I AM NOT ENDORSING YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE MENTIONED STORES. I AM NOT THE OWNER OF THEM. THIS IS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.

How NOT to get goodnotes for 1 usd amidst everyone losing their jobs:

1. Download Taobao (Chinese version)
2. Register for an account. You can use your US phone number, or buy a chinese sim phone number if you don't want your data in the CCP database
3. Switch to Chinese version
4. Find goodnotes in the search bar
5. Click any of them
6. Find the most expensive item when you press add to cart (should never exceed 7 cny)
7. Checkout with your credit card
8. Go to customer service and open a link that the customer service gives you
9. Translate the doc to english and follow the instructions
10. Send a code to the customer service when asked to

FAQs:

* Can I use my own apple id? Yes
* Will I loose all your documents? They recommend backing up first and regularly, but since goodnotes is downloaded in your apple id your icloud backup should not have any problems
* Will the account get banned? Probably not, but they have thousands of customers and accounts so they can give you another one if somehow it got banned, but from my usage of a year it never happened
* Will customer service scam me? no, chinese customer service is almost instant, as long as you ask them in chinese. They heavily rely on customer ratings so some other shops bribe you to remove a negative review (yes, illegal, but no one enforces it)

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