Shopping on Taobao is a skillful thing, you should pay attention to details or you might suffer from bad experiences. Perhaps you get upset when you find out that the new pants are not fit to you because the size just a bit smaller than usual. Or during enjoying a DIY making on the middle way, you discover there is not enough materials. And all these could be prevent from only if you ask more detailed information from the sellers. Of course, not all the sellers would like to tell the truth, some of them just tell a part of the truth to lead you misunderstand. However, you should still pay more attention to as much as products details to lower the risks. Here we have some tips for you to shop on Taobao that prevent you from wasting money.
No.1 Not to buy deals over 1000CNY as far as possible
No matter how you trust the seller and how you believe the products are valuable, as online shopping cannot provide you making transactions face to face, that is to say, it need a third-party courier to deliver your products. It is difficult to control the logistic status, and once the products are damaged or missed, it would be hard to clarify the blame, and you most likely cost a loss. Thus, if you really need the products which the value is over than 1000CNY, please remember ask clearly the sellers for the responsibility in case of products losing and damaging. Further more, to purchase logistic insurance and declare the product value. Sometime, you may feel confused by all of these and consider wasting money on insurance, by you should prepare for the worst happens.
No.2 Buy things with detailed pictures
Now that many sellers are not the first suppliers, in business area, you can call them doing a dropshipping business. It means they don’t store any inventory, they just find a suitable supplier and sell products of supplier’s, once you place orders from these sellers, they ask the supplier ship the products to you. As you can see, though the dropshipping sellers will try their best to find reliable suppliers, so that they won’t get complaint from customers, there’re still risks for customers if the suppliers do anything wrong. Seeing the detailed pictures is the most effective way to recognize a normal seller or dropshipping seller. As dropshipping sellers don’t hold inventory, all the products pictures they can use are from suppliers, thus the pictures may not have so many details on them or looks pretty official. On taobao, you can find many products have the similar name with the same pictures, those most likely are the dropshipping products, if not, why don’t the sellers take a series pictures of their products to show the differences from others.
No.3 Be clear the size you buy
This skill should appropriate for wide ranges of products, especially fashion clothing. There is an online chatting tool for Taobao: AliWangWang, sign up and ask for more size detail. You should get the exact length, height, width of the products, if the seller just tell you the size in S,M,L, and without any exact length, you’d better find another one. Seeing from the picture can be great different from what you receive, if the products not suit to you because of the size, even you can return them, you still waste your shipping fee and time.
No.4 Choose a store in good management
In my opinion, a good store must in good management, all the page and words and pictures must be highly organized in order, that means the seller of the store manages it by heart. You would feel more comfortable seeing an organized and clear pages than those messy one.
No.5 Refer to products’ comments
It doesn’t matter how high the sales level it is, a gold crown level seller on Taobao could be very poor, you have to wait for his respond for a long time. Referring to products’ comments, you could learn as much as using experiences of the products, such using life, using skills, and other bad or good reviews. It is impossible that a product is perfect without any negative reviews. If you find a product which only has positive reviews and the amount of favorite comment is large, you can’t figure out if there are fake comments made by sellers.
No.6 Do not pay immediately
While you place an order, you’d better to ask the seller more questions, in this way, you can learn whether the seller is sincere or not. From my experience, I will ask he these questions:” How is the cost performance?”; “ Is the quality guaranteed?”; “ What will you process if problems come after sales?”; “ Is the actual color different from that on picture?” A reliable answer and make you rest assured.
No.7 Search keywords on Taobao several times
First you type the main keyword of what you want, then it will pop up many relevant products, find the most accurate one, you will see other keywords for this product. Then you could use different keywords to search on Taobao, after several time searching and comparing, you won’t miss any bargains or good deals.
No.8 Buy branded products for some cataloges
For those used for long time such as household electronic, and those close-fitting like underwear, you’d better to choose branded products, their quality will be more guaranteed than those without any brand or small brand.
No.9 Please always follow 3 principles
Before start buying one thing, you should ask yourself 3 questions:” Do I need it?”, “ Will I frequently use it?”, “ Is it fit to me?”. Sometimes, people will buy things they don’t need, and just because after deciding to buy one thing and glancing over the shop, then more things you want to purchase but you don’t really need them. Moreover, the additional products you buy on the shop may have higher prices than other stores. Always ask the 3 questions that will lead you not to waste money and time.
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