How to select a good taobao agent

How to select a good taobao agent

 

Taobao, Asia's biggest online market, the leader in e-commerce in China is enormous. Every minute, more than 50,000 pieces of merchandise sales, through this huge market. It changed the buying habits of the younger generation, but also in China, e-commerce has brought the fight against. For more information, you can read my Taobao's largest online trading market in the heart of Asia: shopping tips.

In the Chinese love to shop in Taobao, outside China, many consumers have found recently, in Taobao shopping is very interesting. But for most of them, they cannot buy directly from the online, because it requires you to have a bank account, and most sellers on Taobao do not know much English, is not willing to ship products overseas. At this point, Taobao Agent service of foreigners in China to help them from Taobao shop.

Taobao agent business model is like that. Foreign consumers to select products on Taobao, Taobao agents purchased. Taobao Taobao agent will purchase goods from their warehouses, and then get them to shop abroad. They usually charge a 10% service charge (price + domestic transportation costs).

Tao Tao if you search keyword proxy in Google, a lot of websites offer this kind of service. How to choose a good agent, I think most people are very confused. If you are one of them, you are really interested in, bought it from Taobao, Taobao I strongly suggest that you do some research on what is, or else you will be very easy to take in a number of Taobao agent. I put out a number of criteria to determine a Taobao agent was reliable.

Taobao price and agent Web sites

Taobao open API, all product data, including price, size, stock, color, and so on, because the Taobao do not have an English version, most of the agents of the API data collected and translated using Google translate into English. Agent service fee charged to you, based on the original price on Taobao, they should show the correct dollar prices for you. If they do not have a reasonable excuse to raise prices, pause, and then use their services.

In some cases, does not match the Taobao price was acceptable. Items sold on Taobao, Taobao price cheaper than before. This frequently occurs in Taobao Taobao should explain to them and a very good customer, let them modify price discounts. However, as I have observed that many agents had failed to mention this point, their customers receive price discounts and discount stores of information.

International freight

International shipping costs are very expensive, everything is online before you buy, you should check that your shipping cost. The most common modes of transport EMS Deputy because it can project, not by any other person transporting, covering a wide range of areas. Here is DHL,FEDEX,UPS,TNT, and so on. For small packages of a kilogram, they often use China Post air mail. On its official website, you can view all of the price:

Of EMS:http://www.ems.com.cn/english.html

DHL：http://www.dhl.com/en.html

FedEx: http://www.FedEx.com/

UPS：www.ups.com

TNT：www.tnt.com

China Post air mail: http://English.chinapost.com.CN/

Is very important: it's way too expensive, use these discount international express! In fact, agent in China, you can get discount logistics companies, usually 40%, which is the standard in this industry. You can safely ignore those that don't offer any discounts. (PS China Post air mail does not provide a discount, which is very cheap, but compared to other people, take a very long time. ）

Sure in your own Web site where you can find the international shipping information. Hide this fare or unwilling to clear to customers is not considered to be honest. A good agent should tell their customers how much it cost, prior to shipment, they make their purchasing decisions.

Service charge and minimum charge

I don't who this fixed, but service fees, the agent is set to 10% (product price + domestic transportation costs). That sounds reasonable, taking into account all of the service agent to you. Some agents will be charged 5% (product price + domestic transportation costs + international shipping fees). In most cases, international shipping fee is not less than the product price so I personally prefer the first one.

Service charges a minimum charge of about 5 to, that is to say, if you buy less than 50USD, you're going to have to pay them 5USD service charge. Police encourage people to shop more than one item, in most cases, people will do so. Because the price is very low on Taobao, buy large quantity will reduce the average shipping cost for each item. However, if the client needs more 8USD, you better give yourself a compelling reason for using their services.

Exchange rate and the payment method of transfer fees

Exchange rate fluctuations and most agents typically set it to a fixed interest rate. If you think their fixed exchange rates are unacceptable to you, you'd better switch to another agent.

Most agents using PayPal, credit card, t/t, Western Union, WebMoney as a payment method. For each type of payment, fees, receivers and agent will charge you in this transaction. You can check your method of payment and transaction fees, agent charge you reasonable or not. Here is the PayPal transaction fees for your reference:

Professional Web site design and functionality

Principal-agent shopping can be very dangerous. Do you know what you are commissioned? I strongly recommend that you ask a person to do your work, unless you know his/her personal. It needed working capital, time and energy agents to run their business. If the agent is in a part-time job, you might get slow response and poor quality control, even lost contact forever.

But how can you say this site is from a reliable company and part-time individuals do? We can judge the professional Web site design and functionality. This is a lot of free website templates. Only a few dollars anyone can build a website in one minute. But in design and functionality has fallen short of expectations. Special features, it would be very simple and poor user experience. Will cost 5000USD customization of a professional agent website. Agents who are willing to spend the money is likely to be serious about this business, and, in most cases, they are an organised team or company. It provides a good criteria, the choice of agent.

 

Their existing customer review and comment of checking

Any taobao agent will brag about their service is the best, it is really hard to say true. The best solution would be to check for the existing client comments and comment. However, the comments and opinions are not always in their own Web sites. You can be checked through the search engine. I really am grateful for agent Web sites, for their clients to discuss any part of their freedom. As I watched, only reliable agents and serious business savvy, doing for open discussion. This is a serious test for their services. In return, if the publicity and impartiality can be done in an open discussion, it creates their customer loyalty. After all, sharing is the basis of the Internet. Sooner or later people will know your gold or stone piece on a regular basis.

Finally shopping guide service

We go far away, from a foreign country. We don't know product information communication difficulties with the sellers on Taobao. Our agents, it seems that only our Taobao shopping experience. If they don't give us a shopping guide, how we can find a good deal with it? Most proxy sites online contact, but because of the time difference, you can also contact them by e-mail. Ask more questions, look at their reaction. Taobao agent when you buy from a professional, you will feel great curtains.

The above judgement skills does not guarantee that you find a reliable 100% Taobao agent. This is for informational purposes only. The best practice is to have a test. On this point, you'll be the expert!