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Banggood now charging over 10AUD for postage to Australia

It looks like free postage to Australia no longer offered by Banggood.

I selected CN as the Shipped From & the postage was over 10AUD.

I was looking at cables & car adaptors. Not sure about anything else.

Good Bye Banggood

Thanks cm64. :+1:

lol charging for postage and i bet the package still get lost in transit.

Time to say good bye to banggood

At present some Aliexpress dealers are still offering Free Postage to Australia. Maybe this will also change soon ?
Maybe Banggood has screwed up its postage section on it’s website & it will be fixed :laughing:

Very strange, I selected USA as the shipping point for a few randon items & the postage was cheaper, under 3AUD, cost of item was a couple of dollars more.

I’m more just miffed that it’s item, plus post, plus insurance (because without it you’re SOL), then add GST on everything. And even if you use a coupon, gotta pay GST on the full price of the item.

Would rather AliExpress, at least insurance is included and it’s easy to work out costs.

I’m sure Banggood are not too concerned. Their trade to Australia is probably too small to bother about.
Push up the postage & make more profit on any orders received.
I will be using AliExpress dealers in future.

Anyone had packages stuck at customs? I have a Q8 that’s been stuck at “Arrived awaiting clearance (Inbound)” in Sydney since 5th of March. All other orders around the same time took a day or two to progress. Filled in a missing item form via the Australia Post website, hopefully the Q8 will turn up eventually…

I have a q8 arrive yesterday. The tracking didn’t include any breakdown, ie customs. But the torch arrived in under 3 weeks.

Im having huge slow downs on everything from China at the moment, im not even getting to customs on my tracking, though it could be the same.
Banggood, Aliexpress via E-packet or anything else.

Ive been on a huge torch buying run this year.
Back in Feb when China was closed down, i had no issues. In fact Banggood was coming faster via “E-packet”, though it seems they had changed to a different provider as it wasnt coming via Auspost when it got here.
Since March when China got back to work, i havent had anything arrive. Ive got about 10 different packages in transit using all methods, nothing.
No updates when they hit Australia, some Aliexpress e-packets only show leaving the warehouse/distro in China and nothing more.
Sofrin wont give me the time of day even though ive been waiting 6 weeks for e-packets that dont appear to have left China (but maybe they did?).

All i can think is that Australia has a HUGE and slow backlog of containers waiting to be opened and processed and they simply dont have permission or the staff to do it.

The only packages that seem to get through is the premium delivery option from NealsGadgets - 3 x FW3A/FW1A lights arriving today on Fastway apparently :stuck_out_tongue:

Yep, I had something get to me from the first entry on the tracking to in my parcel locker in 6 days - was incredible! Now parcels are sitting there for aaaaages.

March 23, Posting
March 25, Despatch from Sorting Center GuangXiZhuangZuZiZhiQuNanNingShi 53004300

And nothing since :frowning:

Yep, thats what im getting from Aliexpress on epacket.

Ive got one even waiting from the 8th March, finishes on the same line but a different location.
GuangDongShengGuangZhouShi 51040034

I had some AliExpress standard postage even arrive since then, but i think they have stopped now too, though its harder to tell as they usually take 4+ weeks.
So many things i want, including my new Soldering Iron so i do the mods i have sitting here!

This was the best one :frowning:

I am also waiting for 5 deliveries from Banggood - earliest was shipped Feb 14. 5 deliveries from various Aliexpress dealers & 2 from eBay.
I guess that because there are no/few passenger services from China to Australia the parcel are just sitting somewhere waiting & waiting for services to be resumed - maybe.

I asked for one to be shipped from Australia, needed it in a hurry, paid a bit more for item & paid for delivery only to get tracking info that item was actually shipped from China.

Only getting lies from China. Once they have your money its all over. Money in the only thing that matters to these dealers.

I just got one of Hanks D4v2ti Blue Swirls with a few extras, almost $200AUD, hope I get it

Ouch. I really want the blue swirl but I just can’t justify the cost of that.

I’ll stick with putting sw45ks in my gold one.

Haven’t bought a light in like 2 years so I used all those funds in 1 hit :stuck_out_tongue:

This is getting ridiculous.
My ROT66 shipped from Banggood on the 23rd March, hasnt hit Australia.
My pre-ordered BLF LT1 shipped on the 8th April, just hit the local courier for delivery tomorrow.
Both AU Direct Mail.

Doesnt give me confidence on the missing items….
Im happy something is getting here, but id rather the items i ordered previously to arrive in order!

Interesting - seems like a weird backlog thing, not FIFO.

Fingers crossed for both of us mate.

After nearly two weeks I got a response from Australia Post:

I was expecting shipping delays. Still doesn’t make it easy to swallow. I ordered some switches from BG on 26th feb > shipped 27th > received today almost 8 weeks later.

I’d like to buy products produced in Taiwan , US (or other) in future. I realize cost may be more and shipping won’t be any faster (possibly even slower??) but I just want to boycott the Chinese Communist Regime by not dealing with them. Unfortunately sooo much is produced in China.

….of course, I’ll still have the urge when to buy lights which aren’t produced anywhere else e.g. Hank’s KR4