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You are probably familiar with ebay – a similar site exists in China called Taobao 淘宝 (http://www.taobao.com/). On Taobao you can pretty much find anything you can imagine at very competitive prices.
Buying stuff on Taobao
First you do a search for the item you want to buy. In my case a Logitech mouse called m505.
You will get a result page similar to that above. There are a few things you should know in order to select the best offer / vendor:
- Location: in this example Shanghai (上海) or Beijing (北京). This is not very important but influences the delivery time and sometimes also the courier fee.
- Below the price you will get the fee (运费) for standard delivery, often you can choose other (usually more expensive) options during checkout.
- If you are afraid of buying things online, you should look for 货到付款. If the seller offers this option, you pay at your door when the product is delivered and not in advance.
- The term 信用卡 means credit card and is displayed next to a small credit card icon. For those of you who do not have a Chinese bank account with online payment features, this might be the best way to go.
- 七天退换 means you can send the article back within 7 days to get your money back. Be careful with this however, this does not always works as smooth as it sounds.
- 最近成交88笔 means during the last few days the seller sold 88 pieces of this item. If this number is high it usually indicates that the seller real, the price is good and as he is selling a lot – there is a good chance that he has the item on stock.
Before you pay
It is important to know, that although each items is listed with number in stock, that a lot of sellers do no actually have it on stock but need to order or reorder it themselves. Yes, this is against the rules but it is nevertheless very common and it seems everybody excepts this practice. Therefore, what you want to do before checking out is contacting the seller. Although there is an e-mail address listed, this is rarely used in China. The way to go is to use Taobao’s integrated chat-function to ask if the item is on stock.
Payment
The payment can be done via all kinds of chinese online banks and depending on the seller also credit cards. The payment system that inteacts with the differnt banks is Alipay. You can also use this directly. It is easy to create an account on Alipay.com. If you pay via credit card and get your money back from the seller, he can not put it back on your credit card and the money goes to your alipay account by default.
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