Buying on Taobao through an agent is really easy and you need absolutely no understanding of Japanese or Chinese languages to do it:
1. Find a product on Taobao
2. Email or IM it to
Obook3. They email you the price w/shipping options and will set up and ebay auction so you can rate the transaction and have protection when paying with paypal.
4. Wait 3-10 weeks (or more).
That's how I buy puerh tea. Sorry for repeating this info in different threads, but I keep reading the same memes.
p.s. The anti-chinese rhetoric at the top of this thread is really ethnocentric, and I found it quite distasteful.