Rising Shipping Costs - what can be done about it?

[dao2]

Originally Posted by DeadGhostKnight

I use interparcel.com here in the UK for my shipping and i can ship my 1:3 Shin Akuma from the UK to the USA for £91/$118, i understand it might be different shipping from the USA to the UK/Europe but it seems crazy you are getting $500 prices for the netherlands?!

That's a 40 pound weight 20x18x31 inches, much larger than Blanka.

Yeah comparing it from one place to another is not really the same :/ It is completely different to ship from the US to somewhere as opposed to somewhere from the US, even if it is the same shipping service some times.

[CreativeArtFan]

Originally Posted by red_ant

USPS was $128-$200 for Blanka, still more than the $105. Also we will not use USPS because of all the issues when it comes to how they handle damaged shipments. I doubt international customers would agree to taking a statue as is even if it arrived broken so that takes USPS of the table. And yes we still eat some of the costs.

I'm probably missing something.

But I only see costs of between 400-500 dollar where you mention 105 dollar.

We need to subtract the initial cost of the statue from that value?

I looked several times at the pics. Apologies if I missed out on something.

[archery]

Originally Posted by red_ant

I just posted an analysis on the FB CG on shipping to give an example that you are pay a deep discount compare to the regular rates. I used Blanka as an example. Box is 20x12x19 and weighs 20lbs. To ship to the Netherlands our customers paid $105. See the pics below for the retail rates for UPS and FedEx directly from their website.

I appreciate that PCS are giving us discounted rates, but when the regular rates are as ridiculous as they are, even an 80% discount doesn't make the cost acceptable. The percentage increase on what we were paying a few months ago is just too high.

The big couriers have a monopoly and they are abusing it big time. If UPS are just as expensive, and USPS have a policy that is unacceptable to PCS, then I think there is no short term alternative. We need that European warehouse...

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[addic]

USPS (which is by far the cheapest option) or European warehouse - otherwise I unfortunately will be out of the PCS game soon.

I never had any issues with USPS, by the way.

[dao2]

Originally Posted by CreativeArtFan

I'm probably missing something.

But I only see costs of between 400-500 dollar where you mention 105 dollar.

We need to subtract the initial cost of the statue from that value?

I looked several times at the pics. Apologies if I missed out on something.

He's saying that if you walked into a UPS store and tried to ship it the price would be stupid high, about $400-500. They are getting it discounted that to a quarter of the price.

[One Above All]

I just used usps to ship a sentinel colossus diorama to singapore.

the shipping cost is about USD$410

is this normal?

[dao2]

Originally Posted by One Above All

I just used usps to ship a sentinel colossus diorama to singapore.

the shipping cost is about USD$410

is this normal?

international shipping is stupid expensive yes :|

[walokbig]

And even more curious is that the vat +customs is going to cost me almost the same or less as the Shipment.

[CreativeArtFan]

Originally Posted by dao2

He's saying that if you walked into a UPS store and tried to ship it the price would be stupid high, about $400-500. They are getting it discounted that to a quarter of the price.

Thanks. So PCS ánd the Customer are both losers in this.

Originally Posted by red_ant

To ship to the Netherlands our customers paid $105.

This shipping cost looks really acceptable and far from expensive.

[Blacksunn]

Originally Posted by One Above All

I just used usps to ship a sentinel colossus diorama to singapore.

the shipping cost is about USD$410

is this normal?

Yep, I just paid $357 to have a smaller piece shipped from Singapore to Chicago...

Was pretty put off that shipping was almost as expensive as the piece!