ben's shopee tips and tricks (buyer)

Hi,

I would like to share my personal Shopee experience.

Shopee is an app that allows you to do online shopping. To me, it looked like a fusion between Carousell and Qoo10. Qoo10 provides a platform for people to sell item and a small commission is payable to them. Carousell provides a platform for buyers to meet sellers and thereafter do their transaction independent of the platform.

Shopee on the other hand, provides services like credit card payment for its buyers, and yet allows sellers to list their products free on its platform! The money paid would be held by shopee until the buyers acknowledge the recipient of its purchase.
The UI is intuitive and is easy for both buyers and seller alike.

In this post, i will be sharing the views of a buyer.

Buy from sellers who provides free postage
This is kinda a no brainer. Who doesnt like free postage? However, when an item is so common that many people are selling it, choose the one best priced and yet have free postage!
Shopee provides a refund to people who do not receive their package, and if the sellers could not prove that they have posted the item. However, the refund amount will never include postage amount as it only includes the original item price.
So if an item is selling at 10cent, but have a shipping fee of $1, you will need to pay $1.10 but if the parcel did not arrive, only 10cent will be refunded to you!
This system seemed flawed. but it is beneficial and protects the sellers. In many occasions, there are buyers who refused to acknowledge the recipient of the product and lodged a refund. This causes trouble for the sellers who lost their money in postage AND the goods.

But dont try to game or abuse the system. Shopee admins are darn fast at tracking people down.


Timed Sales and Coupon codes
If anything to go by, Timed Sales are usually the best of the deals available. But do note that most coupon codes dont work for timed sales.
Coupon codes are only available during certain festive period. so load up your carts and wait for them to appear! also, do look out for store promotion of that seller. sometimes they do give out their personalised coupon codes!

Special Timed Sales
Special timed sales are sales during key dates such as Shopee anniversary, christmas, CNY, NY etc. These sales usually have super limited stocks at a super sexy price.
The upcoming of such sales as of time of post is on 5th Jan 2017.





















Many people have been saying that it is a scam as these deal usually sells out at the strike of the clock. Personally, i have bought once and i would like to share how i did it!

For this tutorial, I will try and buy the Fitbit flex 2.
Take note of the original price of $148.


So you will see the product that will be listed for sales at $148. Spend some time to read the product information prior to the sales.

1 min before the sales time, keep searching for this item in the event sales page. when the clock strikes the time, add it to your cart and proceed with payment!

Now, do note that your 4g services might not be as quick as a computer running on fibre broadband. So choose wisely if you wanna snatch the item via phone or a computer.


Thats all folks!