The much anticipated 3LittlePicks Black Friday Sale is here!
If you are looking for stylish, quality yet affordable home accessories, tablewares, party supplies, and lifestyle products, you can’t miss 3LittlePicks out! Over 1000 products carefully picked internationally are available in store, you are going to be spoiled for choices! Hop on over to their store at www.3littlepicks.com
The best part is their best storewide sale of the year is here! From today to 28th November 2016, they are having a sale with up to 60% off storewide!
Clearance and AS-IS collections are on further 10% off! That’s not all! Key in discount codes below to enjoy additional savings on your entire purchase!
BLACK1: additional 10% for minimum purchase of S$80.00
BLACK2: additional 12% for minimum purchase of S$160.00
BLACK3: additional 15% for minimum purchase of S$300.00
Win a store credit worth S$120.00 when you share and tag 3LittlePicks!
Get ready to glue yourself to your PC or laptop screens
The Black Friday sales is soon approaching and trust us, you don’t want to miss the biggest sale of the year in the US.
Starting this Friday, 25th November in the US (1pm or 4pm on 25th Nov in Singapore), USA merchants take advantage of this 24 hour event by slashing the prices of million of products in their inventory to create more sales. With Cyber Monday taking place after the weekend, shoppers look forward to scoring the best deals during this period.
For Singapore shoppers, there is no better time to shop for your favourite American brands. Think Coach, Timberland, Ralph Lauren, Kate Spade, Gap, A&F, Victoria’s Secret, Nike and more. That’s not all. eCommerce giants such as Amazon.com, Target, Drugstore.com (now Walgreens), Nordstrom, Macy’s and more, are all getting ready to bring you the biggest sale ever!
Tip: Use a VPN to access some of the USA site to enjoy greater savings! (i.e Katespade.com that redirects you to the SG’s site)
Some might ask why shop online when you can buy them from directly from the stores in Singapore? The answer is cost-saving. Think it this way. Having a brick-and-mortar stores means the need to pay rental, utilities, cost of hiring salespersons. Shopping online means you bypass the importer, exporter, distributor or retailers, and this lead to significant cost-savings. (Just like how we like to shop from Taobao!)
There are many products that are significantly cheaper than in Singapore and that includes electronics, fashion apparels, toys and more.
What about international shipping? Will i incur hefty shipping and handling costs?
Many people have the notion that shopping in the US means paying exorbitant shipping and handling costs. Well, that’s true in some extent since your item would incur higher fuel surcharges for it to travel further to reach Singapore. Buying individual items from each retailers would cost you more than you’d imagine.
Some US retailers don’t offer international shipping.
Wait, then why are we encouraging you to shop on Black Friday?
Because with technological advancement, these unwanted costs can be driven down to the minimum. That’s where we talk about consolidated shipping. In the past, you’d wish that you had a friend in the States so that you can ship everything to him, and for him to later ship all the shopping loots to you. This is more cost-effective since you’d only be charged once for the total volumetric weight of your items.
US merchants like to ship their goods in big boxes even if you only purchased a small item. Because of that, you pay more for shipping since they calculate shipping costs using volumetric weight. A small package can easily set you back at between US$10 to US$20. If the item only cost US$8, it makes you wonder what are you paying for.
Use third-party forwarding services ezbuy
Let ezbuy be your “friend” in the States. ezbuy (formerly 65daigou) a third-party forwarding service company is the answer to your problem. You don’t need a US address as ezbuy consolidates all your shipping from all the different US retailers, repack them in one box and ship it to Singapore for you. You can expect to save up to 60% on shipping!
ezbuy’s shipping fee is also one of the lowest among all parcel forwarding services in Singapore. There will be no base charge or fuel surcharge on the total shipping fee. (If you shop Taobao, you should know how reasonable and affordable it is.)
To make your shopping even more worthwhile on Black Friday, ezbuy will offer the lowest shipping rate at $1.99/500g! That’s a 50% huge discount for their buy-for-me service. ($3.59/500g for forwarding service)
In this year Black Friday, they will be consolidating all Black Friday Promotion from the USA merchants directly with their discounts under their USA shopping platform.
Why you should shop with ezbuy on Black Friday
In addition, besides offering you the lowest shipping rates and parcel consolidation services, they will be consolidating all the Black Friday promotion (with their discounts) on their platform, so you don’t have to keep tabs of different retailers!
From 23 – 29 Nov, they will be offering free agent fee to bring down your cost further. On top of that, new users can enjoy $10 off when they register an account with them! Claim your free $10 voucher here (no minimum purchase).
Shopee, one of Singapore’s largest online marketplace, will be bringing the frenzy of the Black Friday sales, right up to us. And with Cyber Monday happening immediately after the weekend, shoppers have plenty of reasons to look forward to!
Vowing to unveil the best deals ever in this yearly event at 12pm on Friday November 25 – and not a minute earlier – Shopee goes head first with their flash sale promising discounts of up to 80%, at a price below its market cost.
The flash sale will run hourly from 12pm over two days on Black Friday (25 Nov) and Cyber Monday (28 Nov).
If you haven’t downloaded the Shopee app, it’s about time to do so! Familiarize yourself with how the app works and at the same time look out for the daily giveaways on their official account in-app
Now that November 11 is over, there’s another day that savvy shoppers look forward to. Black Friday on November 25.
Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year in the US because it is an opportunity to cash in on some of the biggest savings of the year. From smartphones and television, to beauty products and household products, consumer take advantage of this 24 hours sale on 25 November. There’d be retailers extending the sale over the next few days to Cyber Monday and some over two weeks.
