I am an online shopping enthusiast, and I often purchase some products from Alibaba, including: eyelash extension liquid, false eyelashes, eyelash cleaning mousse. Their products are really cheap, but the sad thing is that the shipping is very expensive. Many times I don’t want to buy it because of the shipping cost. It wasn't until I met a Chinese logistics provider on Twitter that I realized that Alibaba's shipping costs were really expensive, which made my experience very poor.
That's quite surprising because shipping to NZ on AliExpress is stupidly cheap, or free. I don't know how they cost out the overseas shipping but I'm surprised that our local couriers will work for such a pittance. I wonder why Alibaba is expensive?
I asked my Chinese freight forwarder friend, he said that the freight of the products purchased on AliExpress is included in the product cost, there is no real free freight.
Maybe, but when I buy things on AliExpress for the cost of a coffee and they get shipped from China and delivered to my door the freight component is still minimal. Can you friend explain why Alibaba is so expensive? Could your friend just create an account here and save you the effort of being the middleman?