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AliExpress is a lazy man's Taobao.

• CharlesColeman 8y ago
  > AliExpress is a lazy man's Taobao. Don't you need a mainland bank card and phone number to use Taobao, and also know Chinese?
  • baybal2 8y ago
    You can register on Taobao from overseas without any problem, few vendors ship overseas though, but the number is far from zero.
  • contingencies 8y ago
    You can definitely settle via international credit cards (~5% fee = ~3% card settlement fee + ~2% currency exchange hit). Regarding language, online translation tools are adequate. Regarding shipping, I believe there are reshipment providers that you can batch purchases with, which means you can use all vendors (not just the ones who agree to ship internationally).
  • adelie 8y ago
    don't need either of those. shipping isn't even a problem now with taobao direct - taobao themselves will cover shipping to one of their warehouses, and then you can batch those to ship internationally. once you get used to the format, you should be able to order things without knowing chinese; it's pretty consistent. helps to know the language for things like reviews, product descriptions, etc. though.