How to shop without leaving your home?

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Once you have made a purchase over the Internet, it is difficult to force yourself to go to the store for the same product. There is hardly a place where the buying process would be easier. No need to leave the house or even pick up the phone: just make a couple of clicks and the ordered goods - from CD to refrigerator - will soon be at your door. You get used to good things so quickly! Meanwhile, the online services market continues to evolve, making online products even more diverse and accessible. The main thing is to keep your nose downwind and not miss out on the best deals!

From button to fur coat

While you are reading these lines, a real revolution is taking place on the domestic online services market. The largest Chinese online store "Taobao" is coming to Runet, and this promises great changes. Moreover, for us, ordinary users of the global network, these changes promise to be only for the better.

To this day, the Russian Internet remains unfairly skewed. Stores specializing in primordially "male" goods (automobile and computer hardware) are a dime a dozen, for us women, the choice is traditionally less. Little by little, new "women's" online stores appear, but the assortment still does not shine with a variety of products.

But it looks like the situation is ready to change radically. With the advent of the Taobao online store, it will be possible to arrange a real shopping for yourself without leaving your home! Moreover, the choice of goods will be much wider than in a regular boutique.

The fact is that the Chinese Internet giant has an unprecedented assortment of 355 million different products! In seven years of operation, Taobao has become the largest online store and auction in the Chinese segment of the Internet today.

According to research by iResearch, taobao.com has nearly 75% of the Chinese online services market. Its annual turnover reaches almost 60 billion dollars and uses the service up to 300 million users a year. Such a scale has never dreamed of any domestic store!

On Taobao's website you will find almost anything you can think of: from Chinese tea and home textiles to clothes, shoes and accessories from leading European brands! How wonderful it is to do online shopping … Now you don't have to get wet in the rain, trying to cheer yourself up with shopping, but you just need to sit more comfortably in an armchair and surf the Internet. In addition, you will have the opportunity to get acquainted with the original products of manufacturers in China, South Korea and Japan, which are rarely found anywhere in our area.

The catalog of children's goods deserves special attention. This is exactly where you can choose clothes for your child for every taste and size! In addition to children's clothing and shoes, Taobao has clothes for pregnant women, mom + baby sets, children's backpacks and handbags, strollers, baby care products and much more that can be useful for a modern mother.

Such an unprecedented assortment is possible because thousands of different sellers sell their goods through Taobao, among which there are both large retailers (for example, famous brands Uniqlo, Vero Moda, Adidas and others have an official store on Taobao), as well as individual manufacturers and suppliers.

So your main task will be not to lose your head from the choice that has fallen on her!

Affordable and high quality

However, the main advantage of Tabao is not so much an unprecedented assortment as unexpectedly low prices. Surprisingly, sometimes they turn out to be several times lower than the market ones!

Two factors play a role here: first, all Chinese-made goods are inexpensive in and of themselves. And this does not mean that they are worse than those bought in the nearest store. Fortunately, the stereotype of Chinese products as cheap but of poor quality is a thing of the past. Over the past fifteen years, China has become a huge technological park, where the latest advances in science and technology are collected. Leading European and Japanese firms are moving their production to the Middle Kingdom, since there is no more accessible, but highly skilled labor force anywhere else in the world. Look around! Almost all things, from plastic dishes to sophisticated electronics, are already being made in China, despite the "registration address" of the company indicated on the packaging.

Secondly, when buying goods in Taobao, you will be able to bypass the long chain of intermediaries through which products from China usually pass. The fact is that passing through the hands of different firms, goods on the way from China to Russia significantly increase in price. But, thanks to RuTaobao, which became the first official Taobao partner in Russia, it became possible to purchase Chinese goods directly, independently choosing them in the Russian catalog. In addition, now you can not be afraid of unscrupulous intermediaries, whose goods along the way may "get lost" or become unusable as a result.

So, thanks to the low cost and the absence of extra charges, the largest Chinese online store manages to keep prices at a level several times lower than its competitors!

There are hardly any problems with the checkout process: the interface of the rutaobao.com website is completely Russified and intuitive. For convenience, the cost of goods is indicated both in rubles and in dollars.

In addition, the site contains a wide range of additional services: such as the history of orders and mutual settlements, a list of selected products and suppliers, exchange of information with other buyers and other small usefulness that makes working with the site extremely comfortable. If you have any problems, you can always consult with the store employees by phone, email or online chat.

You can pay for the purchased blouse or handbag online directly on the website using plastic cards Visa and Mastercard, or make a transfer through the Western Union system.

Moreover, they can be delivered not only to the cities of Russia, but also to Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Israel, Germany and many other countries.