Honest Reviews

Taobao Photo Frames Gave Us a Booklice Bug Infestation
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Taobao Photo Frames Gave Us a Booklice Bug Infestation

We bought several wooden Taobao photo frames to decorate the living room. You’d recall this was something we chose instead of a large painting. Buying wooden Taobao photo frames Wooden photo frames are expensive in Singapore. There’s a shop at Esplanade, Poster Hub, that sells framed posters. Those cost a bomb because they sell original…

Review of Taobao Bathroom Accessories and Taps
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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…

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

Taobao Bomb Shelter Racks Review – Super Cheap, Lousy Quality

Taobao Bomb Shelter Racks Review – Super Cheap, Lousy Quality

Here’s our Taobao bomb shelter racks review. The bomb shelter is probably good for hiding when it’s war time and there’s shrapnel flying all over the place. But if you’ve a bomb shelter, you’d know the bomb shelter is good for everything but being a bomb shelter. In peace time, it’s useful for very mundane…

Floor Xpert LURF Review: Great Value for Money, Good After Sales Service

Floor Xpert LURF Review: Great Value for Money, Good After Sales Service

We’ve been meaning to write our Floor Xpert LURF review for some time now. There weren’t that many reviews back when we were doing our research so hopefully this review helps those who’re still undecided. We went with Floor Xpert’s LURF vinyl for our HDB BTO home, throughout the flat. It’s the Belgian-made one that’s…

Taobao Cabinet Review: Not Cheap, Quite Pretty, Hard to Install
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Taobao Cabinet Review: Not Cheap, Quite Pretty, Hard to Install

We got a lot of stuff from Taobao for our HDB BTO home – well, at least those that arrived safely anyway. (If you’re thinking of starting out, then you should check out our guides!) Many of you probably are thinking of buying a cabinet from Taobao. It’s so cheap there. We won’t discourage you,…

Baton Sleep Review: Good Bed, Value for Money Bed Frame

Baton Sleep Review: Good Bed, Value for Money Bed Frame

Baton Sleep is an online retailer of beds in Singapore. It adopts a similar online strategy like US online retailers (e.g. Casper) and competes against others like Noa Sleep, Haylee, and Wonderbed. You know everyone’s copying everyone when each retailer uses the same website design, pricing strategy, and “review” page. Check their websites out yourself….

Taobao Missing Item Experience – How Our Shipper Lost Our Parcels
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Taobao Missing Item Experience – How Our Shipper Lost Our Parcels

Since writing this blog we’ve mostly had positive experiences. Perhaps this post here will offer some variety. It’s probably more interesting to read about failures and troubles. So here we recount our Taobao missing item experience. It’ll be a frustrating tale of how our Taobao shipper lost our parcels and why we have decided to…