AllChinaBuy for shoe buyers: the old ordering route, and the maintenance page it shows today
Everything here about how AllChinaBuy operated is past tense and dated, taken from copies of its pages saved while it was online. The present tense is kept for one thing only: what we saw on its homepage ourselves.
AllChinaBuy, the agent this Spreadsheet is named after
AllChinaBuy was a shopping agent that bought from Chinese marketplaces for buyers outside China, since most of those marketplaces do not post abroad themselves. Handed a product link, it paid the seller, took the goods in at its China warehouse, photographed them, and sent them on in an international parcel with whatever else you had bought.
Its user guide, as saved on 4 August 2026, described orders starting from a pasted link to a Taobao, Tmall or JD.com listing, with a manual order form for listings its system could not read. That is the same starting point the cards on this site give you: a catalogue listing you can hand to an agent.
Here is how to use this Spreadsheet with an agent, from link to parcel: open a card, choose the size and colour option on the listing, copy the listing link into the agent's order form, and repeat the option in the order note. For footwear at AllChinaBuy that was the whole route; for a new order today, the same steps work with any agent on the agents page.
Its homepage notice and the contact routes it left
On 20 October 2026 we loaded allchinabuy.com in our own browser. What loaded was one notice with an English and a Chinese version, about maintenance. In AllChinaBuy's own words the site was being upgraded and maintained because of a hacker attack that had not yet been fully resolved; no return date was given anywhere on it.
Anyone with an order question is pointed to its online customer service, and [email protected] is named as the service email. A chat button sits at the bottom of the page. We did not test whether anyone answers either route.
If you have an order or balance with AllChinaBuy, those two routes are the only ones it points to. For a question about a particular payment, the bank or payment service you used can tell you which of its own rules apply. Beyond that we have nothing to add, and we do not guess.
Money matters as its pages described them
AllChinaBuy's help centre, in the copy saved on 4 August 2026, said that on an ordinary marketplace order it charged no service fee: you paid the item price with any delivery inside China, then international postage, and optional extras such as additional photos were priced on their own. Second-hand orders and customs handling were listed separately.
Its payment screens, in interface text we hold from 2026, explained that the exchange rate it applied followed the latest rate published by ICBC and was adjusted from time to time, so the figure on screen would not match a live quote from a currency site. No margin figure was published, and with the site offline there is no payment screen left to test.
For a shoe order that meant two things worth knowing at the time: the price on the listing was close to the price you paid for the goods, and the conversion into your own currency carried a gap you could only see at checkout.
Its photo count, free days and parcel deposit, in three lines
These archived figures describe the service at the time. The shoe ordering guide explains the practical decisions between payment, warehouse inspection and delivery.
- Photos: its interface text described three photos of each item under its standard photo service once the goods reached the warehouse.
- Storage: the help centre in August 2026 gave items ninety days of free storage in the warehouse.
- Shipping: the user guide described paying a deposit on the estimated weight, with the final postage settled after the carrier's own weighing.
For shoes, the photo count mattered most. Three standard shots of a pair can catch a wrong colour or a wrong size, but a scuff on the inside of a heel can sit outside all three.
Why the AllChinaBuy name stays on a shoe guide
Up to mid-2026 AllChinaBuy provided the usual agent services: buying from marketplace links, warehouse photos, storage while you collect several items, and international postage. Its saved pages describe no purchase fee on ordinary orders, which is part of why shoe buyers used it.
In October 2026 its homepage was a maintenance notice, and nothing on this site depends on it coming back. The catalogue cards work with any agent that accepts marketplace links, and the agents page lists four that were taking orders when we checked.
So this guide keeps the name for a plain reason: people still search for AllChinaBuy Spreadsheet when they want a catalogue to browse, and the honest answer for them is a working catalogue plus a clear note on where AllChinaBuy stands. If AllChinaBuy reopens, this page will say so with a date; until then, the question of when to use a different agent has a short answer: now, for any new order.
One notice, no news, and a Discord invite that still resolves
The maintenance notice is the only announcement AllChinaBuy has published that we can see, and we found nothing about a running promotion, a coupon or a new feature either. It carries no date of its own, and we found no newer notice, update or reopening date on 20 October 2026.
A Discord server named AllChinaBuy still accepted its invitation link on 20 October 2026. We do not link it: the maintenance page never refers to it, and we cannot say who answers there or what they can do about an order.
We have not collected reviews of AllChinaBuy and do not publish ratings for it or anyone else. Community posts about what happened to the agent vary widely and we could not confirm them, so we leave them out.
From a shoe find to a delivered pair
Check the option and measurements, pay for the purchase, review warehouse photos, resolve returns and choose the international parcel. The buying guide takes each decision in order.