61 of 120 1688 toy product-detail API responses omitted shippingTimeGuarantee

Omission varied by search term

water gun and slime kit each had nine omissions among ten product-detail API responses. building blocks and magnetic toys had at most two omissions among ten. The calls used the same API family, collection day and per-keyword denominator.

That contrast is a useful description of this sample, not an estimate for the whole toy category. The keywords were chosen deliberately and each split contains only ten responses, so the data cannot establish why the difference appeared or whether it persists over time.

Returned values used two documented strings

Among the 59 product-detail API responses that contained shippingTimeGuarantee, 54 returned shipIn48Hours and 5 returned shipIn24Hours. No other value appeared in this sample.

The official 1688 response schema places shippingTimeGuarantee under productShippingInfo. This study records the returned key and value only. It does not test production completion, international transit, customs, destination delivery or performance on an actual order.

How a buyer can use a response-level gap

When the sampled API response omitted shippingTimeGuarantee, that data source could not answer the dispatch-timing question. A buyer can close the gap by requesting a current written production and dispatch date tied to the exact product, variant, quantity and order terms before payment.

Keep the API observation and the supplier confirmation as separate evidence. One records what this response contained on 2026-08-12; the other records the commercial term agreed for a specific order. Neither should be substituted for the other.

The stated limits, in full

All 11 of them travel inside the evidence file, so they stay attached to the data after it leaves this page.

1. 1.This is not a random sample. Rows correspond to first-page English keyword API results ranked by the platform, so they cannot estimate field-return rates across all 1688 products, categories, dates or buyer interfaces.
2. 2.This study measures whether named keys and values were present in one product-detail API response. It does not establish what a rendered website, app, description, other API surface or supplier conversation contained.
3. 3.Per-keyword splits rest on 10 product-detail API responses each. Figures like 'nine out of ten' are descriptive of this draw only; no statistical test is applied and none would be meaningful at that size.
4. 4.The zero-refund-rate count is a count of API responses returning a numeric zero. The descriptive score comparison cannot establish the field's definition, denominator, scope or missing-data convention, so no claim is made about actual refunds. See the ambiguity checks.
5. 5.We did not audit the formula, unit, denominator, missing-data convention or product-versus-merchant scope of qualityRefundWithin30Day.
6. 6.shippingTimeGuarantee is an API field under productShippingInfo. Its presence or omission does not establish production completion, international transit, customs, destination delivery, safety compliance or performance on an actual order.
7. 7.The keyword list was chosen deliberately, not sampled: it over-represents safety-sensitive toy subcategories on purpose. Shelf-wide averages in this file should not be read as an estimate for the whole toy category.
8. 8.Single day of collection. Platform fields can change, and no trend is claimed from one observation.
9. 9.All figures describe responses from the English cross-border distribution APIs. Other 1688 surfaces may return or present different information.
10. 10.Nothing here says a platform or seller has done anything wrong, and the result does not establish seller intent, policy or performance.
11. 11.The 120 rows are 120 sampled product results and product-detail API responses, not 120 distinct suppliers. We deliberately do not publish seller identity, so the sample cannot be de-duplicated by shop and one seller may appear more than once.