OOTDBuySpreadsheetSmall Print

Browse the catalogue with the clauses beside it

A catalogue is a browsing surface: categories on the left, product cards in the middle, one page per item with the seller's own photographs. It is a way of finding things. It is not a warranty, and it was never written to be one.

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Every card below opens the matching category. The second line is the clause that kind of thing tends to meet.

Sixteen categories, and the rule waiting inside each one

Shopping and reading the terms happen at different moments, usually days apart, and by the time the second moment arrives the decision has already been made. Putting them side by side is the whole idea of this page. Nothing below is a recommendation; the note under each card names the clause that category runs into most often.

16 categories

A hand holding up a green, navy and white running shoe in front of a wall of stacked shoe boxesSneakersThe security tag is a condition of its own in the returns clause. Cut it off and that clause closes.Nine hooded jackets laid flat in a three by three grid, one to a panel, in blues, greens and brownsJackets & CoatsThe shop carton is not what ships. Repacking into the warehouse bag is standing practice, not an exception.Two complete pullover hoodies, one grey and one black, laid together on a wooden floor with their hoods and kangaroo pockets visibleHoodiesColour difference is named as outside the inspection scope. A shade you dislike is not a failed check.A black tee with short sleeves, spread on pale plaster and printed with a single green brushstrokeT-ShirtsAsk for the tags to come off and the returns clause stops applying. It says so in as many words.Dark denim jeans shown twice on white, plain on the left and with a pale paisley panel down the leg on the rightJeansSize deviation is outside the inspection scope as well. Nobody at the warehouse is checking a waist against the listing.Two photographs of black tapered joggers worn with black trainers, one from the back and one from the frontSweatpantsUse effect sits outside the scope too, and that is the phrase covering how a thing wears once you have it.A woman on an escalator in a yellow short sleeved polo shirt, a small white shoulder bag at her hipWomenswearThere is no separate rulebook for this section. The same exclusions run here as everywhere else.A mesh football shirt printed edge to edge with a painted landscape of an island, horses and birdsJerseysIf a print comes back wrong, the claim runs on photographs, and the clause names which ones it wants.A black nylon crossbody bag with a printed logo, standing on its dust cloth beside a paper carrier bag and a boxBagsInspection reports on the parcel in front of it. It never tells you which seller you should have picked.Two baseball caps on stands, one black and one off white, each embroidered with the same small lowercase wordHatsThe clauses are written about contents, not about packaging. Read them before you ask for the box to travel.A checked belt with a silver buckle coiled inside an open cardboard box on a pale seatBeltsLeather goods get the same short inspection as everything else. Length stays a listing question, never a quality one.Square double bridge sunglasses with silver metal arms and grey gradient lenses on a white backgroundEyewearThis is where the fragile clause lands, and that clause is written narrowly enough to be worth reading first.A single dark blue gradient fragrance bottle with a black ribbed cap, standing upright on whitePerfumeA sealed bottle is not opened at the warehouse. The inspection set stops at the outside of the box.Nine silver chain necklaces, each in its own dark presentation box, photographed in a three by three gridJewellerySmall does not mean different. Every clause on this site applies at this size too.A black square cased smartwatch with a dark grey sport band, lying face up on a white surfaceWatchesThe restricted list names components, not products. That is the page to read for anything carrying a battery.Silver over ear headphones resting flat on a pale table beside a glass vase of green stemsElectronicsThese are inspected for damage only. Whether it works is not a question the warehouse answers.

Every card opens the matching category in the catalogue. The note under each one says which clause that kind of thing runs into, not how nice it looks.

What you are actually looking at, before any of this matters

This site spends most of its time on clauses, so it is worth saying plainly what the thing above them is. An OOTDBuy Spreadsheet is a shopping catalogue: product cards you browse by category, each card opening a page that carries the source seller's own photographs, title and variant names. It is a shop window, and the sixteen doors above are how people walk into it.

It is not a file you download, and it is not stock anybody on this side holds. No price on it is set by anyone but the seller, no card obliges you to buy, and browsing costs nothing and commits nothing. That is precisely why browsing is the right moment to be slow, and why every section below is about something that becomes expensive later.

What turns browsing into an order is a link and an instruction, and from that point the published notices take over. The rest of this page is the gap between the two: everything a card shows you, against everything the notices decline to promise about it.

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Two paragraphs comparing a brand mall with a marketplace of individual sellers, the second one listing reputation and aftersales concerns
The tutorial comparison of the mainland source platforms, as published by the operator. View full-size screenshot

Reading a listing

A colour list is a list of what the seller stocks

Open almost any clothing listing and the first thing you meet is a wall of small square swatches, dozens of them, each one a photograph of the garment rather than a flat colour. Under the grid sits the currently selected variant, written out in full, brackets and all, exactly as the seller typed it.

