During Taobao live stream in the AliExpress app they offer $1 AUD shopping credit start of show then approx every 30 min thereafter.
2 live streams per day at 12pm and 9pm AEST
Referee receives a random discount (not specified), referrer receives a $8 off $32 Minimum Spend Coupon which increases in value with successful referrals.
Based on my experience with eBay and the occasional tax invoices I received from domestic sellers, I think GST is calculated on what the seller supposedly receives, including shipping if shipped by them.
For example, an item's price is $20 plus shipping of $5.
Then there's a store discount of $1 off $10 spend, and 2% off with coins that's paid by the store ($0.40).
So the store gets 20 + 5 - 1 - 0.4 = $23.60. Then the GST is $2.36.
AliExpress may offer further discounts of $2 off $19 spend, and 28% off with coins ($5.60) so total 30% off with coins. These are supposedly paid by AliExpress.
So in the end you pay 23.60 - 2 - 5.60 = $16 + $2.36 GST = $18.36.
You can check how much discounts are paid for by AliExpress in the purchase detail under "AliExpress Coupons". How much the merchant receives is shown in the tax invoice.
Cool, seems to work fine.
Is it 5x per day, or total for the whole month etc
Per day = 10.
Have now $22 credits over 2 days
Yeah got another 5.. pretty generous offer tbh.
Much better than the games on the app that give out pennies.
Somewhat im glad it didnt reach front page.
There are usually only around 50 on the live stream. If there were hundreds, they probably wouldnt be so generous in the credit offerings
where can the live streams be found?
In the phone app on the main page.
Scroll down to 'Taobao Picks' and there's a little banner for it, easy to miss.
Just got 5 credits from that stream until i reached the max daily limit (because of last night) of 10
Do I need to leave the live stream on, or can I just enter every 30m to get it?
You don't need to leave it on, you can visit it every 30m and you'll get it. Tested and got $5.
Yeah you can pop in every so often then close the app if you want.
How long more is this going for?
Been going on forever.
Its how we fund our aliexpress impulse buys with $10 aud everyday
Wouldn't aliexpress lose money from this? It can't be profitable to give $10 everyday.
Didn't work for that last stream, just got 'You have reached the max number of credits for this stream' from the beginning.
I got $4 last stream, I think you have to wait a bit and open the stream again. I got the same message aswell.
Getting too popular?
"All credits for this round have been claimed".
$7aud today. Not bad
I got 9/10
Joined late but got $1.02, will try again for the next stream
Only got $1.02 keep getting, “All credits for this round have been claimed”
Yeah I got 3 from the lunchtime one, sometimes closing the app and reopening gets you another.
I tried everything even logging out and logging back in still nothing
Where do you find the stream?
Scroll up
Another $10.. nearly enough for another handheld I don't need lol
How do you get $10
Most I get is a few dollars
Patience.. takes about 2 hours to give out all the credits each time.
And yeah some days it bugs out and you get nothing, I just turn it off.
Same
Seems I'm limited to $5 a day :(
Tried two days in a row at the start of the 12pm streams and both times the first credits said all credits had been claimed 🙁
Yeah everything is being claimed instantly, and my main phone can't even open the livestream :(
Last few days can’t claim anything , I think there is an issue with the coupons, they release it and it’s claimed straight away
Yeah I think the gravy train might be over haha, oh well.
Seems they've fixed it?
I managed to get 3x $1.03 and says I have reached the credit limit for the stream
Back on $10 again today, nice.
Wow $10, I can never manage to get that much
Yeah. Just waiting for a decent priced zsus monitor so i can buy one
Most days in the last week the coins have been claimed and there is an error, are you not getting this ?
Didn't get that error at all yesterday, but constantly got the error in the last week.
I managed to only get it once today, and that's because I had the stream open and claimed it straight away when it popped up. But they seem to run out quickly.
@CartoonPizza: That’s what I don’t get , how to some people claim
$10 but then I can barely claim a few dollars and sounds like the same with you?
I just got $5.14 from this livestream, after 3 days of issues for me it finally works. theoretically you could probably get $180 or so of free stuff if your luck is good before the credit expires.
