Fazeline is Renamed!

Dear all,

Fazeline has been with us since last year. They have been growing and establishing their business as such crossing their milestone, they are renamed as Essential Cove now!

Currently they are still in operation under fazeline.com and Essential Cove is  a new subsidiary of it. Therefore, they are -re-branding but still in operation so it is definitely SAFE to shop with them!

Major Revamp on SafeBlogShopper

SafeBlogShopper will be undergoing major revamp in the month of September. Our aim is to bring in more interesting and interactive features, at the same time benefit all our members by adding more value to our services.

This revamp will give a brand new look to the site with a brand new concept. SafeBlogShopper will also incorporate new themes and logo too.

The site will not have any major downtime as we wish to keep all experience with SafeBlogShopper a pleasant one. However, we apologize if you are seeing any distorted graphics or site content. We will update our changes from 12am onwards, and will try to keep all links and content function-able by 9am the next day.

We hope to surprise you when you wake up!

Do keep an eye on us and our brand new look in September!

Rgds,

Irish

MOXIEMAIDEN.blogspot is NOT ENDORSED anymore

Attention to all readers,

Please note that http://moxiemaiden.blogspot.com/ is no longer endorsed by SafeBlogShopper anymore.

After a few reminders, they did not remove the stamp logo from their store, as such we have to leave an announcement here.

Thank you!

August is Here and We Celebrate it!

The latest August issue of Newsletter is now on from SafeBlogShopper!

Celebrate the National Day with SafeBlogShopper! What is the Top 10 National Items you must have?

Biggest happening in Singapore! Read about the Youth Olympic and participate in it!

How to read it?

Click HERE For Flash Version

Next Issue coming in September!

The very First NewsLetter from SafeBlogShopper!

The latest July issue of Newsletter is now on from SafeBlogShopper!

Catch the Specials on FIFA Worldcup, top 4 Jerseys featured and our predictions about the result.

Not forgetting our 10 HOT PICK items from your reliable blogshops. They are our favourite and we hope it is your favourite too!

How to read it?

1) Click HERE For Non-flash Version or

2) Click HERE For Flash Version

We will continue to improvise our Newsletter and cater more values and benefits to our shoppers. So Watch on!

Celebrate Mothers’ and Fathers’ Days!

As we celebrate the two coming occasions,

Mothers’ Day on the 9th May and

Fathers’ Day on the 20th June

We are proud to announce the exclusive collaboration together with Attic18 that we bring to our members.

Simply just quote your SafeBlogShoppers’ Member Username when you are purchasing with Attic18 and you will get

20% off straight for ANY items!

Isn’t these great deals to catch during these occasions?

ENJOY SHOPPING, everyone!

*This special offer is only available from 04 May, 0000hrs to 20 June, 0000hrs.

*Each member is allow to use their username ONCE and no combination of usernames is allow for one purchase with no limitation to how many items in one purchase.

PS: We are open to all kinds of collaboration to our members in our BlogShop Network. Thus, do email to us to discuss the possible opportunities.

Weekend is Coming!

CLOSED!

All winners will be notify by email.

Thanks for all the participation!

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So has our monthly event!

We are back to reward our members again!

From now(15 Apr) till this Sunday (18 Apr), simply answer the following question by login-ing to your account and comment on this post.

The question is:

What is one of SafeBlogShopper’s main objectives?

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Clue: You can find the answer on our website. (Please note that all comments are screened.)

The first 3 members who have the fastest fingers will walk away with the following prize:

Etude House Black Head Bond Patch worth $16.90!

Read here for details. Proudly sponsored by Attic18.com

We hope you have fun!

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Not a member yet? Join us here or click register at the side bar!

P.S: Anyone who like to sponsor our events can email to advertise@safeblogshopper.com

$35,000 in online shopping spree orders go ‘missing’

Netizens file over 40 police reports and 2 online petitions against teen organiser.

By Liew Hanqing,
The New Paper | Photo: Internet | 01-04-10

OLD-school shoppers don’t trust greasy-looking salesmen.

But with online shopping, you often don’t even get to meet the seller.

Naomi Kurashige, 17, had a good reputation for getting discounts from overseas suppliers for local buyers.

