This year's Black Friday It's coming again. It's the same day as the "Double 11" in foreign countries. Do you have any products you want to cut? along with Overseas shopping This word is more and more close to our life. I believe everyone has more or less experience of overseas shopping. What, did you say? Let's take a look at some basic knowledge about overseas shopping compiled by Xiaobian.
When is suitable for overseas shopping
The first is the key time point of overseas shopping. The price of many products overseas is lower than that in China, and there are many unsold products in China, which are suitable for all seasons. However, since we have spent a lot of effort on overseas shopping, we certainly hope that there will be more discounts. When will there be promotional activities abroad?
Thanksgiving Day (the fourth Thursday in November)
The biggest annual promotion activity usually starts about a month before Thanksgiving Day, when all businesses will rush to launch scary discounts. The familiar Black Friday is the peak. After all, it is the first day after Thanksgiving Day. The Monday after Black Friday is called Cyber Monday, which is also the peak of sales promotion. In terms of time, Black Friday in 2015 is November 27, US time, and Cyber Monday is November 30, US time. Remember, it's American time. It's jet lag with us. Since most types of goods will be discounted, you can start at any time when you see the right ones.
Christmas Day (December 25) and New Year's Day (January 1)
Christmas, which is regarded as the "Spring Festival" by foreign countries, will also have large-scale promotional activities, and discounts will certainly be necessary. To tell you the truth, it is similar to preparing annual goods in China. It is a good time for annual shopping. It usually lasts until the New Year's Day, when the new year is new, you must buy something to comfort your hard work. Because they will cooperate with Christmas, just like we buy New Year goods in the Spring Festival, there will be a large discount for Christmas gifts, jewelry and toys. Students who need this can pay attention to it.
Other festivals
In addition to the two big festivals, there will also be related promotional activities in some festivals. For example, Valentine's Day (February 14) will be themed with Valentine's Day gifts. Jewelry, perfume, cosmetics and chocolate are the main promotional products; Around Easter (March to April), there will be comprehensive discounts. You can pay more attention to them; Halloween (November 1), also known as Ghost Day, will also promote some candy, biscuits, clothing and other festive products. There will also be some irregular promotional activities. You can pay attention to the relevant website information.
How to transport it back to China
It is a big problem how to transport the goods back to China after choosing a good date. Since the consumption capacity of the Korean people is obvious to all, many foreign e-commerce businesses have provided convenience for domestic consumers in this situation. The representatives include cross-border e-commerce, typically Amazon overseas purchase; Direct mail is also available, shopbop、 Amazon and other malls in the United States provide direct mail to China; Finally, it is the most common overseas transshipment, which is suitable for major overseas e-commerce.
Since the products provided by cross-border e-commerce are not abundant, and the shopping malls supporting direct mail are not many and have relatively high tariffs, transshipment is the preferred way for most overseas Taoists, so I would like to introduce some companies that provide transshipment services.
I think friends with overseas shopping experience should have heard of the brands handed to the four directions. It provides multi country routes such as US China, UK China, Japan China, South Korea China, etc. Each route offers different price options. Take the US China route as an example, there are IPS IMS, ISS and IUP, of which IMS is set up for milk powder, and ISS is a transit route in Singapore. Officially, it is suitable for high-value goods and electronic products. This is also a transit company that we digital enthusiasts use more.
Haigou Fengyun
Shunfeng's overseas shopping forwarding service platform provides transportation from the United States, South Korea and Japan to mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Like domestic SF, the main selling point is speed. It only takes 7 to 10 working days for the United States to forward to the mainland during off peak hours, but the price is still SF's style: 80 yuan (1kg) for the first weight and 40 yuan (0.5kg) for the second weight.
Transshipment to China
It is an old shipping company, but now you need an invitation code to register. The transshipment service provided from the United States and New Zealand to China is above the normal level in terms of service and price. Unfortunately, some products need to be charged with compulsory insurance, which will cost a lot for users who need to buy electronic products.
Stupid Bird Scouting on the Sea
The emerging companies founded in 2014 are only the US China line for the time being. It provides duty-free state direct delivery (most of the forwarding companies have related businesses), but there is nothing special about it. In addition, when registering, you need to contact customer service for an invitation code.
Kelp treasure
An emerging transshipment company, providing two routes between the United States and China and the United States and Japan. For the time being, there are no forecasts, free photos, tariff subsidies, free full course insurance (2000 yuan of coverage), free volume fee, free container fee. The advantage is that the cost is relatively low, but there has been a stock explosion before.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that in addition to the relatively low cost of transshipment, large transshipment companies generally offer freight discounts and coupons on major festivals such as the Black Fifth Festival. with For example, this year, the Bank of China's MasterCard/Visa card will offer a 40% discount on freight+coupons, ABC's Visa will offer a 50% discount on freight, and the U.S., Japan and Germany will offer a 70% discount on line freight. Other forwarders also offer different discounts.
There are many transshipment companies. Due to space limitations, there will be no more introductions. Welcome to leave a message for recommendation. Here is a reminder that all kinds of transportation companies are mixed. You can consult more experienced friends and choose the best service for yourself.
How to use transshipment services
A good man will follow through and send Buddha to the west. All the forwarding companies are introduced, so let's briefly introduce how to use the services of the forwarding company. For transshipment in China, the threshold is set for the registration of invitation codes. For example, the forecast free service provided by Haidai Bao is rare, so here we take the most familiar and typical transshipment Sifang as an example.
1) Register an account with Transshipment Sifang and improve your basic personal information. Because of the policy, you may need an ID card for customs clearance.
(Registration interface of Sifang)
(Fill in the basic information)
2) Obtain the warehouse address of the shipping party, and provide the name and identification code that the user needs to use. Generally, it cannot be modified. Even if you don't like it, you have to accept it.
(Warehouse address of Sifang)
3) When registering an account on an overseas shopping website, fill in the receiving address as the warehouse address of the forwarding company. Let's take Meiya as an example.
(Meiya registration interface)
(The shopping process is the same as that in China. Select the goods and add them to the shopping cart. Just go to the checkout, which means the language is changed into English.)
(When filling in the receiving address, remember that it is the warehouse address of the forwarding company. The sales price of foreign products does not include consumption tax, so if it is in the United States, it is recommended to choose a warehouse in a tax-free state.)
(Fill in the credit card information for payment, support domestic dual currency credit cards, while traditional Visa and MasterCard can naturally be used normally)
(Confirm that all information is correct, and this order will be completed.)
4) You can also happily cut your hands in other e-commerce companies, just buy! The only thing to remember is to confirm the logistics order number of e-commerce delivery, which is similar to our express order number.
5) After knowing the logistics order number, you need to go to the forwarding company to make a forecast. The package management that enters the account usually has a forecast service, and the forwarding party here is the new package. Select the warehouse, fill in the logistics order number and package information, use different service items according to your own needs, confirm the receiving address, and submit to complete the forecast.
6) The next step is to wait for the parcel to be warehoused, pay the transfer fee after receiving the notice from the forwarding company, and complete the payment.
7) The last thing is to wait for the express delivery. In order to enhance the user experience, most forwarding companies now provide query services to track their own packages. If you notice that you need to pay taxes, please hand them to the state. We are good law-abiding citizens.
So many introductions have been made to you. Do you want to go overseas and cut hands immediately? Don't worry, just bear with the calm for a while, not to mention that the Black Five is coming, and the money saved may be able to buy again on Christmas Day. What we should do now is to prepare the soft money and account number for Black Friday!
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