Another Way of Making Your Taobao Shopping Cheaper

Another Way of Making Your Taobao Shopping Cheaper

In recent years, live commerce has become a new business model for Chinese e-commerce platforms. 

With strong interactivity, large discounts and low cost, more and more influencers have started selling their products while livestreaming and live streaming now becomes one of the main cosumption methods for young Chinese. 

Do you know how to shop in live stream? Today this passage will take Taobao as an example to introduce how to shop via different live stream channels!

How to enter a livestreaming room?

Open Taobao and find '淘宝直播' (Taobao livesteaming)!

How to buy in a livestreaming room? 

How to find the products you want or the channels you're interested in?

After finishing the first step, you’ll see this:

If you find your favorite channel, click and you will see:

If you have a favorite item and want to buy:

If not:

Go back and search the key words of the items you want in Chinese:

Some other useful features

1. You can click on “全部分类” which means “sorts” to browse and find the items you want by category

2. When you're watching a live stream and are particularly interested in one channel, you can choose to subscribe to it so that next time it's easier for you to find the same channel.

3. If you have any question about the product, you can send a message to communicate with the live streamers, and they will respond in time in most cases. Since most streamers are Chinese, it`s recommended to communicate with them in Chinese.

Now, have you learned all the skills? Go to Taobao and place an order to try it out!

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