My Lazada Philippines's Second Online Shopping Experience

After almost forsaking Lazada Philippines in this article,  I procured my second order on the online shop site to make use of the gift check they gave me as an endowment for the hassle they've caused.

To tell you the truth, I got a mixed feeling about it, one part excited since I'm about to find out if Lazada Philippines could pull out my order fast and redeem themselves, while on the other hand, anxious that their failure might recur, and this is the main reason why I opted to buy an item that had the closest price to the gift check.

To really gave a direct comparison to the previous transaction, I choose the very same process that I did before; same payments system (via DragonPay), same confirmations process, etc. I wanted to measure the changes made by the company on these areas.

Interestingly, within the payment and confirmation process, I've notice that the company now had an SMS system sent to customer's registered contact number reminding him/her to settle the amount ordered on the allowed time frame, a welcome addition, but unfortunately the message came in very late, thats about a day after the item was delivered. A little improvement on this I believe will be very effective in addressing cancellation issues. Lazada should also make the SMS system more interactive, like maybe an option to reply on it to confirm or deny the said notice.

Well, if your wondering why the text came in very late for me, thats because my ordered item was delivered in less than 2 days after the confirmation, a huge difference here compared to the previous! I can see that they were really serious on wanting to improve their services and hopefully, its for good. Great job guys!

Then again, making one impressive transaction won't rest my apprehensions aside about the company's performance. They still need to prove more to regain my full trust and recommendation. If they could retain the same performance on my next two to three orders, maybe, everything depends on them. As I've mentioned on my previous article, I want them to grow and improve since they gave me and the rest of the buyers from the province the opportunity to buy products that we could hardly find locally.

Make it happen Lazada Philippines, you can do it! :)

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Parkmall, Cebu's Premier Shopping Hub

Cebu thrives further with the rise of another shopping mecca, the Parkmall located in Mandaue Reclamation Area, Manduae City, Cebu, just across the Cebu International Convention Center (CICC).

Parkmall offers a modern style architecture matching peoples urban shopping lifestyle, gaming and entertainment wants and world class dining needs. Shop all you want with its variety of specialty stores from apparels, jewelries, books, electronics and accessories, health and beauty, home furnishings, grocery among other related services. Play from the child friendly Worlds of Fun to adult drew Casino and dine with the best local and international restaurants. Everything was almost here except that it doesn't have a movie house.

What I like about this mall, the parking lot, lesser crowd and goods were cheaper than SM or Ayala.

What I don't like about this mall, location, it's far from the city proper. Security also is a huge treat with the malls surroundings, it makes you feel uneasy. Worst, all the good and fun stuffs happen in nighttime here with all the local bands playing among others. As much as I want to stay longer, the more I feel disturb because I might get robbed when I go out of the mall late night, or something like that. But that was me, I maybe wrong with this impression.

Anyways, here are some of the malls outdoor view, enjoy!

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Shopping Safely Online

Make sure you stay safe when shopping online with this video from the Credit Made Clearer series: ‘Shopping Safely Online'.

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Remembering Cebu: Gift and Souvenirs!

If you happen to be visiting Cebu City and its vast religious antiquity and you want to buy Gifts or a memento to help you relieve your fun experience, think of delicacies and souvenirs uniquely Cebuano.

I have been to a store that offers everything you need, souvenir T-Shirts, Food, Native Delicacies, Key Chains, Figurines among others. Its located along airport road, MEPZ intersection in Mactan along the vicinity of the Marina Mall and can easily be spotted when your on your way or leaving the airport. It is a regular shop, single floored, with customary store area but then enough to contain ample products and comfortable shopping.

What I like about this place is the thought of having everything souvenir turfed into one so I don't have to look from various stores and places for stuffs I want to buy and every company brand is here so you don't have scout further if you prefer variety of brands for different items, nonetheless an all in on shop.

Some of Cebu's famous delicacies, Otap, Dried Mangoes and Chicharon. Otap is an oval and thin puff pastry or biscuit created from a combination of flour, shortening, coconut, and sugar. It has a distinctive texture as result of a two-stage baking process that gives a crispy and tangy coarseness. I'm a personal fan of this delicacy because of its sweet and crispy smack to my taste bud in fact I never leave Cebu without towing this with me. Dried mangoes, from the word itself, this were ripe mangoes stripped into thin slices and then sun dried. Good thing about this food processing was that, the sweet taste of the Mango is preserve within the strip with water evaporated leaving behind a gummy and lucious fodder. Chicharon is a pork skin rinds, fried and dried and usually eaten with vinegar or with bagoong, lechon liver sauce. This delicacy can be dated back to the City's Spanish Era where it has become one of the most favorite food of the inquisitors. It have been taught and adopted by the local folks and now becoming one of Cebu's favorite food basque.

