Imagine the following: friend/family/someone wants to buy you a gift in Taiwan (for whatever reason). However, they don’t know the Taiwanese websites, don’t have a Taiwanese bank or phone, and maybe don’t read Traditional. In this scenario is there anything like:
A gift registry, where I could set up a list of shopee/momo/etc. links, and then someone could simply enter their card details, and the thing would be shipped to me (Even aside from a list/registry, I haven’t found any way to send a momo/shopee link to someone else where the item and shipping details are already saved, and the person simply needs to hit ‘buy’)
Shopee/momo/Taipei city/mall/7-11 gift cards in NTD which they could purchase in their own currency
Companies or websites which are popular locally, but possible to navigate in non-Chinese and use a foreign card (Amazon does work, but still ships from overseas, and ends up being much more expensive, plus a headache with customs etc.)
Of course cash is an option, but that defeats the purpose of a gift in my opinion.
Increasingly becoming less and less possible. Websites are closing their doors to foreign traffic. Not just Taiwan, everywhere. IT departments are more jittery about potential threats from ‘abroad’ and while they may come from hostile countries like China, Russia and North Korea, to the average person, it is simply all grouped together as ‘abroad’.
I guess this is why I can no longer keep track of prices in Canadian stores, and order them at a bargain price (or when they’re in stock!) in May, so they’re waiting for me at my parents’ place in July?
Yeah, this is my experience as well. VPN and international friends gets around it for me, but friends/family aren’t savvy enough or too lazy to go through the opposite process. Sigh, I was hoping that maybe someone here had figured out a way around it…
Just thinking here - maybe I could make a ‘shared’ Shopee/momo account, where I enter the default address, put things in my cart, and then send the login info to someone else? Or will there be restrictions on foreign cards / foreign IPs for Taiwan Shopee?
Not expecting you to know the answer… I might give this a try.
Even then it’s not foolproof as places like Shopee want an account with a local number to even view products. So it’s hard to even know what you want because you can’t even browse.
Have the same problem. Not even purchasing, just viewing the website at all. It’s pretty annoying. So, they lose the business. Not much else I can do. Even with VPN, many websites say nope.
I can’t even access the fucking CCPA legislation from Taiwan. I have to use a VPN. Why are IT departments so stupid? Do people not have privacy problems with California companies?