Before the box
What quality control is, and what it is not
Quality control here means one specific thing: when your item reaches the warehouse, somebody puts it in front of a camera and the pictures go onto your order. Superbuy puts the standard inspection and the standard photos on its free list, which is unusual enough to say out loud.
It is a last look, not a verdict. Nobody wears it, nobody plugs it in, and nobody compares it against an original. Treat the stage as the moment you still have options, because once you submit a parcel the options narrow to one.
How to read the QC photographs, in the order that matters
Outside in, because that is the order in which problems are still recoverable.
Silhouette against the listing picture
Is it the same shape. A wrong shape is the failure no later step improves, and it is the one a photograph settles instantly.
Hardware, stitching and print
This is where cheap production shows and where free photographs are genuinely enough. Zips, eyelets, the edge of a print.
Labels and printed text, character by character
Read it rather than glance at it. Wrong text is common and completely visible.
Count things
Quantity, pairs, the accessory that was supposed to be included, the dust bag. Counting is the check people skip.
Then name what is left
Everything still unresolved is unresolvable by photograph. That is the list you either pay to resolve, ask about, or accept. Deciding which is the actual skill.
Where the photographs meet the packing decision
The photographs are also the last accurate look at how big the thing is. If you are going to flatten a shoe box or vacuum a coat, this is when you find out whether the box in the picture is the rigid kind that will not fold or the thin kind that will.
It is also when you find out that the retail packaging is half the volume. Package removal, tag removal and invoice removal are all on the free list, and between them they can take a surprising amount of air out of a parcel before you have paid for anything.
If something is wrong, deal with it before you submit. A return argued from a warehouse is a different and much easier thing than a return argued from your own country after the parcel has flown.
The other menu: things done to the goods, not to the box
There are two priced lists and people conflate them constantly. The packing menu is charged per parcel and happens at the end. This one is charged per item and happens while the thing is sitting in the warehouse, which means it is available during exactly the window this page is about.
The useful ones are the ones that answer a question the free photographs cannot. A power-on inspection is the only way anyone finds out whether an electronic item switches on, and the free inspection explicitly does not do it. A re-inspection is worth buying when the free set left you unsure rather than when it left you unhappy.
| Service | Price | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Switching packaging | CN¥2.00 | per piece. Repacking to your requirement. |
| Thread trimming | CN¥5.00 | per piece. Loose threads cut after arrival. |
| Re-inspection | CN¥6.00 | per DI. A second look after the free one. |
| Product label removal | CN¥3.00 | per piece. Labels and tags taken off. |
| Power-on inspection, 3C and appliances | CN¥12.00 | per piece. The warehouse switches it on. The free inspection does not. |
| Detailed photo | CN¥2.00 | per piece. Close-up photography beyond the free set. |
From the value-added service grid on the fee structure page, read 2026-10-10. ⚠️ One figure disagrees with itself across the agent’s own pages: the worked example on that same page prices detailed photos at CN¥3.00, while the grid underneath it says CN¥2.00 per piece. We print both rather than pick one. Check the price in your own cart before you add it.
Next step.
- How combining works is what happens after you decide the photographs are fine.
- Choosing what to buy is how to need fewer of these decisions in the first place.