So shipping costs $15? How come when I buy stuff from aliexpress, seemingly large and somewhat heavy item can be had for less than $15 with shipping included??
We tried hard to convince the shipping agent that we’d be fine with everything getting put on a boat and showing up some time in November, but she told us that we’d need to be shipping a lot more stuff for the economics of ocean freight to even begin to make sense.
30 boxes of crap is not remotely enough volume for discounting or even cheap bulk shipping. Aliexpress presumably accumulates thousands of orders per day, which they can collect into a few giant shipping containers and plonk on a cargo ship for pennies on the dollar compared to individual packages.
So shipping costs $15? How come when I buy stuff from aliexpress, seemingly large and somewhat heavy item can be had for less than $15 with shipping included??
They did mention it:
30 boxes of crap is not remotely enough volume for discounting or even cheap bulk shipping. Aliexpress presumably accumulates thousands of orders per day, which they can collect into a few giant shipping containers and plonk on a cargo ship for pennies on the dollar compared to individual packages.