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Top floor: the dearest smallest orders we kept
Smallest orders between US$35 and US$70 at the goods checkout. Coats, a leather jacket, a leather backpack, hiking boots, and a hoodie that only sells in fives.
Top floor cards, smallest order rising
6 finds. The two numbers under each photo are the first payment for the smallest order with no handling charge and with a heavy one (US$0.60 + 6 per cent). Freight is added in the worked ceiling below.
Top floor420 g fleece-lined pullover hoodie, blank
Smallest order: 5 × ¥48.00 + ¥8.50 postage = ¥248.50
First payment US$37.26 to US$40.27
A sweatshirt that lands on the top floor only because the seller starts at five pieces: ¥240 plus ¥8.50 postage. Twenty-two colours, cotton at 96 per cent or more.
Open listing 1080152341465
Top floorCrazy-horse cowhide backpack with a 14-inch sleeve
Smallest order: ¥268.00, no seller postage = ¥268.00
First payment US$40.18 to US$43.38
The seller photo prints the weight, 1.5 kg, and the size, 41 by 29.5 by 12 cm, which is what freight is billed on. The Chinese menu lists four colours, the English one three; under 20 litres.
Open listing 1049602490952
Top floorGrey double-breasted wool coat, stand collar
Smallest order: ¥269.00, no seller postage = ¥269.00
First payment US$40.33 to US$43.54
Only S and M, one grey, six in stock. Wool at 70 to 80 per cent with 10 per cent alpaca on the fibre line, and free seller postage.
Open listing 1081327515878
Top floorStand-collar leather jacket, cowhide or sheepskin
Smallest order: ¥319.33, no seller postage = ¥319.33
Options run ¥319.33 to ¥361.58
First payment US$47.87 to US$51.57
Two options: black cowhide at ¥319.33 or black sheepskin at ¥361.58. Nine in stock, sizes S to 5XL, free seller postage.
Open listing 981056732496
Top floorHeavy duck-down jacket for deep cold
Smallest order: ¥338.00 + ¥1.00 postage = ¥339.00
First payment US$50.82 to US$54.71
Sizes by height from 165 to 195 cm, blue or khaki. The price drops to ¥328 at three. A bulky coat: expect the size weight, not the scale weight, to set the freight.
Open listing 988326496605
Top floorCoyote-brown leather hiking boots
Smallest order: 2 × ¥185.00 + ¥8.00 postage = ¥378.00
First payment US$56.67 to US$60.93
Two pairs minimum, one colour, sizes 39 to 46, and only five pairs in stock with no sales yet. Leather upper with an EVA midsole.
Open listing 617599228552
Worked ceiling for an Australian address
Ceiling US$95.00, one big piece to Australia. Our planning weight is 1800 g a piece, so with 150 g of carton the parcel is 1,950 g. The cheapest general-goods quote to Australia for that weight comes to US$38.90; with the heavy handling charge the freight checkout is US$42.02. That leaves US$52.98 for the goods checkout, and after handling US$49.20 of goods money, which is ¥328.16.
Take off ¥6.00 of seller postage and divide by 1: each piece can carry a sticker of up to ¥322.16. With no handling charge at all it would be ¥368.18; plan on the middle of the quoted lines instead of the cheapest and it drops to ¥237.10. That spread, roughly a fifth, is why the finder lets you choose both.
Try your own numbers in the Headroom finder, or compare with the other floors on the Spreadsheet page.
Where money slips away on the top floor
When one piece is the whole budget, the expensive gap is the way back.
- Returns. Pandagoo's archived returns text says that when there is no quality problem, you pay the domestic postage to send the item back to the seller. On a heavy coat that is not small, and it comes out of money you thought was spent.
- The window. The archived returns screen allowed an application within 5 days of the item being signed for. Read the warehouse photos the day they arrive.
- Batch. The blank hoodie is a First floor garment at ¥48. It is up here because the seller starts at five, ¥240 before postage. Make sure you want five.