This is A to Z taobao shopping guide composed by YOYBUY. It is aimed to help overseas taobao users to learn more about taobao and how to buy high cost performance products from taobao, how to search on taobao, how to filter the taobao search results by brand, price, popularity, how to order from taobao/tmall. In the end, this guides gives you the secrets in saving money from taobao, by finding similar/same products from taobao and make a good comparison. This shopping guide is written by YOYBUY, the most reliable taobao agent worldwide, http://www.yoybuy.com/

1. How to Buy from
Taobao?
-----The A to Z Taobao Shopping Guide for Overseas Taobao customers
Presented by YOYBUY
Most Reliable and Professional Taobao Agent
http://www.yoybuy.com/
The aim of this Taobao shopping guide is to help overseas Taobao
customers quickly find the things they need on taobao and buy with
lowest price possible. In other words, buy good products from
Taobao and truly save your money.
Written by Edwin Sun @ YOYBUY Market Dept
yingwen.sun@yoybuy.cn

2. Content List
Introduction: What is Taobao?
 Get to know Taobao homepage
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top nav
products category
How to search on Taobao?
 How to filter the Taobao search results by:
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brands
hot sellings
suggested search terms
sources: Taobao, Tmall, used, promotional
price, popularity, seller credit, new arrival and others.
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Secrets/tips in saving money on Taobao
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find similar products
find same products
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3. What is Taobao
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The largest online shopping site in China ( similar to Ebay in US)
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With millions of products at cheap prices
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For more info on Taobo introdution, see our previous writing here:
http://www.slideshare.net/Yoybuy/what-is-taobao-13772779

4. Get to Know Taobao Homepage
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Visit the taobao site:
www.taobao.com or
http://www.taobao.com/market/global/index_new.php
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For Chinese users, they will see www.taobao.com, for overseas
users, they will be redirected to the Taobao global page, which
is still in Chinese,
http://www.taobao.com/market/global/index_new.php

5. Overseas Taobao Homepage
Top Navigation
Search Box
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Hot Items and Promotions

6. Top Navigation---Homepage
Log in
Register
Mobile Taobao My Account My Favorites
Taobao homepage
Cart
Seller Center
Product Category
Site N
Contact us
If you have the cards or AliPay or other payment methods accepted by Taobao,
you can register an account on taobao and order directly from it.
So you just need to know where to find " Log in" , "Register" and " My
Account".
However, most of the sellers do not know English and do not support
international shipping, in that case you need to find a package forwarding
service and let them handle the shipping for you.
Packpage forward is part of YOYBUY's service, for more details, check here
"My Warehouse in China" http://www.yoybuy.com/en/help.html?cateid=13191

7. Hot Product Category---Homepage
Women & Men's Clothing
Shoes, Bags & Accessories
Digital Products
Home & Decoration
Mom & Baby
Sports & Outdoors
Tips: Familirizing yourself with
these products categories will help
you find what you need quickly on
Taobao
A Glossary of Taobao
products: English to Chinese
women's clothing--- 女装
men's clothing--- 男装
women's shoes--- 女鞋
men's shoes--- 男鞋
bag/handbag--- 女包
phones- 手机
cameras-- 照相机
computer-- 电脑
wedding dress-- 婚纱
kids' clothing-- 儿童服装
sports shoes-- 运动鞋
sports clothing-- 运动服

8. How to Search on Taobao
---Find all you need with search box and the right keyword
Items/products
Search
Hover your mouser over " 宝贝”（ Items), you will see changes below
Items
Tmall, which is part of Taobao, dedicated to Brand products with higher quality
Shops on Taobao
The above three terms define what you are searching for, in default mode, you are
searching for taobao products. This is the aim of most users of course. You can
also search products from Tmall or search for sellers.

