Ordered gladiator from aliexpress to australia, weird pricing.

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Ordered gladiator from aliexpress to australia, weird pricing.

Postby EMEUTIER » Thu Oct 15, 2020 12:39

On 27 Sept I ordered a VKB gladiator NXT with pro grip from AliExpress which is the only way i could find to purchase it from Australia.

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Today (October 15) i looked at the order status to see that it has not even been shipped yet. Being new to the Aliexpress site I only just found a button to contact the seller and found a weird message.

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Apparently after I paid AU$59.75 for shipping, they also seem to require me to pay a fee for shipping to a remote area.... I live in Sydney BTW, not really remote.

After clicking on the link they wanted me to pay for, I got this:

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So as far as i can tell they want me to pay another AU $0.15 that ALSO has a 'postage cost' of AU $30.49
and that is before they will even ship the item i have already bought.

I understand that VKB doesn't directly sell via AliExpress, but I think that this dodgy behavior should be brought to your attention.
I was happy enough to pay AU$60 for postage on a product that i really want, but this whole experience is leaving a bad taste in my mouth even before i have the product.

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Re: Ordered gladiator from aliexpress to australia, weird pricing.

Postby Tuesday John » Thu Oct 15, 2020 18:41

FWIW, here’s what DHL considers as remote areas.
https://www.dhl.com/content/dam/downloa ... eas_en.pdf

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Re: Ordered gladiator from aliexpress to australia, weird pricing.

Postby EMEUTIER » Fri Oct 16, 2020 3:04

Aha, i see. I just find it weird that the postage wasn't auto-calulated in the initial postage cost when I input the postage address. $90 postage is a bit steep imho


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