World of Ice Stickers

Stickers are just not my thing, but why do I like to purchase them? No idea, you impulsive shopper. =x Or maybe the youth in me beckons to me. When I was young I had a couple of sticker books which I fiercely guarded, and I enjoyed bartering with my brother the precious gems of mine to increase my collection. When I was a teen I was hooked to handmade cards and pretty baked gifts, adorning them with stick-on smiley faces. Nowadays stickers are getting more sophisticated and their charms are simply hard to resist. Step into the world of 3D and frame stickers:

Okay I shall sound less like a frog in a well. Anyway, the 3D stickers were I would say of inferior quality as they seemed to be too thin and flimsy. The back area was faintly yellowed, and some where not cut properly. The frame stickers, on the other hand, was of thick quality material which was able to support polaroid films comfortably. Each triangle had a pocket to slot in the edge of one photo, and thereby framing the photo nicely. Excellent for book scraping!

Source: Gmarket

Price: $1.30 for 3D sticker / $1.80 for Frame Sticker + $0.30 shipping
Item Rating: 4/5

Processing time: 2 day (s)
Delivery time: 2 day (s)

The Mimosa Garden Iphone Button Stickers

The listing from The Mimosa Garden has an interesting clause:

"We apologise that some of the pictures might look blurry but rest assured that the actual stickers are clear.

Do not be mislead by any false claims, we sell stickers with good printing and original packaging :)"

Good marketing technique, to reassure potential customers that their products are good. Somewhat fishy, don't you think? Gullible as I am always, I believed their "assurance" and this is what I received:

1) Some oily deposits on the stickers

2) Inferior and dull colour printing

and 3) Cheap imitation tactics

I hope my friends won't mind when I give these to them. These were afterall from the start, meant for them (I'm no fan of iphone =>).

Source: Gmarket

Price: $0.90 + Free shipping

Rating: 7/10

Chachap Phone Memo

I'm not very sure if it's some big organisation or whatsoever, Sglady.com has always offered a good variety of cheap (hopefully useful for customers who bought stuff) items. 

Recently, I'd bought an iphone-lookalike memo pad for $1.50 on one of my favourite online buy-sell platform, and received it 3 days later. Sglady.com has maintained its good reputation in handling and delivery speed, however, its packaging method really has to improve. None of my purchases were bubble-wrapped or protected in plastic, so most of my items came dented in paper envelops that couldn't keep the rainwater out (Singpost delivery staff hadn't been very meticulous in avoiding the rain. Imagine my horror when I opened up the mailbox to witness a pile of semi-wet envelops). To be fair, I do not expect bubble-wraps for $1.50 items but at least wrap the poor box up. There was a time when I had bought more than $50 worth of items, but there was no bubble-wrap. Oh, I returned the $50+ items since I did not find them suitable and some had defects. I hope Sglady.com wouldn't hold a grudge for that, and definitely wish that that incident wasn't the reason why it hadn't been packaging my items well and not providing me with decent quality items! 

Alright back to the product, the box was dented due to rough handling and poor packaging, and there were dark stains at some corners. 

To illustrate that the box was slightly yellowed, I had placed it on a white paper for comparison as well. 

Measuring 11.6X6.3 cm, the memo or sticky note as I would prefer to call it, was of standard paper quality albeit slightly rough in my opinion. I wasn't not really sure of the tackiness of the glue though.

When I was looking at the credits on box (right) and sticky note itself (left), I was flummoxed. Take a look:

So the manufacturer wasn't really sure if the product was made in China, or Korea? And couldn't decide to use an appropriate box with an image similar to its product? Oh come on, Sglady.com should really take pride in the items that it get from its manufacturers and look into this issue of conflicting data. After all, a confused customer is a dissatisfied (or perhaps angry) customer.

This is definitely not a present you would wish to give to your friends, unless they wouldn't mind. Remember the old adage "it's the thought that counts?"

Source: Gmarket

Price: $1.50

Rating: 7.5/10

Cute Stickers

I adore stickers, especially cute small ones! They motivate me to do things, and cheer me up when I see them. Hope the pictures will cheer you up too!

Adorable pictures:

I wished that the sticky plastic stickers were larger though:

I spent >$5 and the seller threw in a free post-it book "Finger-it":

The post-it paper was just normal flimsy paper, but hey, the cuteness made up for it. Finger-it, as and when I like! =p

Source: Gmarket

Price: $0.81 (2 momomi stickers), $1.35 (2 black/white stickers) + $1 Shipping

Rating: 8.5/10