FROM FT :
so sorry but we should have made certain points clear right at the beginning. some of u readers may be clear of these stuff because u all have been reading the site from the very beginning. but for the "newbies", they probably don't know about it.

so here it is:

Price Comparisons.
well it may not be an appropriate 'name' to some. so, shall we change the title? we were thinking of changing it to "alternatives". just that.

and also, some readers may not know why prices differ so much. is it because the sellers just want to make a higher profit? or are there reasons behind it?
here goes : [have been widely discussed in the earlier stages of this blog]

prices may differ because :
1. some sellers wanna earn more, some sellers settle for less profits. some sellers just want to price their items lower than the popular blogs just to attract more customers.
2. sellers do get cheated by the suppliers. different suppliers charge differently.
3. some sellers hire models to model their clothings
4. some sellers do have an 'offline boutique'. offline boutiques are usually more expensive than online boutiques
5. occasionally, some sellers import their items from overseas, but they didn't know that their items can be bought locally at a much lower price.
6. some sellers MAY HAVE included COD charges & postage charges into their stated price.

[do email us at fashion.truth@gmail.com if we miss out any! ]


anyway,
for now...
the SITE IS UNDER 'CONSTRUCTION'. do bear with us for the time being. lol. not major construction, just wanna draft out a proper "header/intro" so new readers dont get the wrong idea.

sellers/buyers/readers, do email us and give us your feedback on what else we should add on this blog / this header-or-intro / anything to clarify. thank u very much

*wont be updating for the next 3 days. meanwhile, we urge readers to write in to us ya!

thanks!
[edited on 6.1.09]

blogroll
e-shops that wants to be added into the blogroll, please send us an email at fashion.truth@gmail.com
would appreciate if u all could link us up too

price comparisons
1. only items which have a price difference of RM7/8 and above will be posted up.
2. the price used for this price comparison is the price stated on the e-shop's webpage. (i understand that sometimes prices for items may vary depending on customers. some e-shops just put a high price as to allow further bargaining by the customers.)

mailing list
we appreciate it if eshop owners remove us from their mailing list. we are not a fashion review site thus there's no need for us to receive mails from u all telling us that u've updated. just add us up and we'll link u up at the blogroll. with that, readers will know when u update.

thank u

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Stories from Readers 17

from a reader....

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My two cents...
I agree with the previous msg:
"That being said, I find it quite disappointing that many people feel the need to throw in sarcastic, snide (and sometimes downright rude) comments along with their price comparisons. Is that really necessary? If your point is to tell the world about the difference in price, you can accomplish just that by telling us about the prices in each blogshop. The only purpose that I can see, in adding rude little comments, is to vent your frustration by adding insult to injury for a particular blogshop. That is just plain childish.

Even in real life you will have people selling items at different prices. That is exactly how our imperfect market system functions. With clothes, there is no perfect competition. Not every thing is priced the same. If you don't like the price, don't buy it. If you bought it anyway, it is entirely your fault for not doing enough research. There is no need to act juvenile and bite back by hurling insults anonymously on this blog."
this is really true.. that's not necessary to throw sarcastic comments, people have feelings too.. and i felt it wrong to say their "greedy" or "dishonest".. everyone of them have their own efforts to take good pictures.. They might be getting it from different supplier with a higher prices since they are so many.. sometimes the colours of the e-boutique selling are different as well, just like e-boutique A and e-boutique B, selling different colours, they might have different material and different cost price.. ?
As a consumer myself, i think we all have to buy at our own risk. Although i have came across some e-boutique selling in a higher price, So?? just dont buy from them, as easy as that.. u can submit all the pricing difference here, since this is what fashion truth about.. but pls dont use that kind of words like " greed? dont ever buy from XXXXX shop again? " is not good to critisize ppl in such way, u bought it, u told the fashion truth blogger, she post it, now get over it" that's not necessary to keep that in ur heart forever making urself unhappy over n over again.. right?
One thing i doubt about? Why dont u guys, (i mean all the blog onwers) just set a fixed price to sell? so that we wont have to argue over n over again n u guys also wont get so much complaints... try to make things out babes??
Thank you...
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Anonymous said...

on the fixed price thingy, I believe that it's kinda not easy to actually negotiate the fixed price with competitors, no? Else why not Carrefour, Giant and Tesco negotiate to have a fixed price for everything? Their suppliers are definitely the same, isn't it? =) Let's think about that.

But I do agree that when voicing out your opinions, one should not attack so personally like using insults whatever. We are all grown ups thus we should really act in a grown up way.

And also another thing, if you see carefully, some of those labelled "expensive" shops do not charged excessively for each item in their shop. I believe that every shopper should know how to check for pries for comparison before buying, isn't it? But then, I do think that being constantly mentioned as "expensive" shop, does give the shop a bad image. So sellers, let's be more careful when fixing the price.

October 29, 2008 at 3:16 AM

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