I have long known that Taobao is a shopping haven for shopaholics.
You can practically find anything and everything on it.
Previously, they had limited the transactions to those who holding China credit cards or something like that, making purchase difficult. You either get friends or agents to help to purchase from it. Since I have neither, I could not start buying from them.
Some time ago, 1 of my colleague told me that she is ordering from Taobao since they are now accepting overseas credit card. On top of it, she found some agents who charge cheaper shipping fees to Singapore as compared to the more popular Daigou or 4PX.
So, I decided to tag on to her purchase and started shopping.
Brought 3necklaces at 1 go and a key chain for mummy who had seen a similar 1 here but costs 30bucks. Including shipping fees, I only paid 22bucks for every thing.
Super cheap can?
A necklace here will set me back by at least 20bucks. Even those I brought in Taiwan is also 10bucks each. Turns out, they got their supply from Taobao also as I have seen identical ones at fraction of the price only.. Agggrrrr
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| Super happy that I found it after seeing on Channel 8 show |
Later I read in papers that Singpost had tie up with Taobao to make delivery easier for buyers by having the items delivered to Pop stations and you can collect it at your own timing. In this way, we need not have to stress about not being at home to receive the parcel or to have to make a trip down to the post office for re-collection.
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| Love the Blue roses design |
Pop stations are placed in nearly every community center and there is one right in front of our house.
Mr Love and I decided to try and went on to buy things from Taobao this time on our own.
I nearly lost control over the buying and had to cut down quite a few items. Shipping is charged at RMB43 for the 1st kg and RMB12 for every subsequent 500g. We managed to ordered 1.48kg worth of things and paid RMB 55 for shipping it to Singapore.
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| Chunky seashell necklace |
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| Popular Ring necklace |
As for shipping in Mainland itself, some of the sellers do provide it free while others charges around 10bucks for it. But we must wait for all the goods to arrive before consolidating it for a shipment to Singapore. It takes 4days to arrive and is consider pretty fast.
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| Love the butterfly |
Love the fuss free collection when it arrives here too. Was sent a message and went down to collect the items the every night.
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| Gold ribbon earrings |
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| Mismatch moon/star earrings |
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| Free gift from 1 of the sellers |
Very happy of my purchases which are mostly accessories. Am trying very hard to control myself not to buy more at the time being. Hahah I think I have too much accessories now.
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| My fav of the lot-New bag |
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