Saturday, June 7, 2008

Getting on China online shopping mall

I found a lot of online store selling Martial Art costume, and most of them belongs to the online shopping mall at taobao.com . The problem is that in order to shop at Taobao.com, I have to have an account at alipay. There seems to be a way to do it with Visa, but getting an Ranmanbi account at 香港招商銀行 seems to be the most easiest way. Problem is that the bank seems to have only one branch in Hong Kong. I also don't know how much effort it will take to get an account. I also need to make sure that when I create an account, it has to be a Ranmanbi account, otherwise it won't work with alipay.

I also realize that I have Bank of China Visa card, and I was told that it should work with my account. Someone said that they tried and didn't work well. Still I think it's worth trying anyway.

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