Judging a Spreadsheet site, this site included

A short test for any finds site: upkeep, sources, money and honesty about limits. We apply it to ourselves at the end.

Signs a catalogue site is looked after

Finds sites come and go, and many are left running long after anyone updates them, so it pays to know how to pick a Spreadsheet site that is still looked after. Three signs show whether someone still looks after one. First, dates: a site that quotes fees, times or rules should say when it read them, and those dates should be recent. Second, dead links: open a handful of cards. If several lead to removed listings or error pages, the site has not been checked in a while.

Third, a person or a company behind it, with a way to reach them. A site that names nobody and offers no contact has no one to correct it.

A site can pass all three and still be wrong on details, but a site that fails them is guessing.

Three-part card: recent dates on facts, few dead links, an identifiable keeper with contact details — Three signs that a finds site is still maintained.

Question card: how does it earn money, does it show sources and dates, does it say when not to use something, what do its products look like — Four questions to ask any finds site.

Questions to put to any finds site

Beyond upkeep, ask how the site makes money and whether it says so. Most finds sites, this one included, earn from sign-up links to agents. That is fine if the site says it openly; it is a problem if the site then calls one agent the best without showing why.

Ask whether it shows its sources. A claim like "the fastest shipping" means nothing without a date and an origin; "lost after 45 quiet days on air, as LoongBuy's table read on a given date" can be checked. Ask whether it tells you when not to use what it promotes. And look at the products: a catalogue full of famous logos is selling something other than a buying guide, and that kind of listing is exactly what agents refuse and customs seize.

This site, held to the same test

Here is how this site answers its own questions. Every agent fact carries the date we read it, 17 October 2026 for this version, and the source page is linked where it is public. Measurements we did ourselves say "our own check"; figures from an independent measurement say so. The revision log on the notes page records what changed and when.

We earn from sign-up links to the featured agents, listed on the About page. We do not rank agents, do not name a best one, and say plainly when a direct order beats an agent. The catalogue shelves are chosen to avoid listings built around famous logos. A broken link or an outdated fact can be reported through the footer address, which reaches the person who keeps the site.