That string is worth reading carefully, because it is the only machine-readable thing on the page. It is what gets copied into a purchase request. Everything else on the screen is a picture.

What the grid proves is that the seller has declared those variants. It does not prove the shade matches the photograph, and the warehouse will not be the one to tell you if it does not: colour difference is named as outside the inspection scope, in those words, on the inspection notice. A swatch is a selection tool, never a colour guarantee.

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A grid of dozens of small garment photographs used as colour swatches, with one option named in full beneath them
The variant grid on a source listing, with the selected option spelled out underneath in the seller's own wording. View full-size screenshot

Sizes are numbers the seller chose, not measurements

Under the colours sits a row of size buttons and a quantity stepper. On mainland listings the size labels usually carry a height in centimetres alongside the letter, which is genuinely more useful than a bare letter, and still tells you nothing about the garment.

Nobody downstream is going to check it. The inspection notice puts size deviation in the same excluded set as colour, so a sleeve that runs short is not a failed check and will not be treated as one.

The practical move is to find the seller's own measurement table on the listing and compare it against something you already own, before the order rather than after it.

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A row of size buttons labelled with heights and letters, next to a quantity control set to one
The size row and quantity stepper on a source listing, with one size under the cursor. View full-size screenshot

Pivot

The disclaimer printed under the pictures

Below the gallery on a product page, set in a colour that makes it easy to skip, sits a short disclaimer. It says that the images and the description come from the source seller, and it separates the platform from both.

Read plainly, it is the single most honest sentence in the entire shopping flow, and it is placed where nobody reads sentences. It tells you that the photographs are marketing material produced by the party with the most to gain, that the text beside them was written by the same party, and that the service carrying the parcel takes no position on either.

This is not a complaint. A forwarding service that vouched for every listing it touched would be making a promise it could not keep, and the notices are consistent with the disclaimer all the way through: the warehouse verifies material and category, and declines to form a view on anything else. The disclaimer is simply where that policy is stated closest to the moment of purchase.

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A short highlighted disclaimer paragraph stating that images and descriptions come from the source seller
The disclaimer paragraph as it appears under the gallery on a product page. View full-size screenshot

What the review wall on the front page is evidence of

The operator runs a review section on its own home page, headed as verified, with a line above it saying everyone is using the service and a set of five star cards underneath signed with first names.

Taken for what it is, this is useful: it tells you the service has a real user base and that the operator is willing to put names on a public page. Taken for more than that, it misleads, because a review wall selected and published by the party being reviewed is a marketing surface. The cards on display are the ones the operator chose to display.

The reason this site reads clauses instead of reviews is not that reviews are dishonest. It is that a clause binds and a review does not. When a parcel goes missing, the sentence that decides the outcome is on a notice page, and it will be the same sentence whatever the cards say.

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A review section headed verified user reviews, with three five star cards signed with first names and a link to see more
The review section on the operator's own home page, captured as published. View full-size screenshot

Listing surface against clause, side by side

One table, four rows, and the whole argument of this page. The left column is what a shopper reasonably believes while browsing. The right column is what the published notices actually commit to. The gap between them is not fraud; it is the part nobody reads.

On the listingIn the notices
Colour swatches, dozens of themColour difference is stated to be outside the scope of the inspection
Size buttons with heights attachedSize error is stated to be outside that scope as well
Photographs of the product in useUse effect is the third named exclusion, which covers how a thing behaves once you have it
A brand name in the titleThe warehouse verifies material and category and declines to judge authenticity

Every entry in the right column comes from the inspection notice or the notice about receiving a parcel, both read on 2026-09-03.

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A paragraph headed Inspection and Storage Instructions, describing verification of quantity, colour and size and repacking into self-sealing bags
The receipt and storage instruction, as published on the inspection notice. View full-size screenshot

How to use this page without it slowing you down

None of the above argues against buying anything. It argues for spending the extra minute where it is cheap, which is before the order, rather than where it is expensive, which is after a parcel has been signed for.

Three habits cover most of it. Copy the variant string rather than describing the colour in your own words, because the string is what the buyer downstream will act on. Read the seller's measurement table instead of the size letter. And when a listing photograph is doing a lot of persuading, remember the disclaimer sitting directly underneath it, which says in plain language who produced that photograph.

Then move on. The next stage has its own clauses, and they are the ones with deadlines attached.

For the selection example, return to the variant grid above.