Recently heard of a Korea base shopping website name Gmarket. It is similar to Ebay, but obviously you are shopping from sellers base in Korea. So how it works is you make your purchase from different sellers, the sellers will then ship the products to Gmarket warehouse in Korea. Once all the items has arrived to Gmarket warehouse, it will then be shipped overseas in a combine shipment. A very cost effective way to save on shipping charges.
So me and my girl friend decided to make our first purchase from Gmarket and we went all-in. Initially, we plan to shop for a few clothing's and obviously we shop way more than we intended to in the first place. At the end, we bought around 25 pieces of clothing's combined, plus some other products. We end up buying 30 items in total from Gmarket. The cost including overseas shipping to where I live (Canada) works out to be around $10-$15 cdn/item. Thats a great deal for Korean made clothing's and items. These products can easily cost five times more if I was to purchase it in Hong Kong.
The shipping services from Gmarket is speedy. My package was ship as EMS and arrived from Korea to Canada in 3 days at most. However, thanks to our "speedy" customs, it was held for approx. 4 extra days before it gets release to Canada Post for delivery.
The long waited day has finally arrived when I receive the package from Canada Post today. When I open it up, everything is as advertised. I am really really happy with my shopping experience with Gmarket. If I have to list something negative about Gmarket, is the way it refund its shipping charges. When you made a purchase on your items, the shipping cost will be charged base on an estimated weight of the item and you can pay this by visa or paypal. However, the estimate weight is no where near the actual weight. My package is estimated to be around 26kg, but the actual is only 12kg. So i paid almost a double on shipping charges. I made my purchase with Visa, but Gmarket will not refund the shipping charge to my visa, instead it is refund as a credit in my Gmarket account. I can cash it out and transfer to money to my bank account in Canada, but since it is an overseas account, there will be a $35us service charge. How lame. I guess I will use the credit on my next Gmarket purchase. Even though I don't like the way they refund the shipping charges, I will still refer Gmarket to people that I know. The clothing's are really cheap in price but good in quality.
The following are some of the photos that I took when I open the package today.
So me and my girl friend decided to make our first purchase from Gmarket and we went all-in. Initially, we plan to shop for a few clothing's and obviously we shop way more than we intended to in the first place. At the end, we bought around 25 pieces of clothing's combined, plus some other products. We end up buying 30 items in total from Gmarket. The cost including overseas shipping to where I live (Canada) works out to be around $10-$15 cdn/item. Thats a great deal for Korean made clothing's and items. These products can easily cost five times more if I was to purchase it in Hong Kong.
The shipping services from Gmarket is speedy. My package was ship as EMS and arrived from Korea to Canada in 3 days at most. However, thanks to our "speedy" customs, it was held for approx. 4 extra days before it gets release to Canada Post for delivery.
The long waited day has finally arrived when I receive the package from Canada Post today. When I open it up, everything is as advertised. I am really really happy with my shopping experience with Gmarket. If I have to list something negative about Gmarket, is the way it refund its shipping charges. When you made a purchase on your items, the shipping cost will be charged base on an estimated weight of the item and you can pay this by visa or paypal. However, the estimate weight is no where near the actual weight. My package is estimated to be around 26kg, but the actual is only 12kg. So i paid almost a double on shipping charges. I made my purchase with Visa, but Gmarket will not refund the shipping charge to my visa, instead it is refund as a credit in my Gmarket account. I can cash it out and transfer to money to my bank account in Canada, but since it is an overseas account, there will be a $35us service charge. How lame. I guess I will use the credit on my next Gmarket purchase. Even though I don't like the way they refund the shipping charges, I will still refer Gmarket to people that I know. The clothing's are really cheap in price but good in quality.
The following are some of the photos that I took when I open the package today.
