Hello everyone!
How is your summer going? Did you have good time with your friends and family? For me, I am having nice time trying to endure the heat from Oulu’s summer. I really wish that autumn will come as soon as possible 😦 . Anyways, today I am doing a review of a shopping mall from Korea that I have just discovered lately. Usually when I shop for korean products (I do that often because korean sizing is more suitable for my asian small frame) I use Gmarket. Then recently, I have tried another website similar to Gmarket, it is called 11st. This one was introduced to me by one of my lovely korean friend in Lyon. And since they are having a promotion offering free international delivery for order above 100USD, I couldn’t be happier to order from them. So for today post, I will walk you through the procedure to order as well as some pros and cons compare to Gmarket that I think you need to know before deciding to order from this website.
First, you need to create an account, type in english.11st.co.kr to go to their english version website and register a new account. After having a new account you need to go to download the coupon in order have free international delivery. Click this link to go to their international delivery promotion page and choose download coupon for the first time user of 11st. Now the next step is really important, if you don’t do it, you will not be able to use the coupon at checkout. First you need to open Internet explorer (IE only, it doesn’t seem to work with Chrome or Firefox), log in to your account on 11st, then at the top of the page, there is a button called “Quick access: OFF”, you need to click on that button and click on another button called “make quick access” (Actually, just a way of bookmarking the page), make sure after that you will see the button Quick Access change to On and red. Now it’s done, you can start shopping and checkout your order as normally.
The Pros:
-Free shipping for international order
-They will refund the shipping fee if it is different from your real shipping fee to your paypal account (if you check out with paypal of course) which I like the most because when I shop in Gmarket, they don’t refund the shipping fee to me but instead, take it as gmarket cash. However, since I don’t shop there often and sometimes the different is more than 10 USD, then it is really annoying that I need to find something to shop to get back that 10USD…
-Have quite a lot of famous korean clothing and shoes reseller
-Easy to understand interface
The cons:
-A little bit of trouble to use the coupon
-Less reseller compare to Gmarket
-Reseller takes longer time to ship your shipment compare to gmarket
-Package always arrives late due to custom.
All in all, I find that it is a good alternative to shop for korean products beside Gmarket. I tend to use 11st to shop for shoes and basic clothing items like T-shirt and jeans. And when I fancy something different, I change to Gmarket , I still find that Gmarket has more shops and more products than 11st.
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