Shortlist · reviewed 2026-10-26

The best Kakobuy spreadsheet depends on what you are doing

Ranking spreadsheets by row count is like ranking cameras by megapixels. The useful question is which format survives the five minutes you actually spend with it. Here are the five formats in circulation, ranked for buying — with the jobs they win at and the ones they lose.

Five spreadsheet formats, ranked

01

A maintained catalogue with QC flags

Rows live in a database, each one resolving to a live product page, each carrying an honest QC flag and a category. Search works. Dead rows are retired.

Wins when: You intend to buy, and you care whether the photo set exists before you approve a parcel.

Loses when: It needs upkeep. A catalogue that stops being reviewed decays into the same dead list as everything else within two months.

02

A cross-agent aggregator

One search across many agents’ sheets. Excellent for answering "what does this cost elsewhere".

Wins when: You are still choosing an agent, or you want to know whether Kakobuy is the cheapest route today.

Loses when: No QC evidence and no seller context. It tells you a row exists, not whether the batch is any good.

03

A portal with category buttons

A light page whose buttons open a Google Sheet per category. Fast to load, thin on substance.

Wins when: You want one click to a raw sheet and nothing else.

Loses when: Behind the button is still a heavy sheet: no search, no QC flag, rows that never leave.

04

A public Google Sheet

The original format. Portable, shareable, and honest in the sense that you can see how raw it is.

Wins when: Someone sent you a link and you need to read it once, on a desktop.

Loses when: Mobile-hostile, unsearchable, and impossible to date. You never know if a row is a week or a year old.

05

A tracker template you fill yourself

A blank spreadsheet with the right columns: order, seller, price, status, QC verdict, notes.

Wins when: You have already ordered six things from three sellers and need to manage them.

Loses when: It answers nothing about what to buy. Also the most commonly promised and least commonly delivered "free download".

The five-minute audit

Before you trust any Kakobuy spreadsheet — including this one — run these five tests. They take five minutes and they beat any review, including mine.

Five tests to audit a Kakobuy spreadsheet
TestWhat it catches
Rows resolveOpen five random rows. If one is dead, the list is not maintained.
QC is measured"650 rows with a full set" is a measurement. "With QC photos" is a slogan.
A date existsAn undated "updated daily" is decoration, not evidence.
Search worksNo search means the format is a wall of text with extra steps.
Freight is pricedIf the site cannot estimate shipping, it has only done half the job.

What "best" does not mean

  • Not the biggest. 30,000 rows with 40% dead links is a graveyard with a marketing budget.
  • Not the prettiest. A polished shell around a Google Sheet is still a Google Sheet.
  • Not the most reviewed. Most reviews are affiliate copy written from the same three screenshots.
  • Not the one with the most codes. Coupons are the last 5%; line choice is the first 30%.
Our own bias, declared: this site is the first format in the list, and outbound links carry a ref parameter. That is exactly why the audit above is written so you can run it against us first.

Four rows that pass all five tests

307 rows, 48 QC sets, one finder. Run the audit, then decide.
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Shortlist questions

So which one should I actually use?

If you are buying: a maintained catalogue with QC flags. If you are comparing agents: an aggregator. If you already ordered: a tracker. Most people need two of the three, not one winner.

Is this list paid placement?

No. Outbound links to the partner catalogue carry a ref parameter, which pays a commission if you order — but the ranking above is about formats, and the first entry happens to be the format this site uses. Run the audit before you believe any of it.

How many rows should a good spreadsheet have?

Enough that you find what you want, few enough that every row resolves. For a single agent, a few hundred well-kept rows beat tens of thousands of unmaintained ones.

Do aggregators make catalogues pointless?

No. Aggregators answer "where is it cheapest"; catalogues answer "is this batch any good". Those are different questions, and the second one needs photo evidence an aggregator does not carry.

What is the single biggest red flag?

A row count with no date and no QC measurement. It means the number was chosen for the title, not measured from the data.

Topic index — every page on this site

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