6 are complete. Rest are very much truncated. Arghhhh!!!

Is it the internet in Jakarta playing with me? Let me try to figure this out. Sorry if the site has gone boring. This is not RIGHT!

Who's head?

2010-05-29T00:38:00.002+08:00

Saw this on the announcement board of some blog:

"I'm told by my supplier stocks are being shipped on the way, will arrive in the head of June, if there's no unpredicted delay. Restock orders were placed around the head of May, and it was announced on the blog that restock needs to wait for a month."

Sorry but I don't quite get what the whole paragraph meant?

I do know what "head of June" means though :p

Cuss Free Discussion anyone?

2010-05-27T17:10:00.000+08:00

Hi everyone, I need your opinion regarding this matter and, no cursing okay :)

I'm a seller who owns a blogshop. My trademark is selling low than others. Well I don't get much profit but that is not a problem to me as I'm just selling for fun.

Recently, I'm selling one of the hottest items that mostly everyone think they need to have one. As usual, I'm selling it lower than others (I believe). To be honest, I get RM14 of profit of THAT item,and that would be the highest.

However, there are some other sellers who sells it much higher and roughly got around RM20-RM37 profit each piece. Well, not that I care. I chose to sell lower and rather having stocks rolling in and out and hey! I'm the one who bear the costs..

My problem is, my supplier has been calling my thousand times and she's mad at me because I'm selling at much lower price, and that other SELLERS are complaining about it.

(Why are you guys complaining? I don't even understand why u need to complaint and, I believe threaten the supplier. If u can't sell at much lower price, than don't sell la. Nobody can control the market, or can we?)

Keep it simple:

1. Supplier ask me to sell it at higher price, at so-called market price. Who in the world set THE price of items such as clothings or shoes, right?

2. She threaten me that she will not sell it to me anymore if I didn't increase the price. Do I have the right to sell it at any price I want or is it the supplier's right to be mad at me?

Apparently, her other client (other seller) buys in larger quantity than me, so the supplier wanted to take care of their (other client/seller)customer. I think she got scared if that customer boycott her and not buying from her if she kept selling it to me.

My opinion

1. I think she doesn't mind what price I'm selling, as long as her stocks turnover is high. But i think she wanted to take good r/ship with her BIGGER client. (I've spend almost RM2k buying stocks from her. huh treat me and threaten me like that!)

2. I think I have the right to sell at any price I want. I bear all the cost, so what? Right?

My questions

I'm not asking about what can I do to make this right. I know what I can do to take good r/ship with supplier and to keep customers coming..

But my question is,
1. what do you think of these?
2. Do you think it's their right to be mad at me and ask me to increase my price?
3. Do you think I should just keep the price and ignore the supplier?
4. What do u think of the OTHER seller?

I hope to get your opinions WITHOUT cursing any side (me or supplier). There are lots of cursing in SMWDY, let's just be nice okay :)

Thank you so much for reading!

Editor's note : I will not be approving any comments with email addresses asking for the name of this blogshop. This is to educate, not for publicity.

Another bites the dust...

2010-05-26T15:04:00.002+08:00

On January, I'd bought a bulk of Headband from this Online Shop.
This girl gave wholesale price if i bought in a bulk.
So, I'm agree to bought those headband.
After, I had make payment include postage fee to her Maybank Account which total is RM 195.00

Then, the girl ask me to wait around two weeks to get those items i had bought because she will posted it from Bangkok.
Far place, cost times.
So, I had said "Okay".

But, after 2 months which is March, my order did not receive me yet.
So, I decided to ask the girl back what happened?
I also ask her for the tracking number.
She did checked but she said that those tracking number is not existed.
Then, I ask her to check with p.o(xtau pe benda...)
Then, she said that those item were at KLIA and ask me to check.

And, I believe her and keep myself waiting and waiting.
Still, after 2 months (now is May) I still did not receive it yet.
So, I had to ask her back.

Me : "Where is my parcel?"
Girl : "Owh.. I thought you already got it"
Me : "No I did not."

This thing make me mad already...
It just doesn't make sense anymore.
So, I think I wouldn't take any risk and no more waiting.
Then I decided to ask her to refund my money and just keep those parcel cause I don't want those anymore.

But, the girl told me that I have to wait(again with this waiting)...
I have to wait until she knows exactly what's happening with those parcel and also if I want my money back, still need to wait because she need to ask someone else to bank in those money for her.

OMG~~
After all this waiting, she still ask me to wait.
How long did I have to keep waiting??!!

Erhm... Thank you?

2010-05-26T00:52:00.002+08:00

Referring to the girl-who-got-cute-hamster's post.

I bought a very nice PRE-LOVED bag last week. It's really lovely and nice, bought at really bargained price and hey! I got PADS and TISSUES as free gift!

In every pocket, there's at least PADS or TISSUES. That makes it 3 tissue (new one) and 2 pads.lol

Maybe u pre-loved sellers should really check before post the item. If u want to give me free pads and tissues, do wrap it nicely so I feel the excitement of receiving it :P

Oopsie!

2010-05-25T17:25:00.000+08:00

I just want to share this for an evening laugh. I'm not complaining or blaming the seller. Somehow I found it quite funny.

I bought two clothes from this blogshop. She sell her clothes form RM40++ and now she's having a sale. I just received my parcel like 20mins ago and the clothes still have price tag from this shop at Sungei Wang and Times Square (it two or three branches at BB).

So now I know how much profit that the blogshop made cos it stated at the price tag 'RM 13.90'.
LOL, I've got Punk'd!

Why are you stalking me?

2010-05-25T14:29:00.000+08:00

I'm a normal gal running an online new+preloved blogshop.

Everything's going on good until a gal (Anonymous) started stalking me in LYN and my blogs.
Biatching around SG and blogs that i sold defected items and etc.

I mean we could settle in a good way if she provides me with her true identity and evidence that i sold her default items instead of calling me a cheater and liar. The main problem is that she admitted that she's been stalking me around which I believe I know her name in person.

I really feel annoyed by her childish, immature and uncivilized atittude.
Wonder wat kinda prob she has? I mean..can't she jus get a life?!
SLAP THAT!!

Need money for Pisang Goreng

2010-05-25T01:24:00.000+08:00

I'm a big fan of SG or The Wearables as i love to see what ppl are reselling cos i might come across something that i like , and if im lucky i would get it at a cheaper price.but what i dont get is why would some sell their items at a margin profit of practically -0% ??

EXHIBIT A:
selling this PLASTIC bangle for RM2.50. PREFERS COD.
my god for only RM2.50 you're rajin enough to go to a certain COD spot and pass the item to the buyer??
and even if the buyer opts for shipping instead, the cost of the shipping would be HIGHER than the item itself!!
sigh..with the fuel and the trouble of having to deliver it yourself for merely RM2.50 , i advise you just give it to your sister or charity for FREE, would do you one good.

and im just saying, for RM2.50 it aint gonna make your piggy bank any heavier honey..

SMACK THAT PEOPLE!!!! :P

Zebra crossing

2010-05-24T21:02:00.000+08:00

I dont know about you guys, but i HATE when the seller decides to update her/his blog in black and white!

I mean, come on, whats the point of editing your freakin' photos when later your buyer have to ask for more pictures (in colour)?

Black and white is okay, but not for e-blog. I want to see the actual colour of your dress please?
If you want/like to edit your photos, do it on your Facebook account. Okay? :)