Nuts, Lace and T, among the famous souvenirs up for grabs in this shop. As you can see in the images, the nut products were pretty nutty, package into different variants. I personally like the sweet nuts, sugar coated and the super hot wiki chili. Necklaces, tons and tons of them spread over this corner of the store is a good souvenir to own. You can choose from variety of designs, types, style to fit your very preference. Lastly, T-Shirts, dubbed as the most famous and well known souvenir all over the world. The best thing about T-Shirts are that you can wear them to you hearts desire and brag them everyone. Huge prints about the place you visited specially if its a famous place brings you a sense of gratification and self satisfaction, a shout out that you've been to the place and proud that you have been.

Anyways there were several other souvenirs you can disdain like Paper Clips, Pen Holder, Figurines, Stick Up's among others and they're all in this small shop. This images by the way was taken form my all powerful Nokia N82. Happy Shopping!

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Nokia Price Cut, Not! Price Watch

Two days ago, I wrote about a good news coming from Nokia, that the prices of their devices have been cut down to further boast their sales and trim the thin sales of the competitors, well, it might be true in some countries and true as far as eBay prices are concern but it did not affect the cost of Nokia N82 Black Edition in Nokia Retail Stores here in Metro Manila. Sad but true.

Ever since I arrived here two days ago, I've been to a few Nokia Stores around the Metropolis and called up some of them just to find out that there was no movement in the price of Nokia N82. It still bare the same tag a month ago, hefty and expensive. Does this a defiance from the mother company's recent announcement? I guess so, maybe they've decided not to do follow this order knowing more of the local market condition of Nokia N82. Its undeniably true that N82's Black prodigy remain a best seller to date, hotting stocks to run out in most of the stores I visited.

Now I'm thinking about buying the unit from Non Nokia Stores because prices in those stores are lower compared to Nokia flagship stores. I'll just have to be extra careful though, I have to see to it that the product they will gave me was genuine and with a full year warranty from Nokia. I saw prices running around Php19,000 to Php21,000. A good remarkable difference.

Here are the rundown of Nokia and Non Nokia Stores and their N82 prices. Information for deferred payments are of Metrobank Credit Card only.

Nokia Store Gateway Mall - Php22,460.00 with 6months Zero Installment
Nokia Store Greenhills - Php22,460.00 Straight Payment Only
Nokia Store Mall Of Asia - Php21,106.00 6months Zero Installment
Nokia Store SM Manila - Php22,460.00 6months Zero Installment
Nokia Store Greenbelt - Php22,460.00 Straight Payment Only
Nokia Store Glorietta - Php22,990.00 12months Zero Installment
Nokia Store Alabang Town Center - Php22,460.00 Straight Payment Only
Nokia Store SM Megamall - Php22,460.00 Straight Payment Only
Nokia Store Robinson's Galleria - Php22,460.00 6months Zero Installment
Quality Cellular Phones - Php22,294.00 12months Zero Installment
Ambassador Greenhills - Php21,795.00 12months Zero Installment
BSD International - Php20,598.00 6months Zero Installment
Wellcom - Php20,900.00 Straight Payment Only
Virtual Station - Php19,610 Straight Payment Only
Memo Express - Php22,900 6months Zero Installment
Globotel - Php22,460.00 Straight Payment Only
Mobile Experts - Php21,000.00 6months Zero Installment

Enjoy shopping folks!

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Best Buy, Best Love

We will be talking about Best Buy today, one of America's leading online and retail store. I feel the need to feature this company where I bought my Gateway Laptop because of the good quality product they sold to me. My laptop comes with AMD Turion Dual Core X2, 1.9Ghz speed, ATI cheapset, 2GB DDR2 667Mhz, 160GB Hard Drive, WIFI, Built-in Camera and all other sweet feature for a shocking low price and durability. Definitely a place that lives by its name, BEST BUY.
To give you a slight knowledge about how this Laptop will cost me, with this specifications, when bought here in the Philippines, a whooping 50thousand pesos will be the cheapest and I bought this for only $599, more or less about Php28,000 when converted. That's a sweet deal, 22thousand less, a saving worth noting plus durability. Proof? my laptop is at its best condition even after 10 months, never been repaired, thats the price of having geniune parts in the device, just sweet.

