With the development of the Internet and convenient logistics, modern people's shopping patterns have gradually shifted to placing orders online. Especially during the epidemic, it has developed rapidly. Even my mother often buys random pots and pans from MOMO. Nothing.
When it comes to Taiwan, in addition to the official websites of various brands, the most commonly used ones are various comprehensive price comparison shopping websites, such as PCHOME, MOMO, Dongsen, Sensen, Chimo, Open Air, Lotte, Shopee, and Cool. Friends... many, many.
I will give a brief introduction to the mainstream large e-commerce companies that are most commonly used. If there are not many small e-commerce companies, I will not introduce more, otherwise I will really talk endlessly.
Among them, Qimo was really very popular in the early days. However, the HTML got out of control in the later period. Every word was written too exaggeratedly, causing the whole page to be in a mess. The user experience was not very good, and it was almost eliminated.
PCHOME, which was very popular in the early days, has always been based on Taiwanese values, but the backend settings are really too complicated, and the commercial and personal interfaces are the same. Moreover, the personal store launched a while ago may have caused problems for buyers due to API connection issues. Frequently not receiving delivery SMS, resulting in endless incidents of not receiving goods.
After switching from TV shopping channels many years ago, I opened an auction shopping platform, MOMO, because I had the support of my old customers right from the start, and the webpage was carefully crafted, with fast fluency and accurate searchability. Later, I also operated Facebook. The club posts orders and gives feedback. After a series of operations, it directly stands on the current position of Taiwan's value leader!
Shopee Auction should be regarded as the e-commerce platform used by the "most sellers" in Taiwan in the past ten years. Because the backend operation is simple, and it uses a large amount of money to grab exclusivity as soon as it is launched. During the period when the platform was very popular, on average, it was almost Almost everyone has an account, and even I have two sets of accounts for company and personal use.
It’s just that Shopee has been increasing its handling fees recently, which has made many sellers unable to bear it, and they are shouting to leave. But when the buyer’s stickiness is too high, it is really not that simple and easy.
Kupeng, who has recently become popular, has imitated Shopee’s style of throwing away money in the early days, and is running a prosperous business with all kinds of super unbeatable and exaggerated preferential prices. At this stage, it is really not a bad deal for buyers. shopping options!
The above has introduced five of the more mainstream e-commerce platforms in Taiwan. If you want to subdivide them further, please continue to listen to my detailed introduction.
I'll talk about it from the perspective of a consumer buyer. If I talk about it from the perspective of a seller, there will really be endless comparisons.
What do you want from online shopping?
When people buy products online, what they usually want is convenience, price, warranty, originality... just those few things.
The convenience means that you can place an order quickly, swipe your credit card without thinking too much, and you can also get the original factory warranty from the agent.
Based on the above points, if the price does not matter, I certainly recommend you to purchase directly from the official website. If you want to talk about price war, you really need to compare the praises.
Of course, there are third-party software that can help you with price evaluation, such as Feibi Price and BigGo, which I most commonly use. These two major APPs include historical prices and current price logins. Use them for cross-comparison, and you can almost find the best price comparison. Cheap price.
But that is just one part of the price war. If it is an electrical 3C product, everyone should pay more attention to the warranty issue of the original agent, or whether parallel imports are guaranteed by the seller, especially the daily necessities used on the body and the food safety issues. Be careful to see if you buy anything from unknown sources.
Many people will ask, aren't PCHOME and MOMO both official stores? Why not just buy more over there!
The things sold on these two major platforms do not necessarily mean that they are the products of the original agents. The main reason is that the seller has a large supply of goods and can prove the legitimacy of the source. For example, if you have your own foreign import tax returns, you can sign a contract with them to provide them. To sell goods.
As a result, why you will see so many different prices for the same product on the two major platforms? It is because the sellers of the products have different pricing issues, resulting in different prices when you purchase them. Did you say it was an agent's supply? It’s really hard to say!
If you really pay attention to Taiwan’s only official, so-called agent company products, and comprehensively evaluate all the above, and be a smart enough consumer, I will only recommend two e-commerce platforms to purchase, which is MOMO’s official brand store. There is also the official store of Shopee. These are the stores of brands authorized by agents. But if we give back through follow-up activities, Shopee wins!
Of course, there are more different considerations. For example, Kupeng is very crazy about issuing discount coupons, allowing you to use them at an unconditional discount.
But when it comes to my own consumption, Shopee is the one I’m most used to shopping with. Not only is shopping intuitive, but it’s also very convenient for follow-up feedback, returns, and exchanges.
Especially when I promote purchases for everyone, just use my link to purchase again, and I will give you a reward of 1% of the bill amount. Although MOMO also has it, it is just a little troublesome. After all, the cookie record time is still simple, Shopee will directly win more Some more!
For example, the things I have bought can be put into a promotion list. If you think it is useful, you can paste it and categorize it. Click on a link through my list, and then go to check out the goods you want to buy. In this way, I will have Profit distribution achieved.
Unless there is a so-called Taiwan value, if you don’t buy anything founded by non-Taiwanese, and don’t give foreigners the opportunity to make money, then your choices will be extremely limited! Because what you want to buy must be completely MIT.
But in business, for me as a consumer, of course it is more important to buy cheap and high-quality products!
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