Figarti Tanks sold on Taobao China website (1 Viewer)

[wayne556517]

Try this

Taobao is a Chinese website for online shopping similar to eBay and Amazon[3] that is operated in China by Alibaba Group.

Founded by Alibaba Group on May 10, 2003, Taobao Marketplace facilitates consumer-to-consumer (C2C) retail by providing a platform for small businesses and individual entrepreneurs to open online stores that mainly cater to consumers in Chinese-speaking regions (Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan) and also abroad.[4]

With around 760 million product listings as of March 2013, Taobao Marketplace is one of the world’s top 10 most visited websites according to Alexa.[5] For the year ended March 31, 2013, the combined gross merchandise volume (GMV) of Taobao Marketplace and Tmall.com exceeded 1 trillion yuan.[6]

Sellers are able to post goods for sale either through a fixed price or auction. Auctions make up a small percentage of transactions. The majority of the products are new merchandise sold at fixed prices

 

[Phantom Warrior]

It looks like old stock, some of which appears to be repainted in camo colours different from the original issue.. There does not appear to be any new models.

http://world.taobao.com/search/sear...=_AB-LR517-LR854-LR895-PR517-PR854-PV895_2461

Terry

 

[katana]

Taobao has more Figarti Armor than Ebay! I didn't realize the Chinese were into WWII Armor.

 

[wayne556517]

Taobao has more Figarti Armor than Ebay! I didn't realize the Chinese were into WWII Armor.

Why wouldn't they mate.

 

[RPZ]

China has such a huge population that interest in even the most obscure subject should not surprise anyone. Law of averages,

 

[jazzeum]

I remember Rick once telling me that the Chinese and Japanese were interested in models and military miniatures, but only very detailed ones.

 

[katana]

I have always thought of the Chinese as being somewhat insular and being more interested in Chinese history; which I find very interesting. The crossbow was invented by the Chinese in the Han Dynasty. The Great Wall and their great fortified cities are facinating from a Military History point of view. Osprey has a number of books on Chinese Military History, very interesting.
Brad; I would say the success of Dragon and Tamiya model companies prove your point very well!

 

[jazzeum]

Not that I know that much about Chinese people (other than what I know from my wife, who is Chinese, and her family) but as the economy has prospered, they too like to have nice things and spend money and have become more like us. I have sold a few things to people in China.

By the way, have you seen that program called something like Rich Asian Girls in Vancouver. Quite unbelievable but it belies the fact that Chinese people have money to spend.

 

[katana]

I have lovely Chinese neighbors. The husband commutes home from Beijing about once a month.
The grandparents visit about twice a year and the grandmother cooks me up some delicious Chinese Pancakes. The young son is in the excellent local school system. I have a growing Chinese community in my neighborhood' Very nice people.

 

[Toy Soldier Brigade]

WWII modeling is very popular in Asia

 

[katana]

I knew the Japanese were into WWII. A lot of excellent publications on modeling from Japan and The Tamiya catalogs are great. I was unaware that the Chinese shared this interest; althiugh I should have kown since Dragon is the Chinese equivalent of Tamiya and I have built a bunch of both over the years.

 

[RPZ]

I have always thought of the Chinese as being somewhat insular and being more interested in Chinese history; which I find very interesting. The crossbow was invented by the Chinese in the Han Dynasty. The Great Wall and their great fortified cities are facinating from a Military History point of view. Osprey has a number of books on Chinese Military History, very interesting.
Brad; I would say the success of Dragon and Tamiya model companies prove your point very well!

I have a very good documentary on disk called "The Silk Road" made by NHK Japan and a Chinese film crew in 1979. It was the first time a foreign film crew was allowed inside communist China and followed the silk road from China all the way to the middle east including Iraq. Fascinating, and one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. The version sold in the U.S. omitted the Iraq episode for political reasons, and I'll leave that point at that. But well worth watching if you can find it; perhaps on YouTube.