Where to do your Chinese New Year 2025 shopping? Not anywhere else, but through my links here.

How did this happen? I thought it is still supposed to be Christmas, but hey, it’s already going to be mid-January.

This year – for 2025 – Chinese New Year arrives a bit earlier than usual, on the 29th of January, which falls on a Wednesday.

Many malls almost didn’t manage the change on time.

As a side note, I was in JB in mid-November. Some mall (which I shall not mention) skipped Christmas altogether and hopped straight to the Lunar New Year. So I actually heard Chinese New Year songs in mid-November.

And where Chinese New Year songs are concerned – and this is personal – the Malaysian ones are way better.

Here’s one for you to get into the mood.

So Where to Do Your Chinese New Year 2025 Shopping

Of course, there is always the choice of going to your trusty malls to do all your shopping.

In today’s day and age, there’s a mall in every vicinity, and all of us are spoiled for choice.

Doing Your Chinese New Year 2025 Shopping Online

And in the digital era, there is always the option of doing your Chinese New Year 2025 shopping online, at your fingertips.

So convenient that you don’t have to lose an arm or leg trying to lug your Chinese New Year 2025 merchandise home.

NB: The following images are AI-generated. No arm was twisted in the production process.

What are your options?

Disclaimer: The opinions as expressed in this post are completely biased and without factual substantiation. As a Shopee and Lazada affiliate, I make a small commission equivalent to a few coins when you purchase your Chinese New Year 2025 merchandise through my links. Your decision to buy through my links will not affect the prices in any way, but it will go a long way in motivating me to keep this website going.

Where to Do Your Chinese New Year 2025 Shopping: Choice 1: Shopee

I was never a fan of Shopee till the Covid period. During the lockdown, I ran out of pens, and you know ~ I am picky about my pens.

All my pens need to have a tip size of 1.0 mm, and that was unavailable during our Circuit Breaker (Popular was closed).

The only seller of 1.0-mm pens was found on Shopee, and that was how I started.

How I Became a Shopee Affiliate

I signed up for the Shopee Affiliate programme when I first posted about fish oil.

Knowing how curious readers would definitely ask about where they can purchase the fish oil, I decided to pre-empt the question and post the link to buy the fish oil online.

Since then, I have had some – not a lot of – adventure with Shopee.

Apparently, some of the orders generated through my links were classified as fraud.

Turns out, one or two of my friends or readers have bought so much through my links that they thought I was buying for myself.

Upon further query, this is the answer I got:

To clarify further, purchases are flagged as fraudulent when our system detects notable similarities in contact, shipping, or payment information across transactions. These checks are implemented to safeguard all our users and ensure fair usage of the platform. Below are some examples of the criteria used:

Contact information: Orders using identical or highly similar names, phone numbers, or email addresses.

Shipping Address: Transactions repeatedly using the same or slightly modified shipping address.

Payment information: Frequent use of the same payment method or card across multiple transactions.

Unfortunately, once an order is marked as fraudulent, this decision is final, and we are unable to amend or review it further.

To help avoid similar issues in the future, we recommend ensuring that each transaction has unique details wherever possible, as outlined above.

Why It Matters to You

I had my enquiry bounced from one agent to another, from a Linda to a Wendy and a Kavita, all of whom I believe are basically monikers of lowly-paid Virtual Assistants without decision-making power based in India or the Philippines.

It really sucks to be them, having to deal with people like me, but anyway…

The answer seemed to be a copy and paste from some PDF they were told to refer to, because when I asked them the ultimate question, they just repeated the same answer.

What’s my ultimate question?

It is this:

Which essentially means that my followers should buy less – can I clarify on that? I also take the rules seriously, so if the rules are clear, I will be able to follow.

Nobody answered that question directly.

Their fraud rules happen to validate that one or a few of my readers are ardent supporters of this little venture of mine, and that buying too much through my links have ironically sabotaged me.

So why does it matter to you?

If you are going to buy through my Shopee links, please DON’T buy too much.

Note to Fellow Affiliates: Just in case you haven’t realised, sending a gift to your friend through Shopee might ALSO trigger this fraud alarm. Because you will need to add your friend’s address into your delivery address, which means it’s your address, which means that the next time your friend orders something for himself or herself through your links, it is not a genuine affiliate order. Even if you have worked hard at the conversion.

What If You Insist on Buying Through Shopee

Then you should buy through my link here: https://s.shopee.sg/6fRS8BXI6j

Or click the button below:

I Still Want to Buy Through Shopee

Where to Do Your Chinese New Year 2025 Shopping: Choice 2: Lazada

There’s one thing about Lazada, and I want to make it official here: I believe it’s grossly UNDER- Rated.

It’s like, they don’t come up with spectacular voucher-drops or anything like that, but their products are really good value-for-money.

Somehow, whenever I check out my cart, all the best deals have already been automatically applied, and what I have to pay is way lower than what I have expected.

Free shipping seems to be their forte, and if you really love to save, I believe Lazada is the way to go.

The only bugbear I have: their platform looks messy. But for good reason: they have lots of products.

Anyway, Lazada and RedMart are one family, if you haven’t realised, and for this Chinese New Year 2025 shopping, you might want to check out my link below for Mandarin oranges, the kind where – according to many Chinese uncles and aunties – you will constipate if you eat too much.