OopBuy Warehouse: Intake, Storage and Consolidation

The warehouse stage starts when an ordered item is received in China and ends when a packed parcel is handed to a carrier. Everything that decides your international cost happens in between: inspection, storage time, consolidation and measurement.

Intake

A domestic dispatch notice is not warehouse receipt. Check the item record for the received status and the intake timestamp, then look for QC images. If the seller shipped late, this is the stage where the delay is visible, and it has nothing to do with international transit.

Inspection

Compare the visible details with the option you ordered: quantity, colour, size label, construction and obvious damage. OopBuy's QC notice, read on 4 September 2026, lists quantity, colour and size among its checks and excludes colour variance, measurement error, wear from use, and electronics function, model or accessories. The QC photos guide turns that into a concrete checklist.

Storage time

The warehouse notice, read on 4 September 2026, described 90 days of storage, a 30-day extension for 10 CNY after expiry, and 30 days for abnormal parcels. Treat those as dated terms and confirm the current timer in your account, because an expired storage window can change what options remain.

If you are waiting for another item to consolidate, plan the arrival gap against that timer rather than assuming the two will overlap.

Returns sit inside this window

A return or exchange must be requested within five days of warehouse arrival and only when the seller's rules allow it. The returns guide covers the fees and the sequence, including the service charge for later monthly requests.

Consolidation and measurement

Combining items usually reduces per-parcel overhead, but packaging changes volume. Removing shoeboxes or choosing compression can reduce billed weight on routes that use volumetric calculation, and can also increase the risk of deformation for some items.

After packing, read the measured weight and the three outer dimensions from the parcel record. Those are the numbers that belong in the shipping estimate — not the product weights, and not another user's parcel.

Handover

Submit the parcel, pay the international amount, and keep the parcel number. The first carrier scan marks the boundary between warehouse handling and transit. Before that scan, warehouse records answer questions; after it, the carrier timeline does. See shipping for route comparison and tracking for reading the scans.

One record per item, one per parcel

Keep the Item ID and order number for the item, and the parcel number, measured weight, dimensions, route and submission date for the parcel. When a question arises, the stage decides which of those you need.