Five kinds of claim, twelve agents, one reading date

What we are: the headline over the fold

The first claim any of these companies makes is the one set in the largest type. It is a positioning statement, written by the company about itself, and it is the single least checkable sentence on the page. That is not an accusation. A headline is supposed to be a summary of intent, and none of these read as promises of a specific measurable thing.

Read four of them back to back and the reason to distrust adjectives becomes obvious: they occupy the same space, make the same shape of promise, and give you nothing to compare.

No middleman: a claim worth reading twice

A second family of headline promises directness, either by naming the middleman it removes or by naming the price gap it says it does not add. This one is worth pausing on, because a beginner can read it as saying that no intermediary is involved, and an intermediary is definitionally involved in every service of this kind. Somebody in China has to buy the item from the seller, receive it and forward it. That is what the service is.

What these sentences appear to mean is something narrower and entirely plausible: no extra trading party marking the goods up between the seller and you. We cannot confirm from a homepage whether that is so, and we do not try. We only record that the sentence was printed, and flag that the word middleman is doing more work in it than a newcomer will expect.

What we protect you from, stated as badges

The third kind of claim is a strip of short guarantees, usually set as badges rather than sentences. Badges are the most quotable claims on any of these pages and the hardest to act on, because a phrase of two or three words carries no scope. Free for how long. Applies to which orders. Excludes what.

The useful move is not to dismiss them but to read them as questions to take to the company. Each badge below is exactly what you would type into that company support channel to find out what it covers.

Note what happens when the same idea is stated by different companies: the shape of the promise holds, the numbers underneath it move. Free storage was written as one hundred days on one homepage that day and as ninety on three others, and on a fifth it was written without any number at all. Those are not equivalent offers, and no adjective on any of those pages would have told you so.

What you may paste: the quietest promise on the page

The fourth kind of claim is not written as a claim at all. It is the grey text inside the search field, and it tells you which sources the company expects to handle. It is the most concrete sentence on most of these homepages and almost nobody reads it.

It matters because the sources differ. One search field offers to take a shop address as well as a product address. Another sits beside icons for four separate marketplaces. A third offers to search from an uploaded picture. If the thing you want to buy lives on a platform a service does not name anywhere on its homepage, that is a real signal, and it is free to collect before you register.

Operating facts: the part you can actually verify

Of the twelve homepages read that day, exactly one printed a registered company name and number in its footer. That is not a criticism of the other eleven, who may state the same thing elsewhere on their sites, and we did not go looking. It is simply the most checkable sentence anybody printed, and it cost nothing to notice.

If you take one habit from this page, take that one. When you are trying to judge a company you have never used, sort its sentences into the ones that could be wrong in a way you could discover, and the ones that could not. Then spend your attention on the first pile. The method, in four steps.

The twelve homepages, and where to find them

Every homepage named on this site was opened on 29 September 2026. Ten of them are quoted above. What to quote was our choice, not a measurement, so the two we did not quote are listed here as well and the set stays complete. Nothing in this list is an endorsement and the order is alphabetical.

These links are citations. They carry no tracking and this site is paid nothing if you follow one. If a page has changed since it was read, that is the expected outcome and the reason every quotation here carries a date.