Any Taobao shopping hacks for those lousy in Chinese? Or hacks that are lesser known? Thanks :)?

Came across this article on how to ship Taobao furniture to Singapore. A lot of helpful tips even though I don't buy furniture.

Tips include

• Narrowing your search results using filters

• Camera function

• Use the “找相似” function

• Live chat function

• Redeeming discount vouchers

The article also has a step-by-step guide on how to shop (+ screenshots), how to do quality checks for products and communicate with sellers. V informative and helpful imo

Some hacks that have helped me:

1. Image search keyword search: Upload an image of what you're searching for (this article talks about it in detail). Taobao will churn out a bunch of similar items. Afterwhich, you can dissect the product names -- isolate key phrases and search them, so you'd be able to get a more accurate results for what you want! (imo this works much better than Google translate)
2. Clothes sizing: If you still feel uncertain with regards to sizing, you can actually chat with the merchant and tell them your height & weight - they'll revert with the appropriate size for the specific item you're looking at.
3. Sale seasons (11.11, 12.12, 6.18): A tip from locals is to only buy branded items during sale seasons - reason being that other stores would mark up their items before applying sales discounts. I'm not 100% sure about this but it wouldn't hurt to track the prices of items you're eyeing!

I just found out recently that it is possible to shop perfectly without a need to understand Chinese! There is this digital Taobao Guide available on FB @taobaoguide where u can learn all the 'tricks' n 'secrets' to shopping on Taobao.. See https://www.facebook.com/taobaoguide/

Hope this help!

Can use ezbuy or can use shopee. Both is easy friendly to use.