Shopping

Shopping

Taobao vs Shopee: Taobao is More Expensive After COVID-19

If you are thinking of buying and shipping from Taobao – STOP. Don’t do it. We no longer recommend buying from Taobao for one simple reason. COVID-19 made shipping from Taobao or third-party forwarders very, very expensive. The Taobao vs Shopee comparison just got a lot fairer. Prices for Taobao Shipping Increased 20-40% Shipping Prices […]

Shopping

Budget Guide: Shopping and Taobao Shipping to Singapore

Note: We no longer recommend shipping from Taobao. Check out our Taobao vs Shopee comparison. Taobao Shipping to Singapore – Is It Possible? Yes! In the past, you needed to do a lot of extra work just to do Taobao shipping to Singapore – those were the days of 65daigou and other third party companies.

Renovation, Shopping

Our DIY Washing Machine Installation

We DIYed our washing machine installation. It sounds easy. Unfortunately, it wasn’t. Buying our washing machine without installation We bought our washing machine before renovation finished. We wanted to take advantage of LiveUp cashback by Lazada (non referral link, needed to put this for the nice SEO), which made it much cheaper than traditional stores

Shopping

Be Careful! Taobao Isn’t Cheap Anymore

Taobao isn’t that cheap anymore. This shouldn’t surprise you. Taobao was super cheap Most people caught on to the fact that Taobao was cheap around 2015 to 2017. Indeed, things were cheap on Taobao. We published several articles gushing about cheap furniture (e.g. general guide, taps, ceiling fans) and appliances, compared it favourably to Ikea.

Honest Reviews, Shopping

Review of Taobao Bathroom Accessories and Taps

Having used our bathroom accessories for around 8 months, and having had some readers ask about this, we’re finally doing a review on our Taobao bathroom accessories and taps. We bought taps, rainshower sets, toilet roll holders, shampoo/soap shelves, and toilet racks from Taobao. (If you want to know why we bought from Taobao and

Honest Reviews, Renovation, Shopping

Our 4 Room BTO Design and Completed Home

We’ve settled in around half a year. We took some pictures of our final 4 room BTO design and outcome. Our home probably isn’t impressive enough to be featured! So we had to DIY with a Pixel camera, although on the plus side it’s not a staged photoshoot. All things considered, it’s quite similar to

Honest Reviews, Shopping

Stop Shipping from Taobao – It’s Not Worth It (featuring Infinity Freight Solutions Ptd Ltd and Last Mile Delivery Pte Ltd)

This is a post to tell ourselves to stop shipping from Taobao, because it’s not worth it. You lose more money than you save. TL;DR version – We got Sfinex to ship our Taobao stuff, which subcontracted to Last Mile Delivery Pte Ltd, which subcontracted to Infinity Freight Solutions Pte Ltd. Infinity lost our stuff,

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