Stop B of six
Stop B: the piece reaches the Rowbuy warehouse
Arrival in China starts the one clock Rowbuy actually publishes.
Where this stop sits in the ledger
- AOrder placedLink, picture search or Fill&buy formPayment one: goods + seller delivery
- BWarehouse inboundOrder status reaches StoredNo charge listed; storage clock starts
- CQC photosYou approve or raise a concernPhotos free; count unpublished
- DParcel builtApproved pieces combined and packedUnpack-and-count option at USD 0.00
- EFreight paidUS or Canada line, checked weightPayment two: international line
- FArrivalTransit, customs, the doorstep7 to 11 days quoted; duties are yours
Stop B. No payment here, but the storage clock starts.
What Stored means on your orders list
Stored is the status that matters after payment one. It means the piece has reached the Rowbuy warehouse and been logged there. Rowbuy's forwarding page spells out the sequence for parcels you send in yourself: track the order status, and once it shows Stored, go to Warehouse to select the items to pack and pay the related fees. Pieces Rowbuy bought for you follow the same path after their photos.
Until a piece is Stored, nothing at stops C to E can happen to it. A single slow seller can hold back a whole parcel if you wait for everything to arrive, which is fine as long as you keep an eye on the free storage days.
The storage clock: ninety free days
The service panel on the rowbuy.com home page says storage runs up to 120 days and the first 90 are free, and a promotion line in the site's theme settings reads Free Warehousing for 90 Days. Help article 7791 on storage gives no number at all, and no page says what a day costs after day 90, or what happens after day 120.
Our working rule: count from the day an item shows Stored, ship before day 90, and ask support in writing if a parcel will need longer. The storage clock on the Tools page turns a Stored date into the two dates to remember.
Pieces trickling in, oldest piece first
The warehouse is where a single order becomes a haul. Pieces from different shops arrive on different days, and each starts its own storage count when it is stored. A haul gathered over six weeks therefore has its oldest piece on day 42 when the newest one lands, and the oldest piece is the one that sets your deadline.
Keep a simple note of the Stored date for each piece, or use the storage clock on the Tools page with the earliest one. If a seller is slow, the cheaper choice is usually to ship what is stored and let the late piece start the next parcel, rather than paying storage days nobody has priced.
The one parcel extra Rowbuy lists
The public forwarding page shows a single value-added service, labelled in Chinese as unpack and count (custom), priced at USD 0.00. Its back-office description, visible through the site's data, calls it a free service at inbound. No photo upgrade, vacuum packing, extra protection or box removal service is listed anywhere public. If you need one, ask before the parcel stop.
Self-bought parcels into the Rowbuy warehouse
Rowbuy also forwards things you bought yourself from Chinese shops. The forwarding page asks for the domestic tracking number, an optional parcel name and the parcel value in yuan, and lets you add more than one tracking number. After you submit, Rowbuy creates a forwarding order; from there it behaves like any other stored item.
Use only the warehouse address shown inside your own account. Rowbuy does not publish its warehouse city, and the address box on the public page is not a real delivery address.
