Has anyone recently used Forest Shipping or found their quotes to be outrageous?
I’m shipping 200 units from China, weight is around 240kg. When asking for a quote, they always push me towards their air option for $1400.
When I ask for a quote for sea, they tell me it will be $1,200 excluding duty and all other fees. This seems crazily high and barely any different than the air price.
My supplier has quoted me around $200 by sea, but I felt more comfortable having an FBA shipment service handle everything for my first shipment.
Does that quote sound crazy? If so, is there anything I can do to get them to lower it to something reasonable?
- Kody asked 2 years ago
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Yes, that is very high. Especially when your supplier is quoting such a lower price. When I got my quote from forest shipping it was about the same as my suppliers quote.
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- 5staramazon answered 2 years ago
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That’s strange. When researching I also found this company: http://fbaforward.com
- gogold answered 2 years ago
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Shipping by sea is all about volume (CBM). Weight does not matter much here. I got an outrageous quote from Forest shipping too compared to my supplier. Also FBA fordwarder is even more expensive than Forest in my case. I also got a few different quotes from a few other FBA guys and found that they are all very high and not reliable with their words. However I got a good price with Forest finally smile emoticon negotiate with them and ask for a complete breakdown of their quotes.
- Tyler Jutt answered 2 years ago
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- John Tan answered 2 years ago
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- John Tan answered 2 years ago
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