An $8.06 pair of shorts does not usually earn a full bench session. This one did, for a single reason: the listing carries a shipping weight of 0.00 kg, no waist, hip or inseam figures, and a size run that starts at S and ends at 6XL. That is three blanks in the two places where a parcel plan usually lives — the body and the carton. So we ordered a pair through USFans, waited for the warehouse photo set, then repacked it ourselves at the Portland bench.
What arrived, and what the listing said it would be
The order page is a Weidian factory listing, SKU 7720589914, priced at $8.06 against a struck-through $9.22, in stock, branded NBA and filed under men's pants. The seller describes a black polyester short in "polyester four-way stretch" with light stretch, a straight leg opening, standard thickness, a 3D-printed graphic and a 1–3 cm stated measurement tolerance. Sizes run S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL, 5XL and 6XL.
The warehouse set ran to nine frames. Eight matched the listing line by line — black ground, printed graphic across the front, straight hem, no drawcord hardware beyond the elastic waist, no visible labelling inconsistency between frames. Frame six was soft on the hem stitching, so we requested a re-shoot; the replacement arrived within one working day, and the stitch line was even and continuous at both legs.
The weight field that reads zero
A 0.00 kg figure is not a promise of a weightless parcel. It is an empty field. For parcel planning it means the only reliable number is the one the warehouse produces after intake, and only if you ask for it before you consolidate. We asked, then weighed the same bundle on our own calibrated scale.
| State | Dimensions | Our scale | Volumetric (÷6000) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listing weight field | not given | 0.00 kg | not given |
| As received, in the seller's poly bag | 22 × 16 × 5 cm | 208 g | 0.29 kg |
| Our compressed repack | 20 × 14 × 4 cm | 205 g | 0.19 kg |
The as-received bag is the trap. At 1,760 cm³ it cubes out at 0.29 kg, which is 85 g more than the shorts actually weigh — and on a divisor-6000 line, that is what would have been billed. Compression by an agent, not by us at a bench, is the fix: folded flat and taped, the same pair came down to 1,120 cm³ and 0.19 kg, at which point the scale took over. That is the whole finding in one line: the chargeable weight of this item is decided by how the warehouse folds it, not by anything printed on the listing.
Our tape against the 1–3 cm clause
We kept the pair we measured and put a steel tape on it, flat, unstretched, then under hand tension:
- Waistband flat: 39 cm; pulled to comfortable tension: 47 cm
- Front rise: 30 cm
- Inseam: 17 cm
- Leg opening, flat: 30 cm
- Weight of the garment alone: 205 g
Those numbers describe one pair and cannot be mapped onto a body without a chart, which the seller does not print. The 1–3 cm tolerance clause matters more here than on a garment with a full measurement table, because there is no reference row to absorb the drift. If you need a specific inseam — and shorts are where an inch shows — ask the seller for the figure for your size before paying, and treat the answer as the only fit evidence you will get.
Fabric, print and the fit reports that follow the name
The inner side-seam label reads 100% polyester. The hand is light and dry with a slight two-way give across the weave, and the 3D print sits on the surface with a faint raised edge that survived folding without cracking at the crease. We have not run a wash cycle, so colourfastness and print durability are unproven. Black looked black under the daylight lamp across all nine frames, with no brown or green cast and no difference between the flat-lay and the on-hanger shot.
The name on the waistband carries a category reputation we cannot test on one pair. Buyers of authentic NBA shorts describe a constricting waistband and a snug, shapewear-like feel even at the correct numeric size, while other buyers call the cut true to size and cite a 173 cm / 82 kg buyer in XL. Nike's own NBA shorts chart only maps S–3XL to numeric 30–50 and notes that tall versions add roughly 5 cm of length. This listing's run goes past that chart entirely, with no waist or hip columns of its own. Our 39-to-47 cm waistband reading suggests useful give, but one pair is not a grading system.
What we could not confirm
We could not confirm how sizes 4XL through 6XL are graded, whether the waistband stiffens in larger sizes, or how the print reacts to a warm wash. We also could not reconcile the listing's weight field with any carrier figure, because there is no figure to reconcile. What we can say is narrower and more useful for planning: this is a 205 g soft good that cubes out larger than it weighs, so it belongs in a consolidation with denser items rather than in a parcel of its own, and its shipping cost will be set by the warehouse's fold and your line's divisor.
Order it for the silhouette and the price; plan the parcel as if the weight field were blank, because it is.
Does the 0.00 kg weight field mean the shorts ship free or weigh nothing?
No. It is an empty data field, not a measurement. Our pair weighed 205 g on the bench scale, and the warehouse's packed dimensions determine the chargeable weight on any volumetric line.
What should I ask the agent before the parcel ships?
Ask for the packed dimensions and the chargeable weight after compression, and request the waist and inseam figures for your size from the seller. The listing prints none of those numbers.
Is $8.06 the total cost?
No. It is the item price only, before agent service or payment fees and before international freight. At roughly 205 g, freight is dominated by packaging volume rather than the shorts themselves.