Agent · www.kakobuy.com
A China shopping and consolidation agent whose own help centre is unusually explicit: it publishes storage limits, a per-state cancellation rule, a tiered return fee table and a destination allowance table.
The list is where the items are. This page is about the agent that would carry them.
Reachable at the time of the check; help centre pages listed below were readable.
Self-described as a shopping agent with no handling fee: “kakobuy require no handling fees” beyond the item cost and shipping fee (help centre, question id=63). The same page gives its own total-cost formula: item cost plus international freight plus duty, where item cost means the item price plus domestic freight to the warehouse.
A single marketplace item is submitted and quoted before payment. Marketplace coverage stated on its own pages is Taobao, 1688 and Weidian.
The inspection page states that inspection covers “appearance, likes model, style, and size” only. For sealed or tamper-taped goods, and for anything outside clothing, bags, luggage and footwear, the wrapping is not opened and only the appearance is checked. Electronics are explicitly excluded from authenticity, function and quality checks (question id=89).
Published figures found: a customs declaration charge of generally RMB 8.00 per parcel, depending on the shipping method (id=63); PayPal top-ups at 3.5% plus US$0.3, with Alipay and WeChat listed as free but delayed by 1–60 minutes (id=64). Exchange rates are described as adjusted to the latest rate published by the Bank of China; no markup figure is published.
It cannot certify authenticity, and it says so twice: the inspection page excludes it, and the anti-counterfeiting policy states that non-authentic goods are strictly prohibited and that breaches may lead to loss of purchase privileges, withheld funds and disposal of inventory held (id=125).
These stay unverified rather than estimated. If you have a written answer from the agent on any of them, sending it in is the fastest way to move a row.
Signal. The order status changed on a Friday and you plan to decide on the following Thursday.
What to do. Count 120 hours from the status change, not five business days. If the window is close, ask for one more photo rather than letting it lapse while you decide.
Signal. The item is a sealed electronics box and you expect a function check.
What to do. Read the exclusions before you order. Sealed goods and electronics are outside the inspection scope, so the QC set will not settle function or authenticity.
Signal. One item arrived on day 1 and another seller still has not dispatched on day 20.
What to do. Decide the shipping date against the earliest arrival. Free storage is counted per item, so the first arrival sets your deadline.
Every figure above is re-read monthly from the pages named, and any wording change is diffed on the term snapshot pages rather than silently updated.
Rows are not refreshed to look recent. A row changes when the wording behind it changes, and the diff is kept on the term snapshot pages.