What is Taobao?
Taobao is a famous site in China that gives a platform for sellers and buyers to exchange goods and communicate with each other. Currently, Taobao has over 500 million users, conducts over 1 billion RMB each day, and sell over 430 thousand goods every minute. It is a combination of Amazon and EBay. It isn’t a company that directly sells products to you, but it is a place that you can just buy things that you need from different individuals.
Benefits of Using Taobao
Taobao is a platform that has over 2.7 million sellers, and they supply you with products from all over the world. You can buy almost anything on Taobao, and it proves itself very useful when you find that you cannot get certain items locally. Average buyers spend over 5000 RMB annually on Taobao. Here you can also find products from America, Europe and other parts of the world.
Tip:
In case you have a hard time following the instructions given below, please use Google Chrome’s translating function to supplement the instructions given below.
Google Chrome can be downloaded from here.
Google Chrome can be downloaded from here.
Register Taobao Account by sending a message TB to 1069099988.
Then, find the place with a red box on the website and click.
The link to Taobao Global (Click the blue text)
The link to Taobao Global (Click the blue text)
Type your phone number into the first box, and the letters at the end of the replied message into the second box.
Then, in the new page, click the orange box, and check your phone for the verification code, and type it in the box.
After this step, you will see a page that says that you have successfully registered.
Now, go to the home page, search the item that you want. You may use Google Translate to find the word in Chinese.
Please include more keywords to increase the chances of finding the product.
Please include more keywords to increase the chances of finding the product.
Use Taobao's ranking function to rank the items from different aspects from high to low. They are: (From left to right)
Popularity, Sales, Credibility, Newest, Price
Popularity, Sales, Credibility, Newest, Price
After you have selected the item that you want, click the orange button on the bottom (立刻购买) to proceed to check out.
Then, at the checkout page, enter your address and postal code in Chinese (please find the place on Google Maps), and the window translation is (in the order from left to right) Province(choose山东省), City (choose 青岛), District, Postal Code, Street Address, Receiver’s Name, Phone Number, Mobile Number. * marks means it must be filled.
After you type your address, click the blue button to save.
Then, click 提交订单to pay.
Click on 信用卡 tab, choose Visa/MasterCard on the bottom.
Click on the blue button to select international credit card options
Select Visa/Master Card
Fill in the essential information. Translation are as follows:
Card Number
Card Holder’s Name
Valid Date (Month, Year)
CSV
Email
Payment Address
Card Number
Card Holder’s Name
Valid Date (Month, Year)
CSV
Payment Address
If your delivering address is different from your payment address, click on the blue button beside the "payment address" in order to change it
Click on the orange button to pay.
Payment Completed, the goods will deliver to your address.
If you would like more information, please refer to the official guide here.