Re: Shipping too expensive, not viable. Quote:
Originally Posted by e2free You need a account with them and its down to how much kg you import, we get around 80% against their list prices | dhl giving me expensive prices, the cheapest i have gotten them down to is £5.9/kg if i order 30kg, if i do 20kg, it's around 6-7/kg. I was hoping to get around the 4-4.5/kg at the very minimum but having difficulties. Maybe if i talk to dhl on the phone they can sort something out. i have requested account so we will see what they say but i think they are even more expensive than ups and others.
I will contact some logistics suppliers on alibaba and see what their prices are. Or maybe i should try and communicate with the chinese sellers on taobao/1688 using google translate or something better to see if they know a cheaper option to ship the product out themselves to me for less price. But most only taking alipay so foreign citizens can't even register on this chinese version of paypal so i need to fix this issue aswell. My experience with middlemen/agents is that there is no need to use them, they charge too much and aren't necessary if you have a good supplier and so you just need to take care of delivery.
Last edited by vmdetection; 05-10-2020 at 05:06 PM.
|