Getting REALLY tired of this... FIX YOUR PACKAGE CONSOLIDATION ALREADY!!
FIX YOUR PACKAGE CONSOLIDATION!!
I am REALLY losing faith in Buyee because THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW TO CONSOLIDATE A PACKAGE. When you ask for package consolidation they take your 2 (or 3 or 4) items in the shipping boxes that they arrived in to the warehouse, don't bother to open them and just PUT THEM INSIDE A HUGE BOX!! It's just insanely lazy! The first time it happened I thought it was a fluke but it KEEPS HAPPENING!! I t is just maddening, especially right now that DHL is really the only option, and if you cross 4kg or a certain outer box dimension with DHL the cost skyrockets (which it will certainly do if it is boxes in bigger boxes)
I Had two items that shipped separately for 5000 yen each, but after consolidation the price shot up to 20,000 yen making the service "Pay 500 yen to DOUBLE your shipping cost" what a deal... I paid 300yen to request a photo to see what the heck was going on, and that is when I first discovered the idiotic way they were consolidating packages [See first pic] Yes, that is a box in a box stacked on top of another box (not pictured) The CRAZIER thing is they opened both shipping boxes to confirm items, then put them BACK in shipping boxes, like WTF After only a 3 more days of emails with customer support, they fixed this one, but others have taken 5 emails and a week to resolve. Just today they failed to fix another package the first time, taking away the external shipping boxes but leaving everything in a HUGE box that still costs 198,000 yen fortune to ship (and I know what it should cost, because I have already shipped this EXACT combination of items before, through Buyee and DHL for 69,000 yen)
If you are really persistent eventually they WILL fix the packages if you beg them enough and get lucky with a customer service agent who isn't a fool. The first mentioned above packages ultimately shipped in one reasonably sized box for 6800 yen, which cost me 500 yen and DAYS of stress to save $25 It arrived looking reasonably packaged but in still an overly large box [See second pic]
The fact that Buyee clearly CAN fix it after they do it badly in the first place, and that they KNOW HOW to pack packages correctly to save people on shipping just deepens the mystery though (and has kept me hanging on like an abused spouse believing they can change) Offering the "consolidation" service as it is makes no sense as it only makes shipping MORE expensive. Any customer with a brain can then add up the previous shipping weight and see that the new weight is MORE and figure out what Buyee did. Then they just have to go BACK and re-do the work all over again. It is just so much wasted effort for both the customer AND for Buyee.
So Buyee, I am talking to YOU. Please either change the standard way you consolidate packages to actually SAVE PEOPLE MONEY or at the very least MAKE IT AN OPTION TO DISCARD SHIPPING BOXES right when package consolidation is selected. And please do a better job of putting things in smaller boxes! Especially now with DHL as the only shipping option you can't drop the ball like this!