9. More about Searching on Taobao
As we all know, the words we use for searching determine what we saw in the
taobao search results. So what words to use for searching?
We have given a short list of words you may need for taobao searches, but it is
far from enough. You can Google translate your English words to Chinese and
then paste into the taobao search box. So easy!
http://translate.google.com/

10. How to filter the taobao search results
Let's take "women's shoes" ( 女鞋） as an example to
see how to filter the search results. The whole filtering
section is divided into 6 parts, listed as A to F.
A
B
C
D
E
F

11. Section A of the Taobao results filtering
Filter by Brands
Filter by heel length
Here you would find some well-known brands for your search products. You
can filter by their brand names. However, this does not mean all the products
you see will really be by that brand, since the results are generated
automatically and there is no human examination process. So pay special
attention if you want to find something of a brand. You can search under
"Tmall", the overall quality is higher.

12. Section B of the Taobao results filtering
Hot Selling Elements
Trendy Shoes now
Related products
This part is not quite useful or widely used. But it can help you
find more detailed and classified products under your searched
term.

13. Section C of the Taobao results filtering
Are you looking for ...?
This section gives you the suggested products searches or hot searches
related with yours. You can use Google translate or other tools to
understand their meaning and filter the results if it is the right term for you.

14. Section D of the Taobao results filtering
All products
Used products
Products from Tmall
Event Promotional products: like 11.11 (single's day)
or women's day here.
Products with high
cost performance
Here, the 2 filtering buttons we use most are "all products" & "Tmall
prodcuts". Here you need to know the difference between Taobao and
Tmall. Taobao and Tmall actually are one, they both could be called
Taobao, but Tmall differentiates itself in providing brand products or
better quality products, Tmall is kind of high-end.

15. Section E of Taobao results filtering
Overseas
Sellers/products with
Customer Protection
Exclude products from the
results with a keyword
Genuine Guarantee
Live Chat
Products with
（ Wangwang)
Return Guarantee
Online
products
Cash on Delivery
This section actually is more useful for overseas customers, it helps you filer
products by sellers' certificate (Customer Protection/ Genuine Products/Return
Guarantee).
Don't forget the filtering of "overseas products", in most cases from HongKong.
But this does not mean you have to limit yourself within the overseas products,
you can find a reliable taobao agent and let them buy for you from taobao and
ship to your house. YOYBUY has enagaged itself in this service for 6 years
and we have professional team to help customers worldwide buy taobao
products with good quality and low price.

16. Section E of Taobao results filtering
Rank by
Popularity
-----the most important part you must know
Rank by
seller's credit
Rank by sales
Rank by
Comprehensive
factors
Rank by price
Rank by
new arrivals
Filter by inputing a
price range
Location of
products
Show only one
product of one seller
by combing sellers
This is the most useful fitering of taobao results for each person,
espcially when you want to find something cheap and with good
quality.
Generally speaking, you can go with the following rules:
More sales mean higher popularity and more reliable;
Sellers with higher credit is more reliable;
Don't buy products like this: very high/low price with quite little or no
sales made.

17. Secrets/tips of saving money in buying from
Taobao---You Must Know
Besides the above filtering sections we have introduced, there is another secret tip
for saving money or finding the dream product with lowest price and best quality!!! It is
easy!!
Hover Your Mouse
Over this Pic
When you have decided to buy one
particular product, but not quite sure
whether its price is the lowest or not, or
want to find other sellers offering lower
prices for the same items, then you only
need to HOVER YOUR MOUSE OVER
THE PICTURE OF THE ITEM in the
search results page, stop for a while and
you will see "Find Same Products" / " Find
Similar Products". Click on either of it, you
will see all the products with lower or higher
price by other taobao sellers. Then filter
Find Same Products Find Similar products
them by price, so all is clear now.
from other sellers

18. Find Similar or Same Products on Taobao
Finding same products would be like
this, so all you have to do is check
the price and the reviews of the
products
Following is finding similar
products page, is it helpful?

19. Thank you, wish you happy Taobao shopping experience!
If you have any other questions on Taobao shopping and other
Chinese site shopping, like Paipai, JD, 360buy, and others, please
contact our live customer service by visiting http://www.yoybuy.com/
By YOYBUY