Hacoo and Other Shared Lists — What They're Worth

Where hacoo came from, and whether it is still maintained

"hacoo spreadsheet" circulate as links in community threads. They are somebody's saved finds, which is genuinely useful and definitely not authoritative.

Nobody owns "hacoo spreadsheet". They get copied, edited, half-updated and reposted, so treat every row as a lead rather than as a fact.

That is fine as long as you know which job it does. Discovery is the job; verification is yours.

Anatomy of a row you can actually use

A useful row is link, price band, notes, and — if it exists — a recorded weight. Price without weight is decoration, because freight is billed on weight and volume rather than on how much the item cost.

Treat the notes column as the most important part. Colourway, sizing drift, batch requests, "seller answers slowly" — that is the knowledge nobody else publishes.

Weight is where the money actually goes

Two rows can differ by twenty yuan on price and by three hundred on landed cost once they are boxed. Shoes with a box, hoodies with lining, anything with hardware — these are the rows where line choice decides the total.

Record the weight once you learn it. Every future haul gets cheaper to plan when your categories have real historical numbers in them.

Handling hacoo row by row

hacoo spreadsheet should be opened read-only; nothing about these lists requires granting edit access or enabling anything, and none of them should ever ask for credentials.

Check hacoo against its own change log first: a list that stopped being edited months ago is a snapshot, and snapshots are how people misjudge current prices.

Note that hacoo was written by somebody with their own taste, budget and mistakes, and none of those three transfer to you.

Take rows from hacoo rather than the whole file — full copies bring someone else's stale prices, dead links and column choices along for free.

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