Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Gmarket Box arrived!!! So happy
Anyway I just opened one box and I love the straps and so shoik to see all my polaroid stuffs inside. Battery, tiny albums, stickers, straps etc! The strap colors are exactly as on the site! Phew! I am worried if I'm given light pink strap but yea, its a bright pink strap. So Happy! Yipee!
Ok enough of eat snake @ office, I shall get back to work and open the rest of the items later after 7pm when boss goes home. muahahhahahaa
Lalalallaalaa *cant stop smiling*
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Parcel that will be arriving soon...
Travel Planner 4500Won
Stickers Rome and Japan (I'm going to Europe! :P Good to paste the stickers on my Travel Planner)
Plastic and stickers for Luggage usage 9800Won++!!! (Very expensive but no choice)
Koreans celebrating Thanksgiving Day! Expect Shipping Delays!
Anyway if u have open yr eyes wide enough LOL, u will realise that some sellers will put dates x.09.09 to x.10.09 .... something like this. This means that orders received after x.09.09 will be send out on x.10.09 or these period of time, they are not shipping anything.
So ok, u know now that sellers are most probably going to be 'not that prompt' during this period of time (seem to be anytime now to 05.10.09) so pls be patience and dont kar jiao (means disturb) customer service asking Where ARE my items?!?!
Even PO should be enjoying their holidays since its a PH. Our local PO also never work during holidays. So dont expect Koreans to be working on PH too
Monday, September 21, 2009
Payment Mode with Gmarket, Combined Shipping Information
My Suggestion is
READ the Information on "Customer Service" @ Gmarket. Help yourself first by doing the reading. Compared to other buyers who have problem with English, I think we have no excuse not to read the FAQ.
Sometimes I see those lazy people going around posting elsewhere that 'its tough' to order from Gmarket. The problem is, they dont like to do their homework. They like people to spoonfeed them from the basic onwards! If they dont want to help themselves, dont expect others to help them.
I am not going to cover Credit card issues. Its clearly stated under the Customer Service section. No Spoonfeeding.
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G Account aka Cash Balance
There's this Qn going on my mind abt Cash Balance... how do I get my $ out of Cash Balance.
Cash Balance is there when I have excess shipping charges (charged but refunded) to the account.
We can use the $ in the Cash Balance for paying for our orders. However, you have to take note that it works only when....
1- Order amount Including Local and Overeas shipping charges is *less* than Cash Balance.
**You cannot pay with Cash Balances & Credit Card or Paypal
So in this case, all you can do is
1-Buy Gift Vr for yrself and deposit into Cash Balance (G account) <== Update : It seem to me that this can only be purchased by locals. I cannot buy 1 for myself. The Paypal, Credit card option is not available. Only Cash Balance. So the only way is to ask friend to buy and send u VR etc. from their Cash Balance
OR
2-Slowly accumulate yr $$$ to a big amt and then place an order
3-Find sellers that give a realistic weight of the items. ie I have purchased stickers from seller stating that 1 sticker pack (6pieces) = 1kg.... 1kg a bit impossible right
However this is good if u want to quickly accumulate yr Cash Balance
4-Split yr Order. For my case, I will split into 2 orders like what I have done earlier. ie, Placed one order using 106000Won for 1st Order in Cash Balance, place another order using Credit card. Then combine this 2 orders.
Besides this, I think we have no way to refund the $ out from Gaccount unless we have Bank Account in Korea. If this is wrong, pls let me know.
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Gift Certificate....
I have deposited my 50,000Won Gift Certificate to my Cash Balance & the amt of 50,000Won has been deposited after the transaction. No delays etc.
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Payment with G Account (Cash Balance)
For the 1st Order, I pay with my Gaccount (Cash Balance) $$$ > 100000Won. I select "G Account Cash Balance"Payment Bank is Gaccount (Cash Balance)
The next msg said "Please pay the follow amount within 5days" >100000Won
I just clicked "Confirm"
Next, I go to see my Cash Balance and I see that the amount has been deducted directly from my Cash Balance
Then I placed another Order #2 with my Credit Card. In this case, select Foreign Card: CreditCard issued outside of Korea and select MASTER or VISA and click Pay
ps I am using CC instead of Paypal. I have Paypal account but I prefer to just stick to CC.
Note that its stated that : Payment will be made by USD.
There's USD amt and Korean Won amount. Do your maths and you will be able to find out how much $ you actually paid. For my case, I realised that if they charged by Korean Won, I will pay lesser than paying with USD. Right now Korean Won is going strong to USD but still rather weak to my home currency. THis simply sucks. A different of abt Local currency SGD$7
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Combine Shipping
Go to Shopping List... click "Overseas Order" and you will see this...
