site stickness

I have some dollars left in PayPal. To withdrawn the money, PayPal will charge me $35. It is better choice to just spend it. For international shopping, the first site comes into mind is eBay. Amazon is the best site in US, but not attractive to global shoppers with associated high shipping cost.

I bought some DVDs from eBay. It is one good category to buy. The disk is light (low shipping cost), and genuine (from USA). It usually takes about one month to delivery from US to China.

Now I am trying to figure out other good fit categories as a casual shopper. It is hard. For almost anything pops up in my mind, I can find it in TaoBao for a better deal.

Take one example, search Lutein on both sites, I can get one bottle plus shipping cost at eBay at $12. For the exactly same brand, I can get one bottle plusing shipping at Taobao at CNY42(~$7).

This is one example for same product. For many others, items' price on TaoBao price is just too low, it is a shame to compare.

Come back to the topic, for casual shopper, how to create the stickiness on the site is a good question to think of.

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