AllChinaBuy Spreadsheet: A Maintenance Page, No Date, and What Happens to Your Rows

Is AllChinaBuy coming back?

Everything points one way:

Checked September 28–29, 2026. taobot.io confirms AllChinaBuy and ACBuy are different sites.

A maintenance page that lasts months, with review traffic stopping at the same time, is how agents tend to close without saying so. AllChinaBuy may return, but nothing we found suggests it's about to. For a spreadsheet user the practical question is not when, but how to keep buying without it.

Verdict: Treat AllChinaBuy as closed. Don't send money to it, and don't use any 'AllChinaBuy' site other than allchinabuy.com.

How do you decode an AllChinaBuy link?

AllChinaBuy built its product links as a wrapper around the original listing's full address:

Percent-encoding turns ':' into %3A, '/' into %2F and '?' into %3F. Some links were encoded twice, which turns '%' itself into %25. The link converter undoes both, a whole column at a time, and returns the original Weidian, Taobao or 1688 address for each row.

Search suggestions for 'allchinabuy spreadsheet' also bring up 'how to buy dhgate through allchinabuy' and 'taobao spreadsheet 2024'. AllChinaBuy was one of the agents that accepted DHgate links; now that it's gone, DHgate is easier to buy from directly, since it ships abroad itself.

What if you had an open AllChinaBuy order?

If you had money or parcels at AllChinaBuy when it went down, the maintenance notice gives an email address for existing orders. Use it, and keep everything in writing:

• List each order number, what you paid, and when.
• Attach screenshots of your balance and order pages if you saved them.
• If you paid recently by card or PayPal, ask your provider about a dispute; time limits apply.
• Ignore anyone who asks for a fee to 'release' a balance — that is not how a genuine refund works.

This is the scenario AliExpress's model avoids. AliExpress charges your card for a specific order and has a refund process with fixed windows. An agent balance is prepaid money whose safety depends on the agent. The lesson for the next agent: top up for one order at a time.

Where AllChinaBuy rows go now

Where to take the rows now depends on what they are:

For choosing the agent, the spreadsheet index compares the green ones on fees, storage and reviews. Start small either way.

One practical tip for the move: before you paste anything into a new agent, add a column to the old sheet for 'still live?' and fill it as you check. AllChinaBuy sheets tend to date from 2023–2025, and a fair share of rows will open empty listings. Knowing that before you build a cart saves paying a new agent's domestic delivery on items that were never going to arrive, and it shows you which shops are still worth following.

Warning signs AllChinaBuy showed, and what to watch at any agent

AllChinaBuy's decline was visible before the maintenance page went up, and the same signs have preceded every agent closure we track. None proves anything alone; three together are a reason to stop topping up:

• Review traffic drops sharply. A steady flow of Trustpilot reviews that thins out over a few weeks usually means fewer orders.
• Support slows from hours to days, especially on withdrawal requests.
• Features switch off one at a time — a marketplace no longer accepted, a payment method removed, an affiliate programme ended. CNFans dropped Weidian months before it closed.
• Unusual top-up offers — bonus credit for large deposits — arrive at the same time as delays.
• 'Maintenance' without a date, or with a date that keeps moving.

AliExpress shoppers rarely think about this, because AliExpress charges per order and doesn't hold your money in advance. With agents, the simplest protection is behavioural: pay for the order in front of you and nothing more. The status board watches these signs for the agents we follow.