Items arrived!

special thanks to alucard and tvcat (and anyone else who helped me out) in my first experience doing taobao without agent! Will probably do this again for small personal items, but for important things i'll use agents.

(I sell mechanical keyboards btw, but now using old one because one customer couldn't wait and kept asking me to sell him mine so I did, now waiting for mine that comes along with new stock. )

Probably contact agent and use their warehouse services

From what I understand, Chinese imports are the least likely to be taxed among all other countries (but obviously the heavier it is, say above 10kgs, be afraid, use an agent)

other than that.. let's not talk about it too much, later bijan's men can smell an opportunity to songlap.

can anyone here assist on how is my order doing?

ordered using TGDS - Direct shipping

but 商家正通知快递公司揽件 means seller requested the courier to withhold your item, keep yourself updated to it.

never use non-agent method for business. Only personal items.

RM12/KG

if it's 1.1KG, it will be RM24.

RMB32 is flat rate on most items weighing 4KGs and below.

I don't think your 1k worth of lipo batteries would cost only RMB32 to ship.

Don't worry, this is what the thread is for, for educational purposes.

RMB32 is not per kg calculation. I am not too sure how the system calculates it but at check out (before you pay) the shipping rate will be calculated, most of the time it's 32, sometimes 54, most recently mine is 72 for a large controller (huge box)

Basically: Global Direct Shipping does not have a first kg or per kg rule, it is mostly calculated by the system as they see fit. Global Direct Shipping is also handled mostly by Skynet.

My guesses would be:
1) Agents charge 12/kg, but in reality it might be 10/kg - part of their commission (I don't blame them, their job is super tough and not worth the time and money)
2) Taobao has made deals with courier companies to lower rates to ship direct to SEA to increase appeal to customers. <-- This is a more likely scenario than the first.

Need help, don't usually buy things from TaoBao or Tmall, but thought of trying out again (using global direct)



then I checked my Ali IM and received this message



should be fine now, right?

Question - who here uses TGDS for Sabah/Sarawak?

Need to ship some clothes from Taobao to Kota Kinabalu.

Also, I don't understand why this isn't included in this thread yet or maybe I just missed it, TS please pin on first post

Taobao Malaysia hotline (for Taobao Global Direct Shipping and other matters) - 1800-807-178

Have English service. The people are from China and have a hard time speaking English, but they're very friendly and will try their best to assist. You can feel that there is a different type of attitude typically found in Malaysian call centres.

Best to have a friend who speaks Chinese to standby with you also.

Call centre hours: 9AM-6PM. Not sure if Sunday is open or not.

I am not sure, I only got an automatically generated email, can't write to that one. Best to call bro.

Explain to me a few things yeah, so I can weigh in, I buy a lot of clothes and furniture from taobao. Quote my post and fill in your answer below my questions.


1) How many items you buy in this batch?

2) How many sellers in this batch?

3) Why do you think 2~3 weeks? Who said?

4) Your own account or you use agent? This is important because agents are here on LowYat for a reason, their work is very hard and a lot of stress, because they take the stress from you and give you peace of mind when shopping from Taobao.

5) What shipping service you use?

If it is like your previous post, only mouse, micro USB cable, etc. Next time just buy from shop or people at Garage Sales, pricing not that different. People usually buy electronics from Taobao if nobody here sell. Pricing on Lazada is about the same and it is generally faster.

Next time just buy yourself.. cost of living all increase like mad, it is understandable to be a cheapskate.

95% of all Taobao purchases from China by air mail will reach within 14 days after order + payment is made nowadays. I can't help you out if you are unable to provide with extra details... You're not even sure if your brother using agent.. or direct shipping.. or consolidate shipping...

Skynet + Poslaju is used for agent and direct shipping.

Impossible for Skynet + Poslaju to take more than 2 days (semenanjung) to deliver to your house after clear from kastam. Especially little items like your cable (no sensitive item).

My stuff has been with Prouter for more than 8 days already I thought delay because it's in Malaysia and it was Raya last week, this weekend only got an update it's in Hong Kong.

How do I claim late delivery compensation?

why is prouter so expensive? only for 1.1kg


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warehouse not answering phone calls. I bet seller is using a courier service which calls receiver before attempting delivery.

check in the same page, who is the 物流公司?

PMed

Don't do it... asking for trouble, almost guarantee will break in transit.

lodge a report with who yea?