How to order MLPs, fakies, or whatever off Taobao

[LadyMoondancer]

I post a lot of pics from Taobao here and on my blog, so I thought it would be helpful to make a guide on how I order from them.

How to Order off Taobao by Using BaseTao

I use BaseTao as my proxy buyer.  I request items, they buy them and store them in their Chinese warehouse, then they send multiple purchases to me at once.  Most Taobao sellers don't ship outside of China, which is why a proxy is necessary.

There are other proxies besides BaseTao . . . I just came across BaseTao first and liked them well enough to keep using them. Their fee is 5% on purchases and 5% on shipping. (But if you spend enough money, they start to lower the percentage. At this point they charge me 3%, which might be an indictment on my spending habits, ha ha.)  The way you "load money" onto BaseTao is through Paypal.

If anyone has questions let me know.

BTW the Chinese phrase for My Little Pony is 小马宝莉 which is good for finding real MLPs or real licensed MLP goods (and some cheeky bootlegs) on Taobao.  You can also sometimes get hits by putting in MLP or My Little Pony in English.  If I'm looking for weird bootlegs, I go to Google Translate and look up the Simplified Chinese for phrases that are like MLP, but not identical.

For example:  fashion horse, baby plastic horse toy, my pretty pony, anime colt

(That last one only gave me one hit, but it was the Chinese comic novelizations of MLP 'n Friends with G3-ish artwork on the front covers, so well worth it!)

[sentimental]

wonderful guide!
i'm a figure collector myself and proxies have really saved me. i'm a superbuy user but i'll have to check out basetao!!

[heathersmoo]

This is great

[starrynights]

Thank you for this!

[LadyMoondancer]

Thanks guys!

These are my latest BaseTao purchase (currently in their warehouse):

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I'm also waiting on some MLP socks.

[starbritesprinkles]

My account is frozen. I have not seen anything indicating a successful method of unfreezing it.

[LadyMoondancer]

Oh no, I'm sorry to hear that!  Are you able to log in at all? 

Their help email is [email protected]  .