Taobao Live Sales as Entertainment
Friday, 21 February 2025 00:05![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elusivekMy recent entertainment has been watching live sales on Taobao. I think I've held myself pretty well. Yes, I've bought a bit of stuff, but not mountainous stuff as I would have liked had I not had self-restraint.
There's this one Taobao store that says they are a "tea utensils workshop", and they do a live sales session every morning. They have a weird kiln-in-kiln set up, and their live sales is a show of "opening a kiln" and seeing the piece "for the first time". I've watched this live sales for around a week and I think I've figured out that their kiln is a fake kiln LOL.
Also, out of curiosity, I "snatched" (since their set up is there's only 1 of each item) a piece and I have it in hand, and I can all the more confidently say, their live sales is all a set up LOL.
For one, the bottom part of a piece usually is not so "clean" (no run-over? no drag? No cracks?) and the inside is a piece of... metal or alum or something not clay, it looks stuck on instead of part of the entire piece, so I don't know.
I'm also following 2 other shops that do live slaes of jewelry. They're pretty entertaining, and what's more, it's not just entertainment for me, I also get to train my ear to listen to Mandarin. I have bought a couple of items, but they are selling stuff so cheap during the live sales, it's a bit unbelievable.
There's this one Taobao store that says they are a "tea utensils workshop", and they do a live sales session every morning. They have a weird kiln-in-kiln set up, and their live sales is a show of "opening a kiln" and seeing the piece "for the first time". I've watched this live sales for around a week and I think I've figured out that their kiln is a fake kiln LOL.
Also, out of curiosity, I "snatched" (since their set up is there's only 1 of each item) a piece and I have it in hand, and I can all the more confidently say, their live sales is all a set up LOL.
For one, the bottom part of a piece usually is not so "clean" (no run-over? no drag? No cracks?) and the inside is a piece of... metal or alum or something not clay, it looks stuck on instead of part of the entire piece, so I don't know.
I'm also following 2 other shops that do live slaes of jewelry. They're pretty entertaining, and what's more, it's not just entertainment for me, I also get to train my ear to listen to Mandarin. I have bought a couple of items, but they are selling stuff so cheap during the live sales, it's a bit unbelievable.
