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After your Taobaotrends account is activated, you are ready to start adding parts to your Taobao order. You must open two tabs in your Google Chrome web browser. In one tab log into you account at Taobaotrends.com using your username and password. In the other tab go to the Taobao.com website and search for one of the parts you wish to purchase. After you find a part you want to buy, you can add this part to your shopping cart. Copy the URL of the web page for the desired part into your computer's clipboard. On the Taobaotrends.com website, go to the User Menu which is located about halfway down the left side of the page. Click on the 'Submit Your Orders' button. On the next page paste the URL for the desired part into the text box, and click submit. Repeat this process for as many parts as you wish to order. Periodically, you can check your shopping cart. You don't need to add all your desired parts in one sitting. You can log out, and the next time you log into your Taobaotrends account, all of your items will still be sitting in your shopping cart.

The running total for your order is displayed at the bottom of the shopping cart. You will see information for the subtotal price of the parts, the 10 percent agent's fee, and the total fee. All these prices are displayed in Chinese Yuan. The bottom line show the total cost in U.S. Dollars. After you have added and removed items, and selected the correct number of items for each part, you can click the 'Checkout' button to submit your order. Once again, you must wait several days for the agent to confirm all of your parts are actually in stock. The agent will communicate with you via email in business English. When everything is satisfactory for both parties, the agent will request the first payment, submitted via PayPal. After you pay, the agent will order all your items, and have them delivered to his office. If you order a lot of items, you will probably need to wait several weeks for all of them to arrive.