Why is shipping from China so effing cheap?

[samsonlonghair]

£2 DS R4 card? That sounds like a good deal to me. Can I get in on that?

[Erik_Twice]

I would assume shipping even a small little package to the US from China would cost more than $1.67 how are they making any profit?

It's not a good assumption to make. It's an incredibly small, weight-less item that will probably come by gigantic boat carrying ten thousand container equivalents each up to maximun load of 15 tons.

When you think of the cost of sending a package from China, think of freight, not how much it would cost you on the post office. UPS doesn't have something like this:

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[Betagam7]

£2 DS R4 card? That sounds like a good deal to me. Can I get in on that?

If you live in China They are all over taobao. I guess it's old technology...but when I think I paid about £30 for my Cyclo DS that ultimately crapped out on me back in the day and these things are less than a Subway sandwich over here...

[sonic2041]

This article explains it, http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/letters ... 91984.html.

The postage calculation for ePacket is per kilo base, and the domestic First Class Mail is per package base.

Imagine:

A Chinese Seller, who sell iPhone screen protector, weights about 50 grams (2 oz), sells about 100 a day, how much he need to pay?

50 grams x 100 pieces of mail = 5 kilo = $19.30/kilo x 5 kilo = $96 (the ePacket have tracking include already)