Most of her customers had never met her but they had no qualms about wiring her hundreds of dollars in orders.

Today, there are over 40 police reports against her because $35,000 in orders went “missing”.

Police said they are investigating.

People like Naomi are the middlemen in an online shopping method known as spree shopping.

Her job is to hook up with overseas suppliers and then send out alerts to potential buyers here enticing them with discounts.

Customers like shopping this way because they save on shipping.

That’s when things go well.

For a few months, Naomi made a profit. Then things went horribly wrong.

She claimed that after receiving money from customers here, she wired $35,000 to a UK supplier. But he went missing, and so did the money.

Ignored

She now has two petitions against her and has been flamed on several blogs on Livejournal.com and forums, including Cozycot.com and Hardwarezone.com.

Some online shoppers have accused Naomi of collecting money from them, but not delivering their purchases.

Naomi had organised numerous online sprees under her online nickname, Insert-itemname. In just a few months, she collected about $35,000 for the sprees.

Then her customers waited. But nothing was delivered.

One shopper, Miss Michelle Goh, 23, a project manager, said she paid Naomi about $600 in September for clothing orders from various online retailers such as American Apparel and Urban Outfitters.

She said: “Before I placed an order with Naomi, I did a search about her online. I checked feedback about her and it was okay at the time.

“I don’t know how things turned so nasty in just a couple of months.”

When nothing was delivered, she claimed she wrote to Naomi but her e-mails were ignored.

Miss Goh added: “I got worried. Then she started sending mass e-mails about refunds, but the refunds never came.”

Another participant, Miss Pearlyn Yeo, 23, joined another spree organised by Naomi last December and spent $60 on her order.

She said: “She organised a Topshop spree. I thought it would be a good deal, so I decided to take part.”

Unlike Miss Goh, Miss Yeo said she did not do any checks on Naomi.

She recalled: “I waited three weeks (for my purchase) but nothing came, so I e-mailed Naomi but didn’t get a reply.

“I searched for her name online and I found many complaints about her, so I immediately asked for a refund.”

Most of her e-mails, she claimed, went unanswered until several weeks later, when she got an SMS from Naomi saying her order was on the way.

Said Miss Yeo: “It never came even after I called and texted her repeatedly.”

Yet another online shopper, undergraduate Soh Cailing, 20, said she participated in three sprees organised by Naomi between July and September last year and spent $177.

When nothing came, she wrote to Naomi whom she claimed merely offered excuses.

Both Miss Yeo and Cailing lodged claims at the Small Claims Tribunal, but said Naomi never showed up in court for mediation.

Naomi does not dispute this.

Angry

So shoppers have turned to venting their anger online, warning others about Naomi.

One netizen collated a list of more than 10 police reports lodged against Naomi and also posted screen captures of e-mail correspondence with her.

The pressure finally got to Naomi.

In a mass e-mail sent to spree participants last October, Naomi wrote: “I have scheduled transfers for the next two weeks, with $500 being transferred every day… “I’m having a big family crisis with this going on, so I will settle these by the next two weeks.”

In the e-mail, Naomi said she would not entertain any phone calls nor reply to any more e-mails.

She added that once she had “settled” all outstanding orders and refunds, she plans to stop organising sprees for good.

The spree participants just want their money back.

Said Miss Soh: “We gave Naomi so many chances, but she’s disappointed everyone so far.”

Miss Goh added: “I asked her to return me $200, but she insisted she was really broke, so I didn’t want to push her and waited.

“True enough, I got back nothing – and now, she won’t even reply to my texts.”

Teenage organiser : I’m a victim too

THAT’S what Naomi Kurashige told The New Paper.

The teenager said she had placed orders worth about $35,000 on behalf of spree participants with a UK-based supplier, who also runs a handphone business.

She claimed he disappeared without a trace in October last year. v She said: “I found this supplier online and he was offering big discounts on several popular brands – between 30 and 70 per cent – so I decided to try ordering from him.”

She said that between June and October last year, she organised a number of sprees and placed a few mass orders from the vendor worth “a few hundred dollars” each time.

She said: “For four months, it worked really well and I managed to make a small profit too.”

