Taobao.com and Alipay, assistance required please :)

[sheethal singh]

Hi,

i have an account that was approved with alipay and taobao, but i have two huge problems,

1. i cannot seem to complete the registration process for a purchase with taoboa.com as i am not in china and it will not let me go to the next step even though i am puting in an international address...understanding the chinese is very hard and i am using a translator but it cannot help all the time...

2. i cannot seem to continue to load my hsbc card onto the alipay site, as once more, i cannot understand the site and also cannot find an option to add my card..

please assist as i am also very excited about taoboa but need help just to set up my taobao with the postage address please any one, i would be very grateful for your assistance..

also, i have just found out, go to tao1shop.com, they are will to assist overseas clients to top up their alipay accounts

[Zhuping]

Hi

I searched the Internet, and found two ways for payment in taobao for international payment, paypal and alipay.

Patpal has its own version in China, which is dfferent from the international one.

In the Chinese version, only chinese consumers can send and accept payments.

If you want to use the international version, you need to ask the shop owner(from the mainland, China) whether thryare willing to accept money that can only be used through Paypal, because it will cost a huge amount of money to withdral cash from it,

As for the alipay, if you are outside China, you need a visa card, but there are many litmits when the shop owner is, again, in the mainland.

Here is full information:

http://help.alipay.com/support/help_detail.htm?help_id=1405&sh=null

[Taobao Dude]

Yo dudes. Don't stress.

If you are outside of China, it is not really possible to buy on Taobao yourself. But there are good services (called Taobao Agents) that can help. Check out buying on Taobao from overseas

[BrandeX]

http://item.taobao.com/auction/item_detail-db2-293a93c1c32500d574c4a234b672c74a.jhtml?ad_id=&am_id=&cm_id=&pm_id=

Here is a random auction, you can see at the bottom of each one which payment methods are available with taobao. HSBC is not one of them, they only accept Chinese banks.