Tiny Tapir – Eco-friendly products
If you love eco-friendly products but find it hard to get them commercially, you might want to pop by the Tiny Tapir. The Tiny Tapir stocks a variety of products that are environmentally friendly and lots of products for babies even beanies toys in the Zoobies range… oh wait! they are plush toys!
Based in Malaysia, the Tiny Tapir ships internationally but the shipping costs depends on the weight of the product. I have recently shopped through the Tiny Tapir online site and I must say that its been a good experience.
The site is a little hard to navigate at first if you enter via the main page. e.g. House & Garden encompases soaps and various shampoos and lotions which I might have looked under Women for. Also, Out and About encompasses the environmentally friendly bags like the Envirosax or Roototes and Roo shoppers and I did not think of looking there for these.
For Women, there is a range of cloth sanitary pads and various related products. Nursery covers everything for baby from cloth diapers to wee caps. I personally thought that wee caps were such a brilliant idea!
If you have jumped on the Rootote bandwagon (and if you have not, why not?! These tote bags are awesome!) then you’d be happy to know that Tiny Tapir has a good selection of them. The more popular designs sell out very quickly once they go online so you must be fast. The prices vary according to the size and material and according to the shipping costs too. The prices have gone up a little since I first got my first Rootote, but its still affordable for a pretty nice tote bag.
Tiny Tapir offers shipping by courier, poslaju or registered post within Malaysia with free shipping on purchases above RM300 (so share with friends!). If you live in KL, you can opt for cash on delivery but this is only at the KLCC area. In the alternative, you can pop by the Tiny Tapir store which is near KLCC. Go to the map on the site to find out where it is. Be warned that you will need to bring your own bag because they do not provide plastic bags in the interests of the environment.
I placed on order online recently to test out their online services. It was above RM300 so I qualified for free shipping. I did not see the shipping costs included in any event prior to that, only a charge of RM1. I found that a little puzzling. Anyway, upon confirmation of your order, you will receive an email with the total and a follow up email on where to bank in payment. Presently, Tiny Tapir only accept bank in into their bank accounts, no credit cards. It might put some people off, but since most of us have a Maybank account, it shouldn’t be that hard to make payment.
You also receive confirmation of receipt of payment and thereafter notification of your package being sent out. I think that is good. It keeps the buyer informed every step of the way about when they can expect their item.
I had a good experience shopping with Tiny Tapir and I hope you will too.
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RooTote! Hehehe. I’ve had a pretty good experience shopping with Tiny Tapir too.
I was very happy to try out Tiny Tapir as the shipping seemed so little. Then when we confirmed the purchases, we were shocked that shipping was not was was shown on the website. Hey, if they wanted to do that, they should not deceive potential buyers with the RM1 shipping cost.
Hi there.
I just want to clarify on the shipping. Some shops will charge a flat rate shipping charge – e.g. RM8 or RM11 and ONLY ship through courier services, which is costly for our customers.
Therefore we have such a wide variety of shipping charges – Poslaju, Registered mail and courier, so the customer can choose.
Because we don’t know what the customer will buy, or where the customer is from and what shipping method they choose, it’s very hard for us to predict what is the shipping charge going to be.
Therefore when you check out, there is a note there along the lines of “Actual shipping charges will be calculated after confirmation”. We only charge ACTUAL shipping so we do not mark up for handling fees or packaging.
We hope our customers don’t think we are deceiving them. We do this to be fair, although i understand it can be confusing so perhaps we should just switch to the flat rate charges anyway since a lot of people misunderstand our intentions with regards to shipping!
thanks for the lovely review though
we are working on making the website more clear for our shoppers…