Sunday, May 31, 2015

Using Spreenow for ordering on Taobao!



For a while now, I've been part of Taobao group orders with some friends! I never had to do the actual ordering process with the agent, but after a while, I decided to do a Taobao order all on my own. I researched a bunch of different agents, and I decided to go with Spreenow!


 The service fee is more expensive than other agents (it's 10%), but their site really made things a lot easier to order things! Plus, I like the cart option because I can review the prices before ordering AKA remove stuff from the cart if the total is way too much hahaha xD

I don't speak or read Chinese, so I usually find good Taobao stores through google and blindly search the page for anything I might want. When I find something, all I have to do is copy and paste the link into the Spreenow search bar! If you don't have a link, you can type in a search term and it'll send you  to the search results. Here, you can click "Translate" to change your search term to Chinese, and it'll often give you more results!
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It then sends you to a page with the item- ENGLISH TRANSLATED :D It's awesome! You can read through the description as well as the comments (reviews) about the item you're purchasing. If you like the item, just click on the required info, such as size and color/style, then click "Add to Cart". I looove this, it makes things SO easy!



The paying process is a bit funny though. You have to "top up" your account, meaning store money into your Spreenow account. In addition, you have to do it in Hong Kong dollars first, which will then be exchanged into Chinese yuans (the prices that you originally see on taobao). This is a bit weird, but it's pretty easy to do and to get used to and you can pay through paypal or credit card . Keep in mind there is a 3% transaction fee for paypal though!

I ordered my items on the 14th, and the agent checked and ordered my items within a few hours! It really surprised me how fast that was! Usually some people wait at least a day or two to have their agent confirm purchases and stuff- even people using this same agent! It was nice to have it done so quickly xD Over the next few days, the items began arriving to the agent one by one (since I ordered from different stores). The last few items arrived on the 17th and my order was packed for shipping on the same day. I paid for the shipping on 18th (I chose EMS), then it got shipped out with a tracking number on the 19th.


My package arrived on the 26th. The whole process took about 2 weeks, WOW! That was super quick! I was actually banking on it arriving when I was already in the Philippines, but I was surprised!



Everything turned out super cute and great quality! Mm I'll think about doing a review sometime! Maybe! xD

Well, my first personal taobao order went very smoothly and I'm glad! I feel like I have too much power now though xD I'll want to order all the time because Taobao is a treasure trove~ but of course I can't do that because it's quite costly ;; I'll have some self-restraint because of that - w - v Start browsing now on their site and just don't get too sucked in cause you'll want all the things on taobao :'D ! 



Thanks for reading! <3


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1 comment:

  1. Nice post! Here i would like to recommend taobao order tracking site to track all packages ordered from taobao.

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