The Magic World of TaoBao.

Taobao, this magic website when you can buy whatever you want. Really, everything, even a new partner. No, I’m just kidding. Or maybe not. Anyway, for us, students living in Xiangan campus, away from everything, it’s the best choice. It’s very easy to create a new account and then I could use my prepaid Visa to buy stuff (you have to pay 3 RMB of commission usually, but sometimes it’s less). What did I buy? I told you, everything. Chopsticks for relatives and friends, a dehumidifier, some jewels, tiger balm, camera case, phone case, nailpolish display, handmade paper cut, panda cookies cutters, sandwich shaper, sleeping mask, ribbons, rubber ducks, Christmas biscuits bags,  stickers, more stickers, an windmill card, HSK books, hair bands, nail art stuff, coloured iron wire, phone charger, a router and a mouse pad. This is pretty amazing. When you buy things on TaoBao, they usually deliver through Kuaidi, and we have an office in the camps where you can go and collect your parcel. It’s next to the supermarket in the main canteen complex, and it’s open till 6 p.m. You receive a message on the number you gave when you buy something, and in this message there is written the kind of Kuaidi and the number of the shelf. Going there and find your parcel it’s very funny. Sometimes the guys there help you, sometimes not. Another place where sometimes you have to collect your parcel is outside the DongMen (don’t worry, on the message they send you they tell you where to go), where there are a lot of vans with parcels on them. Here it’s more complicated, but just because you have just an hour of time to collect it (from 11.30 till 12.30). it could also happen that you have to go to the EMS van next to the post office. The other website where you can buy stuff without any problem is Amazon.cn. You can use your European credit card as well (a guy told me that you can even pay in cash at the delivery) and they deliver outside the Dongmen. For examples, on Amazon.cn I bought two MicroSD card and a Olay pro brush system. So, here we are! Just enjoy buying stuff for few cents!