After having reviewed 5 blogshops who falls between the category of nice deal to best deal, today i am going to review about a blogshop that is no deal to me.
The reason of sharing this with you is to allow YOU my loyal readers to know that there isn’t all blogshops that are nice, good or best. In reality there are some who really need lots of improvement. As much as i share with you why it is no deal to me, i do not want this review to be boycotting them but rather presenting the true fact about how i feel and some area of improvement which will allow this blogshop to move from my no deal rating to nice deal.
I present to you Taunting Tulips.
Design Template
At the first sight of Taunting Tulips , i wondered if they are in the midst of revamping their site. As i continued scrolling down the page, this was what i saw (please view picture below with the arrow pointing to what i am talking about)
Image taken from Taunting Tulips
Yes. Did you see the date? Your eyes are not playing tricks on you. The date that is showing is Jan, 1st, 2020. If you thought that you saw it wrongly, you are not alone. I thought my eyes were playing tricks when i first saw that. As i continued scrolling down the page, i saw something similar to that again.
Taunting Tulip - Ruffled Blouse
For your info, this invalidity of dates happened a few other times too.
I’m not sure what was the rationale of putting the date this way but i concluded that it was probably done in that way because that the owner of the blogshop wanted to put these post at the top of the page. However, that certainly didnt give me a good impression of the blogshop.
Next there were no navigation tab , so what you see is what you get. I have no idea who owns this blogshop or who their target audience are or what they are selling.
Focus and content of the blogshop
With no focus given by them since there is no description, I had to make a guess from what i have seen and explored. They are selling apparrels and from the models it probably target those from age 15 – 25years. On a good side of this blogshop, the collection of apparrels under the pre-christmas sale + flea preview is not bad looking (but you will only get to see these pictures if you are not confused with the design template due to the invalidity of the dates, and you have continued to surf around to explore. Otherwise you might not even see these).
 Taunting Tulips - Ruffled Blouse |
 Taunting Tulip - Vest |
Pre-Christmas Sales + Flea collection
A bad example is this collection (picture below)
Kryptonite Collection
Are they selling blouse, short, hmm.. maybe all. You will get the answers of these question if only you continued to click on the collection to find out. Some of the pictures quality is not very good too.
Ok i must admit at this point in time I am really irritated with the design template. In reality, sometimes a design template really matter alot. If your design template is confusing and the posts is not clear in date, it causes doubt to whether the blogshop is reliable. It will not even do the blogshop justification if a potential customer come to the blogshop and closes the browser within 5sec . There goes your customer isnt it?
Best Deal?
Their price range is between SGD$20-$30 and it is affordable to me. But it is no deal for the moment. I am one of those potential customer who nearly close the blogshop browser in 5sec. But due to wanting to share Taunting Tulips with YOU, i viewed it again. To tell you the truth, i only got to see the pre-christmas collection after my 4th visit. Therefore, for now i would rather spend my time surfing on other blogshops, but i may go back to this blog again to see any changes are made. 
Customer Service
I did not enquire about anything because it is no deal for me. However, there was an option for feedback. I have just sent them a brief summary of how i feel. Let’s wait and see if i get any response.
How to move up my best deal rating?
Out of the few ideas i have to move up my best deal rating, i will only share 2 ideas at the moment.
1) To prevent potential customer from leaving Taunting Tulips within 5sec is to improve on the design template. They could add navigation tab and also correct on the invalidity of the date.
2) Tell us more about who them are, what they are selling etc.
That’s all for my views on Taunting Tulips for now. You can visit them if you would like to see if you agree with my views, otherwise you can visit them if you have no other better blogshops to visit. I would appreciate if you share with me your views too.
Uh, honestly, I think the part about the backdated entry is a little too harsh on that blog. D: It’s a very common thing that that most bloggers on LJ would do to keep an entry on top.
And what’s wrong for Taunting Tulips to keep their feedback form, Mailing list, Terms & Conditions and Sale list on top anyway? D: It is relatively difficult for a user to post links on a livejournal. It’s not like wordpress or blogspot. It’s the easiest way to recall a past entry. To create the navigation bar on LiveJournal is not as easy as you think.
So far as I’m concern, and most people are, I’m sure, the backdated entry is just a pet peeve of yours.
Hi there,
thanks for your feedback. Yeah, i agree that i may sound harsh about Taunting Tulips with regards to their backdated entry thing.
I’ve also recognise about the downside about livejournal where it is indeed tough about the navigation and stuff.
However, these are just my feedbacks of what i feel would allow a user to navigate at ease, cos many time the truth is the first impression counts. Potential customer does not really consider the technicality of whether it is difficult to put up navigation but rather what is pleasing to their eyes.
I’m sorry that you might have misunderstood what i meant about the keeping their feedback form, Mailing list, Terms & Conditions and Sale list on top. Of couse that is important to put on the top, but it was really misleading with the dates.
I have reviews about another blogshop who uses livejournal. They have managed to minimise the backdate thing. =)