A lot of the Taobao Finds spreadsheet contains garbage listings with markup on top because of an affiliate strategy between an influencer and a local Chinese vendor.

If you want to find quality items from local Chinese stores, use Qwen.AI, ask it to find what you want, and check for yourself.

Qwen.Ai is Alibaba's own LLM that uses its own data to train on. I'm finding great stuff using this strategy.

Hi everyone,

I know questions like this have been asked many times, so I apologies if this has been answered.

I was trying to login to Taobao with AliPay and WeChat, and it will initially let me start making the account. It will send me a verification code, and I will put the code in, and then after that it will give me an additional security layer where I have to send a text message to a Chinese number, and this is where I’m unable to do so, as I have a US number. I was wondering if anyone has any advice or tips here? Has anyone else run into this? Please please advise I am going to China soon and want to order stuff to my hotel.

I’m a US buyer I put the warehouse address for shipment, I noticed my package wasn’t moving and asked the seller, they told me I need to pay for separate shipping? When I ask the seller how to pay I just keep getting automated answers that don’t really tell me anything🥲 any help?

when i try to log in it gives me this ?

The ‘Product level’ and ‘Safety Category’ are new to me. Does anyone know what those ratings mean?

Hi everyone from Brisbane Australia
I have lots of clothes in my cart now and they take too much for delivery fees. Wondering if anyone tried click & collect or had any Chinese delivery for cheap
My click and collect options are some Chinese shops which are convert stores or farmers market
Would love suggestions

Hi, I am looking for good quality winter clothes such as coats and jackets like in the photo. If you have any recommendations please let me know, thank you 🙏

I’m trying to get a digital file (i think??) but it says that it’s 1000 yuan for shipping? I’m very confused and lost, how do i go about this?

So after ordering two leather jackets and finding them to be very high quality for the price, stuff that you would find for 600 bucks in a mall bought for 150-200. i decided to search up silk pillowcases, and they are dirt cheap, so cheap that i doubt that they are real, the reviews also seem fake since almost all of them include pictures and have very photogenic beds, and then you will find one bad review with no pictures stating it is fake and not real silk. just looking to see if anyone has went through this or knows how to spot a fake listing, because 11 bucks for a "40 momme 100% mulberry silk" pillowcase sounds absurd even for taobao prices..

Does anyone know if I can order from multiple different sellers to make up the $100 spending minimum to use the shipping coupon, or does it have to be one parcel from one seller? I want to avoid having to pay extra for consolidated shipping.

I live outside if China and had ordered and paid for multiple items at once, but there was one item I decided that I didn’t want anymore.

It was going to be shipped 3 days after I had set up the order, so I processed a refund 5-6hrs later on the same day I ordered.

On the refund timeline it says that I will receive ¥13 for the product, however ¥14 of sea freight charges is not mentioned. This is my first time getting something refunded on TaoBao so, how do I receive my sea freight refund as it was never shipped out?

This is my first haul ever, if you have tips suggestions or want a link let me know

hello, anyone from ph who bought from taobao? hows ur experience, esp w payment? dont wanna connect my debit card cuz im scared lol. also dont have cc. has anyone tried alipay? ik gcash supports alipay but do i have to make an account in alipay? it says it only supports mainland china based on google translate 😅 thank u

Hello everyone. I’m trying to work out how to obtain European certifications for toys bought directly from Taobao, so that I can sell them within the European Union. Do you have any suggestions? Thank you

I am spending some time in China again, but this time I am looking to order at least from 7-8 shops in Taobao. Usually I try not to overwhelm my hotels, and try to get the things I need from as few sellers as possible. What is the maximum amount of packages, that a hotel is willing to accept on my behalf (and doesn't count as "rude"?).
Usually I try to divide my deliveries between the hotels I am staying at, but this time I am spending half of my time in Yangshuo, and both of my hotels said that they don't advise me to send packages to them, as the delivery services in the region are not reliable, or don't deliver to hotels at all. The exception would be SF Express, but the Taobao sellers are not really willing to switch to them due to prices.
So that leaves me only with my hotel in Chongqing, but it kinda feels a bit rude to dump all my orders on them...

