How to Contact Taobao Customer Service

Due to the language barrier, you can easily run into some trouble about your orders, shipping, returns, money .etc when you buy directly from Taobao.

Contacting the Taobao customer service department is the best way to solve your problem, but it is not an easy thing. In fact, it can be difficult to even locate contact information for Taobao anywhere on the website.

To assist you, here are several ways you can get in touch with Taobao customer service when you have a problem with Taobao.

1. how to contact Taobao

Contacting Taobao customer service is not an easy thing, not only for foreigners but for domestic users as well.

Taobao used to offer English online forms and email support, but both have been discontinued in the last two years.

Now for a foreigner who doesn’t speak Chinese, you can only reach them via local phone or social media.

Taobao phone support number:

Hong Kong

  • phone number: (852)30183610
  • working time: Monday-Sunday,9:00-18:00

Taiwan

  • phone number: (886)277054306
  • working time: Monday-Sunday,9:00-18:00

Singapore

  • phone number: (65)31633159
  • working time: Monday-Sunday,9:00-18:00

Malaysia

  • phone number: (60)392125564
  • working time: Monday-Sunday,9:00-18:00

Australia

  • phone number: (61)383738606
  • working time: Monday-Sunday,7:00-18:00

Other areas

  • phone number: (852)30183610
  • working time: Monday-Sunday,9:00-18:00

When you are from”Other areas”, before making the calling, please notice that it is not a toll-free, it is a HongKong phone number, so the rate will not be cheap.

Taobao sometimes changes the phone number, you can check the original Taobao customer support page here to make sure the contact number is not outdated.

Taobao social media

Their Facebook page is https://www.facebook.com/sea.taobao/ or https://www.facebook.com/taobao.global/

On Instagram, they’re — https://www.instagram.com/taobao.official/

On Youtube, here is the link to their channel.

2. how to contact Alipay

when you have problems with your money, payments, refund, bank account, then you need to contact Alipay to solve it.

Alipay phone support number:

Taobao and Alipay share the same phone number, so you can call the Taobao support phone number, after getting through, choose service language and Press “1 “to talk with Alipay support.

Alipay livechat support:

Step 1

Click this link to go to live chat page

Step 2

Copy&paste Chinese keywords”人工客服” in the Dialog and click the grey “发送” button to send this query to their system.

“人工客服” means live human support, so this step is to tell alipay you need to chat with a real person.

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Step3

Now you will see a blue button with text”连接在线客服”,

Click it and the system will connect you with an Alipay customer support member, and then you can chat with them in English or Chinese.

Hopefully, your issue will be resolved quickly and easily.

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3. how to contact your forwarder warehouse

Warehouse plays a key role during the whole Taobao shopping process, your orders will be shipped from seller to warehouse, then from warehouse to your address.

If you are a newbie, you most likely will run into some problems related to it. So It is important you know how to contact the guys there.

contact your warehouse via Your Order management page.

Step 1

Log into your Taobao account, Click [跨境物流管理(cross-border logistics management)] in the upper right corner of Taobao homepage or click here.

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Step 2

On the [待集运订单(To be shipped)] tab, you need to select your forwarder(by default, it is 官方配送服务),

you can click [集运操作咨询(Consolidation Consultation)] or [问题咨询(Problem Consultation)] to contact forwarder Customer Service.

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or On the [物流订单(Logistics Order)] tab, click on the blue icon to consult with the forwarder Customer Service.

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contact your forwarder warehouse via LiveChat

Click the following forwarder link to have a live chat with them, if you are not sure which forwarder you are using, check it from this page.

Region Forwarder warehouse
United States 集运空运
Canada 官方集运-空运
Australia 官方集运-海运 官方直送 官方集运-空运
New Zealand 集运-4PX递四方速递 集运-中通速递
Japan 集运-4PX递四方速递
Singapore 官方集运-海运 官方集运-空运 官方直送
Malaysia 官方集运-海运 官方集运-空运 官方直送
Hong Kong 菜鸟-官方直送 菜鸟-官方集运 集运-顺丰速运
Macau 官方直送 集运-顺丰速运
Taiwan 官方集运-海运快递 官方集运-空运 集运-4PX递四方速递

4. how to contact your Taobao seller

In order to contact the seller, you need to download a software called aliwangwang(阿里旺旺), it is the official chat app.

