I am kinda like a Christmas Grinch because of my work. I work extra hard on festive seasons like these because of the industry I'm working at. Events and marketing to support this cultural imperialism (if you may) season. It is all about buying and gifting and buying and gifting. So why am I so unhappy? It's not because I don't receive but simply because I am always working, attending events and what not and that leaves me with very little time to shop of gifts for the people I love!
Times has changed and this time round I do not have the same problem because Taobao SEA IS HERE TO SAVE THE DAY!
If you haven't read or heard about it, it is about time to get fascinated by the world of Taobao! So what is Taobao? It is this fascinating online shopping web portal which allows you to buy literately ANYTHING. (Before you get too bored of reading my jibber jabber blog post, I am giving you a headsup that I am giving away 4 x 500RMB gift card for your Christmas Shopping, so please stay tuned till the very end. )
So like many other shopping sites, you can simply surf around to buy what you want or simply key in what you wish to search and like I mentioned earlier, the most wonderful thing about Taobao is that you can find everything and now, you do not need a third party agent to help you with you purchase because you are not from Singapore.
As I'm ahoarder toy collector, my very first instinct is to find all the things that is so difficult to find at the retail stores in Singapore. One of the toy collection that I've yet to be able to complete. The marvel universe action figures!
No surprise, they have got every single figure I wanted. All these toys are from different sellers and to make things easy, I prefer to get all from the same seller.
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But apparently his "shop" did not list one of those I wanted. What do you do? They actually have this "IM" known as Wang Wang (Instant Messenger) that allows you to communicate with the seller on the fly with any question you have! I ask him about it and he actually has it in stock too!
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Please bear with my not so proper Chinese sentence structure. On Wang Wang, you can even ask for a discount or free shipping if you have purchased in a bit bulk. (Or thick skin enough like me. :X)
And because of Wang Wang, things can be discussed fairly quickly, they will actually tell you immediately on certain items that runs out of stock etc. So it is really easy to use. I once had an experience with other site that you can only Email to ask question and it took me 72 hours to correct my order and it was too late because they already sent that item out. So I'm really glad they have this function!
So on my previous post, I've discussed about this forwarder that you can use. It's really convenient. So you can have 3-4 items sending towards the forwarder and you do not need to send it to Singapore immediately 1 by 1. You can actually keep it there and wait for all your purchases to reach, consolidate before sending them over.
FAQ
How do I pay?
This is like the most common question I am getting these days. So far there are two ways that I've tried. 1 is paying directly using your credit card OR you can simply go to any AXS machine and purchase these shopping credits. Top it up to 支付宝 which is like an internal paypal system and you can shop away. Paying with 支付宝 is a very simple process especially for those who are very concern about your credit card details. Point to note: you are not allowed to split your payment using half shopping credit and half on your credit card. If you really wish to do so, I suggest you split your products into two groups and make two payment instead of one.
All my loot came in good condition and on a Sunday! Can you believe it? They did delivery on a Sunday!
So I managed to find all the toys I wanted within a few minutes online instead of doing all the walking around town and getting nothing but disappointment.
Here comes the giveaway:
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| Christmas 2011 where I spent hours and hours on this bus making others' Christmas awesome. |
If you haven't read or heard about it, it is about time to get fascinated by the world of Taobao! So what is Taobao? It is this fascinating online shopping web portal which allows you to buy literately ANYTHING. (Before you get too bored of reading my jibber jabber blog post, I am giving you a headsup that I am giving away 4 x 500RMB gift card for your Christmas Shopping, so please stay tuned till the very end. )
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| This is SEA.Taobao |
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No surprise, they have got every single figure I wanted. All these toys are from different sellers and to make things easy, I prefer to get all from the same seller.
And because of Wang Wang, things can be discussed fairly quickly, they will actually tell you immediately on certain items that runs out of stock etc. So it is really easy to use. I once had an experience with other site that you can only Email to ask question and it took me 72 hours to correct my order and it was too late because they already sent that item out. So I'm really glad they have this function!
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| Closer look at the Wang Wang. Seller telling me that 1 of the figure was out of stock. |
So on my previous post, I've discussed about this forwarder that you can use. It's really convenient. So you can have 3-4 items sending towards the forwarder and you do not need to send it to Singapore immediately 1 by 1. You can actually keep it there and wait for all your purchases to reach, consolidate before sending them over.
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| Let our powers 合拼!! |
How do I pay?
This is like the most common question I am getting these days. So far there are two ways that I've tried. 1 is paying directly using your credit card OR you can simply go to any AXS machine and purchase these shopping credits. Top it up to 支付宝 which is like an internal paypal system and you can shop away. Paying with 支付宝 is a very simple process especially for those who are very concern about your credit card details. Point to note: you are not allowed to split your payment using half shopping credit and half on your credit card. If you really wish to do so, I suggest you split your products into two groups and make two payment instead of one.
All my loot came in good condition and on a Sunday! Can you believe it? They did delivery on a Sunday!
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| Looks like Durian delivery! LOL. |
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| Big boy is happy! |
Here comes the giveaway:
So I have with me 4 sets of 500RMB gift cards to giveaway!
Step 1: Simply "LIKE"Taobao SEA Page
Step 2: Simply "LIKE" The AWESOME(and kinda empty) fictional character page of Smithankyou.
Step 3: Leave your comment under the comment box on Facebook saying what you wish to buy using this 500RMB and keep your fingers crossed! Tell us your wish and it might just come true! Giveaway ends this Friday 20th Dec!
Good luck everyone and Merry X'mas!!
Mr.Smith, TAOBAO SEA FTW