Xianyu — Updated method to get the product URL

It's been more than a year since my post about buying on Xianyu for the first time. I had not bought a second time on Xianyu until yesterday evening. That wasn't planned. I had actually gone shopping earlier in the afternoon and had tried a cape-trench coat, that even though didn't fit me, made my figure look not that bad. So I went on Xianyu to buy a Bobon21 sort of trench coat I always liked but thought wouldn't look good on me (I have some hope now).

As I was making the purchase, and relying on what I had written in that blog post, I realized the section "Getting the product URL" is obsolete. In fact, yesterday, the method described wouldn't work, on Yoybuy at least. There seemed to be a bug when I pasted the link in the entry field and it wouldn't display the item*. I tried a couple other stuff for 15 minutes, got really frustrated with the website interface and finally gave up to head over to TaobaoRing (that is now 42agent). Then I came up with another method to instruct the buying agent to successfully purchase the item in the Xianyu app. It's more reliable, a bit longer, but definitely worth it IMO.

*The said bug is a no-brainer to solve. I don't know why I didn't think about it at the time. Please scroll down to "Edit August 29th 2021" for the fastest way to get the product URL.

Updated method

(can be used with any proxy I guess, but here I used TaobaoRing aka 42agent)

1. Go on the item's page on Xianyu. Click on the "three-dots icon". A menu will appear.
2. In the menu, click on the icon contoured in yellow:

3. This gives you the item's QR code. Take a screenshot of it or click on 保存在相册 ("save in photo album"):

4. Transfer your QR code picture to your computer (I need to do this because I can't upload a picture on Imgur—I'm guessing it's cuz I don't have the app nor an account. Personally, I just share the picture with my Google Drive to make the transfer which is fast enough for me.)

5. Once the QR code picture is on your computer, go to Imgur and upload the picture

(I just realized maybe Imgur would be banned from China, but it seems not!)

Copy the link Imgur gave you.

6. Go to the proxy's website (whichever one you chose). In the order form, paste the link from Imgur:

When the buying agent clicks on « LINK », it leads him/her here

Then confirm/submit your order, and that's it!

The coat I had ordered was successfully purchased some hours later (after receiving the OK to pay the first charge and paying it):

I was pretty satisfied with the smoothness of the transaction

Note: I will be posting the stuff I got on Xianyu in another blog post in the future.

Enjoy shopping.

Edit August 29th 2021

As 42agent adapted this post for their blog, they made me discover another way to lead a shopping agent to an item in Xianyu. I then realized it's the same method I once used and which I thought didn't work anymore (it does still work, actually). Thus I suggest following the three steps below instead of the six steps above.

1. On the item's page on Xianyu, click on the "three-dots icon". A menu will appear.
2. In the menu, click on the icon contoured in purple:

3. Then, just paste the link in the order form of the proxy you chose.

To clarify, here's what the copied link looks like:

The portion I highlighted in blue is the "working link" (I believe the buying agent is already aware of this). I have no clue what the leftover part is for.

Anyway, if you copy-paste the blue part of the link into your browser, you should be able to see your item on the Internet: