Tuesday, September 18, 2012

New things ☆ Taobao shopping


Morning people ♪ ! 

It's been a while now. What has happened since last time, you ask? 
Among many things, this: 

A few weeks ago, me and my best friend Alex made a huge order from Taobao. Last week our stuff finally arrived! It was insane, not kidding. The combined weight of our packages was 21 kg (46.3 lbs). Me and my girlfriend Alice were both sick and since Alex was in school, we had to carry these terrifying, cardboard bombs all the way from the post office. We weren't feeling so great afterwards. Doesn't matter. Who can be anything but happy with clothes, clothes and Rilakkuma everywhere, right? 

I mean, look at all these things! 


1. Galaxy print oversized tee 
2. Panda t-shirt, me and Alex bought matching ones 
3. Adidas leopard print t-shirt


1. SHOES! I searched for lolita shoes and found these. Not so lolita, but it wasn't exactly what I was looking for either. 
2. High-waist black shorts
3. A lovely jacket with studs, kind of looks like a leather jacket, but it's not
4. A bunch of Kreepsville accessories


I went completely Rilakkuma crazy...

1. Two backpacks, one Rilakkuma and one Ko-Rilakkuma
2. Rilakkuma wallet, Ko-Rilakkuma earphones
3. Ko-Rilakkuma nightgown
4. Rilakkuma pyjama

And I bought a Ko-Rilakkuma fleece pyjama for my friend Emilia, as a birthday gift! 


Last but not least: 

1. I've always wanted a cow kigurumi ;;
2. Mint green curly wig, a Gothic Lolita Wigs model

That is it, 10 kg!

I was like a child on Christmas Eve. Or like almost-eighteen me on Christmas Eve, I'm still pretty excited about Christmas. Anyway. 

Should write a little more about Taobao, I suppose. It is basically like Chinese Ebay. But, like with most Japanese or Chinese websites, you'll need a shopping service - or in this case, a "Taobao agent".
The one I use is kinalink.se. However, Kinalink is a Swedish service, but I've heard many good things about Taobaospree as well. Wonderful Josephine used Taobaospree, and she was happy with her order. 

So Taobaospree as a Taobao agent, highly recommended! 

Shopping on Taobao is really easy once you find your agent. You translate your search word to chinese, with google translate for example, paste it into the search field and press enter. Once you find something, just follow your Taobao agent's purchase procedure. Usually it's as simple as filling in an excel document and e-mailing it to your agent. Done! 

This was my third Taobao order. All of the things I bought add up to around 1000 SEK, shipping included. Insanely cheap for this amount of stuff. Needless to say, I have every intention to make another order! 

Not right now though. No, no. Saying I have no money would be an understatement. 
I've actually gone as far as banning Taobao and Ebay in my browser settings. Will have to survive without window-shopping, lord have mercy. 

Whatever, it's not the end of the world! Instead I'm going to take this opportunity and save some money. It's not like I need more stuff. It'll be nice having some money saved up for something bigger in the future! In the meantime I'll only spend money on a few treats, once in a while, like going to the cinema. I'm usually too cheap to do things like that since I save all my money for clothes, stupid as I am. 

Anyway! I'm sick so I'm going to curl up in bed and watch TV for the rest of the day (* ´ω`) Coughing up my damn lungs. Hope you're feeling better than I am!

Hugs and kisses from cap'n iro ♡ !

44 comments:

  1. Wow *_* I didn't see a parcel so big!! I love taobao, I also ordered from it a lot of lovely things and I love ALL your new stuff, so many rilakkuma things *o*

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    1. I know right? It's the best site ever ( * q * ) Thank you! I couldn't resist all the rilakkuma... the only thing I REALLY needed was the wallet...

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  2. aaah jealous of all the cute stuff you got! :D I think I'm gonna try out taobao soon (since it obviously works well???)

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    1. DO IT! You will not regret it, I swear! ( ; ω ; )

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  3. Where did you get all those money DDD: seems like i have to visit taobao too!

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    1. In Sweden, we get 1050 SEK from the state each month for going to school. I also work, making around 800 SEK each month, and since I started selling things I make a little money there too. So I make around 2000 SEK/month. Plus this was cheap, considering how much I got. So since I'm going to save money now I see it as money well spent ( ;^ ^) Do it! It's worth it!

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    2. I also feel like I need to clarify that I do NOT exactly make orders like this every day! This is something I've saved up for over the summer... it happens maybe twice a year, so it's just about saving up! ( ; 3 ; )

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    3. I see ヽ(゜∇゜)ノ Thank you for your nice reply :3

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  4. So many cool things °^° taobao is haven, i know xD

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  5. So many cool things <3 taobao is haven, i know xD

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    1. Thank yoooou! ♥ I know... If you could marry a website I'd marry taobao. Also, didn't know you had blogspot! Following you now!

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  6. Those Kreepsville accessories look amazing, whoa!






    http://mightaswellgetjuiced.blogspot.fi/ x

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  7. You said that you searched for lolita shoes, but you can't find. Do you wear lolita? I'm curious how are you in lolita ^^

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    1. No no! I wasn't looking for typical lolita shoes, that's just the searchword I used. I was looking for more platform sneaker-ish or boot, clumsy-type shoes. I've just noticed that when I search for lolita shoes I find quite a lot of creepers and stuff that aren't really lolita, more street style (-_^)-☆

      It's just a useful searchword when you want to find streetstyle things since some people on ebay and stuff don't seem to know what lolita is. I don't wear lolita except for when I play dress up, haha...

