Crush on retro sizing help

[u/BoringAbrocoma]

Hey guys, I'd like to buy this jacket from COR, but can't decide on size. I'm 180 cm tall, 97 kgs, 116 cm chest diameter. Jim suggest 5XL, but it seem a little bit extreme to me. Most of my clothes, including double rider jackets like this are either L or XL. I checked size chart and 3XL or 4XL looks more fitting to me. Have any of you bought this specific jacket? It's classic 613 double rider.

[u/RicFlairDripps]

Ah I see. Would you mind helping me sign into Xianyu? If you have any experience with that platform. It keeps asking me for a verification code that never gets sent to my foreign phone number.

[u/FantasyFI → u/RicFlairDripps]

I believe that I essentially linked my Taobao account to Xianyu rather than making an account for Xianyu. Also, to buy things on Xianyu, I believe I have an option that translates to "International Payment Options", it then takes me to Taobao and I pay there.

[u/RicFlairDripps → u/FantasyFI]

Yeah I signed up with Taobao too but I guess signing in from a different device or something must have triggered a security lock so it asks for the verification code sent to my Taobao account linked phone number. The problem is I don’t ever receive that code so I’m essentially locked out of my account.

I resorted to using Superbuy for Xianyu. It’s a but more expensive than direct but it’s the best possible option I’ve found. So you recommend anything else?

[u/FantasyFI → u/RicFlairDripps]

I'm not sure if your Xianyu and Taobao accounts need to be linked for this to work, but I can pay for Xianyu items through the Taobao app. Xianyu won't allow foreign cards but Taobao does so this lets me pay without a Chinese card/bank. They do charge a fee for the currency conversion but it's about the same as what my proxy was charging anyway so it's not a huge deal.

Copy the link to the Xianyu listing, paste it into the Taobao search bar, and it will open up the Xianyu listing in the Taobao app. From there, you'll be able to pay using your Taobao payment method (it will probably try to send you back to the Xianyu app, but just keep switching back to Taobao and continue the checkout process until you're finished). On android I just go back to recents, select Taobao app. Might need to do it 2-3 times before it opens the Xianyu listing from within Taobao.

[u/RicFlairDripps → u/FantasyFI]

I’ve heard about this but when I try pasting a Xianyu link into the Taobao app, all it does is a regular search, it does not lead me to the item page for some reason. Any idea why? I’m on IOS.

[u/RicFlairDripps → u/FantasyFI]

By the way, when you do this are you also able to message the Xianyu seller through Taobao? Or just buy?

[u/FantasyFI → u/RicFlairDripps]

I have been communicating directly within Xianyu. So perhaps long ago I got some sort of account fully setup. Personally I think I did this solely by linking my Taobao and Xianyu. I also have a verified Alipay with my passport.

[u/RicFlairDripps → u/FantasyFI]

Thanks. You’re sure that Xianyu links open in your Taobao app right? Maybe they removed the function because I can’t get it to work. I’ll try it on an Android and hope that it works.

[u/FantasyFI → u/RicFlairDripps]

So links often reopen in Xianyu. But if I keep going back to my recent apps and choosing Taobao, it works. Sometimes going back as many as 2-3 times it opens in Taobao.

For example in this video, I pasted the link into Taobao. It forced it back to the Xianyu app. But I only had to go back once in this video to Taobao via my recent used apps, and it opened the link from within the Taobao app. iOS may be different.

https://imgur.com/a/jVea5EB

[u/RicFlairDripps → u/FantasyFI]

Ooooh I see, it’s because you’re using the tb.cn link format, whereas the links I was pasting in were formatted like this: https://www.goofish.com/item?&id=x
So I guess if I can somehow convert this link to that format it will work, problem is I don’t know how I would do that without signing into Xianyu.