Abbey England → Alibaba Sourcing Report

_Final: generated 2026-08-09 15:05 UTC · crawl 7,739 URLs → 7,451 products → 2,379 families → 2,130 clean → matched + re-extracted_

Headline numbers

Metric	Value
Abbey catalog URLs crawled	7,739
Real products (item_no present)	7,451
Non-product pages excluded	288
Product families	2,379 → 2,130 after junk cleanup
Families with Alibaba listings	1532 (72%)
Families with named supplier	1532 (72%)
Total Alibaba listings captured	7,656
Families with price data	854
Distinct suppliers	1958

What changed since the interim report

	Interim (Aug 5)	Final (Aug 9)
Families with listings	1,163 (55%)	1,532 (72%)
With named supplier	678 (32%)	1,532 (72%)
Distinct suppliers	857	1,958
Price data	0	854 families

Driver: extractor v2 (`.searchx-product-e-company` selector) + chromedriver fingerprint patch (`cdc_*` removal) + homepage-reset captcha strategy. Re-extraction yield: 59% (854/1,452 previously-failed families).

Match rate by material

Material	Families	With hits	Rate
leather	671	533	79%
(unknown)	647	441	68%
brass	559	399	71%
biothane/beta	72	46	64%
polyester	52	31	60%
stainless steel	43	32	74%
polypropylene	36	20	56%
nylon	33	20	61%
cotton	17	10	59%

Supplier leaderboard — top 15

#	Supplier	Type	Families	Example
1	Dongguan Yinuo E-Commerce Co., Ltd.	Trading/Generalist	395	[looped collar steel tong] DWDP-PB29B 30mm Solid Brass Oval Belt Buck
2	Jiujiang Subbank Technology Co.,Ltd	Trading/Generalist	249	[chicago screw small] Subbank Custom Watchband Sublimation Blank
3	Handan Maizhong Trade Co., Ltd.	Other	206	[tug steel tongs] Deepeel YK014 40mm Solid Brass Belt Buckle
4	Yiwu Futang E-Commerce Firm	Trading/Generalist	161	[rein tip spade] Factory High Quality Fashion Thin Multi-co
5	Shenzhen Youyue Technology Co., Ltd.	Trading/Generalist	152	[ring front] Promotional Plain Leather Bracelet Leather
6	Heyuan Zhongheng Weiye Trading Co., Ltd.	Trading/Generalist	147	[west-end-buckle-nickel-pl] Men Belt Buckle 35mm Alloy Pin Buckle Fash
7	Shenzhen Juelong Watch Co., Ltd.	Other	133	[rein tip spade] JUELONG New Adjustable Hook & Loop 20mm Sm
8	Foshan Daiyue Watch Co., Ltd.	Other	111	[rein tip spade] Simple Leather Bracelet with Light Gold Bu
9	Suzhou D.Y.Apparels Accessory Co.,Ltd	Webbing/Textile	110	[cl plastic camlock] Waterproof TPU PVC Coated Webbing Strap Mu
10	Shenzhen Wenhao Textile Co., Ltd	Webbing/Textile	108	[rein tip spade] 1.22*6.10inch Eco-Friendly PU Leather 100%
11	Guangzhou Wakison Hardware Co., Ltd.	Hardware	98	[horseshoe roller buckle] Quality Customized Logo Metal Roller Pin B
12	Shenzhen Casta Leather Co., Ltd.	Leather	96	[fancy rosette thistle] Wholesale Custom Made Your Own Logo Bulk P
13	Guangzhou Yangze Trading Co., Ltd.	Trading/Generalist	91	[chicago screw small] Customized Print Strap PU Leather Lanyard
14	Shenzhen Eraysun Electronic Tech Co., Ltd.	Other	77	[open thimble large] certified
15	Quanzhou Honeypet Pet Products Co., Ltd.	Other	71	[filled rosette thistle] NEW Best Sell Strong Dog Leash Durable Rop

Price-gap analysis (Abbey retail vs Alibaba unit price)

675 families show Abbey retail >1.5× the Alibaba unit price. Extreme ratios (>100×) are mostly unit-vs-piece packaging noise (e.g. press-stud parts quoted per-100).

The credible arbitrage band (1.5–100×) contains **600 families**. Top 10 by ratio:

Ratio	Family	Abbey £	Alibaba £	Supplier
100.0×	lockstitch sewing awl	15.00	£0.15	Hangzhou Brian Tech Co., Ltd.
98.0×	osborne zipper jig	57.31	£0.585-0.66	Dongguan Changguang Plastic Hardwar
97.3×	sedgwick mini butt havanna	193.68	£1.99-3.72	Dongguan Yinuo E-Commerce Co., Ltd.
97.3×	sedgwick mini butt	193.68	£1.99-3.72	Dongguan Yinuo E-Commerce Co., Ltd.
96.5×	circle curb ring	2.18	£0.0226	Quanzhou Hengxunxin Import And Expo
95.5×	abbey english bridle butt conk	190.14	£1.99-3.72	Dongguan Yinuo E-Commerce Co., Ltd.
95.0×	fiebing dura edge	14.25	£0.15-1.13	Dongguan Binyi Clothing Accessories
94.7×	plough gauge italian	227.17	£2.40	Shenzhen Juelong Watch Co., Ltd.
93.1×	lead chain horse trigger	17.48	£0.1878-0.2705	Shandong Lisheng Machinery Manufact
90.9×	chain ends t cmm	23.91	£0.2629-0.3456	Dongyang Dais Hardware Products CO.

Reading the fingerprint

**No supplier is confirmed as an actual Abbey source.** Recurrence across many families is the signal; specialists outweigh generalists.

Top generalist traders still dominate raw coverage (list-everything catalogs), but specialist hardware/webbing firms now have substantially deeper data.

41% of re-extracted families remained empty — concentrated in niche saddlery (Osborne tools, harness needles) where Alibaba genuinely has no supply, plus persistent rate-limit dry spells.

Data quality notes

249 junk page-families excluded (blog/info pages crawled from sitemap); backups retained.

2 slug-families (brass-smasher, stubbs) dropped on missing item_no; recoverable from `alibaba_matches.jsonl.bak160856`.

Re-extraction ran with homepage-reset captcha handling (457 resets); slider drags are detected ~80% of the time and abandoned as a strategy.

chromedriver patched to remove `cdc_*` automation markers; browser fingerprint otherwise clean; remaining rate limits are IP/session trust-based.

Next steps

1. **Price-gap triage**: the 675-family list (`price_gaps.json`) — verify packaging units, then shortlist resale candidates.

2. Companies House / import-record cross-reference for top specialists.

3. Remaining 598 empty families: mostly genuine no-supply, but a retry pass after a multi-day IP cooldown could pick up stragglers.

4. Consider MOQ/lead-time capture in a future extractor pass (data is on the cards).