topic Re: free shipping on large item in Selling

free shipping on large item

azadehaus — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:32:05 GMT

How come an Australian seller can offer free shipping for large items that need a big box? for example, a plastic stool which is big and they sell it for $ 8? how do they make a profit and cover the postage fee together?

Re: free shipping on large item

padi*0409 — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:55:36 GMT

If you look at their feedback, I wouldn't mind betting that they are actually registered in China and that is how they do it, with subsidised postage by the Chinese government.

Re: free shipping on large item

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 00:58:42 GMT

So the seller is actually registered in Australia on their feedback page? (rather than being registered in China and saying the item is in Australia?

If it is not a pick up only item (which often show as free postage)

And you are not using the app (which often shows as things being 'free postage when they are not)

It could be

a) A new seller not sure of how selling works

b)the seller made a mistake by not including the postage

There are a number of reasons

Re: free shipping on large item

azadehaus — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 01:53:10 GMT

Oh my God. I checked and guess what? you win .they registered in china !!!! but still 3 questions?

1- the real item location is in Australia or china ? as they mentioned it in Australia!!

2 - if the item location is in china how fast are they as they usually ship in one weak!!!

3- if the location is Australia it means they pay for pastage hear and use china government subsidies?!

Re: free shipping on large item

padi*0409 — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 02:17:58 GMT

In answer to your questions :-

1. Real item location MAY be in Australia if they have warehousing here and they have the item in stock there.

2. Shipping from China is usually a month or so unless you happen to strike it lucky and catch their container load close to when it being sent.

3. They can't use Chinese subsidies here and will just take the postage on the chin.

Re: free shipping on large item

twyngwyn — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 02:19:17 GMT

provide us with an item number

Re: free shipping on large item

azadehaus — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 02:40:08 GMT

for example, look at this please :

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/AU-Squatty-Step-Toilet-Stool-Bathroom-Potty-Squat-Aid-For-Constipation-Relief/233315302615?hash=item3652acfcd7:m:meXoVWjq-l0rgFsqz9k0FwA&frcectupt=true

the shipping time is still too soon!!!

the item is large so at least will charge in au post more than $ 8.50 !!!

Re: free shipping on large item

twyngwyn — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 02:52:15 GMT

lots of red dots for items either never arriving or late shipment....

I would guess they're in China

Re: free shipping on large item

joztamps — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:20:46 GMT

@azadehaus wrote:
for example, look at this please :

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/AU-Squatty-Step-Toilet-Stool-Bathroom-Potty-Squat-Aid-For-Constipation-Relief/233315302615?hash=item3652acfcd7:m:meXoVWjq-l0rgFsqz9k0FwA&frcectupt=true

the shipping time is still too soon!!!
the item is large so at least will charge in au post more than $ 8.50 !!!

I reckon if you buy this item, any constipation issue will be settled before you receive it.

Re: free shipping on large item

twyngwyn — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:23:45 GMT

lol

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countessalmirena — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 07:41:43 GMT

Re: free shipping on large item

locall1961 — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 18:10:53 GMT

Ah, is that how come anyone selling from China charge little or no postal charges cause their government subsidises it. Always wondered that, now I know. Also I now do not mind sellers pretending they are in Australia when they are clearly not when you click on their feedback and see they are in China, as it saves me paying the stupid 10% GST that the government are now slugging us on low cost items

Re: free shipping on large item

lyndal1838 — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 19:10:09 GMT

But if the items really are in Australia the import charges, including GST, have already been paid....or will be before the items are released for posting to the buyer.

Sellers can't escape their tax obligations just by saying the items are in Australia when they are not.

Re: free shipping on large item

springyzone — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 20:37:06 GMT

@azadehaus wrote:
Oh my God. I checked and guess what? you win .they registered in china !!!! but still 3 questions?

1- the real item location is in Australia or china ? as they mentioned it in Australia!!
2 - if the item location is in china how fast are they as they usually ship in one weak!!!
3- if the location is Australia it means they pay for pastage hear and use china government subsidies?!

You're perfectly right. It's a chinese seller, but the item is showing as being located in Melbourne and delivery is showing for me as from this Fri 18 Oct to 25 Oct. That implies it is local.

I can't see how a seller could use Aust Post for this product and come out ahead.

Either the seller has a warehouse here and just cops a loss on some products (which sounds unlikely to me) or they send from China, where the shipping is subsidised.

If you want to buy from them, go ahead, but if the item doesn't arrive in time, I'd be putting in an item not received claim immediately, don't let them fob you off or delay with excuses. If they advertise something as arriving in a week, then they have to deliver on that.

Re: free shipping on large item

rpc_hardware — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:12:35 GMT

OR they pay the postage in china, print the china post label and post it here.

We are in an online world.

Re: free shipping on large item

lyndal1838 — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:26:47 GMT

You can't use a China Post label to post items within Australia. They will not be accepted.

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purchasenetwork — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:12:07 GMT

nothing is free... free postage means its included in the total price.

look at the auspost postage calc and see even the cheapest postage is around $10 now.

Re: free shipping on large item

oz-e-seller — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 01:28:22 GMT

The Chinese Government doesn't subsidise the shipping to Australia, WE subsidise it. We being all of us who send parcels overseas from Australia. There is an agreement that the receiving country will handle the mail of the sending country without extra charge to the sending country, in return they both get to keep the amounts charged to their own populace for their own international postage to offset the cost of delivering all that mail from overseas.

So the China Post charges very little to the customer and sends a large pile of parcels over to Australia for Australia Post to deal with at their own cost. Australia Post charges quite a lot more to the customer and sends a much smaller pile of parcels to China for them to deal with at their cost. Australia Post uses the profit from the sale of that small pile of parcel post to cover the cost of delivering that larger pile of Chinese parcels to the Australian population.

Hence the imbalance in prices.