For Chinese Pens -- Ebay? Taobao? Alipay?

[CJZhang]

As a Chinese local, I have bough dozens of stuff (including 2 Jinhao pens last month ) via Taobao or Tmall (the b2c website of Taobao) each month, and the low-price remains the biggest reason. Actually, lots of my international friends in China are also fond of shopping via Taobao, because the payment method (i.e., Alipay through Chinese credit card) and basic understanding of Chinese don't means a problem for them.

 

Talking about the overseas shopping on Taobao/Tmall, 3 obstacles need to be overcome as below:

 

(i) payment method: as far as I know, overseas credit card (e.g., Master, AE) could not makes the payments via Alipay;

 

(ii) understanding of Chinese language of Tabao (no English version of Taobao at the moment and poor English skills of most Taobao/Tmall vendors), but the translation function of Chrome browser could address this problem to some extent; and

 

(iii) international logistic cost: I always facing similar problem when online shopping on the Amazon or 6pm, and use the forwarder to lower the logistic cost rather the direct mail from the States to PRC (the forwarder generally charges 10 USD/1lb from US to PRC).

 

If you could solve the above problems, it could be easy to shop via Taobao and deliver your purchases to ovearseas destination. If not, Ebay could be a second best choice becasue lots of Chinese Vendors and less counterfeit of pens (except Hero). Hope the above is clear to you.