1. Choose a reputable and suitable online platform
First and foremost, equip yourself with essential knowledge about high-quality, reputable, and reliable online shopping platforms. Selecting the right e-commerce platform is crucial for finding the best products, offering a wide range of choices with the highest quality. Each platform typically specializes in certain product lines, each with its unique characteristics. Understanding these distinctions will help you explore specialized items and find the most suitable options for yourself.
For example: Some platforms specialize in cosmetics, fashion accessories, etc., such as Ebay, Amazon, AliExpress, Koreanmall,... are perfect choices if you want to purchase Korean, American cosmetics, etc. Japancandybox is a Japanese candy-selling website,...


2. Prepare Optimal Conditions to Purchase Goods from Overseas Websites
To successfully order items from international websites, you need to prepare the following:
- International payment cards such as Visa or Mastercard (Tiny from ACB bank) or you can create a PayPal account, as most international websites support PayPal payments, and load enough money onto the card for transactions.
- An active email address for account registration and to receive shipment notifications after placing orders.
- A delivery address (make sure the address provided is accurate and there is someone to receive the package to avoid loss or misdelivery).
- Số nhà = No
- Đường = street
- Quận, huyện: district
- Phường = ward
- Thành phố = city
- Tên công ty, tổ chức: Company’s name
- Nhà, căn hộ: Building, apartment / flat
- Ngách: Alley
- Ngõ: Lane
- Thôn: Hamlet
- Xã: Village
- Tỉnh: Province
- Tiểu bang: State


3. Choose the Right Product Type and Research Product Information Carefully
Are you sure? If you want to order items from overseas, you must ensure that you research thoroughly and understand the product you intend to buy. Once you have certain knowledge about the chosen product, you can determine if it suits you, fits your economic ability, does not harm you, etc., because returning items if you are not satisfied is very difficult, or even impossible in some cases (except for manufacturing defects).
Researching product information is the key to getting the item you desire and avoiding unnecessary troubles when ordering items from overseas. Moreover, during the research process, you may find other products that you like better or more optimal choices, right? So make sure you know all the information about the item you want to order before clicking the payment button!


4. Hunt for Sales, Promotions, and Major Discounts
As previously mentioned, hunting for sales events on various websites will bring you many benefits when buying items from overseas. You can lower the cost of products, save on shipping fees, and especially have a wider selection of everyday items at lower prices.
Some tips when hunting for sales:
- Firstly, the biggest sales events often start on holidays, anniversaries, days off, festive seasons, etc. Pay attention to these occasions and regularly monitor the websites to ensure you get the items you want.
- Secondly, during sales events, shopping tends to be hectic, so items can quickly go out of stock. Therefore, you need to make purchasing decisions quickly, the earlier, the better, to avoid items being sold out.
- Thirdly, double-check the information before payment and ensure the accuracy of the selected items.


5. Pay attention to some small tips to reduce shopping costs and avoid buying counterfeit goods
Note some small tips to reduce shopping costs and avoid buying counterfeit goods. First, to reduce high shipping costs when shipping from overseas to Vietnam, especially express shipping, you can order items of requested value to get free shipping to Vietnam (depending on the website). You should regularly monitor websites with desired products, then carefully study the purchasing policies or customer incentives to take advantage of cost savings!
The second way is to hunt for sales events to reduce product costs as well as purchase more items and reduce shipping costs to the lowest possible level! And to achieve these two goals, you must regularly monitor the website. To avoid buying counterfeit, fake, or poor-quality items, Mytour reveals a great function of social networks, which is diligently reading articles on social networks related to online shopping websites to know which ones are reputable, which ones are not, and how to distinguish between fake and genuine products when purchasing.
Surely, many people will give you reasonable and accurate answers, right? Listening to public feedback is an experience that everyone should use to know the best and most useful shopping tips! There, you can also receive reviews about the product you intend to buy and decide whether to withdraw your wallet or not.

