A battle for top spot with e-commerce giants-ebay and Amazon? Though an unimaginable thing for millions, the Chinese know the answer. They are all set to cut down the hits in the ebay China website. Taobao is more than what you call popular here. It has been the hardships for long years that have bared fruit this season.

The Chinese counterpart has been on the sprint with offers, free shipping, timely deals and bargains and grand coupons. This has surely grabbed some of the faithful from the Western e-commerce sites to the country’s own ones. The advertisement spending is at an all time high (With Olympics and Motor races as premium ones) and this has led the citizens understand the facts.

Taobao is on the way to diversify its projects and get to catch the late birds in e-shopping and early birds in other fields from among the fastest growing internet population in the world. The English site Alibaba has already caught the eyes of Asia and offers free samples for a vast majority of products. Expect for the unexpected.

Paypal which has always dealt securely with your money is now inviting you to go on a shopping spree. Buy as much as you can at the crazy hours designated by the webpal and win discounts, deals and grand prizes.

There are prizes worth US$75,000 to be won with the grand prize a whopping $25000. The designated crazy hours are seen in the stickynotes shown here. Paypal has invited all its sellers to abandon shipping charges for this period and there are many chances to believe that most of them will follow sort. Wonderful discounts are available on branded sales as well as well known e-commerce websites.

Create your own wishlist and publish it. Invite friends to make their own. You can earn up to $100 when you share it with your friends and family. Hope there are much more in wait for the shopaholics this season.

You would never believe you can buy the best of the smells online. But how you will be sure which one is for you and which is genuine? If you are weary enough to go out and buy a perfume for you, here is a website which would help you choosing the best.

I came across NSTPerfumes recently and it offers one of the most comprehensive and reliable reviews and news about the fragrance industry. Reading the lines over your monitor would lead you to the smell and you would definitely know which one is your choice. You would surely love reading through this blog and the news about perfumes, latest and old.

Check out nstperfume.com

Who said ebay did not care about collectibles? Whoever told, it was partially right. But now they have decided to amend themselves. A 2 week long listing promotion on collectibles is just the beginning. Auctionbytes report that certain innovations are on the way.

Forum discussions with ebay to improve content, regular promotion sales and incentives, integrating external pricing catalogs, verifying authenticity, report item to report violations etc. are being planned to be implemented.

Community generated catalogs would be a new feature. Ebay tries to grab a part from its competitors like Wigix. But the results all remain based on the receptiveness from the part of customers who had been chased away by the ebay themselves.

Get 10% off Christmas Gifts from Lloydspharmacy with the voucher code below. Offer ends 20th December 2009. Here’s a great sticking filler for men:

Lynx Mini Traveller Washbag £5.50

A selection of invigorating Lynx products in the masculine Africa, Instinct and Fever fragrances, all in a cool black mesh-fronted washbag. Get the legendary Lynx effect.

Includes:
• Africa deodorant bodyspray 35ml
• Instinct anti-perspirant 35ml
• Instinct shower gel 50ml
• Fever shower gel 50ml

Simply enter the code: “CD22″ at the checkout to claim your discount.

Terms and Conditions: this voucher code is only valid on products in the Christmas Gifts section, offer cannot be used in conjunction with any other voucher code or promotional offer. Offer is subject to availability.

You may find millions of ecommerce sites marketing Apple products, but nothing would match the charm and credibility of Apple online stores. I just had a look into the features of the store and it was overwhelming. There are more reasons than the look. Shop here for the fantabulous holiday offers directly from Apple. Check the list below.

1. Free shipping: On orders over $50 you get the shipping costs off. And believe, the shipping is more credible and faster than any other e-commerce sites.
2. Free engraving: You can gift a personalised ipod to your dearest by engraving their favorite quotes or your gifting phrase over the phone or pod. Have your name inscribed over your ipod of iphone. But never expect an engraving and product as shown in the pic.
   
3. Holiday Gift Guide: This is a perfect list of items you would love or intend to buy this holiday season. With incredible offers supplementing these.
4. Education discount: Avail your discount if you are a student or teacher and is checking out on an iMac or some Mac softwares.
5. iPhoto: A professionally printed photo album, calendar or card with the photos you choose. Get from Apple istore.
6. Stainless Steel ipod Shuffle: This is an exclusive special edition item which you could not get anywhere else (according to them).
7. Financing: Ever thought of a multi-billion company financing your shopping. At least for a year they would finance your bills.

There are quite a few more reasons why you should browse this site. Though there are wide options to shop Apple products, do check this site. I felt it incredible and hope this would be useful to you too. Feel free to comment and retweet the article.

Lenkart is an online shop which offers you some of the finest artworks to decorate your rooms. It is the property of Pillow Photo, a textile design company. Here you can get the custom, hand-made pillows, table runners, beddings, window treatments and lots more. The prices are rather on the medium range and service is great. Also do check the limited edition pillow designs to bring contemporary design to your room.

