Hello Bag Hoarders,
Let me tell you guys how disappointed I was with my experience when I bought some native bags online. In search of the greatest native bags on the internet, I was able to encounter this website which I thought was a great one because they were selling very nice designs of native bags talulabellblog I was really excited and immediately looked for their page on Facebook which is Talulabell Handmade Crafts TalulaBellHandmadeCrafts, and ordered some bags through chat. For my first inquiries, I received a response only after a day. I guess they were too busy that is why it takes so long to respond and so I ignored that thought.
My orders were finalized within a week time. The payment is through BPI because I thought it would save me time. I sent the proof of payment and then afterward Joy confirmed it. Joy Olaguera (Owner) asked for 2 weeks time before it can be shipped due to the time asked by the weavers to make the bags. (I bought 4 bags, which I will show later) I waited for 2 weeks until I asked for an update again because I didn’t want to pressure them asking every time for my orders. It took days again before I got a response. When I finally got a response, I kind of didn’t like her tone. She seems irritated that I am asking for an update, but if you guys were me I know you’d want to be updated too, right? She told me that the bags were still for production and she was asking for another week. I told her that I understood because I know making the bags might take time because it’s handmade. Another week has passed and I asked for another update, and again as expected as expected the response took a day. I was growing impatient because she committed that I’d get my orders after a week and I still didn’t. I have received it after a month. That was way too long from what she had committed to.
She sent the bags through Phil Post from Bicol. I took around a week before it arrived to me. To my disappointment, the bags were not as nice as it was on the images. It was untidily done as well. I was saddened with the bags because I have waited a long time to receive them and they were very unsatisfactory. I had high hopes about these bags but it’s not even worth the time and money.
Buying from Talulabell has given trust issues. A friendly reminder, if you want to buy some good native bags and stuff, you better leave this one shop out. It wouldn’t be worthy of your money and time. Save yourself from disappointment.
Until my next blog. I hope you all learned something from this blog guys. See you next blog!
