Selling Internationally

[buy-my-video-games]

How can one ship from china and have free shipping? I just bought 19 items from 19 different vendors for less then $6 total,explain how they can ship across seas to canada for free if most of the items I bought are less then 25 cents.

[pjcdn2005]

Apparently China Post subsides internationally shipping so the sellers shipping costs are inexpensive.  A note of warning...as a general rule, you get what you pay for.  A gold filled ring earrings for under $1 is extremely unlikely to have any gold in it. The cost of gold, silver and gems is the same all over the world. China labour costs may be cheaper but the cost for those type of materials is similar to what we pay.

If you are unhappy with the product that you receive, you can file a claim however the seller can require that you send back the product before you get a refund. To mail a small item to China with delivery confirmation is $50+

[ricarmic]

Note also that when you buy and pay via paypal, they get your email address, and live email addresses are worth $$$ to them too (they can resell them to mass marketers)

[mr.elmwood]

One would like to think that at some point, this will catch up with them. International law prohibits "dumping", the selling from one country to the next, at less than cost. This has always been a problem in the steel industry where supply often exceeds demand.

Internal subsidies are common in all countries, as long as it is internal. This is the kind of thing that gets governments like Ukraine in trouble. They buy natural gas from Russia and them re-sell to their citizens for less, with the central government covering the difference.

The Chinese subsidizing postage costs is a small potatoes issue, right now.