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Aliexpress help – multiple free shipping items from same seller
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BravoV:

--- Quote from: magic on October 03, 2020, 08:05:55 am ---BTW, I have heard that this year, AliExpress, the sellers and/or shipping companies came up with some system for coalescing packages from multiple orders. You order a few items from different vendors and they are combined in China and reach your country as one package. I guess it saves them shipping costs, but not so great for avoiding import fees.

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Yep, forum member Blueskull shared this while ago, forgot where he did that.  :-//
greenpossum:
IIRC it was a Chinese consolidator forwarder. More useful for amortising the cost of faster shipping for several orders, say for a group of PCB orders.

No "free import limit" here. Aliexpress collects GST for the government. Although not PCB fabs so can get away with no GST because too small for customs to be worth their while.
westfw:
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I once encountered an offer where free shipping by economic mail was only available for quantity of one.
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I've had that happen.
My "guess" is that the government subsidies are for "small packages", and if the total weight/size exceeds the limits of a "small package", the subsidy goes away (or at least goes down), and the actual cost to the vendor goes up.
I've also heard that the US has withdrawn (will withdraw?  Might withdraw?) from the international agreement that made this possible.  My favorite aliexpress vendor now has only "UPS Express" shipping listed as the cheapest option, and that starts at about $60, even for a $1 item :-(
This is very sad, but it's also clear that the US was getting a pretty bad deal with the prior terms.
Psi:

--- Quote from: bingo600 on October 03, 2020, 06:59:28 am ---
--- Quote from: Psi on October 02, 2020, 09:07:50 am ---But sometimes the seller will combine them all in one box if it's easier or cheaper for them.

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This can be super annoying , as the combined items might hit the "Customs "Free" limit"  :--

/Bingo

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It's pretty rare that they do it.  It takes extra time for them to match up orders from the same person.
I've only had it happen when I ordered something big/expensive + some small cheap items.
kjr18:
Shipping consolidation happened twice for me. Both times I ordered a couple of cheap items with slow free shipping and one item with Aliexpress Standard Shipping. After a few days most of my orders got consolidated into one with different shipping number, also Aliexpress Standard Shipping. This way some orders that would take like 3 or 4 months get here in about two or three weeks.
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