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Get shopping with Cyber Black Friday

Black Friday (the day after Thanksgiving) when US retailers offer extensive discounts and extended hours as Americans gear up to do their Christmas shopping.

While you may bemoan the fact that you're stuck in Singapore and are unable to join the queues outside Macy's or Target, you can still partake of those fabulous shopping offers to add on to your Christmas shopping online with retailers' version of Cyber Black Friday.

If you have a Singapore-issued American Express card, as comGateway and Singapore-issued American Express cards have created a shopping site borderlessbuys.com.sg for you to join the shopping craze.

Local shoppers in Singapore can access over 300,000 US online retailers, which generally do not ship or accept payment on non-US issued credit cards. At borderlessbuys.com.sg, shoppers can get a personal US address and have their purchases sent there before being shipped to their desired locations worldwide.

The website also provides one of the lowest international shipping rates from US to Singapore.

Launched in April, a spokesperson from American Express says they have seen transactions increase by 50 per cent. Top three categories of purchases are apparels, bags and shoes and top five retailers are Polo Ralph Lauren, Abercrombie & Fitch, Gap, Banana Republic and Armani Exchange.

Here's how you can check out these big discounts with this step-by-step instructions on how to do your online shopping:

1. American Express Cardmembers to register with borderlessbuys.com.sg and get a personal US address.

2. Start shopping at more than 300,000 online stores.

3. For stores that accept Singapore-issued American Express cards but do not ship overseas, cardmember can use the DIY service, pay the merchant directly and arrange to send the purchases to the US address issued.

4. For stores that only accept US issued credit cards, cardmembers can use the BuyForMe concierge service, indicate the item that they wish to purchase and American Express’ partner for borderlessbuys.com.sg, comGateway, will purchase the items on cardmembers' behalf and charge cardmember for the purchases.

5. Cardmembers will be informed when the packages arrive at their US addresses.

6. Upon receiving the packages, cardmembers will be able to repack or combine packages to save on shipping cost. borderlessbuys.com.sg provides one of the lowest international shipping rates from US to Singapore.  In addition, American Express cardmembers enjoy automatic upgrade to Prime membership tier where they will be able to enjoy faster delivery while paying Standard shipping rates
(note: Prime shipping takes 2-3 days while Standard shipping takes 5-8 days. There is also a difference in shipping costs between the 2 tiers).

7. Ship from the US addresses to cardmembers’ locations.

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