AllChinaBuy Spreadsheet: A Maintenance Page With No End Date, and How to Rescue the Rows

How to decode an AllChinaBuy link

An AllChinaBuy link usually looks like allchinabuy.com/…?url=https%3A%2F%2Fweidian.com%2Fitem.html%3FitemID%3D7234567890 (the item number here is a placeholder). Everything after url= is the real listing, with its punctuation encoded: %3A is a colon, %2F a slash, %3F a question mark, %3D an equals sign.

1. Paste the column into the link converter; it decodes up to three layers of encoding.
2. You get back weidian.com/item.html?itemID=7234567890 or the Taobao or 1688 equivalent.
3. Open a few to check the listings still exist, then order through an open agent.

This is the same structure as PandaBuy's long links, which also wrapped the original address after url=. That's why sheets built for either agent can be converted in the same pass.

Verdict: AllChinaBuy rows are among the easiest to rescue: the original link is right there, just encoded.

How AllChinaBuy's ending compares with PandaBuy's

AllChinaBuy's ending sits somewhere between PandaBuy's and CNFans's:

AllChinaBuy homepage (read Oct 4, 2026); Trustpilot; rep.tools ranking (Sept 22, 2026).

A maintenance page without a date, months on, is the pattern to recognise. It isn't a confirmed closure, but it isn't an outage either; outages end. If you had money or items with AllChinaBuy, write to the address on the notice, keep copies, and if you paid by card or PayPal recently enough, open a dispute within your provider's time limit.

Verdict: Plan as though AllChinaBuy has closed: rescue the links and move on.

AllChinaBuy or ACBuy? Telling them apart

AllChinaBuy is regularly confused with ACBuy, and even rep.tools has mixed them up in different articles. They are separate businesses: AllChinaBuy is the one showing the maintenance page; ACBuy's site still loads, though its own status is unclear. If you're unsure which a link belongs to, look at the domain: allchinabuy.com versus acbuy.com.

The mix-up matters because people deciding where to move their sheet sometimes avoid a working agent, or trust a dead one, on the strength of a misread headline. Our status board keeps them on separate rows with the evidence for each, and the ACBuy page sets out the conflicting signals there.

AllChinaBuy's reviews, 4.1/5 from 215 with 22% one-star, were mixed even before it went quiet. That isn't why it stopped, but it's another reminder that a review score describes the past.

Verdict: Check the domain, not the name. AllChinaBuy and ACBuy are different, and only one shows a maintenance page.

Choosing the next agent after AllChinaBuy

For an AllChinaBuy user, the next agent is a choice about risk. Two closures in a row (PandaBuy, then this) usually push people toward agents with long records, such as Superbuy or Basetao, or toward the fastest-moving large ones such as KakoBuy. Whichever you pick:

• keep the decoded marketplace links as the master column of your sheet;
• pay per order, never keep a balance;
• ship within the free storage period.

Those three habits mean the next maintenance page, wherever it appears, costs you an afternoon instead of a balance.

Verdict: Pick the next agent on track record, and organise your sheet so that agent can be swapped out.

If you had an order at AllChinaBuy

If you had an order or money at AllChinaBuy when its maintenance notice went up, here's a realistic order of steps:

1. Write to the email address on the notice with your account name, order numbers and what you're asking for (shipping or a refund). Keep a copy.
2. Gather your evidence: payment receipts, order confirmations, any QC photos and screenshots of your balance from before the outage.
3. Check your payment provider's time limits. PayPal disputes must be opened within 180 days of payment; card schemes have their own windows, typically shorter. Older payments may be out of time.
4. Ignore recovery offers from third parties, especially those asking for a fee or your login; the same scams followed PandaBuy's closure.

Meanwhile, the items you were going to buy are still out there. Decode the links with the converter and order them through an open agent, paying per order this time.

Verdict: Write once with evidence, check your dispute deadlines, and move your shopping elsewhere.