Every step, explained as it happens
This board annotates its rows, and this walkthrough annotates the process — which stage happens when, what you are expected to do at each, and what the platform is doing while you wait. If you have never ordered through an agent before, read it top to bottom once; the sequence is the same every time, and knowing it removes most of the anxiety.
← Back to overviewThe sequence, plain
Buy it, inspect it, hold it, send it. Two stages need you — inspection, where you approve or object, and holding, where you decide what travels together.
- Buy itmarketplace price and domestic leg, charged at submission
- Inspect itphotographs with measurements attached
- Hold itfree storage while you decide
- Send itline chosen, freight paid on measured weight
Timings below are Lovegobuy's published figures. Your order page is authoritative.
Placing your first order
Four moves, each explained.
Drop in a Taobao, Weidian, 1688 or JD link — or search by name.
Use the recorded measurements rather than the size letter — letters vary by seller.
Marketplace price and domestic leg only; freight comes later.
Domestic tracking, then the warehouse scan, then annotated images.
Nine stages, each with a note
Nine stages, and the notes attached to your account explain what each one means.
- 1
SubmittedOrder placed and paid; nothing has shipped yet
- 2
PurchasingLovegobuy buys on your behalf
- 3
Seller dispatchedDomestic tracking appears
- 4
ArrivedScanned into the warehouse
- 5
InspectedAnnotated photographs posted for approval
- 6
In storageHeld free of charge until you are ready to ship
- 7
Parcel submittedContents, route and extras chosen, and freight paid
- 8
DispatchedPassed to the carrier, and tracking starts working
- 9
DeliveredReceived at your address
Condensed from Lovegobuy's published flow. Your account and Lovegobuy's notices govern.
What happens while you wait
The parcel is scanned about two days after the seller posts it, and examined the following day. It then stays on your warehouse page at no cost, which gives a first-time buyer room to read the notes before asking for packing.
Recorded on your account before the tape comes off.
Images with measurements, so you can compare against something you own.
The window that lets several orders become one parcel.
You choose what goes and when.
Sending the parcel
Three moves, and the first saves the most money.
- 1. Consolidate
One box of five items costs far less than five boxes of one.
- 2. Choose the line
Compare price, transit time and accepted cargo.
- 3. Declare and pay
The declared number is yours to set, and freight prices on chargeable weight.
- 4. Track
Your tracking number goes live about a day after submission.
Once you submit, packing begins and the carrier takes the box, with tracking appearing on your parcel page. Because freight follows measured weight plus the destination, the amount you were quoted may move slightly; the balance is put right afterwards.