Find your link type

Three shapes cover almost everything people still hold. A wrapped address looks like acbuy.com/product with an id and a source marker. A bare marketplace address goes straight to a listing, usually on Weidian. A short link is the compressed form people shared in chat.

Sort your rows by shape before you check anything at all. Mixed rows behave differently for reasons that have nothing to do with the items, and a single pass through an unsorted list makes one type of failure look exactly like another. Ten minutes of sorting saves an hour of confusion.

The link resolver takes a pasted block and labels every row by shape, which is a good deal faster than judging by eye once a sheet runs past a screen or two. It also keeps the original row beside the rebuilt one, so nothing gets lost in the move.

Wrapped ACBuy links

Wrapped links are where the change actually happened. Requested on their own, all 31 in this period failed at the network level and nothing answered, so nothing redirected anywhere either. The destination you used to see when you clicked one is simply gone.

The marker inside each address survived completely intact. Every one of the 31 wrapped rows read WD, pointing at Weidian, and each of them carried an item ID you can still read straight off the row you already have saved.

Rebuild those rows into marketplace addresses and the picture flips right over. Thirty-one out of thirty-one rebuilt addresses answered in that same window, which is where your link effectively points now: at the listing, once you take the wrapper off it.

Bare marketplace links

Bare links never depended on ACBuy in the first place, so nothing about the suspension changed them. A weidian.com address is the same address whether a platform wrapped it for you or you typed it in yourself from the listing page.

In this period 62 source addresses drawn from a maintained directory answered normally, with zero returns of 404 or 410 among them. A directory edit does not move a listing either, which is exactly why these rows are the ones worth rebuilding towards.

Keep the bare form in a plain-text file beside the wrapped original rather than only inside one platform account. If a platform changes what it accepts later on, the bare address is the version that keeps working across the change.

Short links

Short links are the awkward middle shape of the three. They are compressed pointers, so the item ID is not readable until the pointer has been followed, and the destination they resolve to is a wrapped address rather than a marketplace listing itself.

None of them appeared in our 31-record wrapper group this period, so we draw no conclusion at all about how they behave now. That is a gap in the sample rather than a verdict, and it is written down here instead of being smoothed over with a guess.

Treat one as unresolved until you follow it. If it opens, read the wrapped address it lands on and work the rebuild from there. If it does not open, you are in the same position as any other dead wrapper.

Where the paths rejoin

All three shapes end up at the same place eventually: a marketplace address carrying an item ID. That is the form an order box reads, and it is the only form that survives whichever platform ends up wrapping it next time around.

Two exceptions are worth keeping in view. A rebuild whose listing returns 404 or 410 is GONE and stays gone, and a destination behind a verification wall is SHIELDED rather than confirmed. The checking method page states how each of those readings is reached.

Neither exception turned up at all this period. Our 2026-W39 counts read RESOLVES 93 with zero sitting in every other status, which describes one collection window and nothing beyond it. Take it as a reading, not as a promise about next week.