on 04-10-2012 12:50 PM
on 06-08-2016 04:52 PM
Very incisive. I'm sure we are all glad of the value you've added to this thread.
on 06-08-2016 05:08 PM
on 06-08-2016 05:39 PM
cv hasn't logged into the boards for 6 months. it is unlikely s/he will see your post.
on 08-08-2016 07:21 PM
on 16-09-2016 10:15 PM
on 16-09-2016 10:26 PM
No.
Nor can I understand your question.
As an example how does the cost of returning an item relate to the cost of a seller posting an item? The cost to return, if you are silly enough not to activate eBay's MGB, is the cost to you to return the item. It has nothing to do with the cost of the seller to post to you.
on 17-09-2016 07:37 AM
Has anyone realised this thread was started in 2014.
And sadly has been rehashed twice.
As dave has said, what it costs you to post back is between you and Australia Post, nothing to do with anyone else.
on 17-09-2016 07:41 AM
From china drop ship is international shipping should cost more why from china the shipping fee is so cheap?
@garfieldau wrote:
bit of every comment I suspect is rigt.
-Bit is factored into the Prie item/s
-Droped shipped from China or who knows where....
-Poor quality/Factory Seconds Prpduct that works for 45 days & dies & Seller is Home Free from any claims from PayPal
on 17-09-2016 11:19 AM
Given that the person you replied to hasn't been here for nearly 2 years, I'll answer because I am here. Shipping from China is so cheap because their government subsidises it to encourage export. That's why they can sell something for $2 and free postage and make a profit, because they're not paying for it. The ones that do have a postage cost added are often in rural areas and they have to pay the postage cost to get it to the city centres for export (as told to me by several unrelated rural Chinese sellers). Some will also charge for postage if they are sending via a faster method, like express, because they have to pay for that. The government only coughs up for standard delivery.
17-09-2016 05:17 PM - edited 17-09-2016 05:21 PM
and further to tippy's excellent explanation, Australia is party to the UPU agreement (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Postal_Union for more detail).
Our government, through Aust Post, has an obligation under the agreement to deliver items that arrive here having had postage paid in another member country, with the originating Postal Service (in this case China Post) keeping ALL the postage paid and Australia having to pay all costs associated once it arrives here. That's where the "Free Postage" for China items becomes viable for Chinese sellers. If China Post charges them a matter of a few cents for an item then it is economically viable for them to sell to Australian buyers i.e. the Chinese government sets the postage price so low to encourage exports.
Each year there is a meeting of member countries to 'settle' imbalances in the costs associated with adhering to the agreement. Needless to say, the Union/agreement was established long before eBay and online trading bed in came commonplace and is need of serious overhaul. It was established in 1874, and well before China became the manufacturing/trading powerhouse that it now is.