- 1688
- A Chinese wholesale marketplace. Listings often have minimum order quantities.
- Agent (shopping agent)
- A service such as LitBuy that buys from Chinese sellers for you, receives items at its warehouse and ships them abroad.
- Consolidation
- Combining several items into one international parcel, which is usually cheaper than shipping them separately.
- Coupon
- A discount held in your LitBuy account and applied at payment. New accounts get a $500 coupon pack.
- Customs duty
- A tax some countries charge on imported goods, on top of import VAT.
- Declared value
- The value stated on a parcel for customs.
- Domestic shipping
- Delivery inside China, from the seller to the agent’s warehouse. Part of the first payment.
- GL / RL
- Community shorthand for “green light” (accept an item) and “red light” (exchange or return it) after checking QC photos.
- Haul
- A group of items bought and shipped together.
- International shipping
- Delivery from the warehouse to you. The second payment, and where the 40% new-user discount applies.
- Invite code
- A code entered at registration that records who referred you. Signing up with BLAZE attaches the new-user offer to your account.
- Minimum freight
- The shipping cost a coupon requires before it can be used, shown as “Min. Freight”. The 40% new-user coupon has none; pack coupons do.
- New-user offer
- LitBuy’s package for new accounts: $500 in coupons plus 40% off shipping, valid for 30 days after you redeem them.
- Parcel
- The international package made from your stored items.
- QC photos
- Quality-check photos taken at the warehouse so you can inspect an item before it ships.
- Shipping line
- A specific international shipping route and service, each with its own price, speed and rules.
- SKU / variant
- A specific option of a product, such as a size or colour. Prices can differ between variants.
- Storage
- The time items can wait in the warehouse. LitBuy’s site text states up to 120 days, with the first 90 free.
- Taobao
- China’s largest consumer marketplace, with millions of individual sellers.
- Tmall
- The brand-store side of the Taobao ecosystem, run by official and authorised shops.
- Tracking number
- The number used to follow your parcel from the warehouse to your door.
- Volumetric weight
- A weight calculated from a parcel’s dimensions. Lines charge whichever is greater: actual or volumetric weight.
- Weidian
- A mobile-first Chinese marketplace used by many small sellers.