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What is Taobao

Taobao (Chinese: 淘宝网) is a Chinese Internet site for online shopping, under the control of the Alibaba group, headquartered in Hangzhou.

Taobao is the world's biggest e-commerce website, as well as the eighth most visited website in the world. As of 31st of March 2018, Taobao has over 617 million monthly active users.

Taobao is a platform where Vendors (Suppliers) and Consumers meet. Where consumers can find online shops (lots of small privately-run businesses) with all sorts of merchandise. 

It is founded by Alibaba Group in 2003, Taobao Marketplace facilitates consumer-to-consumer (C2C) retail by providing a platform for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs to open online stores that mainly cater to consumers in Chinese-speaking regions (i.e. Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan).

Why Shop Taobao?
Taobao has over 1 billion of product listings and Millions of Suppliers (and these numbers are increasing everyday), the combined transaction volume of Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com had reached 3 trillion Yuan (RMB) in year 2017.

What does Taobao offer?
Most of the products in China are cheap. Taobao offers a platform to let consumers find the cheap products fast. Besides, cheap stuff, Taobao also offers GOOD Quality products with higher prices. (However, these prices are still considered cheap compare to those selling in the Local markets)


To read more about Taobao. Please click on the link below
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taobao


Can International Buyers order from Taobao?
Yes, Buyers outside of China can buy from Taobao. However, you will need some help with Communication (as most of the Suppliers in China only communicate in Chinese and the Taobao website is only in Chinese), Shipping and Payment. Hence, Super Fairprice is here to provide you with our best service so that you can continue to enjoy your online shopping with hassle free.