Part one · the catalogue
What a Tomebuy Spreadsheet is, and what this one does
A short page about words, because two of them cause most of the confusion: spreadsheet and agent.
The word spreadsheet, as shoppers use it here
In this corner of online shopping, a spreadsheet is a browsable catalogue of product finds: photographs, a price, and a link that opens the seller's own listing. It is a shop window pointing at other people's shelves. The name is a leftover from years ago, when people really did pass around documents of links, and it stuck even though the thing it describes is now a website you browse by category.
So when this edition says spreadsheet, it means the product catalogue you can search from the box at the top of this page, grouped into the shelves listed in part one. It does not mean a document, and nothing on this site needs downloading.
Why this edition exists
Most guides to a shopping agent are written once and left. This one was written against the live site: every policy quoted here was read from tomebuy.com on 21 and 22 October 2026, every shelf count came from the catalogue on the second of those days, and the screenshots are from the same pass. When a figure has a date attached, that is the date it was read, not the date it was written about.
What makes this edition different from a summary is that it does not smooth things over. Tomebuy's own pages disagree with each other in at least four places, and a guide that quietly picks one answer is inventing certainty it does not have. We print both, name the page, and tell you which one is safer to plan around. That is the whole argument for calling it unabridged.
Four checks before you trust a catalogue site
These sites are easy to make and hard to maintain, so most of them rot. Four checks tell you how to judge a catalogue site of this kind, including this spreadsheet, and they sort the live ones from the abandoned:
- Do the outbound links still open? Click three product links and three policy links. A dead link says the page has sat untouched since the day it was made.
- Are the numbers dated? A fee or a storage period with no read date is a number someone copied once. Agents change terms without announcing it.
- Does it admit what it does not know? Freight prices, future delivery times and whether customs will charge you are all unknowable in advance. A site that quotes them confidently is guessing.
- Does it tell you when to go elsewhere? A guide that has no bad word for its subject is an advertisement with a longer word count.
Hold this edition to the same four. The link check is run before every update; the read dates are printed beside the figures; freight is described as a method, never a price; and the page on other services says plainly which jobs Tomebuy is a poor fit for.
The things this edition is not
This site is not Tomebuy. It is not run by Tomebuy, not endorsed by it, and has no access to your account, your orders or your parcels. Nothing is sold here. Links to tomebuy.com and to the product catalogue carry a referral tag, which is how work like this is funded; it changes nothing about what you pay. Where a page here disagrees with the live tomebuy.com, believe the live site, then tell us: [email protected].