How To Buy From 1688 Without Agent

How To Buy From 1688 Without Agent? FIRST TRY TO OPEN 1688 IN GOOGLE CHROME AND USE IT'S AUTOTRANSLATE FEATURE, MAKES EVERYTHING A LOT EASIER. I'll put screenshots in both the chinese version in case you don't have this.

• Step 1: Make a taobao account. This is pretty easy, and this guide here explains how to do it. After doing this, go to your account by clicking on your username on the top left, and click on this tab to enter your shipping address. It should pull up a form for you to fill out your address on that looks like this. Fill out your shipping address and submit it.
• Step 2: Go to the product page of the item you're tryna buy. It'll look like this. Select your size and color, and click the dark orange button. This will add the product to your cart. (Note that sometimes, it won't add to cart. Just refresh the page until it does). Repeat for everything that you're trying to buy.
• Step 3: Once you've added everything you've wanted to your cart, you can acccess the cart by going to the top of the page and clicking on this tab. This will take you to your shopping cart, which should look something like this (with whatever stuff you're buying instead).
• Step 4: Click this little button here. This should select everything you have in your shopping cart, and it should look like this after. Click on the big dark orange button in the corner that says (or settlement if your page is translated.)
• Step 5: If you filled out your shipping address in your account info in step 1, you should be taken to a page that looks like this. Make sure the option circled in red is checked - this is the Taobao Cargo option that lets taobao act as the agent. Once you select this box, it'll ask you to choose a forwarder (for the US it's EMS/DHL, USPS, and UPS. I'm not sure of the difference, I just always use EMS/DHL). After that, scroll down to the bottom and hit the dark orange button to checkout. After you've paid, you've finished the first step of buying directly.

  **NOTE: You're only halfway through so far. You just paid for the items + their shipping cost to the taobao warehouse. You still have to pay for the international shipping once the items reach the warehouse.

• Step 6: Click on your username on the top left, and then click on the tab on the left that says It's the tab pictured here. It should take you to a page that looks like this, with the items you ordered being shown here. Wait for all of the items to reach the warehouse, which on average takes anywhere from 3-5 days, then click these two buttons to select all your stuff in the warehouse and pay for international shipping. The number on the bottom right is how much they're charging for the international shipping, and is typically a lot cheaper than using an agent. They tell you the weight too.
• Step 7: All done! Now you just wait for the package to arrive. You can track it by following going to your profile and then clicking the view logistics button, shown here.