Taobao - Now available in English for Hongkongers

travelem · 18-01-2025, 06:17 PM

Struggling with Taobao? It’s now available in English for Hongkongers

https://www.scmp.com/postmag/culture...box=1737094454

shri · 20-01-2025, 01:02 PM

A friend who uses this advised us to check prices and the quality of search results in both English and Chinese. There is some difference according to them... might be some premiumisation in play.

newhkpr · 20-01-2025, 01:07 PM

Originally Posted by shri:

A friend who uses this advised us to check prices and the quality of search results in both English and Chinese. There is some difference according to them... might be some premiumisation in play.

Ugh. Unbelievable. But not surprising anymore.

shri · 20-01-2025, 01:11 PM

Originally Posted by newhkpr:

Ugh. Unbelievable. But not surprising anymore.

Not confirmed yet ... will check at some point in life.

BCD · 20-01-2025, 01:49 PM

The English app does not have a lot of the functionality of the Chinese app. Its quite stripped down

big_panda · 20-01-2025, 01:59 PM

Anyone have the link for the app for Android? I entered "taobao english version hong kong" and the app downloaded was Chinese version, and could not change language setting to English.

rani · 20-01-2025, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by big_panda:

Anyone have the link for the app for Android? I entered "taobao english version hong kong" and the app downloaded was Chinese version, and could not change language setting to English.

You just download the Chinese version and go into settings and change the language to English.

mengfei · 20-01-2025, 02:22 PM

there's a wechat group that has discount & cashback if you frequent TB, search for SmartLaowai

he also introduced the english version of TB in singapore last year

https://nowshenzhen.com/blog/new-wec...-among-expats/

https://nowshenzhen.com/blog/taobao-expat-reward/

Crankshaft · 22-01-2025, 04:52 PM

Well I found out the English version is pretty much useless for trying to buy furniture as pretty much none of the sellers ship here. Chinese version also seem to have tons more products available in general.

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paddylast · 22-01-2025, 05:38 PM

I'm pretty sure that taobao has had an English version of itself in the mainland for years, or they definitely tried it years ago, with the same issues you guys are reporting.