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Whalebuy Spreadsheet Long Haul: sixteen product aisles, one complete route to your door

Browse the catalog by product type, copy a store link, then follow nine dated stops from the Whalebuy order page to the parcel on your doorstep.

Whalebuy's blue whale mascot in a W cap carrying a parcel, from the whalebuy.com homepage

The order route in nine stops

Every stop below links to its section of the guide, with the screen you will see and the mistake people make there.

  1. Open an accountemail, Google or Discord sign-in
  2. Claim the couponsnew-user shipping pack
  3. Find the itempaste a link or search by name or photo
  4. Pick the exact optioncolor, size, quantity
  5. Settle up for the itemitem price plus China freight
  6. Warehouse checkthree free photos, 90 days of storage
  7. Build the parcelchoose items, packing, insurance
  8. Pay the freightline, weight, coupons
  9. Track and receiveclaims and returns have clocks

The guide takes one order from link to delivery, step by step, using Whalebuy's own screenshots where the company published them. Two longer pages cover what happens between the warehouse shelf and your door, and the time limits that apply when something goes wrong.

Whalebuy’s official channel posted this two-minute walkthrough on August 15, 2026. It demonstrates the listing, option picker and item checkout; use the written guide below for the warehouse, parcel and after-sales stages.

Video: Whalebuy official channel"How to shop on Whalebuy?", 2:12, posted August 15, 2026. Filmed on a phone: a 1688 listing, the option picker and the item price shown in yuan and dollars. The player loads from youtube-nocookie.com only after you press play.

The full route   Warehouse to door   Returns and claims

A catalog on this side, a buying agent on the other

This site is a product catalog arranged by type, so you can browse by category, find a store listing on Taobao, 1688 or Weidian, and hand the link to Whalebuy. It is not a shop: nothing is sold here, and prices on product cards are the store price at the time the card was made.

Whalebuy is a shopping agent that buys from those Chinese stores on your behalf, receives the item at its warehouse in China, photographs it and ships it abroad on a line you choose. Its homepage sums the job up in four steps; the guide here splits it into nine because the payment and parcel stages each hide a decision. The operating company named in its terms is XINGKUN TRADING CO., LIMITED, with a Hong Kong address.

Four-step strip from the Whalebuy homepage: Choose Your Finds, Shop Worry-Free with QC, Bundle for Less, Delivered to You
Whalebuy's own four-step summary, cropped from its homepage on October 21, 2026. Step 2 promised video QC "this July-August".

What Whalebuy is and what this catalog adds

Two payments, a declaration fee and a top-up charge

Whalebuy's fee page gives the formula plainly: item cost plus international freight plus a customs declaration fee, which it puts at ¥8 per parcel in most cases. There is no separate purchasing service fee in that formula. Optional extras, such as a ¥20 trial pack or ¥1 detail photos, are priced one by one.

You pay twice. The first payment covers the item and the seller's freight to the warehouse; the second, after the item is weighed, covers the parcel. PayPal top-ups add a fee that two official pages state differently, 4.5% and 3.7%, each plus $0.30, so check the figure at checkout.

Diagram of the two Whalebuy payments: item stage and parcel stage, plus top-up fees and border taxes
Our diagram of the cost layers, built from Whalebuy's fee, charges and PayPal pages read on October 21, 2026.

Every fee, coupon and exchange-rate rule

Dated 1 kg shipping examples, by destination

These are comparison quotes from October 21, 2026, for a 1 kg parcel to fourteen countries with no product type entered. The cheapest eligible result ranged from $21.40 to the United Kingdom to $49.02 to Sweden; the United States example was $36.01. Recheck your destination, contents and packed dimensions before using any figure as a budget. A battery, liquid or bulky carton may require a different line from this baseline.

Bar chart of the cheapest Whalebuy line for a 1 kg parcel to fourteen countries
Cheapest carriable line per destination, 1 kg, as the estimator showed it on October 21, 2026. Line codes are Whalebuy's own.

Lines, weights and the volumetric rule

Three free photos and their blind spots

Warehouse photos help compare what arrived with the paid order: count, colour, label and visible damage. The ordinary set is usually three views, but it does not establish performance, authenticity or precise fit. If a jacket’s width matters, request that measurement; if an accessory is missing, compare the received set with the option description. Resolve that question before combining the item into a parcel, using the QC checklist.

Card summarising what the three free Whalebuy inspection photos show and what they leave out
Summary of Whalebuy's inspection and photography pages, read October 21, 2026.

Reading inspection photos, with a checklist

Calculators for weight, cost and deadlines

Four calculators on this site run in your browser and send nothing anywhere. One works out chargeable weight from a box size and the line's divisor; one adds up an order in yuan and dollars; one turns a "Stocked in" date into the return and storage deadlines; one reads a Taobao, Tmall, 1688 or Weidian address and gives back the bare item number. For product search by photo, use the image button on Whalebuy's own search bar.

Worked example of volumetric weight for a 30 by 20 by 10 cm box at three divisors
The volumetric rule behind the first calculator, with divisors taken from the estimator results of October 21, 2026.

Open the calculators

Reasons to use Whalebuy, and reasons to pause

The case for Whalebuy rests on things you can read before signing up: a fee formula without a purchasing charge, a public estimator with line codes and transit days, 90 days of free storage and a priced list of extras. New accounts also get a coupon pack aimed at the first parcel.

The case against is also on the record. The Xiamen warehouse shows its street address only after login, the PayPal fee has two official values, and the help centre still shows test articles. If you want a community invite you can check before paying, Whalebuy's Discord link was not published anywhere we could read it.

Four promotional banners from the Whalebuy homepage: Discord, 40% shipping coupon, newbie guide and a $4.99 Discord section
The "Event Calendar" banners on whalebuy.com, October 21, 2026. The Discord banners had no public invite link behind them.

Reasons for and against, in full

Help desk and the words in the order screens

The help page gathers the questions frequently asked by first-time buyers, a glossary of the terms you meet in the order screens, and direct links to the official help articles we used. If a status label confuses you, the glossary has it; if a parcel is late, the after-sales page lists who to contact and by when.

Glossary card with eight shopping-agent terms such as QC, GL and RL, rehearsal and waybill
Eight of the terms defined on the help page.

Help desk, glossary and answers

Dated notices and our own edits

Whalebuy publishes route price changes and promotions as dated notices. The newest dated items we found were the coupon end dates, December 30 and 31, 2026, and the homepage line saying video QC would launch "this July-August". Its YouTube channel posted seventeen short videos between August 7 and August 31, 2026, then went quiet. Our own edits are logged on the same page.

Timeline of dated Whalebuy notices from November 2023 to December 2026
Dated notices from the Whalebuy help centre and homepage, oldest first.

Notices, community and our change log