Door 2: Oopbuy DIY orders for links the search bar cannot read
Xianyu, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili, Yupoo and every other source outside the three supported platforms. You fill in the order yourself, and fewer rules are written down.
What a DIY order is
The DIY order page sums itself up in three lines: fill in and submit product information, pay for the product and shipping fee, wait for the seller to ship. The difference from Door 1 is that nothing is captured. Oopbuy does not read the listing; you describe it.
Oopbuy's first-order article explains the cost of that: if you need to buy from a third-party platform that cannot be verified, "there might be problems like an extra service fee, unable to purchase, and shipping risks". No amount is given for that extra fee on the public pages we read, so treat it as possible rather than fixed.
The DIY form, field by field
Required fields are marked with an asterisk. Product Link and Product Name come first. Specifications is a pair of boxes (for example Color and Red) with an "Add specification" button for more pairs, and a note asking for colour, size and similar details.
Message holds up to 1,000 characters for the purchasing agent. Use it for anything a buyer would need to know: the exact variant name in Chinese if you have it, which photo in an album you mean, and what to do if the item is out of stock. Product Image accepts up to 5 images, each under 2 MB, in gif, jpg or png format. Upload the screenshot that shows the exact item; for album links, this is the only reliable way to point at one product among dozens.
Write the specification the way the seller writes it. A Yupoo album with twenty colourways and a Xianyu post with one photo need very different amounts of detail, and the agent can only buy what you describe.
The price you type is only a placeholder
The Fee block has three required fields: Unit Price in CNY, Quantity and Domestic Shipping, the cost from the seller to the warehouse. The form then shows a total "international shipping fees are not included".
If you do not know the price, the form says to "fill in an order under 10 CNY and then wait for the agent to confirm the difference". In practice the first payment is a deposit and the real price arrives as a top-up request. Keep enough balance or be ready to pay, because Door 1's processing clock starts only after you confirm a price difference, and the same logic applies here.
The sentence on the form that changes the deal
Above the submit button sits a pink notice: on this page you are submitting third-party products (such as Xianyu, Xiaohongshu, Bilibili, Yupoo), Oopbuy can only help contact the seller, buy for you and arrange third-party logistics, and "Oopbuy cannot distinguish the quality or authenticity of goods". To submit, you tick a box agreeing to the Prohibited Items Statement and the Disclaimer.
That sentence is the whole of Door 2's product promise. It does not switch off the warehouse: DIY items are shipped by the seller to the same warehouse, where every parcel is opened for prohibited items. It also does not switch off the counterfeit rule, under which obvious counterfeit goods found in inspection can be destroyed with no shipment and no refund.
Returns on a DIY order: what is written and what is not
We looked for return terms written for DIY orders and found none on the public help pages as of 2026-10-15. The 5-day guarantee is described as a seller-side service under "third-party platform" rules, and the DIY page itself makes no mention of returns.
Some of the general exclusions will catch DIY items anyway. Second-hand products are excluded from the 5-day guarantee, and Xianyu is a second-hand marketplace; whether a particular Xianyu listing counts as second-hand under that rule is not stated. Products from outside the Chinese mainland, including Hong Kong and Macao, are excluded too.
The honest planning assumption: once a DIY item is bought, you may not be able to send it back. Decide before you pay, not after the photos arrive.
When Door 2 is the right door
A DIY order makes sense when the item exists only on a platform the search bar cannot read, you can describe it exactly, and you can live without a return. It is the wrong door when the same item is listed on Taobao, 1688 or Weidian: there you get captured listing data and a written return window.
Before opening the form, run the four questions in the figure. If the answer to the last one is no, look for the item on a Door 1 platform first; a search by the item's Chinese name often finds it.
And if you bought it yourself, use forwarding instead: you send your own parcel to the warehouse with a tracking number, and Oopbuy only ships it on.