Step 5:You’re not done! Now you have to wait for your stuff to arrive in their warehouse to combine your shipment. This is the easy part so I won’t bother with photos. This is where you’ll sign in and enter in your credit card information. On the bottom in the orange box, it should show your name and your final shipping address!Ĭlick on the orange button and you’ll get taken to Alipay. Here it shows you if you used any coupons again for the total. When you’re done, hit pay and it should take you the alipay payment page. For ebooks, I usually elect I don’t want them because it sometimes messes up with your shipping later when they can’t find your “ebooks” and usually those free ebooks aren’t great. You can elect not to take the discount, a different discount, etc. It shows you if there was a discount in your cart. In your shopping cart, you’ll see these drop down menus. We had group members use both and both were fine. EMS first will unbox each of your packages from individual seller and then combine it in one box. JCEX packs and combines your individual seller items in a box without first unwrapping from their original packaging. Make sure the bottom left box is also checked saying that you agree to their terms where they’ll help you combine shipping. After you’re done selecting, click the orange button for being done with selection. It dictates which warehouse your goods are going to in order to be combined for shipment later. Just know this the ONLY time you’ll get to choose a shipping carrier and it cannot be changed after you click order. EMS has a limit of 30kg/shipment and the rates are only slightly more pricey than JCEX but once it’s in the states, it comes 90% of the time through UPS. If you click on the right link that says 修改服务商, you can change your shipping company and here are your choices:Įither EMS or JCEX both will get you or items by air. The top orange section is choosing your shipping company. This is the first screen you’ll see when you check out. Step 4: Go to your cart, check off items you want to pay for and click right bottom button and we’ll begin the checkout process. A popular book seller in China is DangDang if you’re buying books so try to buy from them if they’re available. Choose sellers with lots of ratings and when buying items, make sure they have more than quantity of “1”… it makes it more likely that they are in it to conduct business and would be shipping stuff out right away. Step 3: Shop on Taobao and add stuff to cart. You’ll need it to pay later through TaoBao. Note that above, I chose 其它证件.Īnd then you’re done. They will tell you to enter in an ID… I put in a fake number and still worked. Select your country and your cell phone number and then click on send text (gray button) and then enter in the confirmation number in the blue box after you got your text on your cell phone.Ĭhoose your username and enter it twice (above) and then pick a password. This is their user agreement screen, click ok and move on. This is like their paypal and will allow you to use your American credit card to pay for your products. Step 2: Register on Alipay (for an account. Step 1:Register on Taobao (for an account. To find out more and to get more help, you can always join my facebook group:įor the mobile version of this article and other great information about Taobao books, conditions, etc., my good friend has written something super detailed on her page from Hands On Chinese Fun: How to Taobao on Your Mobile . Hopefully this will demystify all the Taobao madness. The site will always be in Chinese only but if you follow the below screens, you may be able to save yourself a few hundred dollars in agent fees. This article is written to help people navigate buying from Taobao directly to avoid using Agent Fees.
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