The really criminal thing is it only costs $8.43 to mail that thing from China to your house in the USA... it likely would cost you more to mail that same item to yourself from yourself.
That alone puts US-based sellers at a mega disadvantage compared to cheap Chinese goods - and it's not a good thing.
>The really criminal thing is it only costs $8.43 to mail that thing from China to your house in the USA... it likely would cost you more to mail that same item to yourself from yourself.
These things are tiny and very cheap to ship. I could probably pack 40 of them into a USPS flat rate box shipped anywhere in the US for $9.30.
This was a decent argument when you could get things shipped from China for $0.50, but not now or in this case.
Yeah if I were mailing a single one of these to myself I bet I could get away dropping it in a regular envelope with maybe an extra stamp. (Assuming they come without the headers soldered on like most of the clones I’ve got from AliExpress, RIP).
Most of my Aliexpress electronics orders are shipped to a local US Aliexpress distribution center which then mails them locally. These come in small padded envelopes which are not expensive to ship.
That alone puts US-based sellers at a mega disadvantage compared to cheap Chinese goods - and it's not a good thing.