Order from Dangdang

[tamarind]

smurf:

If I order the books now and send it to a hotel in china, do I need to indicate room number? And how long does it takes to reach the hotel?? :?

No. You only need to put the full address in Chinese. And very importantly, you need to give them a contact number. You can buy a China phone card once you reach there.

I advise you to place the orders just before you fly off, and make sure that all books are available in the same province. If some books have to come from Beijing, and you are in another province, it may take 1 week to arrive.

[seashell]

hi. I had received my first purchase. orderd on 01dec and received 14jan, but the refund doesn’t seem to have any update. will Dangdang update us the refund or we need to check with the credit card company? tks.

[smurf]

But how do we know which books come from beijing and which come from other provinces? :?

[SAHM_TAN]

smurf:

But how do we know which books come from beijing and which come from other provinces? :?

When you select the book title that you wish to order, there's this line 库　　存：有货，可送至. This is below the average number of stars previous customers had gave. next to 可送至. there's a drop down button. When you click on it, it indicates which provinces have the stock.

[smurf]

Oh ok, thanks!!

[SAHM_TAN]

seashell:

hi. I had received my first purchase. orderd on 01dec and received 14jan, but the refund doesn't seem to have any update. will Dangdang update us the refund or we need to check with the credit card company? tks.

That's nice, I ordered earlier than you but still waiting

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SAHM_TAN:

seashell:

hi. I had received my first purchase. orderd on 01dec and received 14jan, but the refund doesn't seem to have any update. will Dangdang update us the refund or we need to check with the credit card company? tks.

That's nice, I ordered earlier than you but still waiting

seashell/SAHM_TAN,
I ordered mine late Nov and order shipped out 2nd Dec. But it has not even reached Spore yet. Already informed dangdang and they just sent my request to China Post to track my parcel. I was told that China Post needs 3mths' timeframe to track my parcel:( I hope it will reach me eventually...

[SAHM_TAN]

nz:

SAHM_TAN:

[quote=\"seashell\"]hi. I had received my first purchase. orderd on 01dec and received 14jan, but the refund doesn't seem to have any update. will Dangdang update us the refund or we need to check with the credit card company? tks.

That's nice, I ordered earlier than you but still waiting

seashell/SAHM_TAN,
I ordered mine late Nov and order shipped out 2nd Dec. But it has not even reached Spore yet. Already informed dangdang and they just sent my request to China Post to track my parcel. I was told that China Post needs 3mths' timeframe to track my parcel:( I hope it will reach me eventually...[/quote]mine has not reach the 8 wks limit so not worried yet

[ksme]

I ordered mine on Nov 18 but the order took a long time for audit. It finally completed audit on Dec 2. I received my books yesterday. Must say that the packaging is really quite bad. The books were not wrapped and put directly in a box. There were lots of tapes round the box and the box was like almost falling apart when it reached me. In addition, maybe because it was raining yesterday, the box came a bit wet. 2 of the books had corners wet and the book at 1 end of the box was a bit dirty on the cover. I ordered the whole series of the 笑猫日记 which is total 12 books. Some of the more experienced buyers on this thread has advised before not to buy too many books at 1 go due to the packaging. I wonder how dangdang send if it is just a few books.


I don't think you guys need to worry. The books will come, although may be a little late. After this first experience, I think I will continue to order from the website but maybe not so many books at 1 go.

[ksme]

seashell:

hi. I had received my first purchase. orderd on 01dec and received 14jan, but the refund doesn't seem to have any update. will Dangdang update us the refund or we need to check with the credit card company? tks.

You can check with your credit card statement of account. I got my refund by the next statement cycle when my first order could not go through. So far, Dangdang seems like quite a professional company. My books arrived and refund also no issue. However, must be prepared to be patient. At least they don't run away with our $$.