Same, best day I’ve had in awhile , it finally worked
$12 or $6 each on my 2 different accounts so far today
$12 on my account today so far
$32 or $16 each on two of my accounts. There was no limit so got em all
Ended up with $38, $19 on each accounts
Got $10 today then it capped out
how 16$? i thought $10 is max per account
Was a first for me, got $13. Think they made a mistake hah
7 credits so far plus bought a cheap usb c cable to get the free wireless powerbank from liky's stream
Also used my coins to buy 2 voltme 30w gan chargers @ 95% off but turned out cheaper due to store and AE coupon
Still have heaps of credits, cant tossing between a portable monitor or try out the china android 4G watches
No credits 5pm stream
Hope there will be more in 9 pm stream
Sp far they gave out $0.41 during the 9pm stream.
Credit amount reduced to $0.40 lol😂😂
🤣 i got the 5 of them lol
I won the freebie, the lining shoes which was $80
Cool. The prices seemed crazy for random Ali shoes though haha
@Merlict: They are supposedly 30 years old company and one of top sportswear and sports equipment companies in china
I won it too but have too many shoes so just gonna leave it. Not gonna risk being screwed by Ali
@easternculture: Did you cancel the order? I thought you needed to buy before you win.
I won something, but if they don't refund then I'll just need to write it off.
I think I'll take my chances because if I cancel now, basically I get nothing.
If you got the baseus freebie, apparently this is the free powerbank when comparing it with the thumbnail
Was the usb cable in the list of items you could buy from the stream? I thought you needed to buy items direct from the stream.
I did not see the cable was on the list. (I should note you can also buy the shoes with coins, for a larger discount [anywhere from 5-20% extra off], but I did not want to chance it as I was unfamiliar with how they would match the person's livestream name because that name isn't the necessarily the same as your order name and you cannot seem to change your livestream name. So I bought directly by tapping on the screen which only gives 2% off with coins.)
I saw others like Sean yesterday were buying items because of the powerbank, but I was unsure what people were buying at the time.
Risks of purchasing
It appears to me that there is a big risk when buying in these livestreams because you can find yourself randomly be unable to chat. I suspect the issue was that someone was writing something about shopping credits and then I wrote my question underneath and they blocked me by accident… So, if you are participating, I would suggest just type something to test chat works such as hello but be very careful if you see there are inappropriate comments in the chatroom that have already been posted, otherwise you'll probably get blocked and end up missing out, and even worse, purchasing and then finding you cannot chat anymore!
I should note that if you cancel the order, it's not an immediate refund because it isn't a choice item. So, that's a risk too. You'll need to wait to receive the item and then the refund process is quite lengthy and different from the free returns as you will find people complaining about the process on reddit.
Concerns with livestream
At first I couldn't tell if the giveaway was genuine because I thought they blocked me because they knew I bought something already and I was actually going to buy another pair of shoes which would force them to give it away for free, but in the second stream I didn't come across this problem. I don't know if they unblocked me because I complained to Aliexpress support at around 10 pm, but that wasn't cool that they were randomly blocking people and then claiming I was some sort of hater.
I spewed and was ready to cancel the original order.
So for me, currently I've got two Li-Nings on the way, one I paid for, and another which was from the giveaway.
I wanted to get another one but I probably have too many shoes already.
Currently, I still don't know if I was blocked incorrectly or if there were some connection issues with the stream which meant I could not chat, but either way that's the risk you need to take into account.
Furthermore, I am not sure if they just blocked the other countries from participating that were not really buying items because there is usually a group of non-english speakers in the stream from Brazil that were just trolling the chat typing the catch phrase.
As far as I was aware, Omanichi didn't buy the shoes in stream 1 and was asking to redeem the reward for shopping credits instead. I saw people were commenting about that and they didn't get muted so I'm not sure what was going on there. I was asking if anyone bought any shoes to give me more confidence to buy some extra myself because it was a lottery, and if they blocked me for that it would be unfair because I wonder why they didn't block everyone else who was more "direct" at asking whether that specific person bought the shoes or not.
Then I saw the shoes I wanted to buy but no one bought them, someone was complaining it was the colours of Ukraine and that person wasn't blocked either. At this point was when I first realised I couldn't chat as I typed it's purple not blue. At this point I left the stream temporarily and it was not clear if someone eventually bought the shoes because the host usually gives some extra time to convince people to buy. Some time later I rejoined and they mentioned they were blocking certain haters. lol…
Overall it was not a good experience.
