Where your BBDbuy money actually goes
Five separate numbers sit inside every BBDbuy order, and they are charged at four different moments: the seller's price, the short domestic hop, the long-haul leg abroad, BBDbuy's own service cut, and whatever customs decides. Below we take them one at a time, show the three-to-five warehouse photos that arrive before anything leaves, and hand you a calculator so you can test your own figures instead of trusting ours.
← Back to overviewThe whole thing in four lines
Add up the seller's price, the freight abroad, the service fee and any duty — that is the landed figure. You will not find printed rates here, and that is deliberate: weight, route and destination move them too much for a static table to stay honest.
- Seller pricepaid the moment you submit the link, and refunded in full if the seller never sends it
- Freight abroadquoted after the warehouse weighs your box, never before, which is why estimates stay estimates
- Service feeBBDbuy's own charge for buying, inspecting, storing and packing on your behalf
- Dutylevied by your country, not by BBDbuy, and impossible to predict from a spreadsheet row
BBDbuy revises fees, storage windows and policy from time to time. When this page and BBDbuy disagree, BBDbuy wins.
Three to five photos: what they settle, what they never will
Before your box is sealed, the warehouse photographs it — usually three shots, sometimes five. Those images are your only chance to catch a problem while it is still cheap to fix, so read them for colour, visible damage, the printed size tag, seam quality and whether the thing in the photo is the thing you priced.
- · Whether the colour matches the listing photo rather than the studio render
- · Obvious defects — torn seams, marks, loose threads, broken hardware
- · The size tag, so you can confirm the labelled size before it crosses an ocean
- · Stitch density and whether panels line up the way the seller claimed
- · That the item in the box is the same variant you ordered, not a lookalike
- · How many units actually arrived, which matters the moment you order more than one
- · Fabric feel, weight in the hand, or how it drapes on a body
- · Smell — and leather, glue and dye smells are the most common complaint
- · Whether a zip, clasp or button survives a month of real use
- · How the colour reads under your home lighting rather than warehouse LEDs
- · Whether the fit works for your measurements rather than the tag's
The left list is what a photograph can close for good. The right list is what you will only learn by handling the item.
- Ask for a re-shoot when the angle hides the flaw.A tilted or shadowed photo is grounds for one more image, and asking costs nothing.
- Match the tag's centimetres to a garment you own.Asian sizing runs small often enough that the tag alone should not settle it.
- Decide before the storage window closes.Once the free period lapses, returning an item gets more expensive than accepting it.
- Screenshot the photos you approved.If the parcel arrives different from what you signed off, that screenshot is your evidence.
Picking a line once the photos are approved
Route selection happens after QC, which is the sensible order: you cannot price a box that has not been packed yet. BBDbuy lists well over a hundred international lines, and they are not interchangeable — some are cheap and slow, some move fast at a premium, and a few refuse entire categories of goods.
Ten light items often cost less to send than two dense ones. Volume and kilos set the price, not how many rows you bought.
Ninety free days of storage exist so you can let several orders accumulate and ship them as one parcel.
A line that carries shoes happily may reject a power bank. Check the line, not the agent.
On a consolidated box holding a month of purchases, a small premium is easier to justify than a total loss.
You choose what to declare, and under-declaring shifts the risk entirely onto you.
The parcel page shows movement once the carrier scans it, which can lag the submission by a day.
The stack that makes up a total
A landed cost is four or five parts sitting on top of each other, plus whichever extras you tick at submission:
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
We print no rates because your item, your line and your country set them. Pull live numbers from BBDbuy's own estimator before you commit, and treat BBDbuy's pages as the authority on fees.
Fees, line by line
Run your own numbers
Type in what you actually expect to pay — seller price, domestic hop, packed weight in kilos, the international rate, BBDbuy's service fee and the exchange rate. Every row recomputes as you type, and nothing is slipped in behind your back.
Planning figure, not an invoice. Carriers bill on whichever is greater, actual or volumetric weight; customs adds its own arithmetic; and the rate BBDbuy shows at checkout may differ from what you typed here.
Refunds, returns and BBDbuy's prohibited list
BBDbuy publishes its own after-sales terms and a prohibited-goods list. Read the clause that applies to your category before you pay, because a restricted item that reaches the warehouse cannot be shipped out again.
Read it from BBDbuy instead of us
We are a comparison sheet, not the platform. These are BBDbuy's own help pages covering the topics above: