Comments on: Online Shopping in Kuwait

By: Nidal

Nidal — Tue, 29 May 2007 10:04:49 +0000

Shopping online can be really fun especially if you have something specific in mind that you’re hunting for…I used to get books or at least had an agency order them online for me, the thing turned out good at times and miserably disappointing when the books were out of print and I had to scavenger for used books.

Aramex Shop&Ship comes in handy.. there are many times the shippers in US and UK offer special discounts only when the shipping address in in the US or UK… so you get the same rates of the company residents… and at least you can track your mailbox status when you need to.

Donno but it works fine!

By: abdulaziz

abdulaziz — Mon, 28 May 2007 20:14:36 +0000

There are many aspiring q8y website popping up and im really glad to see them. Im tired of waiting for aramex shop and ship and billing addresses for your credit card etc. etc.
some of our local websites i personally love to use are
keetaby.com so books reach me to in the comfort of my home.
q8cost.com for urgent pc stuff like flash memory that reaches me in the comfort of my home without driving all the way to bin khaldoon st.
once tried macdvds.com but i stopped when i found out they sell pirated dvd’s, i think they have blocked the website. Pinkmoonboutique.com my wife used once to buy some strange woman stuff stickers for clothes or somehting.
powdertalk.com my wife recieved and email about last week and just opened. Seems nice for womens stuff too.
and finally 6alabat.com my -and my wife’s- everlasting and favourite q8y website. If there were voting, we would vote it number 1!

By: nxman

nxman — Mon, 28 May 2007 12:50:50 +0000

I purchased some gadgets from clink&buy, Flowers Q8, i always use 6alabt.com to order food I’ve found them all to be very reliable.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 28 May 2007 09:28:21 +0000

Nouf as I said I totally agree, if I was to write the article I would have mentioned a lot more sites since there are a lot of local ones.

I just disagreed with you on the fact that MyPinkMoon is one of the top 3 most popular ecommerce sites in Kuwait. Its hard seeing them being as popular as 6alabat or ClickNBuy but then again I don’t have access to the stats of the sites to compare I just have Alexa. The reason you don’t see mypinkmoon results on Alexa is because according to Alexa they aren’t popular enough. If its a new domain that might be the cause of this, you could try checking with the older pink moon domain and see if that works.

I also agree with you that 10,000 “hits” a month is really low and there must have been some confusion. Maybe the writer misunderstood and its actually 10,000 a day…

By: Samar

Samar — Mon, 28 May 2007 09:10:00 +0000

Try to convince me that 6alabat & Pinkmoon have more traffics than 6arab.com :P .. 50,000 hits per day for food & clothing for each site? thats impressive :D..

By: Samar

Samar — Mon, 28 May 2007 08:52:21 +0000

Mypinkmoon in my openion is growing, especially after of thinking to open their actual location store. but to me, their stuff is nice but the prices are high, Pinkmoon is not perfect but its the best of the available ..the website has all different types of pictures of movie stars and so on.. It needs a little bit of the Arabian touch not only to focus on the American styles and Westerns.

Good luck to all online stores.

By: Nouf

Nouf — Mon, 28 May 2007 06:39:18 +0000

Hi Mark,

I can’t vouch for the other sites but I was referring to the article’s quote that says it has been 8 months and they have received 10,000, 20,000, and 5,000 “hits” in the past 8 months. If “hits” is really what they are reffering to, we get over 50,000 hits a day at Pink Moon.

I tried using Alexa.com but not really sure how it works I cant seem to get any data when I plug in the sites. Also, I don’t think the data would be accurate because Mypinkmoon.com is a reffering domain that refers you to pinkmoonboutique.com. We changed it because we found Mypinkmoon would be easier for people to spell/remember but have not moved the hosting yet. Also, checkout has been closed on the site for the past 4 days while we prepare for our store opening.

I just think articles about online shopping should be more comprehensive in looking at each industry. For example, 6alabat.com is very popular but many of their visits could be due to people like me who visit the site daily to look at the menus, not neccessarily to order from them (although I do order from them as well). So, for a site like that, visits do not neccesarily equal customers. However, with a site like q8flowers, customers are probably not browsing flowers every day for no reason, they are probably there to buy, so their “visits” have more value.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 27 May 2007 20:37:45 +0000

since we r on the topic i noticed pink moon is actually opening a physical store next to burger hub on the gulf road.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 27 May 2007 20:36:58 +0000

Nouf I didn’t write the article but I do agree there should have been more stores mentioned. I do have to disagree with you on your top 3 online shops though. From the 3 you mentioned only 6alabat.com is actually popular according to Alexa.

You can go to http://www.alexa.com and plug in the data of the online stores and you will see that mypinkmoon and pretasouk don’t even get 10% of the traffic of 6alabat. Both clicknbuy and q8flowers are more popular then pinkmoon and pretasouk actually.

By: Nouf

Nouf — Sun, 27 May 2007 20:27:57 +0000

How can you do an article about online shopping in Kuwait and not even mention the first 3 online shops in Kuwait 6alabat.com, MyPinkmoon.com, and pretasouk.com? Each gets at least 10,000 hits a DAY.

By: Angelo

Angelo — Sun, 27 May 2007 19:26:13 +0000

That was a good read and some of the websites are actually quite practical.

By: Q80 BOY

Q80 BOY — Sun, 27 May 2007 14:06:51 +0000

NICE!!!
Kuwait also has (6alabat.com) for ordering food
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!

By: Marzouq

Marzouq — Sun, 27 May 2007 12:20:21 +0000

Very interesting article!!

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Noutique at 2:48AM [The B-Sides] — Sun, 27 May 2007 09:18:42 +0000

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By: zaydoun

zaydoun — Sun, 27 May 2007 08:38:00 +0000

Mark… I need to get in touch with you to write about a major scam that I unfortunately fell for