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buksida wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 8:53 am Totally understand your principles and largely agree ... but where do you suggest shopping if you live hours away from any department stores, and do not want to pay double and wait weeks to have stuff shipped from the west?
Agreed....you and others will be 'stuck between a rock and a hard place'....and your life has to go on.
But, it's the sentiment that I am putting out there....
If we all just sit back and say 'Ho Hum' and continue as before then, nothing will change....and that is a very scary thought..... these idiots will kill us all one day if we allow it....4 times already in the last 60 years (Asian flu, Bird flu, Sars, covid 19)....what will it be next time???
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Totally agree, but my question remains unanswered. What is the alternative to Chinese ecommerce monopolies? Thailand certainly doesn't produce anything on that scale, and certainly cannot compete on a price basis as nearly everything here is more expensive than elsewhere.
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buksida wrote:Totally agree, but my question remains unanswered. What is the alternative to Chinese ecommerce monopolies? Thailand certainly doesn't produce anything on that scale, and certainly cannot compete on a price basis as nearly everything here is more expensive than elsewhere.
I think that as has been posted, probably in the short term, not a lot of options, but long term we can help encourage competition- at least then we will have a choice.


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Could we please get back to topic please!!

Just looked at my last 3 orders, all of which delivered earlier than Lazada's own estimate.
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Alternatives to Lazada is on topic. One person's experiences will differ vastly to another's so nobody is 'right or wrong' on this thread, it is not a competition.

BTW my dartboard from the sports store in BKK arrived within 28 hours of me ordering it (and I live 6 hours drive away from the city). It also saved me about a grand from the Laz equivalent. :shock: :duck:
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buksida wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 12:34 pm Alternatives to Lazada is on topic. One person's experiences will differ vastly to another's so nobody is 'right or wrong' on this thread, it is not a competition.

BTW my dartboard from the sports store in BKK arrived within 28 hours of me ordering it (and I live 6 hours drive away from the city). It also saved me about a grand from the Laz equivalent. :shock: :duck:
Slightly off topic but my Unicorn dartboard is the only thing in my house in Thailand that was made in England!
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dundrillin wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2020 9:55 am I am having trouble getting a refund from Lazada. The money is sitting in what Lazada calls My Wallet, why I tried to withdraw it I got a message saying because I was non Thai I had to contact customer services first. When I tried both online and by phone I got no response. Has anybody had similar problems?
Yes, I had that problem when they had delivered the wrong product. I returned the item, and the cash was duly deposited in my wallet, which as you say is too technical for Farangs. I too was referred to customers services, who eventually returned the cash, but I was made to feel as if it was all my fault in the first place. It took about a week longer than stated in their blurb, but I got my cash back.
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Thanks for that,I’ll keep on trying.
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The order I placed yesterday arrived today. Earlier than scheduled!
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I was looking for an electrical item on Lazada yesterday. All that I could see was what I assumed to be Chinese brands that I had never heard of. I went to the filters column and found the following listed:
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Not happy buying an unknown brand, I did a Google enquiry - The top 10 XXX available.

The output was a listing with photos of Western brands, all being sold by Lazada. Very misleading by Lazada.
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Big Boy wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 8:44 am I was looking for an electrical item on Lazada yesterday. All that I could see was what I assumed to be Chinese brands that I had never heard of. I went to the filters column and found the following listed:

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Not happy buying an unknown brand, I did a Google enquiry - The top 10 XXX available.

The output was a listing with photos of Western brands, all being sold by Lazada. Very misleading by Lazada.

It could well be that all those top 10 Western brands are all made in China. Branded with the Western logos and shipped out. They then brand the same models with Chinese names and ship them out in Asia. I know this was a working practice in Saudi Arabia some years back.
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Stunned buyer won't be sitting on this chair

https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/ge ... this-chair

A woman bought a stylish wooden chair from a major online-shopping platform, but when it was delivered she was a tiny bit disappointed.

The buyer, named Siravariety on the Twitter account, posted a video clip on Sunday, saying she had ordered a Chinese wooden chair from a seller through Lazada, and paid for it on April 26.

When it arrived it looked just like the chair posted on the seller's website - but it was a miniature.

“This is the chair,” she said, and showed a picture of it compared against her forefinger - and the chair is only slightly larger. "It's so big," she joked .

Many comments responding to her post blamed Lazada for not showing full details, including the size, of the chair.

A search for the chair on the online shopping platform shows it was offered with a 41% discount, from 949 baht to 558 baht. As it does not give the measurements, the picture looks like a normal-sized chair that the buyer can expect to sit on when it arrives from China.

The only clue is in the product information description: "Inside the product box 1* Collectibles" - a term used for an object regarded as being of value or interest to a collector, but not necessarily valuable or antique. Miniatures are often highly sought collectibles.
The buyer shows the tiny chair she bought through the Lazada online shopping platform - thinking she would be able to sit on it. (Photo captured from @siravariety Twitter account)
The buyer shows the tiny chair she bought through the Lazada online shopping platform - thinking she would be able to sit on it. (Photo captured from @siravariety Twitter account)
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Yes, I know it's a bit deceptive on the part of Lazada, but what kind of chair did she expect to get for approximately $17.00 USD? :laugh:
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PeteC wrote: Mon May 11, 2020 4:57 pm Yes, I know it's a bit deceptive on the part of Lazada, but what kind of chair did she expect to get for approximately $17.00 USD? :laugh:
She expected to get the chair that see saw in the ad. The ad didn't mention the size and most people would assume (always a dangerous proposition) that it was a normal sized chair.
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