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Pandagoo warehouse figures: storage, photos and inspection
Three hundred free days, five photos per item, three per parcel and every box opened on arrival. What each figure promised and what it left open.
Everything that happened between the seller's courier and your international parcel happened here. The archive gives the warehouse four hard numbers (300 days, 5 photos, 3 photos, nine to six) and one blanket rule about opening boxes. A section at the end shows how we read inspection photos against the numbers on a listing.
Plate: storage free for three hundred days
The most quoted Pandagoo number, and the one most often repeated without its qualifier. Here is the sentence it comes from.
300
days of free storage
Storage
Archive wording
After the goods are put into the warehouse, platform will keep them for free for 300 days. You have enough time to choose to mail international packages before the goods expire.
What it comes to
The clock started when goods were put into the warehouse, not when you paid. Three hundred days is close to ten months, long enough to collect a whole season of purchases into one parcel. The sentence ends with "before the goods expire", which implies something happens at day 301; what that was is not in the saved text.
Check before you pay
- Find out what happens after day 300: a fee per day, disposal, or forced shipping.
- Check whether the 300 days also applies to forwarded parcels; unmatched ones had only 60.
- Set your own reminder from the date shown on the warehouse entry, not the order date.
Plate: five inspection photos per item, three per parcel
Photo counts are where agents differ most in practice, and the archive gives an exact pair.
5 + 3
inspection photos
QC photos
Archive wording
Platform provides 5 quality inspection photos by default, 3 photos for international packages, high-definition pixel photos, and can take more photos for free according to customer needs
What it comes to
Five photos per item when it arrives at the warehouse, three of the packed international parcel before it leaves. A short badge on the same screen compresses this to "(Default 5 photos + 3 packages)". Five frames is enough for front, back, label, a detail and a measurement only if the photographer chooses them well.
Check before you pay
- Ask for the five frames you need in the order note: tag, seams, sole or hardware, colour in daylight, a ruler on the key measurement.
- Check that the three parcel photos show the label, all sides and the weight on a scale.
- Request extra frames before the item is approved, not after it is packed.
Plate: extra photos at no charge
Extra frames were promised free. The forwarding rules read differently, which is worth knowing if you plan to mix purchases and forwarded parcels.
0
charge for extra photos
QC photos
Archive wording
Free additional photo shoot
What it comes to
The feature list put a zero price on extra photos, and the long description says more could be taken "for free according to customer needs". The forwarding rules are less generous: for parcels you send in yourself, the text points you to "purchase additional detailed Photos", so the free extras seem to apply to goods bought through the agent.
Check before you pay
- Ask for extra photos as soon as the arrival photos land; the request has to beat packing.
- Be specific: "close-up of the left shoe toe box in daylight" gets a better frame than "more photos".
- For forwarded parcels, ask the price of extra photos first.
Plate: every inbound box opened for banned goods
This notice appears in the forwarding screens, but its wording covers every package arriving at the warehouse.
every box
opened on arrival
Inspection
Archive wording
As required by customs, all packages arriving at the platform warehouse will be unpacked for prohibited item inspection. Please understand.
What it comes to
No parcel went onto a shelf unopened. The stated reason is a customs requirement and the target is banned goods, not quality. A separate option, "Original box storage", suggests you could ask for retail boxes to be kept, which matters for shoes and anything boxed that you plan to resell or gift.
Check before you pay
- If the retail box matters, say so in the order note before the item arrives.
- Expect seals and shrink wrap to be broken on arrival.
- Read the banned list on the parcel plates before ordering anything near it.
Plate: the nine-to-six processing window
Time zones turn an office-hours promise into a night-time one for most buyers outside Asia.
09–18
Beijing time processing
Working hours
Archive wording
After payment, we will process your order between 09:00 and 18:00 (UTC+8).
What it comes to
Orders were placed with sellers during Beijing office hours. For a buyer in New York that window is 21:00 to 06:00 the night before; for London it runs from 01:00 to 10:00 in winter. The feature list also promised "7x24 online consultation", so chat could answer at any hour while the buying itself waited for the next working day.
Check before you pay
- Pay early in the Beijing working day if stock is thin.
- Allow for Chinese public holidays, when the 09:00 to 18:00 window may close for days.
- Do not read round-the-clock chat as round-the-clock purchasing.
Checking QC photos against listing numbers
Five photos are only useful if you know what to look for in them, and the listing already told you. Every product card on this site carries the numbers we read from its 1688 page: list price, minimum batch and, where the seller gave one, a measurement. The quality check is a matter of finding those same numbers in the photos.
- Count. If the listing sold a pack of three, three pieces should be in frame. Mixed-up pack sizes are the commonest wholesale slip.
- Measure. Ask for a tape across the one measurement the size chart is built on: chest width for tops, waist flat for trousers, insole length for shoes, strap drop for bags. Compare it with the chart, allowing 1 to 2 cm.
- Read the label. Fabric content on the sewn label should match the listing. A cotton tee whose label says polyester is a different item, whatever the photo looks like.
- Check the variant. Colour names on 1688 menus are often numbers or codes. Hold the photo next to the menu swatch you picked.
- Inspect where things strain. Shoulder and crotch seams, both ends of every zip, buckle holes, lens hinges.
If one of the five fails, the five-day return window on the returns page is already running. That is why the photos should be opened the day they arrive.
- Parcel plates quotes, deadlines and the declared value
- Return plates the five-day window that starts here
- Reading listings the numbers worth checking in photos