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  8. the shoes ^^ so gorgeous! <3 <3 glad you got stuff you wanted! Sadly, I'm not that disciplined when saving up for things..... hurry, Christmas, hehe

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    1. Haha I'm not so disciplined either, usually, but my economy sort of crashed a while after I ordered this so now I have to be very careful. I do agree though; hurry christmas! ♥

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  9. Eye candies!! <3 WOWOWOW!
    I love the cow kigurumi!!! You'd look very cute on them fosho :DD

    I used to shop in taobao back when I was in Manila, but since moving in Brussels I had a hard time looking for an agent + expensive shipping D:

    But thank you for recommendation about Taobaospree. I'd love to try out their services soon :D

    xx,yapo http://yaporu.net

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    1. Thank you! Hehe I love it all too~ If you choose china airmail standard shipping, it'll be less expensive ( ^ ^)

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  10. I'm SO obsessed with Rilakkuma! You have to tell me how good the headphones are because I want to order a pair. I've just started online shopping and it's slowly becoming an obsession >_<

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    1. Haha online shopping is daaaaaaangerous! I'm obsessed with Rilakkuma too... unfortunately the headphones SUCK XD But they're cheap and way too cute so I regret nothing ( ;ww; )

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  11. can you please give a link for that beauty bow with eye?

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    1. Sorry I didn't save the link ;; But search for kreepsville and you'll find tons!

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  12. Whaah *v* the space t-shirt is to precious! <33 And I love your rillakkuma stuff ;A; I am a big fan og korillakkuma and rillakkuma XD
    awww, you mentioned ME TT A TT You are to precious Saga <3
    I hope you feel better very, very soon <3

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    1. Oh ikr ( ; ww ; ) Rilakkuma is the reason I can spend HOURS on taobao, haha! And yees sorry I didn't ask! But I thought you'd be okay with it since you made a post about it... and you seem okay with it now, so yay!⎝( ; ∇ ; )⎠
      YOU are precious! ♥ thank you!

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  13. Woah, you bought great stuff :D
    I think you'll look great in your new t-shirts (well, you look great, whatever you wear |'3).
    I didn't know Taobao, but it sounds intersting :3

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    1. Check it out! It's a great site! And thank you dear ♥

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  14. I've been on Taobao but I'm scared of the shipping rates ? Are they very high ? I absolutely love the shoes and your style by the way. :3

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    1. It absolutely depends on what service you use. China airmail small is usually very cheap! My 10 kgs was only 600 SEK, which is super cheap for that weight. And thank you! You're so nice ♥ Good luck!

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  15. HOHOHO~ I love Taobao...and what feels good is that...I live in China so ...i am ALWAYS buying on taobao (... well it also has a bad effect...i have no money then URG)

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    1. Haha how can you run out of money on taobao though! Or..... well..... I suppose if I lived in China I'd be..... even more broke than I am now... uuhhh~

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  16. Ny läsare OuO! Jag tänkte snart lägga min första order på taobao faktiskt (helt galet, om jag hade haft sådär en 20.000:- så hade jag köpt upp allt på den där ondskefulla sidan D:) men jag är lite orolig över shippingen. 10kg? Kostade inte det hur mycket som helst? Billigaste jag har hittat är typ 300CNY, och då är det ändå bara typ två kilo :c Jag är lite kär i det du köpte förresten, hoho~<3

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    1. Eller huuuuur! Man vill ha allt ♥ Om du använder kinalink.se och skriver "billigast möjliga frakt" som fraktalternativ är det faktiskt inte så dyrt! Mina 10 kg gick på typ 600 nånting, vilket är yttepytte!

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    2. Åh ja, det är farligt att bara tänka "taobao", haha! Tack så mycket, ska testa det ;u; <3

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  17. Wuaaaah vilka underbara kläder Q_____Q Men du hur fattar man Taobao? det är bara massor av kinesiska tecken överallt och jag förstår ingenting ^___^;

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  18. Wuaaah vilka fina kläder Q_____Q men du hur förstår man taobao? det är bara massor av kinesiska tecken överallt och jag förstår ingenting xD

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    1. Alltså... tyvärr kan jag inte hjälpa dig så mycket, jag kan inte kinesiska heller liksom, det är bara att hanka sig fram så vänjer man sig ; 3 ; Google translate! Sen behöver man ju inte beställa direkt på hemsidan liksom, man länkar ju bara grejerna man vill ha till shopping servicen!

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  19. Hey! Would like to know what did you type in the search box for the galaxy print shirt! I couldn't find it anywhere! ):

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    1. I don't remember exactly but I wrote how I search for things... google translate. Look around a bit and try different words. Sorry I can't help more, it was pretty easy for me to find so the exact words didn't stick to my mind :(

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  20. wowowowowowow, so nice so nice!
    glad you got all the stuff (:

    welcome to shop again with us!

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  21. WOWOWOWOWOW, so much stuff girl!

    welcome to shop again with us^^

    btw, I love Rilakkuma too lol

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  22. what kind of shoes?

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