About the format
Why this site is a lexicon instead of a guide
What this site adds beyond simply reading Lolobuy's own help centre, and the limits of what a reference site like this can promise.
The approach
A filing problem, not a writing problem
Lolobuy's own help centre already has 86 English-language articles and 21 notices. That is thorough, but it is organised the way a support team organises things — by department, not by the question a buyer actually has mid-order. Finding “what does LI mean” means guessing which of six article trees to search, or reading several articles end to end hoping the term is defined somewhere inside them.
This site's job is narrower: take that material, strip it to the specific fact a reader needs, file it as a short dictionary entry, and link sideways to the next related term. The Lexicon is the main expression of that; the Guide, QC, What It Costs and Shipping & Storage pages are the same material grouped by task instead of by word.
Scope and limits
The boundaries of what this reference covers
What it is not
Not a storefront, not a second Lolobuy account, and not affiliated with Lolobuy or Hong Kong Beyond Technology Limited. Every order, payment and shipment still happens on lolobuy.com.
Where facts come from
Lolobuy's own help articles, notices and public API responses, each captured with a date. Where a figure in Lolobuy's own documentation changes, the entry on this site is updated; it is not re-derived from this site's own guesswork.
What it cannot promise
Fees, policies and stock move. This site carries dates precisely so you can judge whether a figure is still current — always confirm anything money-related against the live page before paying.
Format choice
Why not a wiki, and where a lexicon still falls short
Why a dictionary format over a wiki or a forum
Community forums are good at surfacing recent, specific experiences but bad at staying organised — the answer to “what counts as LI” might be three threads deep in a search result. A wiki-style free-for-all solves organisation but tends to drift as contributors disagree. A lexicon maintained by a small editorial process sits between the two: one consistent format, one place per term, updated directly rather than debated in comments.
Where this format runs out
A dictionary entry is a poor place for nuance that depends on your specific order — destination country, item category, account tier. Where that nuance matters, the entry links out to a task page (What It Costs, Shipping & Storage) or to Lolobuy's own live tools rather than trying to cram every variable into one definition.