Naomi said she would buy the items at a discount from the UK supplier and then resell it to the spree participants at a small profit.”I admit that I got greedy, so I started placing larger and even larger orders. But one day, the site disappeared and I could no longer contact him,” she added.

“I am underaged, so I don’t have a credit card, which meant I couldn’t pay the vendor through Paypal.

“I had to make payment with a money order so I just mailed the vendor the money.”

She added that she did not know she could have insured the order.

She said: “I wish I had known about it. I didn’t even know there was a chance of this happening. I just knew that it was fast money and that I liked doing this business.”

She said she had done some background checks on the UK vendor and they had been favourable.

She said: “He had a verified Paypal account, so I thought everything would be okay.”

She claimed that she has given refunds totalling about $24,000 to some spree participants.

“I’ve had to pay the refunds out of the money that I made earlier. Now, I am broke,” she claimed.

“It’s my fault. I started with small orders but I got greedy and I have lost tens of thousands of dollars.”

She said her family knows about her predicament and has “already helped as much as they can”.

She added that she has been told by the police to pay back all those who have placed orders with her.

“The police said I have to pay everybody back, or be prepared to go to jail. Even if I do pay people back, there is no guarantee that they will drop the charges against me,” she said.

“I have to find a job that will allow me to save enough to pay everybody back.

“I am trying my best. I just didn’t expect things to get so big so quickly.”

Case: Exercise caution

THE Consumers Association of Singapore (Case) received 11 complaints related to online shopping, blog shops and sprees last year, compared to 20 in 2008.

Mr Seah Seng Choon, Case’s executive director, said consumers should exercise caution before carrying out any online transaction.

He noted: “Should there be a dispute, a consumer may be unable to take any action against the seller, especially when there are no contact details, or if the seller is from another country.”

He said there are several precautions online shoppers can heed:

Do research about suppliers before making any purchases.

Be wary of companies which do not reveal their address and contact details.

Shoppers should try, as far as possible, to deal with registered businesses or businesses that are certified to be trustworthy. Shoppers can check if a business is registered by using the online directory on the Accounting & Corporate Regulatory Authority website,www.acra.gov.sg

Always get contact details of the sellers or spree organisers and suppliers.

In cases where bulky items such as bags are purchased from blogs, ask for a meet-up to receive the items and pay the remaining amount on the spot rather than paying in full upon ordering the items.

If consumers suspect something is amiss, a police report should be lodged.

Consumers should transact with accredited sites, such as those that show the “TrustSg” Trustmark or the CaseTrust Trustmark as such businesses are assessed to have met a set of required standards.

Figures from the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore’s website show that, of Internet users aged 15 years and above who have used the Internet in 2008, 36 per cent shop online, an increase of over 27 per cent in 2004.

PayPal said the volume of online PayPal transactions made with overseas-based stores by consumers in Singapore has been growing by over 70 per cent annually.

Source: http://www.digitalone.com.sg/news/article/11058

New Featured Stories for Blogshop Owners!

Good News to all Blogshop Owners!

As we take the constant effort in updating reports and news to our lovely blogshop shoppers, we have not forgotten our blogshop owners!

We realized that the life span of a blogshop is a short one if you do not understand what are the strategies to promote or market your blogshop. Even if you are a good blogshop in the community, what are the ways to help your blogshop recognized by others and increase its exposure.

For those who wish to start up a blogshop business, do you know where can you find the cheapest supplier for your stock, or create a professional blogshop with the right look and feel?

SafeBlogShopper is ready to share the secrets of the “how-to” that we found to build your business from stretch and enhances your blogshop.
So watch out the coming area on the 27 March!

Gift Over!

Thanks to everyone who has participate for the Women’s Day Gifting Activity!

We have given out the gift to the owner of the fastest fingers user, junko02 (not the real name)! She had received her prize and we hope she like it!

See what she liked about SafeBlogShopper:

Doing the extra mile up update how to shop safely in the online world to blogshoppers.

Thanks for all the great tips and always being so prominent in updating us with latest news of blog shopping.

We will continue to work hard!

Do look out for more interesting activities coming up for all our members! Not a member yet? Register now!

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