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Q: taobao or t-mall? What's your choice?
Some here use taobao exclusively. Others use t-mall. Some like taobao, others don't like it at all. Please share your thoughts and comments.
11 years 20 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
I have bought a few things on-line here...... usually start at taobao, because that is all I know.... then end up god knows where...t-mall. etao, buy.com, amazon..... who the hell knows how this thing works!!!
Taobao is thousands of small shops and personal sellers selling, like Ebay or Amazon Marketplace. Tmall is the actual major brands and official resellers who have real retail business taking place in China, not just a Mom n' Pop shop.
I find most of what I like on Tmall, it is easier to navigate, and there are always numerous pictures to get an idea of what you might be buying. Taobao listings look like what Ebay listings looked like back in the 90's. Multi-colored titles, horrible stock images and a mess of rules, policies and gifs that are confusing.
I trust Taobao, I've never had a problem, I buy western food products, clothes, household items, and never received a fake item or had a shipping issue. I don't like the design, but you can't argue with selection they provide. However, for clothes I buy from Tmall, 360buy, or QQ Buy, as I like their selection, navigation on the site, and pictures of the product better.
Tmall and Taobao are the same company. As for websites, I prefer Taobao. It's more personal and I like to support smaller organisations.
Taobao cause it's good and I can trust.
T-mall,No idea.
T-mall can trust 100%... but is more expensive..
I use both...
For brand official stores... ofcourse t-mall.. especially the ones which cannot be cheaper in taobao.. like uniqlo..
For cheap price taobao....
If you are a beginner... and afraid of getting fakes/being cheated.... just use t-mall... its the second tab in www.taobao.com..
If you are good at using your brain to find which shop is believable etc.. using sales/comments/points... go for just www.taobao.com..
some of Tmall is not better then taobao store.Sometimes i will chose good reputation taobao store.Most of tmall have high quality goods.but the customer services are not very well.