They have windows, mac, ios, and Android versions, you can download them here.

contact seller on the product page

After logging in to Ali Wangwang, go to the product page, click the blue icon on the right corner of the page.

Sellerontheproductpage

Contact seller from [已买到的宝贝(purchased)] page

If you have placed an order, go to the on the [已买到的宝贝(purchased)] page you can find the seller aliwangwang right next to the order number.

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AliWangwang is the official chat software on Taobao. if there is a dispute in the transaction, you can provide a screenshot of your chat history as valid proof.

Don’t add the seller’s WeChat id if you don’t know him!!

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713 thoughts on “How to Contact Taobao Customer Service”

  1. Eric, Thank you for providing the numbers to reach Hong-Kong Taobao service,
    but it would be really great if you can provide the buttons to press to navigate the menu?
    Without knowing which menus to pick, the call is closed after a minutes.

  2. Hello, my taobao account got frozen, I tried to contact the customer care but my frozen account is not letting me in. It’s saying,”we’re very sorry, your account has serious violations and has been treated as a frozen account.” Whereas I never did anything it just came out of nowhere. I even ordered some items and I don’t know if I will get an sms that the items arrived or I won’t because my account is frozen

    1. I have a frozen account and I’m trying to contact customer care but my frozen account is allowing me. It says “we are terribly sorry, your account has a serious violations and has been frozen”

  3. When I go to do a purchase on taobao it comes back as “the system is busy, please repay” or “Just a moment, your order is being submitted” and under neither circumstance does the payment go through. Both are on the app with no VPN. Is something wrong with my account or should I just wait a bit?

  4. Hello, i have ordered some items from the Blizzard store on taobao but one of my items have been flagged as abnormal and i cant get my items to ship. It’s a small plush thats not letting my order through. Im unsure on what to do since i only order cosplays. Any suggestions?

      1. Thank you so much, is the return process complicated? I’m not super familiar with Taobao unfortunately. To add, I have multiple items from blizzard but they cant be shipped because of the plush. Is it possible to just return that item and ship the other ones?

  5. HI, i am from germany, my account was blocked since 2 weeks or more. I can not call Taobao because i can not speak chinese, otherwise is it too expensive from germany to call there. I can not join the live chat because i can not log in.
    Please help.

      1. I try to call them, but only chinese language. I did not understand anything.
        Did you have the real number to call in english, or maybe you have Taobao customer service Email Adress?
        Thankx

        1. Hi Eric,
          today i try aagin the Hong Kong Number (+852 30183610) and 2 Chinese number (+865 715 688 8688 and +865 718 815 8198 ) but no success, only chinese speaking, i wait long time on the line (5 Minute) and the call end hisself.
          Did Taobao have an Email adress to write them?
          I can not join the chat support because i can not log in. Account is frozen.

      2. Hi Eric,
        today i try aagin the Hong Kong Number (+852 30183610) and 2 Chinese number (+865 715 688 8688 and +865 718 815 8198 ) but no success, only chinese speaking, i wait long time on the line (5 Minute) and the call end hisself.
        Did Taobao have an Email adress to write them?
        I can not join the chat support because i can not log in. Account is frozen.

      3. I same happens to me. what response when calling is a bot in chinese, I don’t understand what it says either, and i don’t think press random numbers is going to work

  6. Account is frozen for more than two weeks. Mainland friend tried to call Taobao for me and they say they will ask someone to call me to verify in English within two days but it’s been two weeks. I have had a few friends try and the same thing happens – they never call. I’ve also tried registering a new number and that was also blocked. What are my options?

  7. someone offered me a membership on taobao.txjop.com by paying a minimum of 200$. the website explained that they are partners of taobao, my question is: does taobao have anything to do with taobao.txjop.com

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