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ordered a small item £1.18 for one of my cameras. Looking up where it is coming from is China. Surely it is going to cost more in postage than the item is worth.

The only thing I can think of is it is giving employment to someone and they would rather sell it than anyone else sell it.

Weird or what?
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10-01-2019, 11:01 AM
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Lets hope you receive it.
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10-01-2019, 11:15 AM
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If you ever use wish dot com you will find many items actually for free ... just pay postage so I imagine they purely make £££ on the postage or in reality over charge postage to play with figures to make a profit
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10-01-2019, 12:43 PM
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Free postage as well
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10-01-2019, 12:45 PM
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Re: from China

Originally Posted by realspeed ->
Free postage as well
There is a Chinaman boarding a plane as we speak and he will deliver it personally to your house this evening.
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10-01-2019, 12:50 PM
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Re: from China

Originally Posted by realspeed ->
ordered a small item £1.18 for one of my cameras. Looking up where it is coming from is China. Surely it is going to cost more in postage than the item is worth.

Weird or what?
I am sure that postage from China is subsidised by their government because I buy a lot of small items from China in Ebay and they are usually post free or postage is something like 50c. I have bought things that cost less than a dollar and the postage is free.

I think that postage fees are kept by the originating country and the cost of end delivery is borne by the receiving country's post office. It is some international agreement - I suppose in the main it balances out though I doubt it does with China.
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10-01-2019, 12:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Longdogs ->
Lets hope you receive it.
I have ordered literally hundreds of things from China all except one has arrived and on that item Paypal refunded my money (about $3)
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10-01-2019, 12:57 PM
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Re: from China

Originally Posted by realspeed ->
Free postage as well
Maybe it is part of a very much larger shipment to UK so the cost per item shipped is minimal.
Just a thought.
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10-01-2019, 01:05 PM
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Re: from China

Originally Posted by Besoeker ->
Maybe it is part of a very much larger shipment to UK so the cost per item shipped is minimal.
Just a thought.
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10-01-2019, 01:15 PM
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Re: from China

Originally Posted by Besoeker ->
Maybe it is part of a very much larger shipment to UK so the cost per item shipped is minimal.
Just a thought.
It is as free postage is always free on eBay for China.
I have seen those great containers arrive in Southampton.
The items can take longer at times, depends if you have ordered at the time they are filling up those containers.
 
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