TaoBao Shopping Experience, 2012 edition

Everytime I go to Hong Kong for workation (work + vacation), I also try to buy some costume or dress from TaoBao since they have huge variety of dress and accessories that you can't find at any local store.  Since I tend to go to Hong Kong once each year, that means I also shop at TaoBao once each year.

My last year's TaoBao shopping experience was, unfortunately, less than enjoyable.  I experienced quite some of the problems, including:

•  The cheap dress I brought was indeed cheap in quality, for that purple dye stinted my skin after wearing for less than 15 minutes.
• The experience of waiting for SFExpress (順豐速運) to come by was extremely annoying to me.  Plus I had to pay additional delivery charge since my home was considered "rural location"

This year's TaoBao shopping experience was relatively better, mostly because:

• I only brought item from TaoBao this time, and that item was basically a different color version of a pair shoes that I brought last year.
• I chose SF Express self-pickup service.  That way I can work the pickup into my schedule, and no extra charge I need to pay.

My only problem this time is that I picked "九龍旺角大南街164號地下"  as the pick up location, which is actually in the middle between Price Edward and Sham Shui Po MTR Station.  I really should have picked "九龍深水埗大南街40號地下" which is very close to Prince Edward MTR Station.  Other than that, I was pretty ok with the whole process.  In fact I am a bit regretted that I did not buy more stuff from TaoBao this time.