for comgateway, they normally calculate the shipping charges based on weight or the package dimension? i had the viaddress shipped to me before and they calculated based on the dimension weight and the shipping fees were so expensive

No matter ComGateway or Viadress, all shipping companies uses two ways to calculate your shipping fees: actual weight or volumetric weight.

Take mine as example, I shipped my son's toy (a large garbage bin truck) back to Malaysia. The actual weight of the toy is roughly 3.5kg, but the size of the carton is so big that the volumetric weight is 14kg. So the shipping fee will be charged based on 14kg, not 3.5kg. Luckily ComGateway offers me a repack service that they helped to decrease the volumetric weight to 4kg.

Hope this explains.

so based on what you say, looks like comgateway is a much better option than viaddress? how's your opinion on this?

I never use Viaddress before so I cannot comment more. But does Viaddres offer you a repack service?

they do offer repack service. but they seem to choose the largest box to repack all my stuff, causing the shipping fees sky high

Then I have no idea on this. What is the item you're shipping anyway? And which courier service did they use? Mine they used DHL to ship.

i bought a portable fishing stool for my dad and some clothes. they use fedex to ship my items... the price was high even after repacking

kahkahkah need help? u need to pay more to get the lower price for the shipment
2nd don't used fedex i got very bad experience with fedex

I think your problem with high shipping fees maybe because of the volumetric weight of the fishing stool even after repack. And if not mistaken, Fedex's fees is higher than DHL.

Hi found 5 mail & parcel forwarding services but written in quite sometimes.

Planning to try shipito.com, any comment or feedback?

This post has been edited by M&N: Nov 5 2013, 12:07 AM

Hi guys any forwarding service that can ship perfume? Comgateway put the item in prohibited list

Does Compgateway have forwarding service from UK to MY. Thought it was just USA to MY and USA to UK. Have not seem UK to MY

Anyone here have try www.shipsus.com?

i bought cap but surprise me the volumetric of the parcel is 5 kg although the actual weight is only 0.5kg. the seller use really big box? how you verify whether Comgateway is calculating the volumetric weight correctly? because there are offering me to re-pack

maybe the seller used big box

Just wondering, is there any forwarder that allow to change declare value? I dowan to kena tax so high lar.

Want to ask favor here..
I just buy 1 knife online from ebay..
the item is from india..
Our Custom law let pass knife or not?
If not how should i get it back?

you can try www.shipping2malaysia.com. all malaysian guys can kawtim declare value and pricing also. im using them for all my product shipping from uk so easy to work with them.

Anylne have any idea a good forwarder to use for uk to malaysia? I'm shipping a few things, probably under 5kg in total or less.

which is better...

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wanna buy galaxy note casing....can anyone suggest which is better..