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 Taobao Global Direct Shipping - experiences?, The good and the bad

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SUSchokia
post May 11 2016, 08:46 AM

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Shopback no longer allows buying from other than ai.taobao.com

but item in ai.taobao.com doesnt have taobao direct shipping or option to select pr router or other shipping agents. Instead the only option is to contact seller.

How are we going to do this and how the payment to seller will take place? it's cumbersome if just for less than 10 yuan of shipping fee we have to create china credit card or China bank account or wired transfer personally to these PRC seller.

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post May 31 2016, 10:03 AM

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Almost all items in taobao no longer have taobao direct shipment but contact seller instead


How to deal with this?
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post May 31 2016, 11:15 AM

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QUOTE(raidonymous @ May 31 2016, 10:16 AM)
Yes man smile.gif
Wow, are you trying to get sensitive item? Some of them they don't provide the Direct and greyed out consolidate, left the only option to deal with seller.
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I want to buy https://world.taobao.com/item/524085624231.htm


QUOTE(ycs @ May 31 2016, 10:24 AM)
can use agent to handle for you
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last time i use PRoute, but nowadays all the 3 consolitate agents are not even listed
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post May 31 2016, 09:25 PM

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QUOTE(Petro-Canada @ May 31 2016, 08:37 PM)
easiest will be
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Ezbuy not selling
SUSchokia
post Jun 1 2016, 01:03 PM

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QUOTE(Petro-Canada @ Jun 1 2016, 10:43 AM)
just copy&paste your link from taobao in the orange box then search. my last sea shipment came after 2 weeks.
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wow it works thank you man. thumbup.gif
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post Jun 11 2016, 08:28 PM

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QUOTE(evilhomura89 @ Jun 11 2016, 06:11 PM)

You'll have to add several items to your cart before the consolidate option will be available
I tried with one item only then it doesn't appear, but if I add a few items together to the cart, there's no issue
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i dont think so i just added 3 items but PRouter or any consolidators still not appear
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post Jun 12 2016, 08:38 PM

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QUOTE(evilhomura89 @ Jun 12 2016, 06:28 PM)
even after you press checkout? at the page where they ask you where to deliver the item?
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Items in my cart more than 1, Taobao Global is greyed out disabled, only available shipment is contact seller. No other option.

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post Jun 13 2016, 05:31 AM

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QUOTE(alucard89 @ Jun 12 2016, 09:56 PM)
Second option seems to be still affordable enough
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Yeah my question is how to contact seller? and how to transfer money when you dont have china credit card or china bank account or even possible to wire transfer from maybank2u to this PRC bank account.
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post Sep 3 2016, 11:24 PM

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Taobao link keep redirect to Tmall page like virus.

How to avoid this?
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post Sep 4 2016, 08:10 AM

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QUOTE(wtw0911 @ Sep 4 2016, 12:03 AM)
Tmall is actually another e commerce site similar to taobao
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Yeah i know but they cannot just redirect to tmall for every click.

You click your shipment, it goes to tmall's main page,
You click your favorite, it goes to tmall's main page
You click similar item, it goes to tmall's main page.

every time i have to close tab and reclick the similar link to go back.

This is ridiculous.
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post Sep 15 2016, 11:14 PM

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issit me or or just taobao direct shipment is getting expensive.

i bought around Y712 for 7 items, the shipment is Y218!


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post Sep 20 2016, 09:04 PM

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QUOTE(Melvin117 @ Sep 20 2016, 05:30 PM)
KNN was curious the other day so used the taobao direct shipping
My god it was beyond bad, any other daigou/agent is 1000 times better

1) items were rejected for direct shipping due to oversize issues
Like wtf so many yrs of buying taobao I have never encountered such issue, the items got rejected were a computer case(well), two plushies that are 70cm tall, truly wtf
If you are used to buy taobao and got lots of stuffs, you know the size limit is a joke cause at the end of the day they will post to you via a big bag if you have multiple items.

2) hard to track
The shipping info on the page is mediocre at its best
It got worse when your items are being shipped to you from the store, unlike others who will include a shipping number, they just simple put "sending to customs", "collection at hub" and etc.
You just have no idea on what's happening.

3)EXPENSIVE, and gets more expensive easily
The rejected items of mine are required to shipped back with economy air shipping, which is double of what I've already paid, what the holy hell

4)Customer service
So much trouble with coordinating, and now it's like the third week since I put my order and I'm still dealing with the last piece of item I have ordered

Conclusion: Don't ever ever use the direct shipping, ain't cheaper and really tonnes of troubles
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no 3 i agree.


anyway how long you guys wait until you request for refund when the item not shipped?

I'll give 2 weeks before i click refund button.


 

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