about sourcing and shoping from local chines apps and websites
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│ THE MAP THEY SELL ▸ 8 UNITS ▸ 8 DOORS │
│ no cracks · no keygens · no bullshit paywall │
│ all of it legal · all of it free · grab & go │
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DOORS 8 · MIRRORS 50 · COST 0.00 · CHECKED by hand
They sell the map. The territory is already open — you just got handed the address.
Eight units in that course. Eight doors below, most of them speaking Arabic.
Every lesson, with its door already unlocked
Every lesson, with its door already unlocked
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FILE LIST — read it as the course’s own table of contents
| what they sell | the free mirror |
|---|---|
| the platforms and registration | Arabic guide to 1688 and Taobao |
| Alipay | top-up vouchers for Algeria |
| Taobao from zero | an account with no Chinese number, in Arabic |
| 1688 | the official 1688 wiki |
| brands at lower prices | price history for any listing |
| factories and negotiation | Arabic buying walkthrough |
| shipping and the kaba | Algerian import company directory |
| your own brand on a product | supplier risk check on Chinese company records |
No signup, no trial, no card, no shitty upsell. 
WHICH DOOR FIRST?
- the platforms and registration
- Alipay
- Taobao from zero
- 1688
- brands at lower prices
- factories and negotiation
- shipping and the kaba
- my own brand on a product
- all of them tonight
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THE ONE MOVE THAT PAYS FOR ITSELF: top up Alipay with a voucher and pay the platform directly, so the agent fee stays out of your price.
TONIGHT — three ticks
- open one door from the file list, read one page
- write down one price you did not know before
- post that price in this thread
🛒 FULL FILE LIST — the doors, unit by unit
1 · The platforms and registration
- Arabic guide to importing and shipping from China — platforms, registration, shipment stages
- the rebuilt community wiki for buying from Chinese sellers — ordering, seller terms, shipping, disputes
- Taobao registration and activation, in Arabic
- an Arabic Telegram channel for importing from China
2 · Alipay
- an Arabic agent community for shipping and QC — the people who run hauls answer the small questions
- setting up Alipay as a foreigner, in Arabic
- opening and activating an Alipay account, in Arabic
3 · Taobao from zero
- Taobao and Tmall ordering guide in Arabic
- 533 answered questions on agents, lines and customs
- an Algerian sourcing channel with real shipments
- an A-to-Z ordering guide written for another market
4 · 1688
- save a 1688 page, then pull every image and SKU price offline
- the 1688 rule centre — the rules that decide your disputes
- search 1688 from a terminal, JSON out
- find the same product by photo or text
5 · Brands at lower prices
- real buyer QC photos from several agents at once
- 180-day price trends and coupons
- QC photos mapped to the exact listing
- 500,000+ warehouse QC photos, searchable
6 · Factories and negotiation
- the small-batch importing guide in Arabic
- the sourcing playbook written for Algerian sellers
- factory audits and QC checklists published since 2011
- the free China-manufacturing podcast and its checklists
7 · Shipping and the kaba
- Algerian forwarders listing their own prices
- Arabic sea, air and DDP cost guide for Algeria
- Arabic freight rates from China to Algeria
- shipping prices from every agent, side by side
8 · Your own brand on a product
🗄️ BONUS DISC — the data a lesson cannot hold
- 139 GB of real Taobao interactions and product embeddings — released by the platform’s research side
- a 6.8 GB Taobao product catalogue — one click, no account
- 97 GB of product images across thousands of classes
- 1,000 scraped Pinduoduo product pages
- the 419 TB research dataset index — the dumps Western mirrors drop live here
- list every archived snapshot of any shop or forum
- pull Common Crawl records by byte range
- export an agent’s Discord into a searchable archive
- Baidu image search — it matches the seller photos English search skips
- 2.1 million real Chinese product titles — the exact words sellers use
- offline OCR for long listings and size charts
One catch worth knowing: agent fees move with the shipping line, so compare two before you send a parcel[1].
GREETZ TO the channels that keep this alive: china2arab · AB Sourcing · HagoBuy Arabic · the Algerian channel index, all linked above.
NO CRACKS. NO KEYGENS. NO STOLEN LOGINS. Every door above is one its owner opened — nobody gets raided for reading a public page.
Post the price you find in this thread. One line is enough.
the all-agent calculator above shows the spread in one screen ↩︎
OMG SRZ you ARE THE BEST !
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