Buying Transformers on Taobao

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by botfan, Feb 25, 2017.

  1. stinkyshawn

    stinkyshawn Well-Known Member

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    correct...this is the one... after bid we will change price
     
  2. Hawkwave

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    SB will not be cheaper. I don't know why its comming up that way. All superbuy does is go to the store you and buy it for you after you pay them for it. If you are talking about using alipay or Cc on the purchase page of superbuy always use alipay. You are not the one buying the product. The actual purchase at the taobao store is done by superbuy. They will use alipay regardless and I guarentee you if you select credit card they are pocketing the difference.

    If you were to buy the item at taobao yourself it will be cheaper.

    You get charged that 3% surcharge at SB as well.

    This is the tutorial that got me started.

    Also reading the tutorials about taobao on the first page is still very usefull if you have not.

    SB online help starts at 8pm central time. Its super fast ask them anything you are unsure about.
     
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  3. dickenz

    dickenz METROFLEX?!?

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    Maybe I can offer some relevant insight as an Aussie who used SB for my last order. I had no issues whatsoever with the process, was good. I used them as a forwarder only. I was a little bit worried about the box destruction antics so opted to try it.

    My 2x packages (FT-41 and FT-30B) left their respective Taobao sellers on 1st of June. One took an extra day to get to the SB warehouse, from there, 24hr turn around and they were off on 7th of June. As it stands now I am still waiting for them to leave Shanghai which they arrived at on 13th of June.

    I chose Wuhan EMS which had an estimated delivery time of 8-15 days I believe. Seems like any air traffic now is suffering from limited flights. This is even noted in the AusPost app when tracking international parcels at the moment. I have multiple packages coming from the USA that are also heavily delayed.

    If you're getting a consistent turn-around time with sea shipping right now I think that is the way to go. At least you're not stuck in limbo with no idea when it'll be leaving the origin country. Torturously refreshing the page daily hoping for an update :D 
     
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  4. minstral

    minstral It's all about G1 Masterpiece

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    Thanks for this. So as a forwarder service, once you buy and the seller sends it, do I have to enter tracking details into SuperBuy's webpage? I have this prompt as I did the product check by entering the item link into SB's checker. Or, do I just do nothing and they'll notify me when a parcel with my ID arrives?
     
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  5. minstral

    minstral It's all about G1 Masterpiece

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    Thanks, wasn't clear that SB passes on the 3% on AP. I'll stick with using SB as a fowarder.
     
  6. stinkyshawn

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    I don't use SB.. but sg also has services that provide 'buy for me' services... n the service charge puts me off.... but its an easy way out for ppl who don't knw how to buy off TB
     
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    dickenz METROFLEX?!?

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    No worries minstral. Yeah you have to take the tracking number (Waybill number) off the bottom of the logistics page on Taobao and whack it into the Superbuy page.
     
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  8. hoptimusprime

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    I reached out to Bibic about Magnum. I didn’t get the clearest answer but it seemed like his batch of Magnums may be the second batch
     
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  9. zin

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    Thanks for the update.
     
  10. ChromeMagnus

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    What ETA did they give?
     
  11. hoptimusprime

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    I didn’t ask
     
  12. Hawkwave

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    If going by the last few figures, should be 2-3 weeks time.

    I was confident of getting Magnum early cos I pre-ordered it on 2019-04-29 (not that early, but much earlier than for FT-30x). I just received it, but had not opened it yet.

    It is only applicable for the US warehouse.

    I think it's still worth sticking with official shipping if you don't mind the long shipping time by sea. (It's too expensive by air to Australia.)
     
  14. ChromeMagnus

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    Thanks. What date did you preorder it?

    I preordered mine 8/13/2019. August 13, 2019.
     
  15. Hawkwave

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    Oct.
     
  16. McGiggles IV

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    So, I submitted the order via paypal, but customer service is asking me to show them a picture of the card I used for payment (showing the first 6 and last 4 digits of the card) and the name on my driver’s license. It’s odd because I made another order and that one went through with no problems.... Has that happened to you?
     
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    SB is asking you to do that? I have never been asked that and if it was done by paypal they would not need that. That really doesn't make sense to me.

    Businesses don't get to see your credit info with paypal. Thats one of the reasons to use it. Safer on the web.
     
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    Yeah, I don’t really understand it. I sent them the PayPal invoice yesterday, but they still wanted the credit card info and driver’s license. I made another order with the same seller on Taobao that went through fine, so I’m thinking it was the amount of items + the total cost that caused them to send me that request. I’m just going to cancel the order and try ordering the items individually and see if that works.
     
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    Why would you need to send them a paypal invoice? Did you order your items through taobao or superbuy?

    When I order with superbuy I paste a taobao link into their website, add the item to my cart and pay them using paypal. Is that what you did?
     
  20. McGiggles IV

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    Yep, that is what I did. Admittedly, I used a different paypal email address than the email address I used for Superbuy, so not sure if that had anything to do with it as well. Regardless, I cancelled the order because I really don’t want to send a picture of anything.