Online Shopping Pitfalls : If something is too good to be true, it probably is

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I don’t like sounding “naggy” but I do feel strongly about people who get unintentionally duped, especially when shopping online. The thing about shopping online is the need to be extra careful about what you purchase and where you purchase an item from.

It is easy to find deals online and those group deal websites are usually one of the first places to offer good deals on goods and services. I will however, tell you to please be very vigilant when buying goods, especially cosmetics from these group deal websites, because there is no guarantee they are genuine. Granted, we take that risk every time we shop online, but it is possible to read up reviews about an online store. Its different when its a group deal offering what seems to be an excellent discount off a popular product for a very limited time. You feel like you have to take advantage of the “offer” because its limited.

I no longer subscribe to any group deal website (my reasons for it are here) but I’d recently noticed a worrying trend of popular cosmetics being sold on these group buying websites. The most popular deal is for almost 50% or more off the popular Urban Decay Naked and Naked 2 palettes. Its still something like RM75 or more when the original retails at RM175, but here’s the deal. Its not the original product.

Have you come across this and were your spidey senses tingling? Were you duped?

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Getting out of the rut, and getting a grip of yourself

Paris B 126 Comments

breaking out of a rut

Peekaboo! Hello friends 🙂

You know what? This one week of not blogging, and not even looking at the blog or anything related to it has been liberating. It has also made me miss it more than I realised. I wasn’t planning to be back this quickly, but I have because I missed it, I missed talking to you and I also had my epiphany moment after talking to a couple of friends.

But first, I want to thank all of you for your kind comments in the previous post and on email. It means a lot to me because its made me realise that I am reaching out to people who share the way I feel and who can relate to the way I think and do things. I think MWS has grown far beyond just me, the blogger; its now about all of you who chime in ever so often with your input, and I embrace and am humbled by the growth and support. Group hug anyone? 😀

While I was away, in a bit of a limbo and a rut, there were some things I did that helped me get out of that rut and I wanted to share them with you. We all face a rut sometimes, whether in our work, personal lives, passions and perhaps this can help you get out of it, the way it helped me 🙂

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Money Tip: Don’t be afraid of the credit card – Make it work for you!

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Every now and then, I delve into the practical side of life. Its not always beauty related but will, I hope, be something useful. A while ago, I talked about credit cards and how not to use them and the ensuing discussion tells me we have a bunch of financially savvy ladies here – kudos everyone for not getting yourself into credit card debt, even though you can! 😉

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But an underlying theme I got was how people seem to fear owning a credit card. Ladies, there’s no need to fear it, its just a piece of plastic after all! 😉 What we really need is self control. Once you get your self control in place, you can have 10 credit cards with a credit limit in the hundreds of thousands and still NOT be in credit card debt. In fact make your credit card work its butt off for you! 😉 So really, I’m telling you to use the bank, not let the bank use you 😉

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