Which shopping agent is cheapest?
Short answer: almost all of them advertise 0% service fee, so the fee is not where they differ. What actually decides your total is the shipping margin, the payment surcharge and how much weight they add in packaging.
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The numbers, as they stand
These are the agents this site links to, with the fees and ratings we track. Every product page opens at all of them, so you can price the same item at each without re-searching it.
| Agent | Service fee | Payment fee | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superbuy | 0% | 0% | 4.7 / 5 |
| Mulebuy | 0% | 0% | 4.7 / 5 |
| Oopbuy | 0% | 0% | 4.5 / 5 |
| AC Buy | 0% | 0% | 4.5 / 5 |
| CSSBuy | 0% | 0% | 4.3 / 5 |
| Litbuy | 0% | 0% | 4.3 / 5 |
| Joyagoo | 0% | 0% | 4 / 5 |
| Sugargoo | 0% | 0% | 3.4 / 5 |
| Kakobuy | 0% | 0% | 2.6 / 5 |
| Doppel (QC Compare) | 0% | 0% | — |
Fees last checked July 2026. Agents change them without notice — treat this as a starting point, not a quote.
Why the service fee is the wrong thing to compare
Nearly every agent now advertises 0% service fee. It is a marketing line, not a discount: the money moved into shipping, where you cannot compare it until you already have a parcel weight. An agent charging 0% with a 15% shipping markup is more expensive than one charging 5% with honest freight rates — and you will not see that until checkout.
What actually decides your total
Shipping margin. The biggest variable by far. On a 2 kg parcel the spread between agents can be €10–20 for the identical line.
Payment surcharge. Card and PayPal usually cost 3–4% somewhere in the flow. Some agents absorb it, some pass it on, some hide it in the exchange rate. Which brings us to:
The exchange rate. Agents quote in your currency and set their own CNY rate. A 2% worse rate on a €200 haul is €4 that never appears as a fee.
Packaging weight. Agents differ in how much they strip. Removing shoe boxes can take 400 g off a parcel, which is often a full billing step on the shipping table.
How to actually pick one
Take one real parcel — three or four items you would genuinely order — and price it at two or three agents all the way to the final total. That is the only comparison that means anything, and it takes about ten minutes.
Then weigh the total against the rating. If the cheapest is €3 less and rated a point lower, the €3 is not worth it on an order you care about: warehouse handling and QC photo quality are what save you when a seller sends the wrong size.
One thing that is not about money
Shipping lines get suspended, warehouses back up, and agents occasionally stop serving a country at short notice. Having a second account costs nothing and saves an order. Every find in the catalogue opens at all of them, so switching is a click rather than a re-search.