Q8Ba7th Official Blog

Name: Art Of Hobby

Site: ArtOfHobby.com

Type: Shopping / Anime

Language: English

Launch Date: July, 2009

Brief: Art Of Hobby is the official online shopping site of the well known physical store among its fans, Hobby Japan, which started as a physical store back in 2002 selling famous action figures.

Review:

Very few stores offer what thousands love and adore, and this one as far as I know is the first that delivers on online shopping site in Kuwait for anime figures collection. What’s best about it is, it’s from a fan for the fans. You would see a simple design, and even the fonts used are not the professional ones usually used by companies. I think what he’s trying to achieve is a more friendly, anime like look of the site.

Pricing:

Since I’m really not an anime fan, I can have no say on the pricing. So it’s up to you guys to see and decide. What do you think?

Payment:

I’m not sure if this was just left there or that’s the method of payment, but the site shows at the bottom of the page PayPal, VISA and MasterCard as the available methods of payment. I think this was left there from the original ready made template, since PayPal is really not that popular in Kuwait. Also, point # 1 in the Terms & Conditions page seems to suggest a cash on delivery.

Delivery:

This is where it gets confusing, and let’s you feel the site should be taken more seriously. On the main page, it mentions “We deliver to your home for only 1 KWD and for orders over 50 KWD Will be free.”, and free otherwise. Now aside from the high minimum order for free delivery, the terms and conditions page puts it completely different:

3-For orders less than 99KD a customer must pay a 2KD for shipping charge.

4-Orders over 99KD will get a free Shipping.

Quite confusing. But I think the 1 KD is the most updated one. They must’ve forgotten to reflect on it in the terms page. If you wish however, you can place the order online, and pick it from the shop for FREE as well.

Refund & Exchange:

The site offers exchange only for a period of 3 days from the purchase.

Gallery:

Popularity: 8% [?]

Name: Logitech.com.kw

Category: Shopping / Electronics

Language: English

Launch Date: July, 2009

Brief: Logitech Kuwait is the official dealer from Logitech in Kuwait, and has taken the step of providing it’s electronics offerings online through an easy to use shopping site, with Knet payment and next day delivery through Posta Plus.

Review:

It’s nice to see brand companies like Logitech realizing the potential of online shopping, and going up with their offerings online, with next day delivery. The site design is fairly simple, no cluttered ads to slow down page loading or distract the user. Response is pretty good, and unlike some other shopping sites in Kuwait, you can complete your whole shopping before registering with the site. Registration is only required at the time of checkout.

Pricing:

Pricing of the site varies from one item to another compared to Amazon, and while most of the items end up cheaper at Amazon, the price difference is sometimes small in the range of 5 KD, something that you will end up paying a company like Aramex eventually for the shipping, if not more. In addition, many items on the Logitech site come with 2 years of warranty and product support, as opposed to being on your own once you get it from Amazon.

So next time you wanna buy a Logitech piece of hardware, give this site a look. Seek reviews on Amazon, and compare the price. Put the shipping cost and product warranty in mind as well.

Advertising:

What’s really notable is the intensive smart advertising campaign Logitech is running on Google, and quite custom to your search.

Someone’s been doing real good job at his advertising campaign.

Popularity: 12% [?]

Kakkuii.com, the first Kuwait game rental site that launched last December, have done a complete revamp for the look and feel of the site, and came up with new much more appealing rental packages as well. The main site now has a blog theme taste, and is full of game videos, reviews, forums, news, and more. There is even a live chat box on the side menu. So the site now is growing more like a community site, with the added service of game rental. Quite smart! You can feel the site is like a small GameSpot version now, and I personally see a future for it.

Pricing

While the old pricing packages left a considerable amount of space for thinking, the current one is so much straight forward and easy to help you make up your mind.

So for an average of one game per month, you would pay 20 KD + (2.5 * 12), total of 50 KD for 12 games of play, average of 4.170 KD / game. And if you’re a serious gamer, then it would be the 33 KD + (5 * 12), total of 93 KD, or 3.875 KD/game. Another plus is the ability to return games you don’t like (or finish too quickly!) within a week for 1.750 KD only!

Some people want to hold the game for more than a month. Some want to own it, especially for online games like Call of Duty. But if you’re the sort of gamer who finishes a game in a week’s time and jumps to another, then this package might be just your thing.

Popularity: 7% [?]