Best Chinese EMS Shipping Price

[Nietzsc]

Well, like I said before in other posts I only buy from Chinese vendors because they give good prices both on their products and shipping.

Being from a country with a devaluated currency it would be much more expensive to vape than to smoke if I'd buy from US or UK suppliers. With chinese suppliers the cost of vaping gets even and sometimes less than smoking. This is an example for those that use dollar as your currency:

Let's say that you want to buy a 510 kit, price $50 dollars, if you convert that to my currency it would be like $642 dollars!!!! (and if you add shipping cost... well... it just goes over the roof) cause I pay a little more than 12 pesos for each dollar. Also there are a lot of US/UK vendors that would not ship to other countries (or at least mine).

Having said that I will proceed to explain why I post this.

When I purchase any vaping stuff from the internet a lot of times the shipping price is what makes a difference between one vendor and the other ones, so maybe we can come here and share shipping prices so we can decide where to buy... what do you think?

 

[KiteStyle]

So far I've only ordered from Heaven-gifts and Healthcabin in China. Both sent packages via EMS to Australia. Both cost just over $20 US for an average order. (Except that HG just had a week of free shipping...pity you missed that!)

From both sites it appears minimum charge is $15 US (probably for up to 500g)
HG says not to make lots of small orders as "EMS express charges for each 500g"

Hope that helps a bit.

 

[Nietzsc]

Great!! Actually I purchased December 4th and got the half shipping price ($10) since my country wasn't on the free shipping list.

Last month I bought from HeavyVapor and they have a $15 shipping fee and it makes me wonder why HG's shipping is more expensive than HeavyVapor...

Well, let's see what happens in January

 

[Fedor]

www.absolutelyecigs.com has shipping fixed at $15 no matter how much you order.

 

[Madame Psychosis]

Last month I bought from HeavyVapor and they have a $15 shipping fee and it makes me wonder why HG's shipping is more expensive than HeavyVapor...

Some companies charge what it costs them to ship. Some companies charge more (maybe they include packaging and labor costs, for instance) and some charge less (maybe for psychological reasons - people hate paying shipping costs).
Ultimately a company has a certain margin they need to make in profit, so if they undercharge for shipping compared to what it costs them, they'll make up for it in the pricing.

HG offers a cheaper, slower registered airmail, at least to the U.S. -- has anybody had success using this?