The link format, in one line
MuleBuy uses query string — ?shop_type=taobao&id=, the same shape nine other agents use. That is one of thirteen distinct URL families across the forty agents in the converter above, and the reason a spreadsheet built for one agent does not open in another without help.
What a 4.7 across 2,813 reviews is worth
MuleBuy carries the highest verified Trustpilot score in our comparison: 4.7 out of 5, across 2,813 reviews. Both halves of that sentence matter, and most pages quoting it drop the second half.
A score across 2,813 experiences has largely converged. A run of bad weeks moves it by a tenth, not a point. That is a meaningfully different object from KakoBuy's 2.5 across 74 reviews, where a single bad quarter could account for the entire figure. It is also a different object from CNFans' 4.2 across 13,300, which is a lower headline on nearly five times the evidence.
Why MuleBuy sheets and CNFans sheets are the same document
MuleBuy uses the query-string format: the platform goes in shop_type, the listing ID goes in id. Nine agents in the converter above use exactly this shape, which has a practical consequence people find surprising.
Take a MuleBuy row, change the domain to cnfans.com, and the link works. The parameters are identical. That is why a “MuleBuy spreadsheet” and a “CNFans spreadsheet” are usually the same file with one word swapped — and why treating either as a curated product is a mistake. The curation, where it exists at all, is in which items someone chose to add, never in the agent.
The 90-day storage window, and when it bites
MuleBuy publishes 90 days of free warehouse storage, which is the middle of the field — KakoBuy and Sugargoo run 100, CNFans runs 60.
Ninety days is generous until you are running a slow haul. If you add one item a fortnight and ship when the box is full, you will hit the window before the box is. The fix is not a different agent, it is shipping in two parcels and accepting the second first-weight charge, which is almost always cheaper than the storage fees plus the risk of a listing dying while you wait.
What to do with the sheet you have
Two things decide whether a MuleBuy order goes well, and neither is the rating that brought you here.
The first is the shipping quote. MuleBuy charges nothing on the order, so the quote is where its margin lives — price the same basket at Joyagoo and compare the freight line, not the fee line. The second is the storage clock: 90 days is plenty for a two-week haul and tight for a three-month one. Decide which you are running before you start adding items, because switching agents halfway means paying the first-weight charge twice.
Then work the QC photographs properly. A rejection at the warehouse costs domestic Chinese postage; the same rejection after freight costs more than most items are worth.