ACBuy sheet links, checked every week
Your sheet still contains working product addresses. The layer in front of them stopped answering in 2026. This ledger separates the two, checks the part that still works, and records what it finds every week.
How the platform got here
- Step 1: 1 June 2026The platform announces a security and compliance upgrade, saying repeated attacks had disrupted links, slowed pages and cancelled some orders. What to doPlatform statement, as reported · checked 2026-09-29
- Step 2: 12–30 June 2026Purchasing and exchange services are suspended. The published plan keeps warehouse and parcel shipping running and asks customers to ship stored items promptly. What to doPlatform statement, as reported · checked 2026-09-29
- Step 3: 1 July 2026The promised gradual restart does not restore ordering. Users continue to report that orders cannot be placed. What to doDated user reports · checked 2026-09-29
- Step 4: around 10 July 2026A representative in the official community says the order function has not been restored and gives no new date. Warehouse notices begin carrying their own collection deadlines. What to doCommunity statement, as reported · checked 2026-09-29
- Step 5: August 2026Third-party records describe the storefront as down. No permanent closure has been announced by the platform at any point. What to doThird-party status records · checked 2026-09-29
- Step 6: This weekEvery wrapped address in this period failed at the network level; every source address those wrappers encode answered normally. What to doThis site’s own checks, period 2026-W39 · checked 2026-09-29
This period in numbers
- Addresses checked
- 93
- Answered at the source
- 93/93
- Wrapped addresses that answered
- 0/31
- Platforms still taking orders
- 12
- Current period
- 2026-W39
The same numbers, with sample composition and collection limits, are on this period's snapshot. 31 of the 31 wrapped addresses failed at the network level; every source address those wrappers encode answered normally.
Start where you are
I have links to check
Paste up to 200 addresses and read what each one is, where it points, and what this site last recorded for it.
I need somewhere to send them
A 22-row ledger of platforms: still accepting orders, accepts a rebuilt address, photos included, last checked date. Rows open in place.
I want to see the raw record
Every period keeps its sample list, its status counts and its collection limits, including the addresses that were dropped instead of guessed at.
What this period showed
- Every wrapped address in Group A failed at the network level, while every source address those wrappers encode answered normally. The wrapper is what stopped working, not the listing behind it.
- No source address in this period returned 404 or 410. Across 93 records the only non-answering results were host-level refusals during collection, which are reported as unrecorded rather than as failures of the listing.
- Group B was collected from a directory that removes listings it can no longer reach, so its 62 records describe what a maintained list looks like. Group A describes what an unmaintained sheet looks like. Both were alive at the source.
What a wrapped address actually is
A link copied out of an ACBuy sheet looks like a product page on that platform, but it is not one. It is a wrapper: a short address on the platform domain carrying a product number and a marker that says which marketplace the listing came from. Open the wrapper on a live platform and the platform does the rest — it reads the number, finds the Taobao, Weidian or 1688 listing behind it, and shows you sizes, colours and a price.
That design is why the shutdown did not take your sheet with it. When the platform stopped answering, it stopped answering as a wrapper. The listings the wrappers pointed at belong to the marketplaces, and marketplaces did not shut down. In this period 31 wrapped addresses were requested directly and 31 of them failed at the network level. The same 31 addresses were then rebuilt into the source addresses they encode, and every one of them answered normally.
The practical consequence is short. You do not need the old platform to come back in order to use the work you did collecting a sheet. You need the product number out of each address and a platform that is still accepting orders. Both exist today. What is missing is a record of which addresses you already have and what state they are in, which is the part this site keeps.
What is checked here, and what is not
A status recorded on this site means one thing: at a stated time, an address was requested once and the response was classified. Five classifications are used — resolves, moved, gone, shielded and unrecorded — and each is defined in full on the method page, including what an unrecorded result does and does not mean.
That is the whole claim. A status here is not a stock notice, not an authenticity check, not a seller verification and not a promise about tomorrow. It says nothing about whether an item is authorised, whether a batch is good, or whether a price is fair. It also says nothing about wrappers whose source marker this site has never observed: those are reported as unrecorded rather than converted on a guess.
Collection has real limits and they are published rather than hidden. Requests run with at most two concurrent connections and a gap between calls, because the source hosts stop accepting connections when pushed harder. In this period that ceiling left 113 directory addresses unfinished. They are left out of the table entirely. Writing them down as unknown would have made the record look fuller and less true.
Questions people arrive with
44 answers cover the four situations a sheet holder is usually in: links in an old sheet, money left on the platform, items sitting in a warehouse, and choosing where to go next. The five below are the ones opened most often.
11 platforms in the ledger carry an object page on the directory this site links to; the rest are recorded here without an outbound link, because a link is only added where the destination page actually exists.