[REVIEW] KPOPPLUS Online Shop

Hey there! Here comes a little review about the online shop 'Kpopplus'. They also have an ebay shop (I can't really remember, but I think I ordered from there once). It was my first time ordering from their actual site. The site looks really nice and neat. They sell a lot of stuff – next to CDs, DVDs and Kpop Merchandise they also sell cosmetic products, wigs and circle lenses - even Chanyeol's jumpsuit he wore in Exo's Showtime...

I preordered B.A.P's first full length album 'First Sensibility' with an unfolded poster on 31.01.2014 and payed with Paypal. They sent me an e-mail, confirming my order, with the invoice as a PDF file. If you ordered there and didn't receive an e-mail, check your spam folder! All of their e-mails ended up in there.

The album release was on the 3^rd of January and they sent me an email the day after to confirm the shipment, so that was quite quick! Also Kpopplus provide a tracking number to check the status of your order and there you can also see all the details and download the invoice file again.

I can't really say anything about the customer service since everything went smoothly and I didn't have to contact them about any issues.

The shop was down for several times, they probably had some provider issues.

As for the prices I am really pleased: I took a quick look at other CDs and overall it seemed really cheap compared to other online shops (e.g. yesasia).
The shipping costs can be both good and bad. First of all, they do ship worldwide which is already a plus. The shipping costs depend on how much your package weighs, though. Since I only ordered one CD they were about ~6-7$ which is really good compared to yesasia's shipping costs. However, when you want to order more than one CD or something that costs more than 16$, the shipping costs will increase which will make it very expensive. Additionally, they don't offer free shipping costs over a certain price limit, so I'd recommend this site if you want to order only one CD that isn't too expensive.
They do not only list the prices in $ but also in € and £. This might be helpful for some of you.

I also compared the prices with those from their ebay shop (B.A.P – First Sensibility) and it seems it's more expensive to buy from their ebay shop. Shipping to Germany seems to cost 12.99$ and the CD itself (with unfolded poster!) is 1$ more. I guess you should decide for yourself whether you want to buy from ebay or the actual shop.

Shipping (to Germany) took ~2 weeks for the poster to arrive and nearly 6 weeks for the CD which is the longest I have ever waited. Of course this may not exactly be the seller's fault since this also depends on whether there are hectic holidays or anything like that.

The package arrived in a black wrapping foil as you can see on the picture. Unfortunately – and I didn't expect that – my CD wasn't wrapped in any bubble wrap/foil and that kind of shocked me at first because I was really scared my album might be damaged.

After removing the foil of the CD I inspected the album for any damages. You should definitely check the pictures I took and judge for yourself. In my opinion this kind of album should have definitely been wrapped in bubble foil! The edges are a little damaged as you can see, so I am not really happy.

The “Free Gift” (three little colourful photo cards) couldn't really make up for it.

Actually I wanted to order from the Mwaveshop at first, especially because the shipping is free for orders over 25$ (which I find awesome!). But every time I tried to access their shop, it didn't work... So I had to find another good online shop.
After all this horrible waiting and then the unsafely wrapped CD case I am not really satisfied and would not really recommend you buying from their online shop. I am just really mad at the moment that it wasn't securely packaged.

I hope this review was a little helpful! You should all decide for your own, though, if you want to order from there or not!