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Rowbuy Spreadsheet Dress Code, a pocket catalogue for six occasions

Thirty Taobao listings we opened through Rowbuy on October 24, 2026, filed by where you will wear them, each with the price we read, the menu option that changes it and the one photo detail worth asking the warehouse about.

Try plain words such as rain shoe covers, linen bucket hat or 925 silver chain.

Rowbuy star mascot carrying a parcel

Eight product racks under the dress codes

Each card opens a full product listing page for that category. The photo on the card is one of our own occasion picks, so you can see the kind of thing we file under it.

Open all sixteen racks

Choose an occasion, then check the feature it depends on

Use the occasion shelves to decide what the item must do for you: fit a laptop, pack flat for a trip, or allow the right range of movement for the gym. The notes identify a feature to verify on the listing and in warehouse photos; they do not certify waterproofing, safety or performance. Open a shelf, confirm the exact variant, then keep the one question that could change your decision.

Six luggage tags labelled commute, gym, trips, home days, rain and evenings out, each with its main check
Our six shelves and the first thing we look at for each. Drawing by this site, October 2026.

What a Rowbuy Spreadsheet is, in this pocket version

A Rowbuy Spreadsheet is a product catalogue: cards of real listings from Chinese shops, each linked so you can open it through the Rowbuy shopping agent and buy it without a Chinese bank card. It is not a document you download. You browse, you open a card, you decide on the listing itself.

Ours is deliberately small. Thirty picks across six occasions, each written up as a slip with the tag price, the bottom-line amount Rowbuy showed for the preset option, one thing to check before paying and one thing to look for in the warehouse photos. Seven of the thirty showed a higher bottom line than the tag the day we checked, which is why the slips carry both numbers.

Flow from an occasion shelf to a product slip, then the Rowbuy listing, then your parcel
How a slip on this site leads to an order. Drawing by this site.

For the full idea, including what we leave out and why, read the occasion index.

Rowbuy in two minutes

Rowbuy is a shopping agent: you show it a Taobao, 1688 or Weidian product, it places the order with that shop for you, photographs it at its warehouse, holds it while you collect more, then posts everything to you as one parcel. You pay in US dollars. Its help center tells the story in five short steps and says you need neither a Chinese card nor a local address or phone.

Rowbuy home page banner with a search bar, a freight estimator button and the star mascot
The Rowbuy home page banner with its product search field, captured at 1024 pixels wide on October 24, 2026.

The service is young (its help articles are dated from late June 2026) and some of its public pages still carry text from the software it is built on. We cover what that means for you, and the cases where a different agent makes more sense, on the agent page.

Walkthrough for a first Rowbuy order

A 27-second silent walkthrough made by rowbuysheet.com, not an official Rowbuy video: sign up, open the listing, set the option, then payment one for our four-piece rain kit. Its sign-up, search and product frames were captured on rowbuy.com on October 24, 2026; the checkout frame is our drawing.

Seven moves turn one of our slips into a box on your doorstep: sign up, open the listing, pick the option, pay for the goods, review the warehouse photos, submit your parcel and pay for postage. Signing up asks for an email and a password; an invite code box is optional and can stay empty.

Rowbuy create-account form with email, password, confirm password and an optional invitation code field
Rowbuy registration page, October 24, 2026. The agreement links under the form led nowhere when we clicked them.

Read the seven steps with screenshots, including the two points where money leaves your card. Rowbuy shows no public pictures of a signed-in account, so the screens from that part of the order are our own drawings, each one labelled as an illustration.

Two calculators fed by Rowbuy postage data

Two calculators on this site run on numbers we pulled from Rowbuy's public estimator. The kit weigher adds up the pieces you plan to send together, compares real and size-based weight, and prices the result on the two United States options and the single Canada option the estimator offered. The storage clock tells you when the free ninety days run out for an item that has reached the warehouse.

Worked example comparing scale weight with size-based weight for a 34 by 26 by 14 cm carton
One carton, two ways to weigh it. Rules read from the Rowbuy estimator data, October 2026.

Open the calculators. Nothing you type leaves your browser.

Money on a typical order

A Rowbuy order is paid in two goes: the item and the shop's courier charge when you order, then international postage once you approve the photos. On top sits an agent fee that Rowbuy ties to its own work. Rowbuy names that fee but does not print a rate anywhere public, so we do not guess one.

A windbreaker listing showing a tag of 205.80 yuan, about 30.38 dollars, and a bottom line of 48.07 dollars
Tag price against the amount Rowbuy showed for the preset size and colour. Numbers read on October 24, 2026.

The more common surprise is on the listing itself. The costs page walks through the seven picks where the bottom line beat the tag, and the menu option behind each one.

Where parcels can go right now

On Rowbuy's public estimator only the United States and Canada returned a price when we queried it. The British, French, German, Italian and Spanish entries came back with no route on October 24, 2026, and both priced countries were quoted 7 to 11 days. If you live elsewhere, read the postage page before you buy anything.

Map key marking the United States and Canada as priced and five European countries as showing no route
Countries the estimator priced, checked October 24, 2026.

Before you pay for anything bulky, read postage, weight and restricted items.

Review the warehouse photos before parcel approval

Compare the item in Rowbuy’s warehouse with the option you paid for, then inspect the feature your occasion requires. For a commute backpack, ask to see the laptop sleeve dimensions; for a rain shell, inspect seam construction without assuming that a photo proves water resistance. If the necessary view is missing, ask for that view before approving the parcel. Rowbuy does not publish a fixed photo count.

Six-point order for checking warehouse photos, from size label to hardware
The order we read photos in. Drawing by this site.

The full reading order lives on the photo checks page, with one request per shelf.

Recent notices from Rowbuy

Rowbuy posts short notices on its home page: a peak-season reminder about postage times, a welcome note about new-user postage coupons and the launch of its referral scheme, which pays up to 8 percent of a referred buyer's international postage. Our board dates every notice by the day we first saw it.

Dated list of Rowbuy notices and our own checks from June to October 2026
Notice board, last checked October 24, 2026.

Every dated entry sits on the notice board, next to our own check log.