It is interesting because of the following reasons:
1. This spate involves two teens who are still in school and are running blogshop businesses on the side. Each party has made claims that are contradictory to the other's.
2. It brings into question the legal standing of blogshops. If either party brings this case to the authorities, will it be entertained? Will these blogshops be considered legitimate business entities? In this case, they are resorting to police reports!
3. The spate is brought to the attention of the public via social networks. It has been posted on a forum and at least one blog has even reviewed it (although its authenticity is hard to determine).
4. Since the owners are teens, their family members, especially their parents, have been pulled into it as well.
This is the seller's blogshop, called Shopping-Oh, run by Steffi, Sherlyn and their mom. They are teens, one being about 16-18 years old and the other younger. They buy direct from wholesalers in Taiwan and probably have other blogshops as customers. It is claimed to be a family business. The mom works at Republic Polytechnic where they run a family-owned food stall.
http://shopping-oh.blogspot.com/2008/09/hihi-d.html
The owners have opted to use their blogshop to tell their side of the story. Not sure if this is a good PR move at all.
This is the buyer's blogshop called PeekaBoOo.
http://www.peekkabooo.blogspot.com/ .
The owner is Angela Lee, and it seems they are buying from other blogshops (like Shopping-Oh) and reselling it.
The buyer has posted this spate on a popular Singaporean forum called SG Club. The whole thread is here:
http://forums.sgclub.com/singapore/mother_blogshop_owner_286922.html
Here is a blog that has incidentally made a review of Shopping-Oh:
http://www.passion2serve-sg.com/
I am not sure if it is a real blog or something that the buyer has set up just to tell her side of the story. Note that the blog is NEW, and has one post.
Hope to see how this plays out.
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