So Forumosa helped me successfully get on Ruten and buy and ship and pay for things. Thank you! Now, however, I tried to buy something on Ruten and the guy wanted me to use a Shopee account instead. At first I didn’t know what he was talking about–I thought he was saying something about shrimp shel…

I brought my first item off Shopee last week (replacement headphone cable). Registration seemed a bit too easy as all that was needed to create an account was an active mobile number, so intitial had my doubts about the platform (vs momoshop and PCHOME). I opted to pay on delivery to protect myself…

Thanks UnderWaterDuck! I kind of suspect the seller is doing this to save $20NT or something? I successfully did the check out and selected a 7-11. I am wondering if I have to pay with visa or bank account? It doesn’t seem to offer me the 貨到付款 option. I am wondering if this is why the seller did it…

I think the guy isn’t offering the option to pay at 7-11, which is super annoying. I was supposed to either pay using credit card or bank card, and I’m not sure I want to give them to another vendor. Is there a cost to the seller of doing COD delivery? Just seems kind of strange to me.

I guess credit card is your safest option give you get some sort of protection on top of the Shopee protection… No idea is they get charged for COD. I assumes there is a fee on any of the payment platforms. But given how often people do COD in Taiwan i’ll assume it is very little.

I think Shoppee has protection for vendors. Its just a way better service and platform in general.

That makes sense. The buyer ended up using Ruten and the shipping was 70nt more this way (100nt). I think there’s probably a 7-11 fee or something where vendors get dinged if the buyer never picks it up, because the buyer never offered this. I’m doing pay on delivery. This way it should come directl…

It seems Ruten has more junk (aka used/collectible stuff).

I ended up giving up on the guy who wanted to sell through Shopee. He wanted me to borrow a friend’s account or transfer money from my bank. This is reasonable, but at the end of the day if I can’t pay cash somewhere (to a delivery person, at 7-11 or the post office), it’s just too much of a hassle …

A lot of Taiwan sellers are posting stuff from taobao and then ordering from vendors based in China when someone makes a purchase. Mark-up seems to be 50-100% on some items I am looking at. I haven’t purchased from taobao or even registered yet as I just started looking today but it looks like some …

This was a used item (instrument part). He was originally selling it 20% and I asked for 50% off. I don’t think he’s reselling, but maybe it’s a high school or college student and they don’t want to do whatever it takes to sell on either system. I am noticing that any time I bought something in pers…