Shopee

Dominant marketplace in Southeast Asia + Taiwan. Per-country sites (shopee.sg, shopee.com.my, shopee.co.id, shopee.ph, shopee.tw, shopee.vn, shopee.co.th). English available on most; pick the user’s country site for accurate price, stock, and shipping.

Search & sort

  • Search URL: https://shopee.sg/search?keyword=<query> (swap the domain for the user’s country).
  • Sort tabs: Relevance (ad-polluted), Latest, Top Sales (← use this — the sales-volume sort), Price.
  • Shopee is heavily app-driven and bot-sensitive; the web flow can throw login walls and sliders/CAPTCHAs. Do not solve CAPTCHAs — if one appears, hand back to the user. If a listing page won’t load after a couple of tries, tell the user rather than looping.

Seller / trust tiers

  • Shopee Mall: official-brand / authorized stores. Authenticity guarantee, easier returns (often 15-day free returns), platform-backed. The strongest trust tier — the Shopee equivalent of Tmall/Certified-Original.
  • Preferred / Preferred+ Seller: vetted high-performing sellers (good ratings, fast ship, low cancellation). Below Mall but well above plain sellers.
  • Plain sellers: judge by rating, rating count, and “sold” count; check the shop’s overall rating and response rate.

Price & vouchers

  • Sticker price often isn’t the real price: Shop Vouchers, Shopee Coins cashback, platform-wide vouchers, and free-shipping vouchers stack at checkout. Note the after-voucher cost.
  • Big sale spikes on double-date days (9.9, 11.11, 12.12) — worth flagging if one is near.

Reviews

  • Filter by star and “With Comments / With Media”. SEA reviewers frequently post photos and call out fakes, wrong variants, and sizing — high-signal. Watch for repeated complaints across recent reviews, not the seeded 5-stars.

Shipping

  • ETA and fee show per listing and per the user’s address; varies a lot by seller location (local vs overseas/China-direct sellers on Shopee). Overseas listings are cheaper but slower and harder to return — weigh against Mall/local for anything risky.

Boundary

Same as the main skill: select the variant, add to cart, stop. Checkout (and ShopeePay / card / COD selection) is the user’s.