Cedaz and Other Shared Lists — What They're Worth

Where cedaz came from, and whether it is still maintained

Links tagged pingubuy spreadsheet tend to resurface whenever a thread asks for a working starter list. They are usually Google Sheets that somebody exported from their own bookmarks and shared view-only — genuinely handy, but nothing in them has been vetted.

There is no editor behind cedaz or pingubuy. Rows get forked, renamed and reposted without attribution, so the same list can exist in six versions carrying six different last-edited dates. Assume nothing is current until you check it yourself.

Discovery is the hard part of this hobby and these lists do solve it. They solve nothing else — not pricing, not seller reliability, not sizing. Those three stay your problem from the first link to the parcel arriving.

What these lists actually are

Search around long enough and you will run into "cedaz" and "pingubuy" — shared spreadsheets, usually Google Sheets, passed around in community threads. They are somebody's bookmarks, not a shop and not a guarantee.

Their value is discovery: they surface sellers and categories you would not have found. Their weakness is maintenance — nothing forces anybody to update them, and most quietly stop being edited long before anyone notices.

Which columns actually carry information

Strip away the formatting and a pingubuy spreadsheet row reduces to four things: a link, a seller name, a rough price, and whatever the author bothered to type into the notes. The first three are commodities — only the notes column is actually authored.

So filter inside the notes rather than the price column. Real notes sound like experience: runs a size small, ships slowly in July, ask for the other batch. Filler notes just repeat the product name or paste marketing copy, and those rows can be skipped without reading any further.

One habit worth building: before trusting a row you found in a cedaz spreadsheet, open the seller storefront and search the same item name there. If it has been delisted, every figure on that row — price, weight, colourway — is history rather than fact.

Turning three lists into one shortlist

Never edit the originals. Copy the rows you care about into a sheet of your own, then strip everything except the link, the notes, and one column you fill in yourself once the parcel has landed and been weighed.

Cross-check duplicates before believing either one. The same article appearing in a cedaz list and in a pingubuy spreadsheet twenty yuan apart usually means two sellers rather than a bargain, so compare the listing photos before you call it a saving.

Cap the working set. Ten candidates per category is plenty; past that you stop comparing and start skimming, and skimming is exactly how people order the wrong size from the wrong seller.

Re-read the shortlist a week later. Roughly half of it will have died on its own, and that attrition rate is the most honest available measure of what a pingubuy spreadsheet is actually worth to you.

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