CNFans vs Superbuy: the beginner's agent vs the budget pick

First haul: Superbuy. Tenth haul: run the CNFans math.

Superbuy has run since 2012. It buys fast (1–3 days to the warehouse), its support answers, and its site explains itself. You pay for that: a service fee around 5% on typical orders, and only three free QC photos an item — extra angles cost extra.

CNFans advertises a 0% service fee and gives QC photos away free and unlimited. It makes its money in two quieter places: the exchange rate and the shipping bill. Community comparisons put its hidden exchange markup near 6–7% in early 2026.

"0% fee" does not mean cheaper. Add the whole bill.

Compare total landed cost, not the headline fee: item price, plus service fee, plus the exchange-rate gap, plus shipping. A 0% fee with a bad rate can cost more than a 5% fee with a fair one.

On a benchmark 5 kg parcel to the US in early 2026, community comparisons landed within five dollars of each other: CNFans near $84 all-in, Superbuy near $88. Close enough that speed and support decide it for most people.

Speed and photos pull opposite ways

• Superbuy wins speed. 1–3 day buying, a mature support desk, and a direct escalation path. After a late-2025 warehouse move, CNFans buyers reported 5–12 day processing on some orders.
• CNFans wins QC photos. Free and unlimited. Superbuy gives three an item and charges for more.
• Superbuy wins the first haul. Fewer ways to make an expensive mistake.
• CNFans wins the big haul. Free photos across thirty items is real money, and experienced buyers route around the slower weeks.

You do not have to marry one agent

• Credenza stores the canonical store link, never the agent wrap. Switching agent is one setting, not a lost list.
• The weight estimate prices your parcel before you commit, so the shipping half of the math is visible up front.
• QC photos attach to the card whichever agent took them, with the GL/RL decision beside them.

What Credenza earns here

Buy links may include a referral code. Credenza may earn a commission on agent shipping fees. A referral never changes your item price. CNFans stopped its referral programme, so Credenza earns nothing when you pick it — it is on this page because the math says it belongs.