Regarding this shoe store.
I don't know if it is the same owner since it's the "Official Store" and there is also a Taobao/Tmall Official store, which I bought from in the past. I believe this was a real giveaway, but if somehow it turns out not to be, then that's a great way to burn one of your old loyal customers or future customer (if this is not the same owner). x_X!
I am literally a Taobao/Aliexpress OG, with over 10 years on Taobao and around 10 years on Aliexpress.
How Aliexpress can improve?
Don't allow muting of people randomly on the stream unless you are on a computer where you can confirm the comments, otherwise as I suspect, in a fast moving chatroom they just long press on someone's name and by then the comments have already moved which means they are muting the wrong person. I might be wrong and it was some issue with the livestream.
If they hadn't stated they were blocking haters, I wouldn't have any issues and would have just tossed it up to connection difficulties, but after they stated that, I spewed.
Ideally to prevent any miscommunication. That process would include the sending of a notification to the person about the message that was inappropriate with a button to appeal the decision… Simple right?
Was the usb cable in the list of items you could buy from the stream? I thought you needed to buy items direct from the stream.
Yeah it was.
Already got confirmation email that baseus will be sending the powerbank
I was also blocked probably because i was saying Aliexpress being stingy about the shopping credits. On the next stream, i was no longer blocked
Yeah, I got mistakenly blocked. I didn't even comment about the credits. I basically never talk about it. The closest I have come to mentioning anything about it, was telling Nick that there were 100k viewers, but apparently that figure is the views…
So if you're here Nick, I'm sorry buddy. I thought it was the number of viewers. *facepalm
@kay007: I just got notified there were no winners. I am not sure how you are going to return those shoes.
@easternculture: I don't know, but I am in a unique situation where I have screenshots that I have complied, including timestamps. I am escalating it.
In the meantime I got them to intercept and cancel the order. I'm still hoping they honour the free shoes though, possibly some time into the future.
I should note Li-Ning support has been very polite. It seems like the Aliexpress livestream team has not yet honoured it as far as I am aware.
This is a small hitch in the road, and it hasn't put me off from buying their shoes into the future.
@easternculture: Yeah, it's just a wait and see. I know there is going to be a gimmick and some people will not meet the requirement because after you pay the order goes into payment verification mode. I made sure it stated "to ship" before I entered the draw.
After it states to ship, the confirmation order goes through in the notifications, and that can be used as proof.
I do not think others did that, and sometimes that process can be slow, but for regular shoppers like myself it's normally 5-10 seconds.
@Banks: Update:
Apparently not every user is eligible to participate in the livestream giveaways.
From my own research and an opinion from my colleague, apparently the issue is most likely due to where we live, which for me is NSW.
There is a $10,000 rule which limits the value of giveaways without a permit in NSW, but it is my understanding that many corporations are advised by their legal counsel to implement a blanket ban on giveaways in certain areas.
A search on reddit pops up other promotions also suffering this issue such as one by Chelsea FC
That specific post mentions New South Wales, but upon further research, other Australian states also have similar rules and a permit may be required which suggests those other states would be banned as well.
Only 41c again
It need to be changed to $0.41 x1 now
you are being punished by your chinese shopping overlords
Yes honey
Cashed in and bought myself a retro handheld.. thanks for the free stuff Aliexpress!
9pm event, they only gave one 41c credits because there was no orders made during the stream
Been spending my $110 credits today. Combining with $5 off $25 and $8 off $47 coupons and coins
So far bought:
Still have $40 credits, more $5/$8 off coupons and about $50 worth of coins
I think they accidently gave $4.11 instead of 41c last live stream
Here's hoping they do it again.. makes up for the streams where they're super stingy hah
Yeh I got it hahha
Ohh my guud honey, thats really good
9pm stream appears to be back to ~$1. Two rounds so far.
3am later … 40c
Doesn't look like you have to be there during the stream. If they don't update the banner with the upcoming stream you're able to claim the 40c after as well.
Credit expiring on 1st September , what is everyone going to spend it on?
How do they calculate GST, tax added in the cart was 200% more than the price of the item.
It doesn't look correct, I don't they will pass on that money collected to ATO.