Good News Anime Fans, ArtOfHobby.com launches

July 23, 2009 at 10:34 pm · Filed under Reviews, Shopping, Sites

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.

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