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Find the Perfect Treasure with Search Filters

If you are search for a SD card on Taobao, you currently have have more than 27,000 options. Don’t just pick the one at the top of the list! Find the one that is best for you by filtering your results.
 

1. Category

The first filtering opportunity is with the product category. These text links display all the categories and subcategories that have results matching your search term. Click on any of them to see only things in that category. 

 
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2. Price

Next, you can click on the 价格 price to arrange them by price with the lowest costs at the top (not including delivery costs).
 
If you want to find items in a certain price range, type in your low or high costs here. This is useful if you want to find accessories for your phone, and you want to filter out the very cheap stuff and listings selling the phone itself.

 

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3. Location

Filtering by location can save you time and delivery costs. This is also particularly important if you want to buy large things. Many Sellers of large, bulky items deliver themselves if it is within the same city.
 
These are just the quickest, easiest ways to find what you want. As you can tell, there are many other things that you can filter (such as second hand products, bulk purchases and Sellers overseas).
 
Do you use any other search filters?

5 Comments »

  • jan said:

    Hello,

    if you have time you might want to update this issue, as the layout of taobao changed and you can not select the price range anymore. Great site, keep it up!

    # 20 October 2009 at 9:56 am
  • jan said:

    sorry I think it is an issue of my browser, I figured out how to use the price range now.

    # 21 October 2009 at 10:11 am
  • The Field Guide (author) said:

    Yes, the Goblins at Taobao love to make updates… Thanks for the kind words, Jan!

    # 22 October 2009 at 10:48 am
  • Jacey said:

    Is there any way to arrange the listings in order of newly listed –> oldest listed?

    I regularly check taobao for certain items, and seem to always be browsing through the same items to find the newest items listed…

    Thanks!

    # 27 December 2009 at 3:32 pm
  • laobanniang said:

    Sorry Jacey, There isn’t this function. you might have to figure out different keyword for your ideal products.

    # 27 December 2009 at 7:02 pm

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