How to Buy from Taobao? -----The A to Z Taobao Shopping Guide for Overseas Taobao customers

The aim of this Taobao shopping guide is to help overseas Taobao customers quickly find the things they need on taobao and buy with lowest price possible. In other words, buy good products from Taobao and truly save your money.

Presented by YOYBUY Most Reliable and Professional Taobao Agent http://www.yoybuy.com/

Written by Edwin Sun @ YOYBUY Market Dept yingwen.sun@yoybuy.cn

Content List Introduction: What is Taobao? Get to know Taobao homepage top nav products category

How to search on Taobao? How to filter the Taobao search results by: brands hot sellings suggested search terms sources: Taobao, Tmall, used, promotional price, popularity, seller credit, new arrival and others.

Secrets/tips in saving money on Taobao find similar products find same products

The largest online shopping site in China ( similar to Ebay in US) W ith millions of products at cheap prices For more info on Taobo introdution, see our previous writing here:

http://www.slideshare.net/Yoybuy/what-is-taobao-13772779

What is Taobao

Visit the taobao site: www.taobao.com or

http://www.taobao.com/market/global/index_new.php

For Chinese users, they will see www.taobao.com, for overseas users, they will be redirected to the Taobao global page, which is still in Chinese, http://www.taobao.com/market/global/index_new.php

Get to Know Taobao Homepage

Overseas Taobao Homepage

Top Navigation

Search Box

Product CategoryHot Items and Promotions

Top Navigation---HomepageLog in

Register

Mobile Taobao

Taobao homepage

My Account

Cart

My Favorites

Product Category

Seller Center

Contact us

Site Nav

If you have the cards or AliPay or other payment methods accepted by Taobao, you can register an account on taobao and order directly from it.

So you just need to know where to find " Log in" , "Register" and " My Account".

However, most of the sellers do not know English and do not support international shipping, in that case you need to find a package forwarding service and let them handle the shipping for you.

Packpage forward is part of YOYBUY's service, for more details, check here "My Warehouse in China" http://www.yoybuy.com/en/help.html?cateid=13191

Hot Product Category---HomepageTips: Familirizing yourself with these products categories will help you find what you need quickly on Taobao

Women & Men's Clothing

Shoes, Bags & Accessories

Digital Products

Home & Decoration

Mom & Baby

Sports & Outdoors

A Glossary of Taobao products: English to Chinese

women's clothing--- 女装men's clothing--- 男装women's shoes--- 女鞋men's shoes--- 男鞋bag/handbag--- 女包phones- 手机cameras-- 照相机computer-- 电脑wedding dress-- 婚纱kids' clothing-- 儿童服装sports shoes-- 运动鞋sports clothing-- 运动服

How to Search on Taobao---Find all you need with search box and the right keyword

Items/products Search

Hover your mouser over " 宝贝”（ Items), you will see changes below

Items

Tmall, which is part of Taobao, dedicated to Brand products with higher quality

Shops on Taobao

The above three terms define what you are searching for, in default mode, you are searching for taobao products. This is the aim of most users of course. You can also search products from Tmall or search for sellers.

More about Searching on Taobao As we all know, the words we use for searching determine what we saw in the taobao search results. So what words to use for searching?

We have given a short list of words you may need for taobao searches, but it is far from enough. You can Google translate your English words to Chinese and then paste into the taobao search box. So easy!

http://translate.google.com/

How to filter the taobao search resultsLet's take "women's shoes" ( 女鞋） as an example to see

how to filter the search results. The whole filtering section is divided into 6 parts, listed as A to F.

A

B

CDE

F

Section A of the Taobao results filteringFilter by Brands

Filter by heel length

Here you would find some well-known brands for your search products. You can filter by their brand names. However, this does not mean all the products you see will really be by that brand, since the results are generated automatically and there is no human examination process. So pay special attention if you want to find something of a brand. You can search under "Tmall", the overall quality is higher.

Section B of the Taobao results filteringHot Selling Elements Trendy Shoes now Related products

This part is not quite useful or widely used. But it can help you find more detailed and classified products under your searched term.

Section C of the Taobao results filteringAre you looking for ...?

This section gives you the suggested products searches or hot searches related with yours. You can use Google translate or other tools to understand their meaning and filter the results if it is the right term for you.

Section D of the Taobao results filteringAll products

Products from Tmall

Used products

Products with highcost performance

Event Promotional products: like 11.11 (single's day) or women's day here.

Here, the 2 filtering buttons we use most are "all products" & "Tmall prodcuts". Here you need to know the difference between Taobao and Tmall. Taobao and Tmall actually are one, they both could be called Taobao, but Tmall differentiates itself in providing brand products or better quality products, Tmall is kind of high-end.

Section E of Taobao results filtering

Exclude products from the results with a keyword

Sellers/products with Customer Protection

Products with Return Guarantee

Genuine Guarantee

Live Chat （ Wangwang) Online

Overseas products

Cash on Delivery

This section actually is more useful for overseas customers, it helps you filer products by sellers' certificate (Customer Protection/ Genuine Products/Return Guarantee).

Don't forget the filtering of "overseas products", in most cases from HongKong.But this does not mean you have to limit yourself within the overseas products, you can find a reliable taobao agent and let them buy for you from taobao and ship to your house. YOYBUY has enagaged itself in this service for 6 years and we have professional team to help customers worldwide buy taobao products with good quality and low price.

Section E of Taobao results filtering -----the most important part you must know

Rank by Comprehensive

factors

Rank by Popularity

Rank by sales

Rank by seller's credit

Rank by new arrivals

Rank by price

Filter by inputing a price range

Location of products

Show only one product of one sellerby combing sellers

This is the most useful fitering of taobao results for each person, espcially when you want to find something cheap and with good quality.

Generally speaking, you can go with the following rules:More sales mean higher popularity and more reliable;Sellers with higher credit is more reliable;Don't buy products like this: very high/low price with quite little or no sales made.

Secrets/tips of saving money in buying from Taobao---You Must Know

Besides the above filtering sections we have introduced, there is another secret tip for saving money or finding the dream product with lowest price and best quality!!! It is easy!!

When you have decided to buy one particular product, but not quite sure whether its price is the lowest or not, or want to find other sellers offering lower prices for the same items, then you only need to HOVER YOUR MOUSE OVER THE PICTURE OF THE ITEM in the search results page, stop for a while and you will see "Find Same Products" / " Find Similar Products". Click on either of it, you will see all the products with lower or higher price by other taobao sellers. Then filter them by price, so all is clear now.

Hover Your Mouse Over this Pic

Find Same Productsfrom other sellers

Find Similar products

Find Similar or Same Products on Taobao Finding same products would be like this, so all you have to do is check the price and the reviews of the products

Following is finding similar products page, is it helpful?

Thank you, wish you happy Taobao shopping experience!

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