Borders' promotion

Last night after our company movie outing, I went to the Borders, The Curve to get a new book - My Life with George. I've read its excerpt on Amazon and decided on buying it, so I went to the store, grabbed the book and went straight to the counter.

It's RM38.50

I passed her my credit card.

She swiped it at the cashier machine, and the price shown was RM32.80
There must have been a question mark on my face.

Oh, we are having promotion for Citibank card holders, all normal-priced books get 15% discount, and 10% discount for normal-priced CDs. Promotion period till 30th November 2008.

Wow, that's great. I didn't see any promotion banners or advertisements regarding this in the store. Anyway, good for all book lovers who are using Citibank card.

Free dresses with free delivery

Since my first pleasant experience with IreneFashion, I check her site for new products regularly.

She updates her collection very frequent, many of the dresses are pretty. But recently (and in near future) I have to spend a lot on my new house, so I didn't order any (wait till I have an excuse for myself, for example, Chinese New Year! Hehe).

Yesterday when I was browser-window shopping at her site, I saw the word "FREE"! I bet this is one word everybody would like to see/hear. Is it for real? I checked it out.

It's simple, follow the instructions on the site, and choose your preferred fashion piece. Not only for ladies, guys can get it (or buy something from the latest collection) for your sister, girlfriend or wife :)

Let's see whether I can get what I've chosen (free things finish fast right?)

My first purchase from online boutique

Air ticket was the only thing I bought (very frequently) from the cyber world.

Recently, I come across an online boutique from Malaysia. She (from the domain name, I assume is a she) left some comments here and I clicked and checked out her site. Clean and pretty web design, with varieties on dresses, blouses, t-shirts, and more. It allows search by text and a tag cloud showing what are the popular stuff there.

I got attracted by a vest, simple and sweet. It isn't expensive. So out of curiosity and great interest, I decided to make a purchase. As taught on the site, I filled in the contact form to order.

Few minutes later, I got a reply in my mailbox, after several email communications on order confirmation, I paid through Maybank2U.

Today, 2 days later, I received a parcel from PosLaju.





It was a nice online-purchasing experience. No hassle on traffic jams, no hassle on finding parking lots in shopping malls (the parking fee is often more than what I paid for the delivery charge), no hassle on snatching pieces of clothes from a "50%-70%" tray (the price on Irenelim Fashion is reasonable enough), and getting my choice right at my doorstep.

Now I can do more stress-free shopping lying on my couch.