What about Singapore?
Black Friday has only gained traction in Singapore in recent years but don’t expect it to be as crazy as in the US. Sure there will be sales, but to score the best deals, you’d have to look elsewhere. By elsewhere we do not mean going to the next store in the mall but going right up to the origin of the source — in the US.
Top stores international bargain hunters shopped online at:
Amazon.com
Adidas
Gap
Forever 21
ASOS
Nordstrom
Drugstore.com
Newegg
Neiman Marcus
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Tips on how to shop Black Friday
1. Prepare a wish list a few days before
Black Friday officially starts on the midnight of 25th November EST/PST in the US. That’s 1PM or 4PM in Singapore on 25 November. You don’t want to start shopping when everyone starts carting out the sale items, so prepare a few days ahead and add them in the shopping cart. Check out when the sales officially start to prevent them from going out of stock.
2. Make use of international delivery service providers
Some US retailers don’t offer international shipping (even on Amazon.com), so that’s when things get a little tricky. You can use parcel forwarding services like vPost and comGateway that provide you with a US shipping address. But you won’t know the shipping costs till they have received your parcels.
A more convenient way is to use Uskoop. Uskoop has recently launched in Singapore that takes care of everything for you from the purchasing to the shipping and insurance. You don’t even need a US address since every orders will go through them, making shopping a breeze. Plus, you get your shipping instantly and much cheaper than the merchant’s direct shipping fees. (that is if they ship to you!)
3. Know what and where to shop
Most electronics, apparels and toys are cheaper in the US than in Singapore since distributors import these goods and sell them at markup price in the brick-and-mortar stores.
a. Laptops
A 13″ HP Envy i7 laptop costs about S$1499 in Singapore but you can get the same for US$809.99 on Amazon.com. Unfortunately, this item does not ship to Singapore. Thanks to Uskoop, you can now ship it to Singapore for S$1307.25 after including shipping and handling fees. Add the GST and you’d still be better off buying from Amazon.com.
This LEGO City Fire Station set costs S$179.99 on Toys ‘R’ Us. On Amazon.com, it costs US$63.99 or S$154.27 after including shipping and handling fee.
d. Apparels
Brands like H&M, Michael Kors, Forever 21, Tory Burch, Adidas and Nike are definitely not sitting this one out. Expect great savings with huge discounts on their Black Friday sale this weekend.
This Faux Suede Moto Jacket from Forever 21 is a Black Friday Special and you can only purchase it at their official site for US$25. To ship it to Singapore, however, it will cost you an additional US$38 for shipping. That doesn’t make sense when you are paying more for the shipping.
You can however check out with Uskoop for a more reasonable shipping and handling fee at S$18.26.
4. Use right credit card to maximize your savings with cashbacks & more discounts
There are many cards that offer cashback on your online purchase. The Standard Chartered SingPost Platinum Card offers 7% cashback on eligible online purchase. In addition, the OCBC Frank Card offers 6% cashback on online shopping.
The DBS Live Fresh Card provides 5% cashback on online purchases as well as 3 DBS Points per S$5 spent online. For those holding the UOB Preferred Platinum Visa Card can get up to 10X UNI$^ (or 4 Miles) on online shopping and entertainment!
Using the right card means stretching every shopping dollar.
5. Shop smarter and quicker with a click of a button
There will be thousands of retailers in the US and UK that will be slashing price on Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Keeping tab of many retailers and carting out at the same time can be exasperating. What if you can do your shopping and consolidate your cart all in one click?
Uskoop Assistant lets you shop smarter and quicker online — all in just one click. It is a nifty plugin for your browser that automatically consolidate your shopping from different merchants in one place. It also shows you the total cost including the shipping and handling fees converted to Singapore Dollars, fuss-free!
Simply download the Chrome/Firefox plugin and start shopping!
Found an item you like? Click on the Uskoop icon and it will be automatically show up on Uskoop!
Uskoop provides free shipping to your local address and also free insurance coverage for every single order! No more worrying about your item getting lost in transit.
They are a one stop site bringing to you home & living products, fashion accessories, mother & babies and stationery items. Agoramart endeavors to deliver quality products at affordable prices to our customers.
Agoramart seeks to bring you the best deals they can. New arrivals are going for 20% off while all other items will be at 50% off. (Ends 20 DEC 16)
What’s more you can enjoy additional $10 off* when you make a minimum spending of $30. Simply enter promo code ‘AGORA’ at check out!
* Restricted to 1 time use per customer. Promo code valid till 31st Dec 2016
For this Christmas season if you are gift giving, Agoramart also provide free wrapping service. Just leave a note that you require wrapping at the checkout page.
Read on more to see what items are available on sales.
Vinegar, oil, salt and pepper storage set
Geometry leather iphone 7/7plus case (Comes with gift box)
Octopus coin pouch
Flowers and plants truck pouch
Teddy, Doggy and Kitty cup
Fruit day cup series
Nastex Japan fine color premio bath towel, 70 x 140 cm
For Singapore shoppers, there is no better time to shop for your favourite American brands. Think Coach, Timberland, Ralph Lauren, Kate Spade, Gap, A&F, Victoria’s Secret, Nike and more. That’s not all. eCommerce giants such as Amazon.com, Target, Drugstore.com (now Walgreens), Nordstrom, Macy’s and more, are all getting ready to bring you the biggest sale ever!
