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Marcus FeldEditor-in-Chief

Shopping agent fee structures, parcel consolidation economics, shipping line selection and cross-border delivery timing.

Marcus Feld serves as editor-in-chief at Kakobuy News and personally runs its fortnightly consolidated-haul test. The work covers agent fee structures, shipping line selection and cross-border delivery timing, with order records spanning payment, warehouse receipt, QC photo posting and delivery. Weighing parcels on arrival and rebuilding delivered costs from invoices bring the physical shipment and its charges into the comparison table. The same three-item basket is also rerun every 90 days, alongside the regular consolidated-haul tests, as part of Marcus's examination of costs and timing.

How I test

Marcus Feld opens an account with every agent scored and orders the same three-item basket using a personal card. Payment, warehouse receipt, QC photo posting and delivery are logged. Each parcel is weighed on arrival, its delivered cost is rebuilt from the invoices, and the basket is rerun every 90 days to keep the comparison table like for like.

Credentials

Freight Forwarding Operations CertificateSTC Group, Rotterdam 2013
Advanced Consumer Reporting WorkshopDutch Journalism Training Centre 2018

Career timeline

2011Joined a Rotterdam freight forwarder as a documentation clerk
2013Promoted to logistics coordinator for groupage shipments
2015Moved to consumer publishing, covering cross-border e-commerce
2018Senior writer on parcel forwarding and import costs
2021Co-founded Kakobuy News in Rotterdam

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Priya RaghavanReviews Editor

Apparel fit, sneaker sizing, warehouse QC photo verification and batch consistency checks.

Priya Raghavan leads reviews at Kakobuy News, focusing on apparel fit, sneaker sizing and batch consistency. Each garment is photographed on arrival in the same 5600K lightbox, measured flat against the listing chart and checked alongside the agent's QC images. Testers across three body types wear apparel through a full working day, while footwear is walked on wet pavement. These procedures bring warehouse photographs, delivered-item measurements and wear conditions together before a fit verdict is written, giving Priya's review work a defined sequence from arrival to use.

How I test

Priya Raghavan photographs every garment on arrival in the same 5600K lightbox, compares its flat dimensions with the listing chart and checks agent QC photographs beside the parcel contents. Testers across three body types wear apparel through a full working day, and footwear is walked on wet pavement before any fit verdict is written.

Credentials

Textile Quality Control CertificateTiruppur Textile Training Institute 2015
Applied Statistics for Product TestingRotterdam University of Applied Sciences 2021

Career timeline

2014Quality-control assistant at a knitwear exporter in Tiruppur
2016QC technician handling buyer specification checks and pre-shipment inspections
2019Started writing e-commerce fit and sizing guides
2021Joined Kakobuy News as reviews editor
2023Standardised the desk's QC photo comparison routine

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Tomas LindqvistResearch Editor

Agent rate card analysis, duty and threshold research, exchange rate tracking and comparison table design.

Tomas Lindqvist maintains the versioned fee and shipping tables behind Kakobuy News comparisons. Current public rate cards provide the basis for rebuilding agent fee schedules, while identical declared weight and volume inputs are run through the calculators to examine checkout charges. Every table is dated, and earlier versions are retained for correction checks. Duty thresholds and exchange rates are reviewed on the same 90-day cycle as the haul tests, connecting price calculations, version records and cross-border conditions within the desk's ongoing research work.

How I test

Tomas Lindqvist rebuilds each agent's fee schedule from current public rate cards, then enters the same declared weight and volume into every calculator to examine what checkout actually charges. Each table is dated and prior versions are kept for correction checks. Duty thresholds and exchange rates are rechecked on the same 90-day cycle as the haul tests.

Credentials

Data Analysis for JournalistsRotterdam School of Journalism 2017
Customs and Import Compliance FundamentalsDutch Association of Freight Forwarders 2019

Career timeline

2013Pricing analyst at a Nordic parcel carrier, modelling zone rates
2017Moved into data journalism, covering shipping and import costs
2019Built rate comparison tools for a trade publication
2022Joined Kakobuy News as research editor
2024Moved the desk's fee tables to a versioned, dated format

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Kakobuy News

Read KakoBuy sheet changes with fee tables, QC notices and shipping updates; distinguish announcement, effective and source-check dates from hands-on test dates.

Blog ↗

Insight / 1

Kakobuy Sizing: How to Check a Chinese Size Chart Against the Tee You Actually Get
We laid a Kakobuy-ordered T-shirt flat against its own Chinese size chart and logged every drift. Here is the measurement method, the doubling trap, and the QC photos worth paying for before you approve shipping.

Shopping agents ↗

Insight / 3

Kakobuy
Kakobuy is a China-based buying and parcel-forwarding agent operated by EVERYDAY GO CO., LIMITED. It purchases items from Taobao, Tmall, JD.com, 1688 and Weidian, receives them into its own warehouse, photographs them for inspection and consolidates several orders into one international shipment. It is widely used to check out the product links published in community spreadsheets, and its published fee schedule lists no item service fee, 100 days of free storage and free QC photos.
Superbuy
Superbuy is a long-running one-stop China purchasing and freight-forwarding platform for overseas shoppers, built around lifetime-free basic purchasing, free warehouse inspection photos, 90 days of free storage and parcel consolidation to more than 200 countries.
Mulebuy
Mulebuy is a China shopping and forwarding agent built for international buyers. You paste a product link from Taobao, 1688 or Weidian (or search by keyword or image), and Mulebuy buys the item on your behalf, receives it at its own warehouse in Huizhou, checks it, and forwards it overseas. Free QC photos of the actual item, package consolidation, long-term free storage and multi-currency settlement cover the usual cross-border pain points, and the Mulebuy Spreadsheet catalog speeds up product discovery. Purchases through the platform are currently unavailable.

Products ↗

Inspect bulletin entries / 3

NBA Black Shorts in Everyday Casual Style Review: $8.06 Four-Way Stretch, Tested S–6XL
A $8.06 black NBA short in polyester four-way stretch with 3D print and a straight hem, sold S–6XL. Fabric and finish held up in our lightbox photographs; the listing still publishes no waist, hip or inseam figures.

Hands-on score 4.0 / 5
Foreign Trade Blue T-Shirt Review: A $5.97 Drop-Shoulder Cotton Tee, Tested
A $5.97 Foreign Trade cotton crewneck in a loose drop-shoulder cut, worn through full working days by three testers. Light, breathable and cleanly printed, but the listing still publishes no flat measurements, so sizing rests on body-weight bands.

Hands-on score 4.2 / 5
Nike Classic Logo Printed T-Shirt Review: 30 Prints, Loose Cut, $3.88 Reference Price
We ordered and tested the Nike Classic Logo Printed T-Shirt: 30 print options, sizes L–5XL, a loose cut and a stated 180 g to under 250 g fabric weight. The fibre listing names two materials, so confirm composition before ordering.

Hands-on score 4.0 / 5

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