Questions the ledger can actually answer
28 questions, answered with what this site can verify and, where it applies, with a plain statement that we cannot verify it. A records site that answers every question confidently is a records site that is making things up.
Median price reference across the ledger is $31.76, across 195 records and 2806 source images.
Definition and source
What is a Kakobuy spreadsheet?
It is a list of marketplace listings — Taobao, Weidian, 1688 — arranged so each row can be opened through a buying agent. The agent does not publish a catalogue of its own, so these lists are how buyers find things. Nothing about the format is official, which is why quality varies so widely.
Is there an official one?
No. Every list of this kind is made by whoever maintains it. That is worth holding onto when you read a page claiming to be the authoritative version of something that has no authority to be.
What does this site actually hold?
A ledger of 195 records extracted 2026-09-29, each keeping its marketplace, item ID, image count, price reference and verification status. It is a records layer, not a catalogue: we do not list items we have not recorded.
Where do the record images come from?
From the source listing. The image count stated on each record is the number of images the source itself carries, not a number we chose. Where a source image set is thin, the record inherits that thinness rather than being padded.
Cost
Is using a spreadsheet free?
The list costs nothing to read. What costs money happens later and elsewhere: the item, domestic shipping, the agent commission, the payment surcharge, international freight and any destination tax. Six lines, in that order.
Why is the price I see different from the price I pay?
Because a recorded price is a snapshot. Listings move with seller promotions and stock, and checkout adds lines the listing never showed. The price reference on a record states the figure at extraction; it is not an offer and not a live quote.
What does the agent commission usually look like?
Commission applies to the item subtotal, while payment surcharges apply to the same subtotal at a different rate. The shapes matter more than the headline number: a fixed per-item charge grows with item count, a percentage grows with value. The fee instrument lets you load your own figures for both.
Is shipping charged on weight or on size?
On whichever is greater. Carriers compare scale weight against volume divided by a divisor, then bill the larger figure. A light, bulky parcel loses that comparison, which is why a shoe box can cost more than the shoe.
Updates and verification
How often is this ledger updated?
Statuses and parameters are checked weekly; the current week is 2026-W40. Record statuses are re-derived from the record fields each time, and every parameter carries the week it was last checked.
What does the verification status mean?
57 records are verified, 101 are watching and 37 are unverified. Verified requires five or more source images, a source link, and brand or category information. Unverified means the image set is smaller than five. It is a statement about the record, not about the item.
Why would a record be marked unverified?
Because its source image set is small. Those records stay in the ledger and stay linkable, but they are not submitted for indexing — a thin record is not worth an index slot, and padding it would defeat the point of measuring it.
Who checks the records?
We do, against the rules published on the method page. There is no account system, no submission form and no community editing. Where a rule cannot be applied because a field is missing, the record is left with the field missing.
Sizing
Can I trust the sizes on a listing?
A size label is a claim, and a size chart is a claim about a range. Neither is a measurement. The distinction matters because the two disagree more often than people expect, especially on footwear.
Do you publish measured sizes?
Not yet. The measured insole table is empty because we publish a row only when a measured length, a sample count and a source type are all present. An empty table is less useful than a filled one and more honest than an estimated one.
How should I measure an insole?
Take the insole out, put it against a wall, and measure from the heel edge to the toe tip in centimetres. Compare that number with the listing rather than with the label. A number from one pair beats every conversion chart, including ours.
Does the conversion chart settle which size to order?
It settles what a label means across systems. It does not settle what will fit, because fit depends on the last, the material and the batch. We do not pretend otherwise.
Shipping and customs
How long does delivery take?
We do not publish a transit figure, because a single number would hide the spread and we hold no measured transit sample. What we can say with confidence is which weeks disrupt dispatch, and that is on the shipping window calendar.
Will my parcel be stopped at customs?
We do not predict inspection outcomes, and we are wary of anyone who does. What we publish is the threshold and rate for six destinations — for example United States at 800 USD and Germany at 150 EUR — so you can see where the line falls rather than guessing at it.
Should I declare a lower value?
We do not recommend mis-declaring and we do not build tools to help you do it. The landed cost instrument shows what the threshold does to your total so you can plan around it legitimately.
What if my parcel stops moving?
There is a response order in the field notes: confirm the tracking really has stopped, confirm with the warehouse that the parcel was handed over, raise the query with the carrier, then move to a claim. Doing those out of order is the usual reason a claim stalls.
Risk and disputes
Is this safe to use?
The list itself is a list of links; the risks live in the transaction, not in the page. What a records site can do is make the record auditable — which marketplace, which item ID, how many images, whether anyone checked. It cannot make a seller reliable.
What should I keep for a dispute?
Three things, depending on the dispute: the size option you selected and the label in the warehouse photo for a sizing problem; a single continuous unboxing video with the shipping label visible for transit damage; a source-page snapshot beside the received item for a description mismatch.
Do you know how often claims succeed?
No. We hold no claim-outcome sample, so we publish nothing about success rates. Stating a probability we cannot measure would be the least useful thing on this page.
Can I return an item to a seller?
Return windows and their conditions are set by the seller and the agent, not by us, and they are short. The practical answer is to review warehouse photos before approving shipment, because after that point the parcel is already moving toward you.
Using this site
Do I need an account here?
No. There is no account, no login, no comment system and no form submission. The only thing this site stores is your QC checklist ticks, and they stay in your own browser.
Why do links to Kakox carry a referral?
Because referrals fund the site. It does not change what you pay. The disclosure page states which links carry one and what we do not accept in return.
How do I report an error?
Write to records@spreadsheetkakobuy.click with the record ID or the page address and what looks wrong. Corrections that change a parameter are recorded in the check log with the old and new value.
Does this site sell anything?
No. It is a records and measurement site. There is no cart, no stock, no checkout and no order handling, and the records carry no availability status by design.