Kakobuy Spreadsheet Questions New Buyers Actually Ask

Thirty-seven of the 195 records in this spreadsheet carry an unverified status, and 37 records carry fewer than 5 images. Those two numbers are the same size because they describe almost the same group, and that coincidence answers the question most new buyers are actually asking: not what the prices are, but which parts of the page can be relied on. The twelve questions below are ordered so that each one only becomes answerable after the previous one has been settled.

1. What is this spreadsheet a list of?
2. How many records does it hold, and where did they come from?
3. What does the verification status mean?
4. Why are some records unverified?
5. Which category should a first order come from?
6. What is included in the price shown?
7. Is the cheapest record a sensible first purchase?
8. How do I know a record is still live?
9. What fees sit on top of the item price?
10. Why do two buyers get different totals for the same item?
11. What happens between payment and delivery?
12. What does this site refuse to do?

Question 1. The spreadsheet is a record layer, not a shop. Each entry describes a source listing: an item name, a category, a brand where the source provided one, a price reference, an image group count, a source market and a verification status. All 195 records in the pool come from Weidian and carry one of 20 brands. Nothing in the record is a stock state or a purchase commitment, and the fields that exist are the fields listed here.

Question 2. The pool holds 195 records across 8 categories, priced from $5.17 to $451.10 with a median of $31.76, extracted on 2026-09-29. Category counts are close to even: Hoodies/Sweaters carries 26 records, Pants/Shorts carries 25, and the remaining six categories carry 24 each. The pool is an extract rather than the whole marketplace, which matters for how a category median should be read: it describes the extract, not the market.

Question 3. Verification status is the only record-level quality signal published here, and it has three values. Verified means the record carries an evidence trail that meets the rules published at /method/. Unverified means it does not. Watching is the middle state, and the pool currently holds zero records in it. That is a real finding rather than an omission: with 158 verified, 0 watching and 37 unverified, a record is either carrying its evidence or it is not, and there is no ambiguity band to argue about.

Question 4. A record is unverified when the fields needed for the evidence trail are not all present in the source listing. Across the pool, the unverified group is also the group whose image sets are thin: the median image group across all 195 records is 14, the maximum is 46 and the minimum is 1, and 158 records, 81 percent, carry at least 5 images while 37 carry fewer. A thin image set is the visible symptom; the verification status is the label. Neither is a comment on the seller, because the pool records what the listing shows rather than what the seller is like.

Question 5. Category choice should follow the two constraints that a first order actually faces: value and volume. On value, the pool medians run from $16.22 for Headwear through $22.23 for T-Shirts and $26.77 for Accessories up to $68.68 for Shoes and $53.89 for Jackets. On volume, the flat categories pack tightly into a small carton and the near-cubic ones do not. A first order that stays under the pool median of $31.76 per item and stays flat is the order least exposed to both constraints at once.

Question 6. The price is an extraction-time USD reference value for the item, and nothing else. It does not include agent commission, the payment surcharge, the domestic leg to the warehouse, the international freight line, insurance or any duty. The reason the price can be stated as a single number while a landed cost cannot is that the first is a property of the listing and the second is a property of your order. The landed cost instrument holds the second set of lines, each with its own checked week.

Question 7. The cheapest record in the pool is $5.17 and it sits in Accessories, a category whose range runs all the way to $451.10. A cheap record is not automatically a good first purchase for two reasons. First, a fixed per-item fee does not shrink with the item: at the published fixed-fee shape of $1.50 per purchased item plus a 3 percent payment surcharge, a $5.17 item carries about $1.66 of fees, roughly 32 percent of the item. Second, the spread inside Accessories means the category tells you very little about any single record in it.

Question 8. A record is live when the source listing it points to still resolves to the same item. The link health check at /instrument/link-health/ reads a link, identifies the platform, extracts the item ID, flags any extra parameters that do not change which item the link points to, and classifies the form of the link. It does not make a network request, which is what makes its result reproducible: the same input produces the same output for anyone who runs it. What it cannot do is tell you whether a seller has changed the contents of a listing while keeping the same identifier.

