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Tag archive for ‘Shopping’

• Is the Saks as Good?

  I am still searching for a good product and service review site like Yelp.com or Urbanspoon or Angie’s List (good and bad) about services and products here?.I did mention pomidor.kz in an earlier post but I missed that that site is mainly intended to collect bad reviews of services in Kazakhstan. It’d be nice to […]

  7/06/11 • (1)

• How to Find Odd Things in Kazakhstan

  While Kazakhstan does have a ways to go in developing useful web services, there have definitely been some interesting developments. I have friends who use online grocery shopping services, I believe from Astrakhzhan. And I mentioned Pomidor.kz in an earlier post as a pretty good review site for local services. From the other side, international […]

  3/19/11 • (2)

• Tomato

  Chris Merriman has up a link to a great resource: Tomato, which is a Kazakhstan-based review site for businesses. A little like Yelp for Kazakhstan, Pomidor (which means “tomato” in Russian) lets people put up reviews and stories of their experiences at different businesses in Kazakhstan. It needs a little more work–be nice to have […]

  1/26/11 • (2)

• Turkish Pirates

  Dear US Polo Association, Perhaps if you want to pirate Ralph Lauren, not only the style and the logo, but also the photoshoots in advertisements, perhaps you could bother to make your website English. When I open a website in Turkish, chances are I’m not going to believe it’s actually a US made product, no […]

  8/13/10 • (2)

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  Shopping in Astana

  So I get a lot of emails from people planning to move here, or doing weird things like doing a role playing game, who want very specific information on living here. As a PSA, I try to tackle the most frequent questions here every now and again. The topic today is doing the shopping and […]

  4/06/10 • (19)