My E-shopping (1)

I have always like to shop. It started when I was doing my studies in MMU. I had a very good friend who will always bring me out for shopping. I always like shopping with her. She gave me a lot of ideas and I am still wearing some of the blouses and dresses I bought then.

Then, I started shopping alone. I guess I have fewer friends to shop with me nowadays. I felt it is not at all fun to shop alone. You cannot share when there is a buy 1 free1 promotion. You will listen to the salesgirls’ opinion and buy something you might not wear.

Since I am always facing the computer, I then learn to shop online. Initially, I felt that online shopping is insecure. I mean, after payment, you still have to wait several days for the item. You were not able to see it, not able to touch it. What if it is not like what you expected?

Being a risk taker, I explore a lot of online shopping websites. I first visited www.annyee.com. It is one of the first website I bought clothes from. However, the quality is not very good and I have actually stop buying clothes from them. I guess I still have a few tens of ringgit with them which I have not claim. Oh well, let's see when I have the time.

Some time ago, I started to like Ebay. Online shopping is not that insecure anyway. Ebay is quite a trusted site. I have made purchases for 6 times and all safely arrived.

My first purchase on Ebay was a Minnie mouse bag. I love the bag very much but the quality is really very bad. I used it for about a month and the color peels off. Then I either have thrown it or have put it aside back in my hometown. I then become very careful on my purchase.

My best purchase has to be the "Bedazzler". I always wanted to bedazzle my things. When my lollipops' gems are falling from the bag, it made me want to bedazzle my bag so much.

The Bedazzler tool (About RM60 exclude shipping)

My Lollipops bag

Bedazzling my bag

Then my worst purchase is the table lamp. I don't really like IKEA table lamps as they are all yellow light and quite deem. There are these florescent light table lamps but there are not bright enough. Then this sunlight table lamp caught my attention. Without further a thought, I bought it.

I was testing the lamp with a adapter converter and it was really very bright. Then only to find that the lamp was actually twice as bright as it was supposed to be and then died after 10 minutes.

The lamp was actually using 120v while Malaysia is using 240v. How brilliant was I huh? I didn't even bother to know about this voltage thingy. My friend, Mee Syn, mentioned that there is some voltage transformer that I can use but too bad, the lamp is dead! *sob sob, there went my $$.* I think it cost about like RM100+ exclude shipping.

Bye lamp!

Moral of the story: Don't simply buy electronic goods from other countries.