BoonBuy costs, without the rounding
Nobody likes discovering the shipping cost after they have already paid for the item. So here is the whole BoonBuy bill laid out in the order you will actually meet it — seller price first, then the domestic hop, then freight, then BoonBuy's service fee, then whatever your customs office wants — with the warehouse photo stage explained in between, because that is the only point where you can still change your mind cheaply.
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Seller price plus international freight plus service fee plus duty. Two of those four are knowable in advance, and two are not, which is exactly why we refuse to print a rate card that would be wrong by next month.
- Knowable nowthe seller's price and, roughly, the domestic hop inside China
- Knowable laterfreight, because it waits on a weighed box, and duty, because it waits on your border
- BoonBuy's feecharged for buying on your behalf, inspecting what arrives and packing it properly
- The honest answerwe do not publish rates; use BoonBuy's estimator for a figure tied to your actual parcel
Fees move, storage terms get revised, policies get rewritten. BoonBuy's own pages are the record; this page is the reading guide.
The seven parts of what you pay
| Part | Typical basis | Charged by |
|---|---|---|
| Item price | Listing price on Taobao, 1688, Tmall or Weidian | Seller |
| Service fee | 4-10% of item price | Agent |
| Domestic leg | 2-5 days to the warehouse | Seller / domestic courier |
| International freight | Per kg or per 500 g, first weight + increments; volumetric divisor 5000 or 6000 | Carrier |
| Storage | Free 30 days, then a small daily fee | Warehouse |
| Optional extras | Repacking, vacuum, insurance — a small share of declared value | Agent |
| Duty and VAT | Set by your country, not by the agent | Customs |
What the warehouse photos were taken to prove
BoonBuy photographs your goods inside its warehouse before anything is dispatched. Treat those images as evidence, not as a gallery: you are looking for colour accuracy, surface damage, the printed size tag, seam work, and confirmation that this is the variant you clicked on rather than a neighbour of it.
- · Colour — whether the dye lot matches the listing rather than a flattering studio render
- · Surface damage such as scuffs, pulls, stains or cracked hardware
- · The size tag, printed, which you can check against a tape measure at home
- · Seam and stitch work along the places that usually fail first
- · That the correct variant shipped, including colourway and hardware finish
- · Unit count, if you ordered more than a single piece
- · Hand feel — softness, stiffness, warmth, weight
- · Odour, which is the single most common disappointment with leather and synthetics
- · Durability of moving parts: zips, clasps, elastic, soles
- · Real colour in daylight, not under warehouse lamps
- · Fit, because a size tag is a label and not a measurement
Left column: settled by a photograph. Right column: still unknown until the box is in your hands.
- Reject while it is still in the warehouse.A return raised after dispatch costs freight both ways; one raised before costs nothing.
- Request extra angles if the first set is ambiguous.BoonBuy will re-shoot. An unclear photo is a reasonable reason to ask.
- Keep the approved images.Screenshots settle disputes far faster than descriptions do.
- Check the tag, then check your own measurements.Two different things, and only the second one predicts fit.
Freight, chosen after inspection
You choose a line after QC, not before, because the box does not exist until then. BoonBuy's lines vary on three axes — price, transit time and what they will legally carry — and cost tracks weight and volume far more closely than it tracks how many items you bought.
Carriers charge the greater of actual and volumetric weight, so compressing packaging pays.
Free storage is the mechanism that lets several small orders become one economical parcel.
Batteries, liquids, branded replicas and aerosols each have their own restrictions.
Customs holds and weather are outside BoonBuy's control and outside its quoted windows.
Cheap on a small parcel, genuinely worth it on a consolidated one.
Submission and tracking are two different events, usually a day apart.
Every part of a BoonBuy total
Four or five components stack into the figure you finally pay, plus any extras you add at submission:
- 1
Seller priceCharged by the marketplace in CNY, before BoonBuy is involved
- 2
Domestic hopThe seller's delivery to BoonBuy's warehouse, normally a small flat amount
- 3
Freight abroadThe big variable — priced on measured weight and chosen line
- 4
Service feeBoonBuy's charge for buying, inspecting, storing and packing
- 5
Duty and taxDecided by your country's de minimis threshold, not by BoonBuy
- 6
Extras you tickInsurance, additional photos, stronger packing, special handling
Rates are absent here on purpose — your item, box and country determine them. Get a live figure from BoonBuy's estimator, and treat BoonBuy's pages as final on fees.
Fees, line by line
Estimate it yourself
Put your own figures in: seller price, the domestic leg, packed weight, the international rate, BoonBuy's service fee and the exchange rate. Rows recalculate as you type and the arithmetic is shown rather than hidden.
This is a planning aid. Chargeable weight, destination, carrier pricing and customs treatment all move the final number, and BoonBuy's own estimator may quote differently at checkout.
Refunds, returns and what BoonBuy will not ship
BoonBuy maintains its own after-sales rules and a prohibited list. Skim the clause covering your category before paying — an item that cannot fly is stranded the moment it reaches the warehouse.
Straight from BoonBuy
Prefer the primary source? These BoonBuy help pages cover everything on this page: