Ever ordered supplies from yoybuy?
So I'm considering buying off of Taobao (chinese ebay, but chinese-to-chinese only) via Yoybuy.
The way it works is you put money in your yoybuy account. They scrape taobao for listings, do some engrishing, and present the listings.
When you buy from yoybuy, they purchase the items from taobao for you. Once the yoybuy agent receives the item, they re-ship it to you. For a modest fee.
I'm not really sure there's a pricing advantage vs. alibaba, for example.
Just looking for other people that have some actual experience.
Posted Aug 1, 2013, 8:25 PM UTC
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Do it with something real cheap first.
Putting money into an account doesn't sound as safe as paying per order. Many Chinese companies are well prepared to ship small orders to interested people overseas because more business is good for business. While I'm not sure of any search engine for cheap parts from Asia, if you can find out where the parts come from you can skip the middle man. The only difference is that some work is required for you to do some research and make a call to be sure. The term "Engrishing" is insulting to the intelligence of everyone. Sounds like a paid service for a translation and a google search.
Actually it's not insulting to everyone. It's actually embraced in Japan as part of the culture.
Source: Went to Japan.
ebay? there are plenty of Chinese/HK sellers, at least on ebay.co.uk
Taobao prices are sometimes better then ebay prices. And there is stuff you can find on Taobao that is not on ebay.
I have a slight problem understanding that site.