Comments on: brownbook: Kuwait’s blooming online market

By: liono

liono — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:33:36 +0000

Just a shame they all have a very poor staple of brands and poor ranges………

By: ohyeah

ohyeah — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:16:46 +0000

its useless specially in kuwait ( small country and all have cars,many manny malls, and thanx good rich so not a big deal ..etc)
the whole thing in these sites is the site itself seems it took 80% of their time to design the site and the things they sell is just nothing! nothing special ..hey! we r in kuwait not waq waq island!!! with respect to waq waq :P

By: L

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 08:10:08 +0000

ugh i have no idea who designs these retarded websites..
it’s either flash based or bought as templates from ‘buyashoppingcartwebsite.com” websites.

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:29:09 +0000

How come that house on the left looks like a swastica?

By: Jens

Jens — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:55:34 +0000

agreed, this would involve professional market research, professional purchase,professional P/L calculation, professional selling…Internet shopping is a great market, a friend of mine paid his villa from it and a lot more.Bastard he is ;-)

By: Marzouq

Marzouq — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:48:53 +0000

Some stores aren’t completely online, but some of those stores I know stock up items! They have both online and real stores!

By: dj_will

dj_will — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:38:02 +0000

i love to see kuwaiti youth making an effort at all this internet shopping, however, they are all overpriced to a certain extent, and they have limited selection & sizes. People will continue to order form abroad. why not make it official, official retailing is easy. Bulk buy A&F shorts for example, which would cost around the same to have it shipped or a little bit less after adding profit. Just and idea!

By: Jens

Jens — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:17:20 +0000

Thats why I said it’s brave. But if I get i cheaper AND faster from US there is no use for local shops. No risk not fun.

By: Rayboy

Rayboy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:08:20 +0000

Jens , you might be right about “sold out”, but to be constantly in stock is tough. if you compare Kuwaiti Websites to online mega stores. We need to consider the market segments they cater to. for example 10000 pieces of an IPOD nano sold in a larger market could be relatively equal to 100 pieces of ipod nano sold to a smaller market.

By: Jens

Jens — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:47:08 +0000

Hawally is maybe not yet online ;-)

By: roxas

roxas — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:44:12 +0000

mark why do you always post fashion why not electroincs or computer parts :P

By: Jens

Jens — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:20:22 +0000

But to open a webshop here is already a brave action, we should appreciate it. With all the freight forwarders buying outside Q8 is most of the time very cheap. People who dont know how to do, wouldn’t use the local websites anyway. So we should give the local shops some time.

By: Jens

Jens — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:12:04 +0000

mmh, sold out, not in stock…. Mark I think Aloha is not wrong. I didn’t check all stores, but as somebody who buys whatever makes sense at amazon and ebay I must say that what I have seen looks like somebody who is, lets say in the learning phase, looks a bit like playing real live. Nice designs of the sites at least ;-).

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:13:21 +0000

i think all of the ones listed above have the items in stock and dont order them for u.

By: Rayboy

Rayboy — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:11:45 +0000

Aloha… you cant “generalise” i know a couple of websites, which actually “stock” items.