Sunday, September 24, 2017

Beautynetkorea -- after the changed shipping policy!

Update: I'm (slowly) but surely adding reviews to the products I bought during this haul! 

New shipping policy, cheaper prices! (You pay for shipping now, but it isn't so bad)

Shipping:
My order date: 14 Sept 2017
Date shipped out:
  • according to email: 19 Sept 2017
  • according to tracking provided by Beautynetkorea: 20 Sept 2017
  • according to USPS tracking: 20 Sept 2017
Date received: pending (it has arrived to the US as of 24 Sept 2017), mostly likely arrive 27 Sept 2017

You may be thinking: wow, they're lying. They said they shipped it when it really didn't actually ship until 1 day later. 

False! According to experience, 
  • not all post offices will ship things the day of
  • the time you give the box to them can also determine if shipment will take a day longer
  • Online companies buy shipping online
    • they either hand the package over to the post office the next day
    • they have it picked up (also on the next day). 
A 5-day processing time is not bad at all; it decreases the chances of them canceling an item on you.

I did not really take note, but my Beautynetkorea packages usually take around 2-3 weeks to arrive. This seems to still hold true (I paid for the cheapest, available shipping cost). 

Here is my order. I had to add everything in a shopping cart to see the "sale" prices. I also added the full sized items to Roseroseshop to compare shipping and prices. 

Beautynetkorea vs. Roserose shop (click to enlarge photos)

Costs: (first few Google searches)

Saturday, September 16, 2017

FashionNova sending Facebook Messages without even asking

I was looking for jeans and found one I liked on FashionNova. I added it to my cart to save for later and closed the tab. 

Around an hour later, I decide to go on Facebook and noticed I got a message. It was from FashionNova. I do not recall giving away my email address to the website, so how is it that they found me on Facebook? And they even sent me a link to my shopping cart with the item I added.

Their privacy policy includes collecting basically all of the information that can be found on your browser, such as all of the sites you've been to before and whether or not you are actually looking at the FashionNova website.

I feel like a fashion brand website shouldn't be collecting so much information about their users, even if it's solely for advertisement and their business. Seeing "Don't forget this..." on the FashionNova tab when I am on another tab is unsettling, and I wonder if they also have access to what I am typing.

Update: looking back on this, it's scary how much information Google Chrome itself is giving to other websites.