Weidian Spreadsheet FindsWhich category actually has the finds

What changed, and when we checked it

This page exists so that anything time sensitive on the rest of the site has a date attached to it. Catalogue counts move weekly. Agent policies move without notice, as the first entry shows.

Everything below was verified by opening the thing itself rather than reading an announcement about it.

CheckedWhat changed
2026-10-10A search box, and eleven topics this guide had been silent on
The home page gained a search box that passes straight into the catalogue. Eleven subjects that a Weidian buyer needs and this guide never covered were written: why an agent is in the chain at all, how to compare agents without a league table, how the exchange rate actually reaches your bill, how to read the quality check photographs, how to use the search box and the filter rail, how to judge a seller whose shop page asks you to sign in, how to find things on a platform with no buyer search, the warning signs worth taking seriously, the traps that catch people arriving by link, a glossary of the words on this route, and how to tell whether a finds list is still maintained. The route counts were not re-read on this date and still carry their August reading; the Weidian and agent screenshots are the August captures, each labelled with that date.
2026-08-06The agent help centre moved behind a login
Clicking through loongbuy.com/help without an account, the ten section names and every article title stayed public, and all twenty one articles we opened redirected to the login page. Three of them were readable on 4 August, quoted at length by a sister guide, so this changed within two days. We now link the help centre index only, and we say plainly on the agent page that policies cannot be read before registering.
2026-08-06First full reading of the catalogue: 65 routes, 27687 listings
We parsed every tile on the catalogue index in one pass rather than sampling. That produced the route sizes used across this site, and it is what turned up the umbrella problem: nine routes that look like entry points hold 451 listings between them, under two per cent of the catalogue.
2026-08-06Four routes whose address does not match their name
Dolls, Face Masks, Keychains and Mobile Phones all live at addresses that differ from the name on the tile, and the route displayed as Other lives at a misspelled address. We stopped writing route addresses by hand anywhere on this site and generate them from the reading instead.
2026-08-06This guide replaced the old WeidianSheet page
The site previously held a single page of general text about buying Weidian items through an agent, plus a strip of category buttons that pointed at umbrella categories. The buttons were the problem the new guide is built around. The old address still works and the subject has not changed, there is just a great deal more of it.
Four visible help centre titles beside a dashed wall and a padlock with a log in promptYou can read the titles, not the articlesParcel and Billing RulesShipping Fee Estimation5-Day Return PolicyAnti-FraudLog inTwenty one article titles were reachable without an account.Every one of them asked for a login when opened, including thethree that a sister guide could still read two days earlier.Rendered click test against loongbuy.com/help on 2026-08-06.

How we check, so you can judge the dates

Catalogue counts come from parsing the index page itself, every tile in one pass, which is why the total is an exact number rather than a rounded one. Route addresses come from the links on that page, never from guessing the address from the name.

Agent behaviour is checked by driving a browser through it without an account, because that is what a reader arrives as. That is how the login wall turned up: a status code would have said the help articles were fine, and only rendering the page shows the redirect.

When something cannot be verified without an account, we say that instead of summarising what we assume it says.

Three route signs: a blue one for a category that holds finds, an amber one for a near empty umbrella category, a red one for a category that does not existHow to read a route signSneakers5338Blue: the route holds the finds. Sort and filter beforescrolling.Shoes49Amber: an umbrella word. It exists, it is nearly empty, the findssit one level down.shoeRed: no such route. A guessed URL lands on nothing, so use themap or search.Counts read off the finds catalogue on 2026-08-06. They move every week.

How to spot a finds list somebody still maintains

Lists like this one rot quietly. Shops close, routes get renamed, a count that was right in August is wrong by winter, and none of it shows on the page. So make a list prove itself before you rely on it.

Pick three cards you did not choose for a reason and follow each one through. When two of the three land nowhere, the sweeping stopped a while ago. Then ask where the totals came from and when: the figures on this site were read off the catalogue on 2026-08-06 and are quoted with that date every time they appear. Check that changes are logged where you can see them, which is what the entries above are. And check that a person is named somewhere, because a list with nobody answerable for it is a product rather than a project.

Those four tests are not kind to us either, which is the point of putting them on this page rather than somewhere quieter.