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The CSSBuy guide
Six pages, in the order they become useful. The first two explain what you are looking at. The third walks the whole ordering process. The last three are about judgement: why this agent, which item, and what goes wrong.
1. What is CSSBuy
The agent model explained without jargon. Why Chinese marketplaces need a middleman at all, what CSSBuy adds on top of that, and who actually operates it.
2. What is a CSSBuy spreadsheet
Why a catalogue of picture cards ended up with a name that sounds like accounting software, and how to read one properly.
3. How to use CSSBuy
Both official routes walked screen by screen: six steps when CSSBuy buys for you, six more when you bought it yourself.
4. Why use this spreadsheet
What CSSBuy does that every agent does, what it does differently, and the situations where you would be better off somewhere else.
5. How to choose an item
Reading a listing well enough to commit money to it. Photos, measurements, seller history and the questions worth asking before you pay.
6. Mistakes to avoid
The specific traps that catch first orders, most of which cost money rather than just time.
If you only read one thing
Read the ordering walkthrough. Almost every complaint about buying agents traces back to someone not knowing that a second payment was coming, or not knowing that goods sit in a warehouse until you actively push them out.
Both of those are visible in the interface. They are just not obvious until someone points at the screen and says: this is the part people miss.
Prefer to look before you read?
The catalogue is open to everyone and needs no account. Browse a category, then come back when something catches your eye.