Ensure that
1-You have items thats under the status of On Request, Partial in Delivery, On Delivery. As long as *not* all the items are "Delivered", you will be able to combine them successfully.
However pls note that you shouldnt combine order when all yr order are "Delivered" or some under the status of "On Delivery" for a few days and might reach the HQ anytime.
Give some allowance in case the update are not done promptly and you end up with 2 boxes of shipment.
In my case, I have 2 Order No#1 and #2. Noticed that there's a box under the "Shipment". Click the corresponding boxes
Scroll down and Click "Request Combined Shipment"
Then you get this information..........
You should know what to click.
And this is the msg u should see....
I have noticed that in my case, for eg, Shipment no 123 and Shipment 125 has been combined for Order no#1 and #2 respectively. The combined shipping no. will be Shipment no 123.
If you do yr homework, you will read that we can only combine 2 shipments together. but that leave me wondering if I can place another order#3 and combine with my *new* Shipment no 123 (already combined with Order no#1 and #2).
So I went to kar jiao the Customer service.. and i get some replies that I dont understand. Nonetheless, I decided to check around and realised that, I SHOULDNT have even bother them! Wapiang............. booohoooo
Why?
Under the Shopping List, combine shipping,
I realised that *ALL* of those that I have combined order before (i combined a lot of orders prior to this too), do not have any boxes next to the Shipment no#!!!
So there is NO WAY you can add another order#3 and combine with the 1st Combined Order.
So now, I have no choice but to place my 3rd Order under new SHipment no. after this current amout shopping charges are transferred back to my account.
Why do I missed that then..... well I am in a hurry to place my 2nd order as my 1st order sellers ship the items VERY FAST out! One of them reached the next day! So i must quickly submit to 'catch' them on the same shipment back.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
US Order
Total Parcels (Summary)
Amazon - 8 items in ?? Parcels (4 items shipped in 2 parcels)
Cameta Camera - 1 item in 1 Parcel
Leatherstuffs - 4 items + 1 set item in 1 parcel
Cedarshoetree - 4 items in 1 Parcel
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Delivery estimate: September 16, 2009
Amazon - 1 Parcel (1 Item only) *arrived 15 Sept 09 -2.00 Lb
- Panasonic Lumix DMC-ZS3 10MP Digital Camera with 12x Wide Angle MEGA Optical Image Stabilized Zoom and 3 inch LCD (Red)"
Delivery estimate: September 16, 2009 *shipped
Amazon - 1 Parcel (2 Items only)
- 1 "Joby GP3 Gorillapod SLR-Zoom Flexible Tripod for Digital SLR Cameras"Electronics; $30.73
- and 1 "Transcend 16 GB SDHC Class 6 Flash Memory Card TS16GSDHC6E [Amazon Frustration-Free Packaging]"
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Delivery estimate: September 16, 2009
Amazon - 1 Parcel (2 Items only) 1.0 lbs/0.5 kg
- "Dance off the Inches: Dance It off Ballroom"Kristina Milova; DVD; $7.99
and "Joby GP1-EREN Gorillapod Flexible Tripod (Red)"Electronics; $19.36
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Delivery estimate: September 16, 2009 Shipped 1.00 Lb
Joby GP1-11EN Quick Release Replacement Clip for Joby GP1 Gorillapod"Electronics
Delivery estimate: September 21, 2009
Amazon 1 Parcel (1 Item only)
"Transcend 8 GB Class 6 microSDHC Flash Memory Card TS8GUSDHC6"Electronics; $21.33
Delivery estimate: September 29, 2009 - October 1, 2009
Amazon 1 Parcel (1 Item only)
- "Exhale: Core Fusion Body Sculpt"Fred DeVito; DVD; $8.49
Cameta Camera
Cameta Camera (1 item only)
Delivery estimate: September 17, 2009 - September 22, 2009
Shipping estimate for these items: September 14, 2009 - September 15, 2009
1 "Joby BH1 Ball Head with Bubble Level for Joby GP3 Zoom Gorillapods"Electronics; Sold by: Cameta Camera
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1 Parcel (CedarShoes)
QTY 4 Meltonian All Purpose Cleaner
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1 Parcel (Leatherstuff)
QTY 1 @ $12.95 Apple Leather Care
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Gmarket Latest Purchase
The 2 XL tops and stationery. One of the top is too large for me.
The smaller weekly planner is colored while the 2 bigger notebooks are just grey scale papers. The inside are the same - cats print. Luckily, the items are send with the correct quantity. After the earrings nightmare, I am kind of sketical abt ordering same item with more than 1 Qty.