I'm just lucky though, I have relatives working in US, I was able to ask them to buy one for me. It was a mere coincidence also that I have that money with me during that time, if not, I would have succumed into buying one through financing companies that will charge me hefty interest. I guess it was just meant to be. c",

Word of advice, if your planning to buy laptops or gadgets, and you have some relatives living in US, asked your relatives to buy it for you but then before doing soo, take some time to canvas online first, BestBuy of course for best deals, Being able to choose the product you want to buy will make it easier for them to shop since you have the exact preference. Assure them of your payment also so they wont think twice about it and say please.

Here are some websites you can visit;

www.bestbuy.com, www.walmart.com, www.circuitcity.com, www.tigerdirect.com

Enjoy and Happy Shopping!!

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Simple Lovers Guide In Buying Laptops

Good Day Everyone c",
To my readers ever, Lots and lots of Thanks!!
I'm happy because I'm beginning to pick up readers everyday!

Simple Guide In Buying Laptops:

I'm going to based my Guide to my own experience and knowledge thus it might not be that thorough because I'm not a computer expert nor a geek but hopefully this will help somehow.

1. Buy laptop from refutable stores and shops only. This devices can be easily tweak, thus buyers might not be able to get the original parts and components of the device bought and paid for. If you can buy the device from the manufacturers stores, the better since it will give you assurance that all parts are original.

2. Brand: It doesn't really matter for me as long as the specs are good. Right now I'm using Gateway for about 6months and so far the product serves me satisfactorily, no bug down what so ever, thank God.

3. Processor: Pick the best and the newest processor, either AMD or Intel will do. For Intel, you can either choose Core 2 Duo,Core 2 quad or Core 2 extreme while for AMD, pick the AMD Turion x2 or AMD Phenom x2. This processors will give you the best and the fastest computer performance most suitable for Internet and Games. I'm currently using AMD Turion 2x, it satisfies my Internet and Gaming needs.

4. System Memory: The most advisable would be within the 2GB - 4GB. The more the system memory, the more applications you can open without slowdown. You can open several application at a time. 2GB would be enough, because I'm using it right now and my laptop runs fast with no problem even with opening multiple applications.

5. Hard Drive Size: I recommend at least 100GB, so you can download several applications, files, pictures, music among others. All though their were now several portable memories now like Flash Drives, Memory Sticks, SD cards among others, nothing beats the hard drive memory plus the fact that portable memory devices can easily be lost or damage.

6. Optical Drives: Get the DVD of course, VCD is obsolete already and as much as possible, pick up those that were double layered with DVD burners.

7. Graphics: For the graphics, It will now depend on what you want. If your into gaming, get the best graphics for games like ATI CrossFireX and NVIDIA GeForce 8800GTX and NVIDIA Quadro, while if your into office applications, music or movies you can pick at least an ATI ATX 1200.

8. Built-n web cam is now a necessity with the likes of yahoo messenger or skype among others proliferating in the web were you can do video call for free, without a cam is a big setback.

9. WiFi is definitely a must now a days also since there are now many Wifi hotspots anywhere where you can connect in the internet for free. You are not in the groove if you have no wifi in your device.

10. Finally, buy laptops that have a complete softwares with them. An operating system with the likes if Microsoft Windows Vista, a must since this is the latest. I prefer Microsoft since there are many software upgrades and add ons based on this system. Most of the laptops I bump into were being sold without an operating systems and you end up buying them separately. Don't be fooled by this because it should be free since most of the laptops manufactured today have this operating system built-in. You must have an Anti-virus software as well, the internet world today have millions of virus software on the loose, protect your computer, protect your investment. Be safe than sorry. Get the best Anti-virus software, I will recommend Kaspersky Internet Security Suite because I'm currently using it and because it has the best reviews among the critics.

Wow what a guide, my nose, eyes and ears are bleeding c", because I'm running out English words hehehe. I don't even know if my grammar is okay. Anyways what matters is the knowledge implied.

Tell next time fellow bloggers, friends

Thats all for now folks.
Gracias Everybody!! Gracias!!!

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