I dunno why your purple tag looks different. Mine says 满¥99包邮. Have bought many rounds on PDD since July 2024 and never once paid a single cent for shipping.
Everything MIC you can find on Shopee/Lazada, you’ll find it cheaper on PDD. Yes there is alot of trash items but you can also find quality products. 一分钱一分货. In fact I believe majority of TB merchants are on PDD as well.
Payment is 2 steps. First you pay the seller for the items, then wait for them to arrive at the China warehouse. Once arrive, you consolidate shipment. If all your products have the 满¥99包邮 label and your consolidated purchase price is more than ¥99, you only pay 9% GST at this 2nd step. Don’t have to be same seller. My most recent shipment took 20 days from purchase to receiving the items.
Twice, I had items slightly damaged due to shipping. Both times, the seller tried to message me offering a compensation which is a portion of the purchase price, but the platform jitao refund me the full amount. So for those who had doubts on their return policy, I’d like to share that my experience have been positive thus far.
With regards to having to pay individual items instead of adding to cart then check out all at once, there is a way to do it. PDD doesn’t have a cart function, but what you can do is tap on the

button on the listings you want to buy. Then go to your profile page and click the 商品收藏 (logo of a shopping bag with a heart in the middle) which is the list of all the items you’ve favourited. There, you select the options you want for each item, then can cart out all at once. This is useful when you want to compare the price of the same item across different merchants. So basically right, how I shop is I first find an item that I want to buy, then I just

that listing. Scroll to the bottom, they will recommend other listings with the same item but different prices and I

them as well. Then I go to this 商品收藏 page, and can see at a glance which merchant sells the cheapest.
That being said, if your items are high value (but below ¥200) it is better to cart out individually. Because for WeChatPay which I’m using, the 3% transaction fee is waived for transactions below ¥200. For example if you’re buying 2 items (¥150 and ¥100) if you cart them out together you need to pay 3% extra. Cart out separately and you don’t need to pay this 3%.