My items have arrived!(: For those who are entirely clueless as to what I'm talking about, I'm referring to my latest spree on Gmarket Singapore or what they call it: Qoo10. Frankly speaking, at first I was slightly doubtful about the whole "shenanigan", so I just did a test run with two different shoppers. First, I bought a few items from one seller and chose the non-registered mail to see how efficient Gmarket was in collaboration with Singpost. It was quite a tough time waiting because every day I would read people's different reviews on that particular seller. Some of them just waited for 2-3 days and their shipment was already in their mailboxes. Some had to wait for at least 8 days in agony. For me, it took about 4 days excluding weekends for the shipment to arrive at my house safe and sound.
I was not really happy with the packaging because it was all torn and tattered: as if the mail-man crawled through some battlefield. When I opened it up, the individual packaging of my various items were not in tip-top condition as well. However, the items themselves were not damaged. Thank goodness! So that was my first purchase.
My second purchase was from a different seller and this seller had items situated at Korea. But this time, I tried it out with registered mail. I still have not receive it because the seller said it would take at least 2 weeks to reach me. I'm not complaining but I hope Singpost will not mess up the delivery process. Don't get me wrong: but I've been hearing lots of complaints from various shoppers about how sluggish Singpost is getting. Its efficiency is crumbling as we speak. In my case, I only had one bad experience with Singpost and that was from ASOS. Frankly speaking, the package was delayed and I got it on the 3rd week when I was supposed to receive it on the 2nd week itself. By then I had already lodged my complaint against ASOS, in which I was sincerely apologetic about. Other than that, Singpost was doing just alright with their services.
But that was ASOS and I have full confidence of their customer-services, as for Gmarket Singapore, I have to say that I am still assessing their pros and cons. Frankly speaking, different sellers will have different assessment, but as for this particular seller, I have to say it is amazing(: He/She is both efficient and affable. For those who are interested, this seller is called
Ophiras from Singapore Gmarket. This seller only sells handphone covers/accessories, so if you are looking for other items, this is not for you DUH.
As for Gmarket payment and whatnot, I will post more about it on my next Gmarket post, which will be around the time I receive my next package(:
That is all for my Gmarket post for now .. Toodles!