LitBuy Finds, Checked Before They Reach You

What LitBuy actually does

LitBuy sits between you and the Chinese marketplaces. You do not need a Chinese phone number, a mainland address or a domestic payment method — you hand LitBuy the product, they buy it, and the seller sends it to their warehouse rather than to you.

The warehouse is the part that changes the economics. Your parcel stops there, gets photographed, and waits. You look at the photos, decide whether the item is what you ordered, and only then pay for international postage. Rejecting something at that point costs you a return to the seller; rejecting it three weeks later costs you the item.

Why the entries here are short-lived on purpose

Sellers delist, prices move and stock runs out. A catalogue that only grows becomes a catalogue full of dead ends — and a dead link is worse than no link, because you have already decided you want the thing by the time you find out.

So entries get re-checked and pulled. The catalogue is smaller than the market and deliberately so.

Placing a first order

What the QC photos will and will not show you

They will show you stitching, print placement, hardware colour, sole shape and whether the two shoes in a pair match each other. They will not tell you how the fabric feels, how the item fits, or how the colour behaves in daylight — warehouse lighting is flat and bright, and every screen renders it differently.

Treat the photos as a defect check rather than a quality verdict. The question they answer is "is this the item I ordered, without an obvious flaw", not "is this good".

Before you pay, remember three things

• Sizing on Chinese listings runs small. Use the centimetre chart and measure a garment you already own.
• International postage is billed after the warehouse, not at checkout. Budget for it separately.
• Returns stop at the warehouse door. Once the parcel leaves China, there is no sending it back.

Questions people ask before their first order