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| The things I bought~ |
For those of you who never heard of Taobao before, it's basically the Chinese Ebay. But you might as well call it "the wonderland where you'll find everything you want for super cheap", because that's what it is. There's soo~ much cute stuff on it. As well as fake stuff, but that's awesome too.
Just like on Ebay, there are many different sellers. And the whole website is in Chinese. So for all of us who do not speak Chinese, the first question to appear in our mind after discovering amazingly cute items on it is: "....now how do I buy this and get this to my home?"
It was the same for us. After navigating through the website for a while, it seemed as if there's no possibility of getting the stuff delievered to you if you live outside of China. If you're able to register and buy things, that is. But I knew that a friend of mine, also living in Germany, did buy things from Taobao before. After asking her she told me that she's asking a friend of her in China to buy her things and send them to her.
We were quite disappointed after hearing that, because we really~ wanted to have those things. Germany barely has any cute stuff and Taobao has so much of it T.T
It took us a few days to get the final idea of just searching on Google for ways to order from Taobao.
Stupid, aren't we? xD
Anways, if you google something like "how to buy from Taobao" you'll find many different so-called "Taobao services". We decided to settle with one service one of our friends also used, Yoybuy . They also translate the names of the items on Taobao, and you can also search for something in English on that website.
If you already found the things you want on Taobao, you simply copy the url into the search panel on Yoybuy and then add the items to your cart. Their service is super simple, easy to understand and quite fast. Our items have been shipped out 1 day after paying for the shipping fee.
However......it's super expensive.
We paid about 100$ for the things we bought ...and about 80$ for the shipping/service fee. The service fee is only 10% of the price you're paying for the items themselves, and even though the shipping was done with EMS I doubt that it's really that expensive normally. Unfortunately, it's impossible to find any cheaper Taobao service. They're all really expensive T.T
And~ the package got stuck in customs as well -.- Due to some "missing information" on the package. So we had to pay another 60-something $ for that.
If you ever order from Taobao, no matter with which service...expect to pay at least twice the price of the actual items.
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| Looots of bubble wrap |
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| Fragile things were securely packed. |
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| Chaos~ |
Ok...now enough of that.
Onto the cute stuff, yay~~~~~~~~~~~~
Super cute Panda wallet for 3,22$
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Panda Cellphone Charm for 0,81$. It looked small in the picture but in reality it's huge~ :o
Strawberry tea filter for 1,14$
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| open the strawberry to fill in your favourite tea~ |
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| close the strawberry :D |
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| Enjoy your tea :D |
Adidas x Jeremy Scott Wings
Cute Ghost pens for 0,26$ each~
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| What's in this egg? :o |
A small towel :D For ...I don't remember how much it was xD
Domo-kun Cellphone bag for 1,30$
Cellphone cases for 2,44$ each~
Fandom Stuff xD 0,81$ for the ear cap and 0,98 for the cellphone charm
Super cute 'Ear Cap' for 0,59$
DIY desk storage boxes for 0,94$
Desk calendar for 1,59$
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| adorable design~ :D |
Lego Notebook for 3,87$
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| That's the box it came in. The packaging is quite hilarious xD |
vocabulary notebook for 0,75$
There's even space for example sentences :D I'm using it for writing pinyin though ^^
It comes with those sheets to help you with studying :D
My Beauty Diary Asia Brightening Pack for 9,11$ ^^ I'll do a review on those as soon as possible~
And~ that's it :D
If anyone wants to know from which Taobao store I got an specific item, just ask me in the comments below and I'll look it up for you ^^
If anyone wants to know from which Taobao store I got an specific item, just ask me in the comments below and I'll look it up for you ^^
