Jump to the page text
Mulebuy Spreadsheet Was-Now

Home / Spreadsheet

The catalogue shelves of Mulebuy Spreadsheet Was-Now

Sixteen shelves of finds from Chinese marketplaces, each linked at its current listings. Read the price on a card as a starting point, then open the listing to see whether it carries a crossed-out figure.

What sits on a shelf and where it leads

A shelf is a category of finds: jackets, jeans, bags, watches and so on. Each card on it shows a photo taken from the seller’s listing, a short title and the seller’s price in yuan, and it links to that listing on Weidian, Taobao or another marketplace. Nothing is sold on this site or on the catalogue itself; the purchase happens later, through a shopping agent that pays the seller inside China.

You can browse by category from the cards below or use the search box on the home page. Either way, the step that matters for this site comes after: open the listing, find the price block, and see whether the seller shows a second, struck-through figure. That is the figure the rest of this site helps you read.

Diagram of a shelf card with photo, title and yuan price, an arrow to the marketplace listing and its price block
A card on a shelf and the listing behind it. The crossed-out figure, if any, lives on the listing. Drawing by this site.

How a shelf earns its place here

This catalogue follows the category tree of the product source it links to, so a shelf here is the same shelf you land on. Where that tree has no category, as with women’s clothing, we link a keyword search and label the card “Search results” rather than pretend it is a category.

Every shelf link on this site was opened on 19 October 2026 and returned a working page. We do not rank finds, publish star scores or count how many items a shelf holds, because none of those numbers can be checked by a reader. We also do not list or help with goods sold as copies of a protected brand; where the source shows such a listing, it is not something this site promotes.

What we add is a way of reading the price. Each shelf note says what to watch for when you start a price record for a find on it, and the rest of the site explains the rules that say what a reduced price should be measured against. The four rules are how this spreadsheet is kept; the price reading is what it adds.

Reading the price printed on a catalogue card

The figure on a card is the seller’s yuan price as last read from the listing. It is a useful first filter and a poor final answer, for three reasons. The listing may have been edited since the card was last read. A card carries no comparison figure, so it cannot tell you whether the price is reduced at all. And the price you finally pay is the one that applies when an agent’s buyer places the order, which can be a day or more after you looked.

So treat the card as the first line of a record, not the last. Open the listing, pick the version you would actually buy, and write down the date, its price and any struck figure with its label. Do the same a few days later. Two or three entries are enough to start seeing whether a “sale” price is new or simply the usual one.

Turn the entries into a chart

Comparison of a catalogue card price with the listing page price for the chosen option, with a date written beside each
Card price versus listing price for the option you want, each with the date read. Invented figures; drawing by this site.

Images: catalogue photographs are category examples, not this site’s purchases or verified Mulebuy orders. Drawn material, dimension and lettering examples explain a concept; they do not certify the depicted product.