Kakobuy Spreadsheet Seller CheckMinimum quantities and price breaks
The cheapest tile in a five-shop tie is usually not a retail offer. On the wholesale platform the agent supports, listings price by quantity: unit price and even domestic freight change with how many you take, and the glossy number on the search result is routinely the fifty-piece tier. The official purchasing rules, published in the agent's help centre, spell out the consequences with unusual bluntness.
First, the quantity rule: sellers set minimum order quantities, and an order below the minimum is not valid. The help centre's wording is procedural, not scary: such an order has to be cancelled and placed again with correct details. In practice that costs you days, because the invalid order has to unwind before the real one starts.
Second, the verification rule: you are asked to submit orders with exact quantities, unit price and freight already checked against the shop page, because the price the crawler read this morning may be a tier you do not qualify for.
The mechanism
How quantity pricing bends a search result
Quantity pricing is not a trick; it is the platform working as designed for its real audience, which is shops buying stock. The distortion only appears when a retail buyer reads a wholesale price tag. A single-piece order against a two-piece minimum fails outright. A single-piece order against tiered pricing succeeds at a higher unit price than the one that attracted you, and the gap only surfaces when the buying team verifies the order.
So round one is two quick checks, straight off the listing page. Does a printed minimum exist, and can you meet it. And which tier does your quantity land in, at what unit price. Shops whose economics only work at quantities you will never order are not bad shops; they are the wrong counterparty, and they drop here before you waste review-reading time on them.
When the low price survives both checks, it is a real price, and the shop advances to round two like any other.
The fine print
Boxes counted, pieces not guaranteed
Wholesale shops often photograph their range as one dense photo board, like this one. It is a good picture of a stock room and a poor picture of what will be inside your carton. Once you order more than one piece, the question stops being what the item looks like and becomes how many of it arrive.
The same official rules article ends with a reminder that deserves more fame than it has: for wholesale orders the agent counts the number of boxes received, and does not guarantee the number of pieces inside each box. Quantity or quality disputes inside the carton are handled by coordination between you and the seller, with the agent as intermediary rather than judge.
Read that against a multi-piece order and the seller choice sharpens. When you order twenty pieces from a shop with a thin history, the carton count will match the waybill even if the piece count does not, and your recourse runs through the seller's willingness to make it right. The shops that survive the evidence round, with real buyer histories and promised-returns badges, are exactly the ones where that coordination tends to go somewhere.
Practical habits for quantity orders, each one cheap: ask the seller through the order remark to confirm piece count per box before dispatch; request the parcel photo service at submission so the packed state is documented; and split a first large order into a small trial order plus a follow-up, using the trial to test the seller's counting as much as the goods, provided the smaller order itself meets the seller’s minimum.
Source note. Every rule on this page comes from the official purchasing-rules article in the help centre, as captured on 2026-10-10. Rules can change; the article is one click from the agent's help home, and re-reading it before a large order costs a minute.
Put it into practice
Verify a single-piece example
If a tile advertises ¥25 but your quantity is one, open that variant and ask which unit-price tier applies. Record domestic freight separately. An absent minimum label means the minimum is unknown, not automatically one.
Eight-step ordering guide →Does one unit mean one piece, one pair or one set?
Before comparing the five shops, write down the sale unit for the exact variant. A photograph showing several items does not establish that all of them are included. If one shop prices a pair and another prices a single piece, their headline numbers are not comparable. Confirm the contents and quantity first, then calculate the total you actually intend to buy.
For a mixed-size order, ask whether quantities can be combined across variants to meet the minimum and the price tier. Do not infer this from a quantity selector that accepts your entry. Record the seller’s answer in the order details, and ask the buying team to confirm any unresolved unit or freight difference before purchase.