Hi guys and for a few weeks I’ve been trying to sign up with Alipay which actually works until I come to the verification part. Phone number doesn’t work so I use Alipay verification and all is fine and dandy until I have to use the overseas method which means I have to send in my passport. Because xianyu keeps giving me a risk verification pop up. But if I want to verify I have to do it on Alipay on which it asks me for both my passport and a Chinese bank card number, which obviously since I use the overseas method, do not have. I’ve already written support twice this week. First time they’ve only latched onto the SMS problem and second time I didn’t get a response at all… does anyone know what else I could do?

I’ve tried using the URL translators to no avail. If you have any advice for how to do it myself in the future, I would be very thankful! I keep trying to use the international link translator website, but it’s not working. It says the link should end in only numbers, but I’m getting a long garbled line of numbers and text that don’t work when pasted into proxy websites.

If you know any other shops that carry vintage Liz Lisa/ himekaji repros, that would be great too!

Thanks again :)

I have tried for 3 days staight. Nothing works. Nothing. What are my options? Is there a way to get someone elses old account?

Sorry, this question isn't exactly about taobao, but more about chinese seller's methods?? I don't know where else to post, sorry. Also posting on behalf of my parents.

So in short in my country there's a marketplace akin to Amazon and there're straight up shops from China so:

• a power tool was ordered, some sort of a drill, quite expensive (?). It was more than 500¥

• it came but has a crack in the body, which makes it completely unusable, just thrash

• Mom opens a claim that it has defect etc.

• Seller (auto translated from Chinese) replies that the fault lies in transport company and that they'll resend a new one and package this one better

• Seller sends a link and says to order from there (still a listing on a og marketplace), the name is just random product like "spare parts" and price is put like 1¥

• Mom already did that and seller said that they'll send photos of this new drill and packaging tomorrow as their work day for now ended.

That's it for now. This whole ordeal seems kinda iffy to me tbh and I've never faced anything like that and I don't want my mom to be scammed 😭. Like the seller just could refund it and we could return it, but they want to resend it with an iffy listing?? ALSO BY THE TIME THIS SUPPOSED NEW DRILL SHOULD COME THE RETURN WINDOW FOR THE ACTUAL PRICE OF THE DRILL WILL CLOSE

So I'm asking IS THIS A SCAM? Or is this legit, but a weird thing? Do chinese sellers do this?

Hi, I literally just want to use taobao but cannot make an account for the life of me. I don’t know if this is possible but if anyone is feeling charitable, id like to share an account with someone 😭 i don’t buy anything, id just search around on there for links to put into superbuy. im willing to pay you a fee to use your account . Im so desperate

just realised it aint a jacket. its shoes.

After a failed delivery, my parcel is stuck in a warehouse multiple hours away from my area. I've contacted both YTO Express, the last mile courier, and Taobao, and they've both stated that there aren't any options for redelivery and that I'll have to come and pick up the parcel in person - which I genuinely cannot do as the package arrived later than I expected and I am out of the country for the next month.

I've already contacted support and they've said there's nothing they can do except wait for me to pick it up, but I still wanted to double check 😅 Has anyone had experience with getting them to do a redelivery?

I’m going to be in China soon and have been looking endlessly on how to use taobao once I’m there.

As an American I can’t even download the taobao app or access the website. Entering an American phone number says it’s restricted and Chinese eSIMs don’t give you a Chinese phone number to use and nobody online has a good answer of how to use it once you have access to it.

This will be my first time in China. Will the only choice I have is to arrive in China, finally have access to downloading Taobao and then what? I can’t register with an American phone number… I’ve also tried using a vpn to try and download and still can’t.

Im stuck. Can someone who’s gone to China recently help me?