For me to buy in small quantities is ludicrous and therefore my shipments are sent by TNT. I then do have to pat VAT, duty and admin fee and now postage.
As an example, my last order of blanks was for 900 of them so I expected to pay it and built the costs into my price. I cannot afford to put small orders in and wait 3 weeks for them.
For those of you putting in small orders that come by China post, with a wait of up to 3 weeks, invariably you wont pay these costs (except for TB's postage) as they always used to put the value at $18 and so no costs become involved.
For over 10 years I had my own company as an importer/wholesaler from all over the world and so any costs to import anything are no shock to me.
Personally I think that at TB's prices, even if you have to pay these costs it still doesn't work out too bad bearing in mind the range, quality and service.
I think that some having bought at trade prices or pretty much trade prices with free postage for a long time forget they are buying at trade and not retail and in some instances whatever price they buy at is never cheap enough.
That's my 2 pennies worth.....
