Money

What It Costs: every fee line in one place

The service fee is zero. Almost nothing else on an order is — here is what actually appears on a bill, with the figures Lolobuy itself publishes.

The headline claim

0% purchasing fee, four lines it leaves out

Lolobuy publishes a 0% purchasing service fee for the buying step. That statement says nothing by itself about the exchange rate, payment channel, seller delivery, optional services or international freight. Keep those entries separate so an unquoted cost stays unknown instead of silently becoming zero.

Hypothetical subtotal: a ¥90 item and ¥10 seller delivery start at ¥100 before payment fees, extras and international shipping. If two offers both say “0% service fee,” compare the same selected item and the same parcel assumptions; the percentage alone cannot choose the cheaper total. The ordering guide shows when goods and freight are paid.

Table of Canadian provincial GST, PST and HST sales-tax rates, one province per row — From the same Lolobuy article as the declared-value guidance: provincial tax rates for deliveries within Canada.

Payment processing

The first real cost: moving money at all

For each available payment method, compare the amount charged in your payment currency with the CNY credit or order amount it funds. Include a fixed fee as well as a percentage. A published processing percentage does not reveal the whole exchange-rate cost; use the amount shown before confirming payment and retain the receipt.

Payment-processing fees by channel, from Lolobuy's own notices
Channel	Processing fee	Notes
CenturyPay (card)	4% regular, 3.5% promotional	Promotional rate is time-limited; budget for 4%.
MyBank (Italy)	1.65% + CNY 1.71 fixed	Bank transfer, Italy only.
PayPal	Published separately by PayPal	Settles in USD or EUR.
PIX (Brazil)	Published separately	Brazil-only instant payment rail.
USDT / Bitcoin	Published separately	Added later in Lolobuy's 2026 payment rollout.

Add-on services

Optional lines that show up often enough to plan for

Storage, inspection add-ons and ShipCare

Storage overage: CNY 10 per LI per 30 days once the free period lapses — see the Shipping & Storage page for which free-period figure applies.
Fine photo service: roughly CNY 1.50 per photo, up to five, for a closer inspection pass beyond the free QC set.
Preview parcel: roughly CNY 20 per use at list price (a 2026 promotion briefly cut this to about 14 US cents).
ShipCare: 5–6% of (merchandise value + international shipping), only if you opt in.

Header row from Lolobuy's standard photo service rules — Part of the standard photo-service rules that distinguish the free and paid photo tiers.

VIP tiers

Discounts stack slowly, not all at once

Published VIP tiers (lower tiers; the scale continues to VIP5+)
Tier	Growth points needed	Freight discount	Value-added-service discount
VIP0	0	0%	0%
VIP1	600	1%	10%
VIP2	6,000	2%	15%
VIP3	12,000	3%	20%

None of these figures is guessed — every one comes from Lolobuy's own value-added-service price list or notice board, read on the dates recorded in this site's own source log. Treat the table above as a planning reference and re-check the live price list before a high-value order, since payment-processing and add-on prices are the figures most likely to move without an announcement.

For freight specifically — the largest line on most international orders — use the line finder, which is built from real archived prices rather than an estimate this site generated on its own.