Thanks for posting the tips, Humanbeing. :)
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Thanks for posting the interesting links regarding the discount system in China, HB. :)
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I just made this thread into a sticky, to make it easier for others to find.
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Thank you, Weld. :) When I posted this thread I added a link to it in both of the Zongshen sticky threads I maintain.
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i am trying to use taobaotrends, but the items i am adding are not showing up right... they show a price of $0... what am i doing wrong? i copied and pasted the links from taobao right out of the header bar...
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ok, I will do so, thanks spud!!!
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Looks like their PayPal account has reached its limit. The alternatives are Western Union and Skrill (https://www.skrill.com/en-us/home/). The fee for Western Union was going to be $9 and would take 3-5 days to complete. So I set up a Skrill account and sent the 1st payment. I pasted the confirmation of payment in a reply to the email I got from the agent.
Hoping this all works out. Skrill was only $0.64 and the fee was charged to the seller but there was a 2.9% fee to upload the money to Skrill from a Debit Card. |
Ok, trying this taobao thing. Just made my first order using this site http://www.engtaobao.com/ . It seemed easier to use than taobaotrends.com and was quite a bit more economical too. They had better shipping rates and purchase costs than Taobaotrends. So now the waiting game......
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Good for you. :tup: How did you discover the Engtaobao agent?
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I was looking for a part for my China Scooter. Been looking for a rear carrier for some time. The Zuma carrier I thought would work, but I did not want to pay $120.00 to find out. In Asia the Zuma is sold as the BWS so I was searching under that name with google images. I found a carrier that was linked to this site http://pintaobao.com/. I remembered this thread from some time ago and went to taobao.com, but could not make out how to purchase there ether because it was in Chinese. Then I did a search for English taobao and this site popped up. I then when back to this thread and read through it and signed up for taobaotrends. Had a hard time trying to figure it out so when back to Engtaobao which I found had a lot more user information and direction. I finally got both to work, but when I dropped the url in taobaotrends it was giving me a $14.00 total amount and when I dropped the url in engtaobao it was $8.40. Then I noticed that engtaobao also offered 50 percent off shipping and taobaotrends offered only 40 percent. Also, there are a lot of perks on the engtaobao site if you order a lot of things and invite friends. So I went with that site. Not sure if they offer the same support though. But, they do verify that the ordered item is as described.
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Thanks for posting the detailed reply. :)
Learning how to order from Taobao requires some practice, but the savings are well worth the effort. :) Subsequent orders will now be much easier. :tup: |
btw. SAL http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Air_Lifted is a good option for non-urgent items. Some agent offer this "traditional" method ...
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Excellent suggestion, HB. Thanks!
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