Akamai and Jupiter Research had conducted a study on the online shopping retailers’ customer satisfaction. Some of the facts revealed based on the feedback of 1058 online customers include

An online shopper waits a maximum of 4 seconds for the site to load. If it does not arrive over their screen, the close button would soon be pressed.

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• 30% of the dissatisfied customers tell their friends and family about their experience and ask them not to use it again.
• 3 causes for dissatisfaction among online consumers include high price, shipping costs, site loading time in that order.
• 50% of mature (>2 years experience) spend more than $1500 a year for online shopping.
• The research could be a eyewash by the company which sells over site maintenance, but I would rather believe these are true.

As for me, grocery shopping is better to be offline as I have previously commented. But a local shop which could be contacted online and provide you fresh products is something you had always wished for. And it has become a fact with the Agbase online farm community shopping site.

This e-commerce site is especially known for its wide range of wines which many in thousands have savoured now. And the better thing is that there is a search facility and nearest location finder which would help you choose the fresher and local foodstuffs.

It offers a variety of products like Gift beverages, meat, seafood, organic vegetables, flowers, poultry foods, dairy products and lots more. And it is said that you could even get ostrich or rattle snake meat here.

Comparative shopping is the major advantage of shopping online. It is lot more easier than other e-commerce sites and you would find it easier when some stuffs are missing while you plan to make a surprise dinner for your family. You can actually save a lot off your fuel bills and avoid the congested traffic and long queues.

There was a time when one would have longed for sexy lingerie to knock the socks off one’s partner and never had the opportunity to do so. There was a time when one would go to a secluded lingerie shop in corner of the town so that no one notices. There was a time one would be satisfied with whatever colour the shopkeeper offers, because that was the only one in your size there.

With the advent of online shopping all this is over. You are in your privacy to select the best one, the best colour and size that matches you. You just have to select whether it is a lacy g string or leather or latex. And you get that in a secluded cover without even the delivery man looking you from toe to top. It has become as easy as buying a book at the amazon.

There would be nothing more proud for you than knowing each time that you are wearing that sexy bra underneath or when undressing that you are revealing to your partner your most treasured parts.
Lingerie shopping is available in almost all major online shops. A particularly useful one would berightlingerie.

Every shopper can become a shopaholic and get into indiscriminate buying and the psychology behind this is best known to none other but the sellers. Ads and offers are all methods to prick the Achilles’ feet or the weak point of a customer and almost 70% would fall into them. Here are some of the better known secrets which would entice the consumer in buying products not actually necessary.

1. Adwise: Ads which advise you or which seems similar to your life would always make you seek for the product even if you don’t need any. Height increasing machines, Penis elongation tools all prick this weak point and ask questions humiliating your self. And one would always think these in real propositions going for the product without even checking their efficacy. But the fact is that you would never face these situations and you would never gain any length from them. Advising ads also has a great impact on your unconscious mind making you crave for something you worship in your hero.

2. Special Offers: Offers are an age old custom to entice the consumer. The word FREE is often framed in our mind that even needless items will you buy if something FREE is given making you think ‘anyway it’s profitable’. Some of the sellers add a free item which you would never expect to get otherwise. The fact is that the value of the actual product is raised much higher, but you would never notice it. This is the basic principle of the retailing sector.

3. 5 in 1 vs 1 in 1: If a watch offers you time, mp3, camera blablabla… you will most probably go in for it even though your actual aim was watching your time. Before any of these could function well your product would go into dusts or warranty and replacement centres. A better idea about choosing in such conditions is provided in Selection of camera or camera phone.

4. Growling Stomach: An empty stomach would always lead you into traps. If happened to see a grocery section, you will definitely go in for more and more products which if you recheck once you have had your breakfast would seem absurd. Whether online or offline, an empty stomach is a devil’s work’SHOP’.

5. Girls: The basic technique of putting hardly dressed beauties in advertisement of any products whether it is a car, apparel, deo, condom, pen is simple- a Pied Piper Phenomenon. According to psychology experts the wet, shining, blush lips of the girl would actually remind you of a girl’s vulva in your what’s called subconscious or unconscious mind. And the admakers have learnt psychology better than anyone else. Their hands would move in a gentle way and feet and eyes point towards you. Hairy or muscled men would do the same to the fairer sex. So get yourself under control and remind these when some girl/boy look through your eyes.

Having gone this far, I know anyone would fall for these and it would happen time and again. Shopaholics needing some reason or the other for buying stuffs are the major aims. Others would go in for feedbacks and reviews which are seldom true. Dealing with them would need a altogether different blogpost and would soon be on your explorers.

Online shopping is on the rise in India with Delhi, Mumbai on the forefront. But the IT capital Bangalore has shown a meagre rise of 6% in online shopping. But a new venture on show from Bangalore is Storrz.

