Other agents, and the checks that compare them
No rankings here: agents change too fast for lists. The durable skill is reading an agent's paperwork, and it transfers.
Type what you want to find; results list product cards by category.
The agent model is bigger than any one agent
Every China agent sells the same mechanical promise: an address in China, a buyer who speaks the platform's language, a warehouse that photographs and stores, and a freight desk. They all sit on the same sources, Taobao, Tmall, JD, 1688, Weidian, so the catalogue you browse is portable even when the agent is not.
Agents differ in the paperwork: fee structure and its timing, insurance terms with real numbers, storage windows, and how much of their rulebook is published at all. This site documents CSSBuy's because they are unusually public; HubbuyCN, by contrast, announced the end of its platform service from 2026-10-01, a reminder that an agent is a business, not a protocol.
Six checks that outlive any recommendation
Rankings age badly, checks do not. Before trusting an agent with a box: find the legal entity and registration number in the footer; find the insurance terms as a numbered document, not a slogan; find the storage window and what day it starts counting; find the fee formula and when it bills; test a support channel before you owe them money; and read the newest dated notice on their site to see whether the rulebook is alive.
CSSBuy passes the publishing test cleanly, which is the reason this site can quote caps instead of adjectives. Where it is weaker, the Trustpilot reply pattern on the community page, we quote that too.
Judging a catalogue site, including this one
How to judge a spreadsheet site is no mystery; it earns trust the same way an agent does: dated facts, live links, visible maintenance. Concrete tests: do product cards open real listings or dead pages; do policy numbers carry a read date; does anything on the site say when it was last reviewed; and does the site disclose how it makes money.
Run those tests here too. Every card above goes to a live category, every cap carries its help number and date, the review dates are in the footer and the about page names the referral relationship. If any of that drifts stale, the about page has a source and support details.