Question 9. Three fee shapes are published in the agent fee comparison instrument, each stamped 2026-W40: a standard tier at 5 percent platform commission plus a 3 percent payment surcharge, a low-commission tier at 3 percent plus 3 percent, and a fixed-fee tier at $1.50 per purchased item plus 3 percent. A fourth row describes an agent whose fees are not published; that row is marked unverified and is excluded from every total in the instrument. On a $31.76 item at the pool median, the standard tier is about $2.54 and the fixed-fee tier about $2.45, so the shapes converge in the middle of the price range and separate at both ends of it.

Question 10. Two buyers can pay different totals for the same item because four of the lines below the item price are personal rather than fixed. The destination gate differs: the United States de minimis is $800 USD, the United Kingdom threshold is GBP 135, Germany and Poland share a €150 gate, Canada sits at CAD 20 and Australia at AUD 1000. The handling line differs by carrier. The fee shape differs by agent. And the freight line differs by carton, because the same goods in a larger box are billed at the geometry rather than at the contents. The item price is the one line that does not move.

Question 11. Placing the order and paying for the item is the first of nine stages, and the eight that follow are seller dispatch to the warehouse, warehouse intake, photo capture, your review of those photos, consolidation, payment of international freight, export and customs, and last-mile delivery. The stage that runs on the buyer’s own clock is the review, because nothing else in the chain waits on the warehouse or the carrier. This site holds no measured time for any of the nine stages, so the sequence is described in order without day ranges attached to it.

Question 12. The method page at /method/ lists what this site declines to do, and the list is the shortest answer to this question. It does not list unverified discount codes, it does not predict clearance rates, and it does not make claims without a stated sample size. That is also why no transit day range appears anywhere in this note and why the Polish row in the threshold table is left incomplete rather than filled with an estimate: an empty cell is more useful than a plausible one.

The twelve questions reduce to three conclusions, and each one changes what a buyer should do next rather than what a buyer should believe.

1. The spreadsheet describes records, not outcomes. It states what exists, what the source listing shows and what evidence supports the entry. It does not state what the parcel will cost to move, whether customs will charge you, or when the parcel will arrive. Anyone using it as a delivery estimate is using a field that is not in the record.
2. Verification status is the only record-level quality signal, and it is binary in practice. With 158 verified, 0 watching and 37 unverified, a record either carries its evidence trail or does not. The image group count is the observable symptom of the same split, which makes the check cheap: a record with fewer than 5 images out of a pool median of 14 is a record to inspect before ordering.
3. Cost lines divide into ones you choose and ones you discover. Agent fee shape, carton size, item count and whether an original shoe box is retained are choices made before the parcel is built. The destination gate, the carrier handling fee and outbound capacity in the last week of November are conditions you find out about. Effort spent on the first group changes the total; effort spent on the second changes only how prepared you are.

The practical reading of the third conclusion is that the two cheapest lines to change are the two that are easiest to overlook. The divisor is one: 24,000 cubic centimetres of carton is 4.80 kg at divisor 5000 and 3.43 kg at divisor 7000, so confirming which divisor your line applies is worth more than most item-level price comparisons. The fee shape is the other: on a $5.17 record the fixed-fee shape costs about 32 percent of the item, while on a $68.68 record the same shape costs about 2.2 percent plus the payment surcharge. Neither line appears in a category view, and both are present in the instruments.

What remains outside all three conclusions is the part this site can answer least: timing. The seasonal calendar is structural, the nine stages are described in order, and no measured window is published for any of them because no qualifying observation sample exists. The frequently asked questions page at /faq/ collects the questions that recur across the site, and the ones about timing are answered there the same way they are answered here — with the structural description and an explicit statement of what is not known.