Storrz is a new online shop in India offering everything from groceries to electronics. One may wonder how an Indian can buy perishables like vegetables and fruits online without confirming the quality. Storrz offers products from a wide variety of stores most of which have retail offline outlets too. The site also features a wishlist and online community for discussing and exhibiting your needs and ideas.

Groceries are only delivered to the Bangalore area. And if these items are not good while you recieve your order, you can have your items replaced. There is no instant delivery facility, but they will despatch your items on the next working day. Moreover there is a minimum checkout limit for your delivery to take place. You will get credits for shopping which are equivalent to the money in rupee for which you can have further shopping.

The laptop business is ever booming. If you want to buy a laptop at low price without compromising on quality, I would surely recommend Dell. Dell hosts in online shop at www.dell.com where from you can select an all new branded laptop.

Select your model: You can very well choose your laptop which may be included in any of these categories- Home & Home Office, Small & Medium Business, Government & Large Business.

Custom built: The most important feature is that you can create a custom made specification for your laptop and check the prices

Compare: This feature allows you to compare all laptops of a series and select your unique model.

Order status: With this facility you can track down your order and assess the status.

Ideastorm: This is the place where you can contribute to improve Dell and I think they are constantly working on it.

It has a pretty good returns policy too, with payment of cost exempting shipping charges. The more detailed information on complete purchase scheme is available at this link. There are also desktops, projector and monitors for you to shop over.

But when I had been searching for a photo of the laptop to be included in this blog I found many a disheartening scenes. There are many pictures of the laptop exploding or catching fire spontaneously. I haven't personally come across any such situations and so the security is in your hands.

Walmart has announced reduction in prices of products progressively, so that shoppers can get the lowest by the Christmas season. Well, according to a recent report from Economizer, you can get the answer to be Yes or No.


Yes, when it comes to the fact that it may be the lowest of the Walmart prices as it has conceded the fact that low prices are what attracts customers to Walmart. You can surely expect some fantastic bargains and deals this holiday season.


But why does Walmart has to publicise it soon enough and give details to all media parties? It is just the marketing trick. It is a fact that other retailers like McMillan, Doolittle etc can beat Walmart prices or at least match them. They actually try to make everything at least $1 cheaper than Walmart.


So the moral behind the story is that someone is just screaming from the roof tops.

Australian online shoppers are pretty aware of and appreciative of emart, their sole online shopping site. A subsidiary of Apex Pacific, it stands tall when it comes to Google search results for various products.

Any merchant to sell products can easily open shops here. It is still easy for the buyers to get the quality products they opt for. It is similar in all ways to the other online shopping giants. But the products would mainly cater Australia and nearby areas though worldwide shipping of individual products are available based on the seller’s discretion. Check it out at emart.com.au

Just 26% of products in the online sales list are available for open customer reviewing. But the fact is that the major portion of sales is from this category. Many including myself have either fell in for false positive reviews and at times discarded a product reading the warnings and negative reviews of some disgruntled people. I have found a few ways to overcome this mistake. Perhaps you could add more to this list.

1. Check for mixed reviews: Check whether your online shops have all mixed reviews, including both 5-star and 1-star ratings. But most of the forums get polarised and there would be only reviews standing at the two extremes which are better considered wrong.
2. Read the review: (I wont say carefully) but the grammar and spelling mistakes as well as local slangs may give you a clue of whether its a real person who had been over it. But, the marketeers can be too clever and easily mimic such a review.
3. Never trust a 5-star (also a 1-star): It may be the manufacturers and marketeers of the business who may be behind the hi5 ratings. On the other hand disgruntled employees and competitors may be the miserly ones. But its generally found that people go in for 4-star ratings than a perfect 5 (another market trick, beware!)
4. Negative reviews: They are not the ones which make you turn away from your products. They should be take as the precautions you should take when you buy the thing. Though negative reviews help assess the product better, always take time to read the positive ones too.
5. Average ratings: If the ratings stand in the middle chunk, make sure that its not the result of a large number of reviews. As the number of reviews increase the ratings usually tend to the medial line.

And always keep in mind that those marketing executives know all these beforehand. You may be forced to believe them or over the other way. So keep adding your suggestions.

For those of you who eagerly wait for their ordered products day-night, a great option offered by Amazon is on your way. Selected cities would enjoy delivery of the products on the same day itself.
“Amazon customers placing deliveries within the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Washington, Baltimore, Las Vegas, and Seattle, as well as "some surrounding areas," will now be able to receive shipments on the same day they place an order. The service will be coming to Chicago, Indianapolis, and Phoenix "in the coming months."

This local express delivery system is offered for some limited products (but a huge number) and comes with varied pricing. Those of you, who already pay $79 for the two-day delivery system, now just have to pay $6 for this special offer per item. For others it would be less economical with the pricing ranging through $15/product.

The customers would have to order the product within the cut-off time prescribed for the city which could be 10AM in New York whilst is 1PM in Seattle.