Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Gmarket Box arrived!!! So happy

Waaahhhaa my Gmarket box has just arrived! Nowadays take another 1 day to clear custom. Zzzz last time when its landed in SG in early AM, i will get it in late noon or before 5pm. Now, I received it on 12pm on the next day

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...

I'm going on a trip! Thus I have bought most of these for my new cameras (instax and also the Panasonic Lumix)...... Actually I dont want to buy the Lumix because I can borrow from my bro.... but one fellow (who believe that I have a $$$ printer at home) insist in having a 'wide zoom' camera AND I must pay for it. Zzzzz


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)


This particular seller has free shipping above 25000Won or something. So instead of paying another 2500Won for shipping, I might as well top up a few more Won (think 1500Won) and save on shipping + get one item. So i choose this DIY Rubber Stamps

Travel Stickers Theme (comes in pax of 6)



These are camera!!! Film camera! When everyone elsewhere are going 'film-less', we have the koreans coming up with films camera! They make the design real cute! But well, I'm not buying this. Just to show what kind of things we can get at Gmarket.


Guess which bag I have purchased for my Panasonic Lumix? I have another 2 more for my instax (not in pics)!


Optional purchases under Instax camera accessories.

I bought these straps. Hope seller didnt get the colors wrong. After the conversion from Korean Won to USD and then to my home currency, there isnt much savings at all when it comes to Instax accessories. However, the problem is that, I can hardly find those pretty bags or pouches in SG. Maybe I havent been shopping for a long time that I dont know where to get these stuffs. I went to Funan but they dont have those pretty Instax camera pouch and straps.

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The plane already landed on my country. However, it hasnt yet go through the custom even though the plane arrived at 4plus in the morning!!! Argk

Anyway, these are some of the items i'm expecting soon...... not much stuffs but they costed me abt SGD400 or so. OMG. and I just placed another order.... Online ordering is addictive. And unlike others that join sprees etc, I just buy these stuffs for myself. So that means, SGD400+ of items are for myself!!! Thats why I bought one Cash Book to start writing down my expenses.... hehehhee

My latest order, 2 sellers already shipped out the items whereas the other 2 must be celebrating their Thanksgiving Day. As Korea is so much bigger than our tiny red dot, they have to travel to and fro the rural and urban area for the Thanksgiving Day. Heavy Traffic etc. So yea, i'm not in a hurry to get those goods. Just let them enjoy their holidays.
Anyway hope I can win 100,000Won for my entries. hehehe I spend so much on Gmarket so need to 'earn' some extra vouchers back. But well, means I have to keep on spending!!! *hide*

Koreans celebrating Thanksgiving Day! Expect Shipping Delays!

Thanks Giving is a Public Holiday in Korea. After some goggle search, seem to me that a day before and after Thanksgiving day are also public holidays. I only know its a 3days Public Holidays.

Its similar to our Mooncake Festival hehehe whereby its on 15th of August of Lunar Month!

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.

I think Thanksgiving is a big event in Korea, just like Lunar New Year. Thanksgiving Day is where they pay respect to ancestors and have that kind of bond with family members too. So yea, its good if u have things to buy and to combine after yr first order and no good if u are in a rush to get yr items.
I just ordered something but i think not fast enough to 'catch' the last batch of domestic delivery before the sellers go to celebrate their Thanksgiving Day. I am not sure if we can wish someone Happy Thanks Giving day but hmmm , hope they enjoy their holidays and bonding with family.

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
........ OK, I'm going to buy durian mooncakes to celebrate mooncakes festival too hooohoooo

Monday, September 21, 2009

Payment Mode with Gmarket, Combined Shipping Information

There's always a lot of issues going on when I joined Gmarket... I tried to find the information by myself first before seeking help from others.

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)"
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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)



Apple Rain and Stain RepellentPrice: QTY 3 @ $8.95 =$26.85










Apple Leather Care KitPrice: $12.95
QTY 1 @ $12.95 Apple Leather Care







8 Oz. BottlePrice: QTY: 1 @ $8.95

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Gmarket Latest Purchase

Finally received the parcel....... takes a day longer than I have estimated it to be. Dont know why take so long to clear the custom.

First time ordering tops and both are XL in case I cannot wear ... but end up one of the XL is way too big for me. aiyea sianz

The pink plastic contains 2 bags. ....

This is the synethic leather bag. Not bad.
There's another black patent bag which looks nicer than in pics. However, it has the strong chemical smell in the lining area. There's few portions with bling glitters on the material.


I like this belt but one friend said its weird and another said its nice and unique. :) Gold trims and bling bling with faux ivory pearls.


The 2 XL tops and stationery. One of the top is too large for me.


The stationery link I get from chocospray hahahhaa

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.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Fuji Instax 55 Cheki

Wohooo I have just received this today! This is a Japanese model Instax 55 Cheki. This is different from the 55i Version. According to seller, the lens of 55 Cheki is of high quality lens. Forgot the term of the lens. Anyway, this is some pic of the items.... Pretty expensive but I am into Japanese stuffs too so yea, I rather pay more for Cheki instead of 55i.
Went home to try the camera...... I thought there is a zoom function but there isnt!!! and then end up 1st pic is 2 stunned faces looking at thin air. ahhaha .
My purchase exclude the bag and some accessories like pen and pretty strap. I will be buying the accessories from Gmarket! So stay tune.