Importing from the Philippines

[Richard Morris]

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Hi there everyone
I’m hoping someone can help – we’re about to launch a new business and part of it involves shipping items from the Philippines to Australia.
The quotes I’m getting are very high ($50AUD+ for a very small and light package).
I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction on how to ship from the Philippines to Australia at a lower cost.
Thanks
Richard

[LucasArthur]

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Richard Morris, post: 268496, member: 117022 wrote:

Hi there everyone
I’m hoping someone can help – we’re about to launch a new business and part of it involves shipping items from the Philippines to Australia.
The quotes I’m getting are very high ($50AUD+ for a very small and light package).
I’m hoping someone can point me in the right direction on how to ship from the Philippines to Australia at a lower cost.
Thanks
Richard

Howdy Richard

Welcome and congrats…

If you provide some additional information it may help those in the ‘know’ as to whether its a reasonable expectation at that price point..

Example:
Size
Weight
Hows it being sent – air courier (DHL or similar) or standard post
Are you buying from a business organising their own freight
Is this a sample order only or actual order
etc etc

All the above have large impacts to the prices quoted..

Cheers

Jason Ramage | Lucas Arthur Pty Ltd | E: [email protected]   P: 61 3 8324 0344    M: 61 412 244 888

[Richard Morris]

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Hi Jason

Thanks so much for the response and for your kind congratulations.

Of course, I’ve included the detail you mention below (my responses in bold):

Size – roughly 16x10x8 inches (possibly marginally bigger with an outer box but only by an inch or two here and there)
Weight – c. 500 grams
Hows it being sent – air courier (DHL or similar) or standard post – happy to send however is most cost effective so I assume standard post, although we will need to track it in case it gets lost / damaged
Are you buying from a business organising their own freight – I am buying from a business but for a few reasons they have asked for me to organise my own shipping (I’ll then give them access to the account to arrange collections etc)
Is this a sample order only or actual order – we will run a few test orders as samples but then there will be regular orders (hopefully multiple per day, but let’s get launched first )

The pickup will be from a business address and the drop off will be residential addresses in Australia.

Do let me know if any other information would be helpful.

Thanks

Richard

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